Coming to you live from one of our nice lawn chairs that some dickhead pigeons have pecked the hell out of, it’s…a post about stuff! Yay! Right now you’re all sharing my first nice weather beer of 2023 with me. Thank you for being here. It means the world. And before you ask, no, I …
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Scarily Good AI Generated Voices Are Basically Here Now
If you need to be creeped out and worried about the future today, here you are. Prime Voice AI The most realistic and versatile AI speech software, ever. Eleven brings the most compelling, rich and lifelike voices to creators and publishers seeking the ultimate tools for storytelling. Grow Your Audience by Expanding into Audio Generate …
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I Here That This Is A Vary Good Right Up
Voice dictation is a pretty amazing technological achievement. That it can take what we spew out of our mumbling mouths and turn much of it into accurate, readable text is really quite the thing. But it’s also a case of two things being true simultaneously, because let’s be honest, it kind of sucks shit. If …
Web Accessibility Global Usage Survey
If you’ve got 10 or so minutes to burn and feel like sharing your experiences with various aspects of web accessibility, then today is your day, my friend. Put simply, this survey aims to collect data and insights from users around the world about who they are, what tech they use, how they use it, …
Would You Like To Notice A Simple Pattern? Decline
Why Your iPhone Doesn’t Always Show You the ‘Decline Call’ Button I’m not sure how I never figured this out, considering how simple it sounds when you hear it. I’ve always just quietly wondered to myself about it as I hit the power button to stop the ringing. Speaking of which, I only ever have …
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Reach Out And Touch Yourself
I’m not sure whether I haven’t been paying the sort of attention that I should be paying or if Adam Smith is opening up new frontiers in the obscene phone call space, but this is new to me. A Florida Man admitted that he was naked and masturbating when he dialed “numerous random phone numbers” …
May I Take Your Order For Less Than I’m Worth If You Can Find Me?
Meet Freshii’s new ‘virtual cashier’ — who works from Nicaragua for $3.75 an hour A couple of things here. I’ve never been to a Freshii. To tell you the truth, I’m not entirely sure what they sell or even how to pronounce the name of the place. Is it freshy? Fresh-eeeee? Fresh-eye? Fresh-2? But whatever. …
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The Night Santa Went Crazy
Ever since I got my CPAP machine that I call Santa Claus, I’ve been having a lot more dreams. The rush of dreams is almost as pronounced as when we got our new mattress…which is nearing the end of its days, I think. At least some of these dreams are just amusing and they aren’t …
The RCA SelectaVision: The Forgotten Format That Maybe Could Have Changed Media As We Know It
If you’ve got an hour or so to burn and you’re interested in technologies that didn’t end up working out, you might enjoy this deep dive into RCA’s SelectaVision, an attempt to modify a record player to make low cost home video possible. It was a pretty neat idea that made a good bit of …
The Man In My Head Is Going Out Of His!
Back in 2018, I couldn’t stop singing Aira’s praises. I still appreciate the Aira agents, but last week, their executives made a really bad move and they’re going to spend a lot of time trying to recover. At the end of last year, they were warning us that their prices were going to increase. It …
