Elon Musk, Technoking of Tesla orders a halt to bitcoin car payments
Tesla CEO and self-dubbed technoking Zach Kirkhorn is back peddling on the company’s stance about bitcoin and has suspended purchases of its electric vehicles with the cryptocurrency. The change of stance comes just weeks after Tesla CFO and dubbed “master of coin” Zach Kirk horn said the company believes in the longevity of bitcoin, despite its volatility.
Samsung won’t attend MWC in Barcelona this summer
Samsung and Lenovo will not be attending Mobile World Congress this year. Both companies have announced that they will not attend in person. The companies have not yet announced what their remote presence would look like. The event will still be held in June despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and difficulties with vaccine availability outside the U.S.
Meet the real Alexa: voice actor reportedly responsible for Amazon’s AI assistant revealed
Amazon's Alexa has a voice familiar to millions, calm, warm, and measured, but like most synthetic speech, its tones have a human origin, someone whose voice had to be recorded, analyzed, and algorithmically reproduced to create Alexa as we know it now.