Best last-minute digital gift ideas for Father’s Day

Yes, Father’s Day is this weekend. But before you have a full-blown panic attack because you forgot to pick up a gift worthy of dad’s admiration, take a deep breath. After all, the internet is […]

Artificial Intelligence Content Should Be Labeled, EU Official Says

Artificial Intelligence Content Should Be Labeled, EU Official Says

European Commission VP for values and transparency Věra Jourová, who’s calling for enhanced artificial intelligence content-identification requirements. Content created by artificial intelligence “must be recognized and clearly labelled” – at least according to European Commission […]

How to Use AI to Edit and Generate Stunning Photos

Brian X. Chen

Hello! Welcome back to On Tech: A.I., a pop-up newsletter that teaches you about artificial intelligence, how it works and how to use it. In last week’s newsletter, I shared the golden prompts for getting […]

Reissue of Scott Weiland’s 12 Bar Blues Announced, “Barbarella” Demo Released

Scott Weiland -12 Bar Blues

The late Scott Weiland’s solo debut, 12 Bar Blues, turns 25 on Friday (March 31st). In honor of the milestone, Rhino will release remastered and expanded versions of the album this spring. 12 Bar Blues […]

The Ring Video Doorbell 4 is on sale for $60 off at Amazon and Best Buy

The Ring Video Doorbell 4 is on sale for $60 off at Amazon and Best Buy

Whether you’re looking to improve your home security or just want to make sure nobody steals your Amazon package, a video doorbell like Ring’s Video Doorbell 4 can help. The handy device lets you keep […]

Ears of the People: Ekonting Songs from Senegal and the Gambia review – living lute songs of love and war | Culture

The artwork for Ekonting Songs from Senegal and the Gambia

Before the banjo, the instrument at the heart of so much folk, country and bluegrass music, was the ekonting: a self-built, three-string gourd instrument with a muted but characterful tone, played by the Jola people […]

The scary truth about AI copyright is nobody knows what will happen next

Two images of the Mona Lisa each in a different art style, one classical, the other more modern abstract with vibrant colors.

Generative AI has had a very good year. Corporations like Microsoft, Adobe, and GitHub are integrating the tech into their products; startups are raising hundreds of millions to compete with them; and the software even […]

The Music Industry Is Moving at a Million Miles Per Hour – Is GPU Audio Building the Engine to Power It All?

The Music Industry Is Moving at a Million Miles Per Hour – Is GPU Audio Building the Engine to Power It All?

By offloading CPU loads onto the Graphical Processing Unit, GPU Audio is placing a powerful and underexploited parallel processor at the center of music production. The shift could have massive implications for the emerging music […]