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As part of the March Xbox Partner Preview, we’ve got a first look at the gameplay of 11 Bit Studio’s The Alters. A game about employing yourself in space. The Alters has you play as a miner named Jan Dolski, who gets stranded on another planet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXaS327cjIc To stay alive, he needs to make use of a base that, unfortunately, requires multiple trained people to run. Conveniently, the planet is also home to a substance called “Rapidium,” which allows Jan to make different versions of himself…

Colossal Biosciences, which calls itself “the world’s first de-extinction company,” has created stem cells it thinks will hasten the company’s marquee goal of resurrecting the woolly mammoth. The team’s research describing the accomplishment will be hosted on the preprint server bioRxiv.What Drew John Boyega Back Into Sci-Fi? | io9 InterviewThe cells are induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), a type of cell that can be reprogrammed to develop into any other type of cell. The cells are especially useful in bioengineering,…

Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: A profile of ElevenLabs, whose AI voice cloning tech is being used to spoof politicians; five of ElevenLabs' 40 employees are dedicated to trust and safety — ElevenLabs' technology is already being used to spoof political candidates and promote scammy products. Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: A profile of ElevenLabs, whose AI voice cloning tech is being used to spoof politicians; five of ElevenLabs' 40 employees are dedicated to trust and safety — ElevenLabs'…

US regulators on Thursday declared scam "robocalls" made using voices created with artificial intelligence (AI) as illegal.The phenomenon gained attention last month when a robocall impersonation of US President Joe Biden urged people to not cast ballots in the New Hampshire primary. "Bad actors are using AI-generated voices in unsolicited robocalls to extort vulnerable family members, imitate celebrities, and misinform voters," Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said in a release.…

There’s a lot of money in voice cloning. Case in point: ElevenLabs, a startup developing AI-powered tools to create and edit synthetic voices, today announced that it closed an $80 million Series B round co-led by prominent investors including Andreessen Horowitz, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and entrepreneur Daniel Gross. The round, which also had participation from Sequoia Capital, Smash Capital, SV Angel, BroadLight Capital and Credo Ventures, brings ElevenLabs’ total raised to $101 million and values the…

An invasive species of crayfish that reproduces by cloning itself was discovered last summer in a Burlington, Ont., park — the first time the marbled crayfish has been identified in the wild in North America.Since then, a group of experts has been working to stop the species from spreading. The crayfish are in City View park, on Burlington's southwest border with Hamilton.Brook Schryer, a member of the working group responding to the detection, told CBC Hamilton that it seems the population was contained after the pond…

A cloned monkey, now three years old, is the first to survive to adulthood. Retro, as the monkey has been named, was cloned by scientists at China’s premier science academy. The successful cloning of this rhesus monkey, as well as its ability to survive into adulthood, could help push future cloning attempts further.The scientists first cloned Retro three years ago, and they began writing about their findings when he was roughly two years old. The team says that Retro was only successfully born after they added…

Research published this week describes a promising start to using stem cell therapy for multiple sclerosis. In a small Phase I trial, patients who had stem cells directly injected into their brain appeared to tolerate it well and experienced no serious adverse effects. The treatment may have also stopped or slowed the progression of their symptoms, the scientists say, but larger studies will be needed to confirm its effectiveness.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI UnlockedMultiple sclerosis is an autoimmune…

To start creating a Personal Voice, you select it from the accessibility settings and your device asks you to read aloud a series of 150 randomly generated phrases. This process provides audio for the model to train on, while also making it difficult to clone other peoples’ voices, since you don’t know what the sentences will be until you begin. Once that’s done, the voice can take hours and lots of power to process, with iPhones waiting until they’re charging overnight to do the work.When I recorded clips it took around…

Gideon Lichfield: OK, but let me play the synthetic biology devil's advocate for a second.Lauren Goode: OK, OK.Gideon Lichfield: When you have kids, you are throwing the genetic dice, you are mixing your DNA and that of your partners, and—Lauren Goode: Oh, is that how you have kids? Should we get into the birds and the bees here? You're my boss. Would you like to explain the birds and the bees to me? How does this work exactly? Gideon Lichfield: Are you being sassy?Lauren Goode: We should also probably let the audience…