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The 45-minute Calm story,  "It's a Wonderful Sleep Story," has Jimmy Stewart narrating a tale about a downtrodden technology entrepreneur, Stanley J. Montgomery -- not unlike George Bailey, the small-town banker, Stewart portrays in the 1946 Christmas classic, "It's a Wonderful Life." The synthetic Stewart recites the tale in rhyme and verse to the backdrop of calming, sleepy, floating music. Calm posted this preview to Instagram below. It's hypnotizing and, dare I say, spookily effective. I don't remember listening to…

It’s been a long time coming, but Teardown is finally making its way to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S|X tomorrow, November 15. And who better to help us get excited than the great Owen Wilson? Wowwwwww…right? Wilson narrates today’s Teardown console launch trailer in a way that only he can. If you’re unfamiliar with the title, the comedic actor describes it perfectly in the video as “a real-time physics simulation game with fully destructible environments.” Essentially, it’s a sandbox game where you can blow literally…

Tech giant Apple has quietly launched a catalogue of books narrated by artificial intelligence, a move with potentially huge implications for the multi-billion dollar audiobook industry.The feature represents a major shift in audiobook publishing, which involves authors narrating their own books, a process that can take weeks and cost a publisher thousands of dollars, reports The Verge.According to Apple's website, the feature is currently only available for romance and fiction books, with two available digital voices -…

Apple has launched a catalog of books narrated by AI, as this “may mark the beginning of the end for human narrators,” according to The Guardian. The publication says Apple was due to release this feature in mid-November, but after layoffs at Meta and Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, the company decided to wait a bit longer as these events could “cast a dark cloud over the technology sector.” When searching on Apple Book for “AI narration,” users can find a small collection described as being “narrated by digital…

Time to light up your excitement for Loki season two. Image: Marvel StudiosIn 2023, Marvel is going full multiverse. There’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and The Marvels to start, but don’t forget the show that started it all. That’s Loki and it too will be back in 2023. Disney+ released a short commercial teasing its 2023 plans and not only is it narrated by Loki himself, Tom Hiddelston, but we also get a whopping four seconds of footage from the new season. Which seems short…

A comic satire on religious dogmatism first published in 1992, Small Gods is set in the theocratic state of Omnia in a barren corner of Discworld ruled by the Quisition. There, the great god Om – who has accidentally assumed the shape of a tortoise and lost his divine powers – has fallen to earth and landed in the Citadel’s vegetable garden.Om gets the attention of a novice monk named Brutha, seemingly the only one who can hear him, and sets about convincing him of his godliness. Meanwhile, Vorbis, the fearsome head of…