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Speechify has largely been a tool that helps you listen to articles, PDFs, and documents. The company is now adding voice detection features to its Chrome extension, including voice typing and a voice assistant that answers your questions. In the last 12 months, there has been a proliferation of voice detection tools, thanks to overall quality improvement in speech recognition models. Speechify is hitching its wagon to this train and launching its own dictation tool with support for English. Just like other dictation tools, Speechify’s voice typing corrects errors and removes filler words. In my short test of just more…
A golden retriever is being lauded as “the first responder” who helped saved her owner’s life when he suffered a cardiac arrest in the middle of the night.Hannah Cooke, from County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, was woken up one night last year by a bark from Polly, she and her husband’s four-year-old dog, who the couple said normally sleeps quietly through the night.When she turned to her husband sleeping next to her, Hannah found him breathing irregularly, and then he stopped breathing entirely, according to the British Heart Foundation, which told the couple’s story ahead of a ceremony on Tuesday…
Megan Feller smoked pot several times a day and couldn’t eat, sleep or function without it. But at the time, she didn’t see the need to reach out for help.“I didn’t think cannabis was a big deal,” the 24-year-old said. “It was really socially accepted.”This attitude is common. As more states legalize marijuana, use has become more normalized and products have become more potent. But fewer of those who are addicted seek help for it.Pot use among young adults reached historic levels in recent years, according to a federally supported survey. Daily use even outpaced daily drinking, with nearly 18…
BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — For the past several years, 75-year-old Miguel Laboy has smoked a joint with his coffee every morning. He tells himself he won’t start tomorrow the same way, but he usually does.“You know what bothers me? To have cannabis on my mind the first thing in the morning,” he said, sparking a blunt in his Brookline, Massachusetts, apartment. “I’d like to get up one day and not smoke. But you see how that’s going.”Since legalization and commercialization, daily cannabis use has become a defining — and often invisible — part of many people’s lives. High-potency vapes and…
Early childhood educators and staff nurture and teach children under the age of 5. At its best, this type of early care sets kids up for long-term success.But educators who are experiencing poor mental health are less able to cultivate positive relationships with the children in their care, which negatively affects the children’s development.“We work in a field that has a high demand for kids to be safe and enjoy learning,” one educator told us. “We have … little people that depend on us, parents depend on us, and we need to make sure that we are there for the…
After watching his colleague, “Good Morning America” co-anchor Robin Roberts, raise awareness about stem cell donation after undergoing a lifesaving bone marrow transplant, ABC News correspondent Trevor Ault decided to sign up for the registry that connects donors to patients.Ault, who is based in California, applied for a donation kit and sent in a swab from his inner cheek to NMDP, a nonprofit organization that manages a global marrow registry.A few months ago, Ault said he received an email from the NMDP with the subject line, “You’re a match.”ABC News – PHOTO: ABC News correspondent Trevor Ault became a stem cell donor…
Marc Buoniconti said his father, the late NFL Hall of Famer Nick Buoniconti, explained the secret to the success of their nonprofit and its fundraising efforts simply: “We’re just not good listeners.”In the 40 years since Marc Buoniconti, then a college football linebacker at the Citadel, was paralyzed during a routine tackle, they have been told countless times that it was a problem that couldn’t be fixed. The Buonicontis didn’t listen.Instead, through the fund that bears their name, they have helped raise more than $550 million for The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, and improved the lives of millions with…
Mark Cuban says the race to build the world’s most powerful AI model looks eerily similar to the 1990s search-engine boom — and could end the same way: with one dominant player and everyone else left behind.”You’ve got five, six, whatever it is, companies that are trying to create the ultimate foundational model that we all depend on,” Cuban said on the “Pioneers of AI” podcast.”It’s almost like in the ’90s when all the search engines were competing pre-Google… There were all these different [ones] and you didn’t know if it was going to be a winner-take-all, or a top…
As we age, the human brain rewires itself.The process happens in distinct phases, or “epochs,” according to new research, as the structure of our neural networks changes and our brains reconfigure how we think and process information.For the first time, scientists say they’ve identified four distinct turning points between those phases in an average brain: at ages 9, 32, 66 and 83. During each epoch between those years, our brains show markedly different characteristics in brain architecture, they say.The findings, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, suggest that human cognition does not simply increase with age until a peak,…
When Logan Brown left Cooley to start a legal tech firm this spring, she moved to New York City. She has begun recruiting lawyers to her venture.”It’s not that hard of a sell,” Brown, 30, said on a phone call from her apartment in the Financial District. More junior lawyers want to help build the future, not watch it pass them by. For them, New York is the obvious place to be.Legal tech skyrocketed this year as corporate clients pushed law firms to use tools that can lower costs and improve results. The change is playing out floor by floor…