A public radio station in Switzerland conducted an interesting experiment for a day – they used five AI-generated voices to present news and aired music that’s almost entirely composed by computers. Listeners of the French-language station Couleur 3 (Color 3) were greeted on Thursday, April 27 with a message that comes up repeatedly: “Today’s programming … Read more →
Among the features of the Swiss economy, it is necessary to note the following three factors. Firstly, it is a large number of large multinational companies that mainly work in foreign markets, and the basis in Switzerland gives them advantages in access to an educated workforce, the stability of the political environment and the reliability … Read more →
As of today, July 1st, Internet has become a “human right” in Finland. The government has decided that everybody in Finland should have access to at least 1 Mbit/s downstream, except around 2,000 homes located too far from built-up areas. The 1 Mbit/s connection is not directly to each home though, but the law states … Read more →
Google started shooting pictures of the streets in Switzerland this summer for their Google Street View service. The local authorities didn’t like that one bit (no pun intended) and the Swiss commissioner for federal data protection, Hanspeter Thür, told Google to stop whatever they were doing! Google didn’t obey the request and continued their drive-by-shooting. … Read more →