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I used a character-count ratio interpolation workaround for edge-tts, which cannot provide word-level timestamps

I ended up not using the visual novel-style pipeline or the video generation with Wan2.1 after all. I rebuilt the pipeline to simply read blog posts aloud, display the text within the video, and ...
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Instagram is using your iPhone images to make AI slop. Here’s how to stop it

Instagram allows AI editing of all publicly available images and videos, regardless of whether they belong to you or not.

In Photos: Scientists snag Everglades python eggs for invasive species research

See scientists wrangling the invasive snakes.
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ARDY: Autoregressive Diffusion with Hybrid Representation for Interactive Human Motion Generation

ARDY is an autoregressive diffusion model designed for interactive motion generation, supporting online text prompting and flexible long-horizon kinematic constraints (root paths/waypoints, full-body ...
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[Complete Edition] Monitor Settings to Increase Resolution for E-book Captures | Portrait Orientation, Calculating Required Pixels, and Why Two-Page Spreads Are a No-Go

Have you ever converted an e-book to PDF using the screenshot method, only to find the text looks a bit soft? You are not alone. I previously wrote an article explaining that the cause of this problem ...