Study reveals how a single vowel reflects social class in Manchester

A Lancaster University-led study found that the final vowel in words such as “happy” continues to reflect social class in ...
Bleeping Computer

Malicious sites use JavaScript to build malware in browser memory

A massive malvertising campaign is using fake Solana, Luno, and TradingView webpages with malicious JavaScript that instructs browsers to assemble malware directly in memory. The operation has been ...
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Study reveals how a single vowel reflects social class in Manchester

・A Lancaster University-led study found that the final vowel in words such as “happy” continues to reflect social class in Manchester, with working-class speakers favoring an open “happeh” sound and ...
HackerNoon

Code Smell 208 - Don't Use Null for Real Places

Learn why using (0, 0) for missing coordinates creates bugs and how a polymorphic Location type keeps Kotlin models accurate.
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Cloud or Local Speech-to-Text? We Built the Same App Both Ways. Here's What We Learnt.

How a hackathon dictation app running Speechmatics on-device speech-to-text exposed why real-time diarization needs GPU acceleration, CoreML, and DirectML.
BBC

/ə/: The most common sound in English

In fact, any letter representing a vowel sound can be pronounced as schwa. For example, the first vowel in the word 'connect' is a schwa sound but it's written with the letter 'o', and the second ...
Slate

A.I. Detectors Are Supposed to Make Our Writing Better. It Might Be Doing the Opposite.

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, ...

Can you spot AI-written stories? Listen and find out

Can you tell the difference between a human-written short story and an AI-generated one? Most people can’t. In a series of experiments led by a team at Villanova University, researchers found two ...