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While iPads are cheaper and much handier to carry around than MacBooks, you often need an extra iPad accessory or two to make them as useful. While an attachable keyboard can be great for anyone with a writing job (hello!) an Apple pencil is critical for everything from studying to designing. Thankfully, it's cheaper than ever to get the budget option with the USB-C Apple Pencil on sale for $65, down from $79. The 18 percent discount brings the accessory to $5 less than its Prime Day price. Apple released its USB-C Pencil in late 2023 as a cheaper option than its counterparts, the second generation Apple Pencil and Apple Pencil Pro. This Pencil is compatible with all iPads with a USB-C port and offers the hover feature when using an M2 iPad Air or the iPad Pro. It also has some great perks like low latency, tilt sensitivity and pixel-perfect accuracy. However, it doesn't have pressure sensitivity like its fellow Apple Pencils. Follow @EngadgetDeals on Twitter and subscribe to the Engadget Deals newsletter for the latest tech deals and buying advice.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-usb-c-apple-pencil-drops-to-a-new-all-time-low-of-65-133046013.html?src=rss
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Just in time for the 2024 US elections, the call screening and fraud detection company Hiya has launched a free Chrome extension to spot deepfake voices. The aptly named Hiya Deepfake Voice Detector listens to voices played in video or audio streams and assigns an authenticity score, telling you whether its likely real or fake. Hiya tells Engadget that third-party testers have validated the extension as over 99 percent accurate. The company says that even covers AI-generated voices the detection model hasnt trained on, and the company claims it can spot voices created by new synthesis models as soon as theyre launched. We played around with the extension ahead of launch, and it seems to work well. I pulled up a YouTube video about the blues pioneer Howlin Wolf that I suspected used AI narration, and it assigned it a 1/100 authenticity score, declaring it likely a deepfake. Suspicions confirmed. Hiya Hiya threw a well-earned jab at social media companies for making such a tool necessary. Its clear social media sites have a huge responsibility to alert users when the content they are consuming has a high chance of being an AI deepfake, Hiya President Kush Parikh wrote in a press release. The onus is currently on the individual to be vigilant to the risks and use tools like our Deepfake Voice Detector to check if they are concerned content is being altered. Thats a big ask, so were pleased to be able to support them with a solution that helps put some of the power back in their hands. The extension only needs to listen to a few seconds of a voice to spit out a result. It works on a credit system to prevent Hiyas servers from getting slammed by excessive requests. Youll get 20 credits daily, which may or may not cover the flood of manipulative AI content youll come across on social media in the coming weeks.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/a-new-chrome-extension-can-reliably-detect-ai-generated-voices-130059842.html?src=rss
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Be My Eyes, the accessibility app for mobile devices that puts blind and low-vision people on a live video call with a sighted guide, will help Microsoft train its AI. Be My Eyes will provide anonymized video data to improve scene understanding in Microsofts accessibility-focused AI models. The data sets Be My Eyes gives Microsoft will include unique objects, lighting and framing that realistically represents the lived experience of the blind and low vision community. The goal is to make Microsofts AI more inclusive for people with vision disabilities. The companies say all personal info has been scrubbed from the metadata. The provided data wont be used for advertising or any purpose other than training Microsofts AI models. Although this is Be My Eyes first such data partnership, its worked with Microsoft before by incorporating its Be My AI tool into Microsofts Disability Answer Desk. As its name suggests, Be My AI is the companys GPT-4-powered spin on an assistance product. In that case, it helps people with vision disabilities navigate Office, Windows and Xbox. Be My Eyes also struck a deal with Hilton earlier this month. In that case, dedicated hotel staff help blind and low-vision lodgers do things like adjust their thermostats, make coffee and raise or lower their blinds. A previous 2023 partnership between the two companies helped train the Be My AI model.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/microsoft-recruits-accessibility-app-to-make-its-ai-more-useful-to-blind-and-low-vision-users-130006439.html?src=rss
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