The hermit and mystic Richard Rolles was basically a bestselling author in the Middle Ages. Richard Rolle (depicted in this medieval illustration c. 1400) was a famous hermit and Christian mystic. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. For generations, a misidentified medieval manuscript was hidden in a 474-year-old English boarding school's library. After a careful new analysis, a medieval literature researcher can confirm the manuscript is actually the oldest and only known edition of Richard Rolle's () written in its original Latin.

The Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) could be on the verge of making another leap in the fight against crime in The Bahamas, with high-level meetings taking place this week with potential vendors and stakeholders in public safety artificial intelligence technology. During a welcome and oath-swearing ceremony for nearly 100 new police recruits, Commissioner of Police Paul Rolle told the men and women that his executive team was present with the exceptions of two assistant commissioner's, including Assistant Commissioner Zhavargo Dames, "who's representing me in another meeting trying to get some technology, additional technology for the Royal Bahamas Police Force". When contacted for specifics, Rolle told Eyewitness News: "We are doing some exploration with artificial intelligence." He did not expound on what area the AI technology could be used in or what it could potentially achieve in its use in The Bahamas. The use of AI in law enforcement is not uncommon in other jurisdictions with significant advances in recent years.

Amazon's Alexa has a voice familiar to millions: calm, warm, and measured. But like most synthetic speech, its tones have a human origin. There was someone whose voice had to be recorded, analyzed, and algorithmically reproduced to create Alexa as we know it now. Amazon has never revealed who this "original Alexa" is, but journalist Brad Stone says he tracked her down, and she is Nina Rolle, a voiceover artist based in Boulder, Colorado. The claim comes from Stone's upcoming book on the tech giant, Amazon Unbound, an excerpt of which is published here in Wired.

The voice of Alexa, the virtual assistant developed by Amazon, is provided by Nina Rolle, a Colorado-based voiceover artist, according to a new book. Amazon has never revealed who provides the default female voice that responds to commands and questions given to Alexa, but the author Brad Stone said he identified the voice as Rolle's after "canvasing the professional voiceover community" for his new book, Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire. Rolle, who is based in Boulder, has conducted voiceover work for clients including Honda, Jenny Craig and Chase bank. According to Stone's book, she was selected after Amazon spent months assessing various candidates, with the final choice signed off by Jeff Bezos, the company's founder. Stone writes that Rolle said she was unable to talk about the role when he contacted her in February.