The best text-to-speech tools: Expert tested

Text-to-speech (TTS) tools convert written text into spoken word using AI, which can increase accessibility and offer a shortcut to natural-sounding voice-overs for creative and p ...
CMU School of Computer Science

Databases in 2025: A Year in Review

The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.
GitHub

Replace tokens in text files with values from the command-line, files or environment variables.

replacetokens --sources [--add-bom] [--case-insensitive-paths] [--chars-to-escape] [--encoding] [--escape {auto, off, json, xml, custom}] [--escape-char] [--help ...
GitHub

HtmlRAG: HTML is Better Than Plain Text for Modeling Retrieval Results in RAG Systems

We propose HtmlRAG, which uses HTML instead of plain text as the format of external knowledge in RAG systems. To tackle the long context brought by HTML, we propose Lossless HTML Cleaning and Two-Step ...
Reuters

Africa Cup of Nations hosts Morocco in convincing form as they dispatch Zambia

Morocco top Group A with 3-0 win over Zambia El Kaabi scores twice, Diaz adds another for Morocco Hakimi returns from injury RABAT, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Morocco forward Ayoub El Kaabi netted a double ...
Reuters

Russia opposes Taiwan independence in any form, FM Lavrov says

Dec 28 (Reuters) - Russia opposes Taiwan’s independence in any form and considers the island an inseparable part of China, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in remarks published on Sunday.