Month: March 2025

Wo Wertschätzung mehr als eine Floskel ist: In der IT-Firma Sedevo herrscht laut unserer Umfrage ein besonders guter Führungsstil. Wir haben nachgefragt. Ein Ratgebertext von Mike Faust (IT-Führung, Wirtschaft)

Für kurze Zeit gibt es die Venator von Mould King auf Amazon für nur 55,20 Euro im Angebot, fast 600 Euro günstiger als das Lego-Modell. (Lego, Raumschiff)

Google Fotos verliert eine Funktion, die von digitalen Bilderrahmen genutzt wird. Die Geräte lassen sich nicht mehr wie bisher verwenden. (Digitaler Bilderrahmen, Google)

Die US-Luftwaffe hat die Flugzeuge als YFQ-42A und YFQ-44A bezeichnet sowie als Drohnenkampfflugzeuge klassifiziert. (Militär, Politik)

Der kommende vollelektrische Mercedes-Benz GLC wird aktuell Wintertests unterzogen und ist auch als Allradmodell geplant. (Mercedes Benz, Elektroauto)

Der insolvente Flugtaxihersteller Volocopter hat seine rund 500 Mitarbeiter ab sofort freigestellt. Die Gehälter können nicht mehr gezahlt werden. (Volocopter, Start-up)

Microsoft Teams vereinfacht Kommunikation und Projektmanagement. Zwei praxisnahe Workshops zeigen, wie Teams als zentrale Plattform für Zusammenarbeit optimal genutzt wird. (Golem Karrierewelt, Betriebssysteme)

In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants. Nearly 12 years later, that fictional premise has veered closer to reality with the release of a new conversational voice model from AI startup Sesame that has left many users both fascinated and unnerved.

"I tried the demo, and it was genuinely startling how human it felt," wrote one Hacker News user who tested the system. "I'm almost a bit worried I will start feeling emotionally attached to a voice assistant with this level of human-like sound."

In late February, Sesame released a demo for the company's new Conversational Speech Model (CSM) that appears to cross over what many consider the "uncanny valley" of AI-generated speech, with some testers reporting emotional connections to the male or female voice assistant ("Miles" and "Maya").

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In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants. Nearly 12 years later, that fictional premise has veered closer to reality with the release of a new conversational voice model from AI startup Sesame that has left many users both fascinated and unnerved.

"I tried the demo, and it was genuinely startling how human it felt," wrote one Hacker News user who tested the system. "I'm almost a bit worried I will start feeling emotionally attached to a voice assistant with this level of human-like sound."

In late February, Sesame released a demo for the company's new Conversational Speech Model (CSM) that appears to cross over what many consider the "uncanny valley" of AI-generated speech, with some testers reporting emotional connections to the male or female voice assistant ("Miles" and "Maya").

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On Tuesday, the team behind the plan to bring mammoth-like animals back to the tundra announced the creation of what it is calling wooly mice, which have long fur reminiscent of the woolly mammoth. The long fur was created through the simultaneous editing of as many as seven genes, all with a known connection to hair growth, color, and/or texture.

But don't think that this is a sort of mouse-mammoth hybrid. Most of the genetic changes were first identified in mice, not mammoths. So, the focus is on the fact that the team could do simultaneous editing of multiple genes—something that they'll need to be able to do to get a considerable number of mammoth-like changes into the elephant genome.

Of mice and mammoths

The team at Colossal Biosciences has started a number of de-extinction projects, including the dodo and thylacine, but its flagship project is the mammoth. In all of these cases, the plan is to take stem cells from a closely related species that has not gone extinct, and edit a series of changes based on the corresponding genomes of the deceased species. In the case of the mammoth, that means the elephant.

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