Google’s New AI Can Adjust Pitch, Emotion, and Speed with Just 30 Minutes of Data AI researchers at Google and the University College London have detailed an AI model that can control speech characteristics like pitch, emotion and speaking rate with just 30 minutes of data. Their paper, which has been published by the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), details how the researchers trained the AI system for 300,000 steps across 32 of Google’s custom-designed tensor processing units (TPUs)....

MediaTek Helio G85 vs Helio G80: What’s Different? Xiaomi recently took the wraps off its long-rumoredRedmi Note 9at an online event in Europe. It is the newest addition to the Redmi Note 9 series, which made its debut with theRedmi Note 9 ProandNote 9 Pro Maxin India back in March. Redmi Note 9 shares the same design as its elder siblings, with a punch-hole cutout on the front and square camera on the rear....

Musk’s Tweet Wipes Billions Off Tesla Stock There was bloodbath for Tesla stock as billions of dollars were just got wiped off after its eccentric CEO Elon Musk tweeted that car makers stock was “too high”. Tesla stock stumbled more than 10 per cent and its valuation reduced by nearly $9 billion after Musk’s tweets — in reminiscence of his controversial tweets in August 2018 when he posted about Tesla “going private” at $420 a share....

Samsung Galaxy M21, Galaxy A50s Get Price Cuts in India Samsung has reduced the prices of itsGalaxy M21andGalaxy A50smid-range smartphones in India. According to listings on the company’s official webstore in the country, theGalaxy M21 now costs Rs. 13,199for the 4GB+64GB modeland Rs. 15,499 for the 6GB+128GB model, while theGalaxy A50s is now priced at Rs. 18,599 for the 4GB+128GB variantand Rs. 20,561 for the 6GB+128GB version. While the former was launched in India earlier this year at Rs....

Samsung May be Working on Bringing Radeon Graphics to Its Smartphones Last year, AMD announced its partnership with Samsung to bring RDNA GPU microarchitecture to smartphones. While there had not been any major updates regarding the situation thus far, a new piece of information reportedly confirms the initiative is still in the works, with an alleged benchmark score of the chip. As reported bySammobile, the benchmarks were posted on Clien. It scored 181....

Vivo’s New Patent Shows a Smartphone with a Sliding Camera Design Just when you thought smartphones with slider designs, like theMi MIX 3, theHonor Magic 2or theDoogee Mix 4may be a thing of the past, it turns out that Vivo has filed for a patent on a phone with a slider mechanism to house the front-facing selfie camera. If implemented, the new design is expected to offer a true full-screen display in smartphones while eliminating the need for unseemly punch-holes, notches or popups....

Vodafone Idea Launches AI-Powered Chatbot on WhatsApp Vodafone Idea on Friday announced an AI-powered virtual assistant called VIC that it says will help offer better service and support to its customers around the country. The new tool is now live 24X7 on the company’s websites, as well as theMy VodafoneandMy Ideamobile apps. It is also available as a WhatsApp chatbot that can be accessed via SMS links that everyVodafone Ideauser will receive....