Musicians, Machines, and the AI-Powered Future of Sound
Fears that computers could replace composers are real. But some music-makers are finding ways to harness generative AI creatively.
Read MoreFears that computers could replace composers are real. But some music-makers are finding ways to harness generative AI creatively.
Read MoreThe collapse of crypto-friendly Silvergate and Signature Bank has left the industry scrambling to find anyone willing to work with them.
Read MoreCorporate America is facing a growing problem. More working parents are quitting and leaving their jobs to attend to their families, and employers are perhaps the ones to blame for the lackluster support and guidance. America’s working parents are more stressed and anxious than ever before, as economic problems, geopolitical tension, and work-life inequality push them to
Read MoreRyan Broderick / Garbage Day: OpenAI’s GPT-4 is an outrageous, if imperfect, step forward, offering a glimpse of a future internet where generative AI creates one big personalized web portal — Read to the end for a good Twitter reply — Building A Portal To Everything — Very often I will come up with a
Read MoreWhen you want to measure the length, breadth, or depth of an object, there are plenty of instruments for the job. You can start with a tape measure, move up to calipers if you need more precision, or maybe even a micrometer if it’s a really critical dimension. But what if you want to know
Read MoreNew York Times: Sources: five days after seizing SVB, the FDIC has conducted a stop-and-start auction process, failing so far to find a willing buyer for all of SVB’s assets — Big rivals are thus far shying away from scooping up the bank’s assets. — Five days after seizing control of Silicon Valley Bank …
Read MoreLeaked images of the supposed ‘Particles by XO’ earbuds. | Image: 91Mobiles A new Bluetooth SIG listing has 91Mobiles and us speculating whether Nothing could be involved in a second true wireless earbuds brand. By itself the listing isn’t anything interesting. It’s for an unnamed pair of wireless earphones with the model number B154 running
Read MoreThe Biden administration has demanded TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance sell their shares in the app or risk it being banned in the U.S.
Read MoreCredit: Adam Molina / Android Authority Oppo will launch the Find X6 series on March 21. The company’s latest teaser confirms the giant round camera island on the phones. It seems there are a bunch of new phones launching next week. After Huawei confirmed the P60 series and the Mate X3 launch for March 23,
Read MoreJonathan Greig / The Record: CISA and FBI: hackers used vulnerabilities in Progress Telerik products to gain access to an unnamed US federal agency’s server from August 2022 to January 2023 — Cybercriminals and a government-backed hacking group had access to the systems of an unnamed federal civilian executive branch agency from August 2022 to
Read MoreComputer cases have come a long way from the ugly beige boxes of the early 2000s. Still, if it was going to sit on his desk, [MXC Builds] wanted something with a little more class. His custom Ironbark ITX PC seems to fit the aesthetic nicely. The case’s outer shell is ironbark wood cut at
Read MoreHey there! I woke up with a stiff neck for the first time in like six months. You know you’re getting older when you hurt yourself while sleeping. Anyway, there’s a lot to cover today in the Daily Authority. Samsung’s moon photography malarkey Credit: Redditor/ibreakphotos
Read MoreReuters: Counterpoint: Xiaomi’s focus on sub-$120 phones in India helped Samsung take the top spot; market share for sub-$120 phones fell to 26% in 2022 from 41% in 2020 — Xiaomi Corp is overhauling its India strategy after misjudging consumer tastes in mobile phones, a costly lapse …
Read MoreBloomberg: Baidu announces its Ernie Bot in a pre-recorded video, with founder Robin Li talking over a scripted video of interactions with the AI; BIDU drops 5%+ — Baidu Inc. debuted China’s answer to ChatGPT via a recorded video, disappointing investors hoping for a real-time demo …
Read More“There’s a rumor going around that Civet is the new CoffeeScript but maybe that’s a good thing. CoffeeScript brought classes, destructuring, async/await, arrow functions, rest parameters, and more to the official JavaScript spec. Maybe Civet will get the pipe operator, pattern matching, and more into ES2025.” —Civet creator Daniel Moore Civet is described as a
Read MoreMicrosoft’s second preview of its planned .NET 8 software development platform spruces up the ASP.NET Core web framework with a high-performance grid component and enhanced WebAssembly performance. Microsoft .NET 8 Preview 2 was unveiled March 14 and is downloadable from dotnet.microsoft.com. ASP.NET Core highlights in the new .NET 8 preview include a high-performance Blazor grid
Read MoreIn ASP.NET Core 7, minimal APIs provide a lightweight way to create web APIs with less boilerplate code. However, errors can still occur and you should be able to handle them elegantly. This article discusses how we can handle errors gracefully in minimal API apps in ASP.NET Core 7. To use the code examples provided
Read MoreWelcome to episode 17 of the Steampipe+Mastodon series, in which we introduce a new subplot: timeline history. So far, the examples I’ve shown and discussed work with current timelines. We’ve seen SQL queries that fetch results from real-time calls to the Mastodon API, and Steampipe dashboards that display those results. But Steampipe isn’t just an
Read MoreMore than 80% of content on the internet is video. But despite its popularity, the mechanics of building video into app experiences (along with related metrics) remains challenging for developers. If the extent of your familiarity with video is uploading to YouTube or a service provider like Vimeo, your first experience trying to bring video
Read MoreThomas Claburn / The Register: An interview with Dave Winer, who was instrumental in the creation and evolution of RSS, on Google Reader’s demise, support for RSS feeds on Mastodon, and more — RSS pioneer Dave Winer sees Mastodon as a positive sign — SPECIAL REPORT Ten years ago, on March 13, 2013 …
Read MoreA Redditor has called out Samsung for misleading advertising and “fake” moon photos clicked using its 100x Space Zoom feature. The user alleges that Samsung’s phones add additional textures and details to moon images clicked using flagship Galaxy phones. Samsung has responded to the allegations. Update: March 16, 2023 (12:22 AM ET): Samsung has responded
Read MoreFTX: An FTX bankruptcy filing describes $3.2B+ in payments and loans to founders and executives, chiefly from Alameda Research, including ~$2.2B to Sam Bankman-Fried — Identify Over $3.2 Billion in Transfers to Founders and Key Employees — Forensic Work Continues on Intercompany and Other Transactions
Read MoreYimou Lee / Reuters: Sources: Foxconn will make AirPods for the first time and plans to invest $200M+ in a plant in Telangana, India; a source says Apple wanted production in India — Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn (2317.TW) has won an order to make AirPods for Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and plans to build …
Read MoreIf you have a cheap laptop and you realize you can’t connect a second monitor to it, what do you do? Well, if you are [Pierre Couy], you grab a Raspberry Pi and put together a virtual screen solution. Like all good projects, this one started with some goals and requirements: Low latency Redable text
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority Huawei will launch the Mate X3 on March 23 in China. The company is teasing a light yet durable design. The device could be the first foldable phone with satellite connectivity. Huawei has started teasing the launch of its next foldable phone — the Mate X3. The company has
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