Photo Credit: Ivan Radic About one week after it began testing a Shorts-like music video offering called Samples, YouTube Music has reportedly started integrating play counts. This latest feature from the streaming service, which has […]
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 […]
John Coltrane (left) and Eric Dolphy on stage at the Village Gate in New York City in the summer of 1961. A recording of the performance, once thought lost, was recently discovered in the New […]
Wayne’s World went from being a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch to one of the most popular comedy movies of all time. And while Mike Myers created the main character (Wayne Campbell originated on the […]
Julie Byrne precisely remembers the day she met the man who would change her life. “I loved him right away,” she says. It was the 2014 SXSW festival in Austin, Texas and Eric Littmann had […]
Photo Credit: TikTok screenshot from Watchful.ai TikTok confirms testing its own AI chatbot, ‘Tako,’ currently in limited testing with select users in the Philippines. Artificially intelligent chatbots like ChatGPT are en vogue right now, so […]
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo Credit: Agustín Diaz YouTube Music is reportedly experimenting with a “Samples” short-form feature that would set the stage for music video previews on the streaming service. YouTube Music’s potential foray […]
Elon Musk’s brain chip company Neuralink has been cleared by the FDA to begin human testing, it announced on Twitter. “We are excited to share that we have received the FDA’s approval to launch our […]
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Netflix is about to kick your best friend off your account — unless you pay for them to share your account, that is. On Tuesday, Netflix revealed the […]
The day of reckoning has finally come: After months of warning and testing in selected countries, Netflix is tightening its belt and ending password sharing. In a first step toward the streamer’s announced plans to […]
Miles Morales’ home turf may be in Brooklyn, New York, but the teenage Spider-Man is temporarily taking up residence in the borough of Queens, Peter Parker’s stomping grounds. Specifically, he’s hanging out at a Burger […]
Photo Credit: Google MusicLM In 2022 was the year crypto imploded, then 2023 is the year that artificial intelligence has exploded. Large language models, neural networks, and machine learning have helped drive the field of […]
“‘Wu-Tang is for the Children’ @badgalriri,” they wrote in the caption. Gabby Elan is known for custom luxury grills worn by the likes of Pharrell, Pusha-T, J Balvin, and many more. Rihanna’s partner ASAP Rocky is a devotee, from his […]
What use could healthcare have for someone who makes things up, can’t keep a secret, doesn’t really know anything, and, when speaking, simply fills in the next word based on what’s come before? Lots, if […]
Photo Credit: The Pancake of Heaven! / CC by 4.0 About four months after unveiling its text-to-music generator, MusicLM, Google has officially opened up access to the AI-powered tool. Google announced the expanded availability of […]
Photo Credit: Andrea De Santis Global Strategy Group’s latest independent research reveals that just 42% of Americans polled think artists should be compensated when AI uses their work — a startlingly low number, but one […]
When Charlie Kaplan — founder and owner of Long Island-based online store Tapehead City — noticed that Urban Outfitters had devoted a section to cassettes and their players, he knew that a new generation was […]
Photo Credit: TikTok TikTok’s revamped Creator Fund called the ‘Creativity Program Beta’ is now open to all creators in the United States. Here’s a peek at the eligibility requirements. TikTok started its Creator Fund revamp […]
ILLENIUM, who released his fifth album today, seeks to protect the community that gave him a new lease on life after a heroin overdose in 2012. In the moments leading up to the release of […]
iStockphoto Last month, hundreds of top technologists asked for a moratorium on creating and developing advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems. “Recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy […]