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The startup offers an AI-based legacy service, which allows you to communicate with loved ones even after you die. Humanity has long sought, and failed, to achieve immortality. Now the AI era has a solution. Sort of. Eternos is a startup that creates AI voice clones of people so their loved ones can continue to interact with them after they've died. t's one of the more far out uses of generative AI, a technology with wide-ranging applicability, from generating content to planning summer travel, scheduling home repairs and translating baby cries. And as AI rapidly evolves, these use cases will...

Oct. 25, 2021 -- People who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 are not only less likely to die from the virus, but they’re also less likely to die from any cause in the months following vaccination, according to a new study.The study team, which included researchers from the CDC and health care groups across seven states, found the results while studying the safety of the three authorized COVID-19 vaccines.The results were published Friday in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.“COVID-19 vaccines authorized in the United States have shown again and again to be safe. This study also confirms their...

Tom Hanks and other stars of "The Da Vinci Code" left London for the much-anticipated movie's premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in France, aboard a special Eurostar train. The train, repainted with the face of the Mona Lisa, was hoping to enter the record books by making the longest international non-stop rail journey on the 1,421-kilometre (883-mile) route. Dan Brown, who wrote the best-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code", joined the film version's director Ron Howard and actors Hanks, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Alfred Molina and Paul Bettany on the journey to the southern French coast. The film was...