Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of five new male neural Text-to-speech (NTTS) voices: Sergio for Castilian Spanish, Andrés for Mexican Spanish, Rémi for French, Adriano for Italian, and Thiago for Brazilian Portuguese.

This striking image is about a way to, possibly, grow plants more efficiently – underneath solar panels that split out the red wavelengths of light for the crops.

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“Bitcoin is a hyped up fraud. It’s a pet rock,” the CEO of the world’s largest investment bank, JP Morgan, told CNBC at  the Davos tart-fest last week. On crypto generally, Jamie Dimon said: “I think all that’s been a waste of time and why you guys waste any breath on it is totally beyond …

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A NEBULAR concept in optical masers has been offered by Dr. Schwartz and Prof. C. H.Townes, both of the US Institute for Defence Analyses, in a recent contribution to Nature. So, 61 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of may 17th 1961 The story continues: They speculate that if there are more …

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Microchip has announced a range of integrated power modules for applications including more-electric aircraft (MEA). Output power rating starts at 5kVA. Little hard information is yet available, but the company has said there will be 12 variants with either silicon carbide mosfets or IGBTs. One possible configuration “The configurable power devices include a three-bridge topology …

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ClearSpace, the Swiss–based space debris removal startup, has raised a further €26.7 million in a series A financing round. With the latest financing, the company says it will be ramping up operations ahead of its ClearSpace-1 mission. This is scheduled to launch in 2026 and is backed by €110 million of funding secured from the …

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Apple and its partners are setting up a supply chain to start producing microLED smartwatch displays in 2024, reports Yole Developpement. As of November 2022, display makers, OEMs, startups, and equipment makers have collectively spent $8 billion on microLED development. Large companies have spent more than $1.7 billion to acquire microLED startups, including Google’s acquisition …

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The digital euro is not an exercise in gathering information on Euro-citizens ECB board member Favio Panetta told the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs yesterday. Panetta said that the digital version of the euro will be free to use and available to all and the ECB does not want to keep any …

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Intel Chairman Omar Ishrak has resigned and has been replaced by board director Frank Yeary. Ishrak became Intel’s chairman in 2020 and will continue as a director. “He was instrumental in bringing me back to the company as CEO and has fostered a high-impact working dynamic across the board and management team,” says Intel CEO …

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Amazon AppFlow announces the release of 10 new data connectors for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. The new connectors enable you to transfer your data from Asana, Delighted, Google Calendar, Intercom, JDBC, PayPal, Pendo, Smartsheet, Snapchat Ads, and WooCommerce. These new connectors make it easier for customers to access their data for use cases such as data lake hydration, analytics and machine learning, and data retention.