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28 April, 2017

Lyrebird claims it can recreate any voice using just one minute of sample audio

http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/24/15406882/ai-voice-synthesis-copy-human-speech-lyrebird

How long is too long for a web page to load in 2017? According to the data of about 10 billion user visits to online shopping sites, three seconds. After that, more than half of shoppers will have left the page.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/amazons-'secret-weapon'-how-website-experience-can-influence-shoppers-20170420-gvole2.html

PISA report: The three measures by which Australia's students are ahead of Finland's. Australian students are twice as likely to say they expect to go to university as students in Finland, nearly 35 per cent more likely to say they want to be one of the best in their class, and three times as likely to have a paid job while they're at school, a global study into student wellbeing has found.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/the-three-measures-by-which-australian-students-are-ahead-of-finnish-ones-20170418-gvngxq.html

In the U.S., Flying Drones Out of Sight Is Still Out of Mind But the Federal Aviation Administration is allowing PrecisionHawk to test a system for managing small drones beyond visual line of sight

http://spectrum.ieee.org/video/robotics/drones/flying-drones-out-of-sight-for-the-faa