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Monday April 15, 2024. 08:05 PM
Abstract of a paper on Nature: Music is ubiquitous in our everyday lives, and lyrics play an integral role when we listen to music. The complex relationships between lyrical content, its temporal evolution over the last decades, and genre-specific variations, however, are...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Shakeeb Ahmed, a cybersecurity engineer convicted of stealing around $12 million in crypto, was sentenced on Friday to three years in prison. In a press release, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced the...
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has written a letter to the Federal Trade Commission, saying that TurboTax 'continues to relentlessly upsell' customers while also directing them away from services that would otherwise be free. From a report: As noted in the letter, Warren's...
Sony is getting ready to release a more powerful PS5 console, possibly by the end of this year. After reports of leaked PS5 Pro specifications surfaced recently, The Verge has obtained a full list of specs for the upcoming console. From the report: Sources familiar with...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Over the weekend, developer Mattia La Spina launched iGBA as one of the first retro game emulators legitimately available on the iOS App Store following Apple's rules change regarding such emulators earlier this month. As of Monday...
AT&T, Charter, Comcast and Verizon are quietly trying to weaken a $42.5 billion federal program to improve internet access across the nation, aiming to block strict new rules that would require them to lower their poorest customers' monthly bills in exchange for a share of...
Apple has lost its spot as the world's biggest mobile phone seller after a steep sales drop as South Korean rival Samsung retook the lead in the global market share. From a report: Samsung had been the biggest seller of mobile phones for 12 years until the end of 2023, when...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Los Angeles Times: A network of air monitors installed in Northern California has provided scientists with some of the first measurable evidence quantifying how much electric vehicles are shrinking the carbon footprint of a...
A monthslong 'Star Wars'-themed festival called Season of the Force is now happening at Disneyland — including John Williams compositions in the Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge land during the park's fireworks. SFGate reports: Before the show starts, a voice rings through the land. ...
Meanwhile, in Southern California, nonprofit news site Canary Media reports that an old gas combustion plant is being replaced by a 'power bank' named Nova. It's expected to store 'more electricity than all but one battery plant currently operating in the U.S.' The...
After nearly 11 years as CNN's space correspondent, Miles O'Brien found himself in 2003 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida covering the launch of the space shuttle Columbia: As part of the post-launch routine, NASA began sharing several replays of the launch from various ...
A business columnist at the Los Angeles Times notes Sam Bankman-Fried's judge issued another ruling 'that may have a more far-reaching effect on the crypto business. U.S. Judge Failla 'cleared the Securities and Exchange Commission to proceed with its lawsuit alleging that...
Movie exhibitors still face 'serious risks,' the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday: Attendance was on the decline even before the pandemic shuttered theaters, thanks to changing consumer habits and competition for people's time and money from other entertainment options....
Sunday April 14, 2024. 10:59 PM
The Associated Press reports: As their rivalry intensifies, U.S. and Chinese military planners are gearing up for a new kind of warfare in which squadrons of air and sea drones equipped with artificial intelligence work together like swarms of bees to overwhelm an enemy. The ...
In the view of Jim VandeHei, CEO of Axios, artificial intelligence will eviscerate the weak, the ordinary, the unprepared in media,' reports the New York Times: VandeHei says the only way for media companies to survive is to focus on delivering journalistic expertise,...
Intel, Nvidia, AMD, and Arm are among Canonical's 'silicon partners,' a program that 'ensures maximum Ubuntu compatibility and long-term support with certified hardware,' according to Web Pro News. And now Qualcomm is set to be Canonical's next silicon partner, 'giving...
America's FCC votes on net neutrality April 25th. And the director of Stanford Law School's 'Center for Internet and Society' (also a law professor) says mostly there's 'much to celebrate' in the draft rules released earlier this month. Mobile carriers like T-Mobile, AT&T...
The PHP programming language has sunk to its lowest position ever on the long-running TIOBE index of programming language popularity. It now ranks #17 — lower than Assembly Language, Ruby, Swift, Scratch, and MATLAB. InfoWorld reports: When the Tiobe index started in 2001,...
Ubuntu 24.10 [expected this October] and Debian GNU/Linux 13 'Trixie' [expected June-July 2025] 'will feature a refined APT command-line interface,' reports 9to5Linux: APT developer and Canonical engineer Julian Andres Klode took to LinkedIn to present the revamped APT...
Engadget warns Windows 11 users that Microsoft is 'exploring the idea' of putting ads in their Start menu. Sort of... To be specific, it's looking to place advertisements for apps you can find in the Microsoft Store in the menu's recommended section.... At the moment,...
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