AI Completed Beethoven"s Unfinished Tenth Symphony
Ahmed Elgammal, Professor and Director of the Art & AI Lab at Rutgers University, writes via The Conversation: When Ludwig von Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony, a work heralded by many as hi.....»»
Extreme wildfires are turning the world"s largest forest ecosystem from carbon sink into net-emitter
The vast boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere stretch from Scandinavia through Siberia, Alaska and Canada. They cover a tenth of the world's land but hold one-third of the land's carbon, stored mainly in organic-rich soils and in trees. Now, a n.....»»
ChatGPT and Whisper APIs debut, allowing devs to integrate them into apps
New ChatGPT API can generate text that's a tenth of the cost of previous models. Enlarge (credit: OpenAI) On Wednesday, OpenAI announced the availability of developer APIs for its popular ChatGPT and Whisper AI models th.....»»
China says will train foreign astronauts for space station
China says it will soon begin training foreign astronauts for trips to its newly completed orbiting space station......»»
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Finish your book with software that doesn't tell you how to write, but instead gives you a platform that supports a completed project. Now for a limited time, take home Scrivener 3 for $29.99 and give yourself no excuses to finish your next masterpie.....»»
NASA"s Perseverance rover shows off collection of Mars samples
Even space robots know what "pics or it didn't happen" means: NASA's Perseverance Mars rover provided a panorama of its recently completed sample depot—a big milestone for the mission and humanity's first collection of samples on another planet. Th.....»»
With Ouster and Velodyne merger done, CEO says automotive lidar needs to be solid state and cheaper
Ouster and Velodyne completed its merger of equals late last week......»»
China space station crew completes spacewalk
The crew of China's orbiting space station has completed the first of several planned spacewalks of their six-month mission, pushing such activities into the realm of routine for the country's astronauts......»»
MacBook buying guide: The right M1 or M2 laptop for each use case
Updated for 2023: Still on Intel? We revisit a primer on your M1/M2 options. Enlarge / Two 2021 MacBook Pro models, side by side. (credit: Samuel Axon) Over the past two years, Apple has completed an overhaul of its enti.....»»
Apple and Google duopoly dominates mobile app market, says Japanese antitrust regulator
The Japanese antitrust regulator has completed its study of the mobile app market, and concluded that it is dominated by an Apple and Google duopoly. It says that while it hopes the two companies will make changes voluntarily, and that existing anti.....»»
Formosa 2 completes installation of all offshore wind turbines
Offshore wind farm developer Formosa 2 Wind Power has completed installation of all of the 47 offshore wind turbines on the Formosa 2 offshore wind farm covering water area of 68.81 square kilometers and 4-10km away from the shoreline of Miaoli Count.....»»
Drilling campaign reaches a depth of 808 meters in the Antarctic ice sheet
In Antarctica, the second drilling campaign of the Beyond EPICA—Oldest Ice project, at the remote field site Little Dome C, has been successfully completed. This project is an unprecedented challenge for paleoclimatology studies and its goal is to.....»»
Sentra raises $30 million to meet growing demand for data security in the cloud
Sentra has completed a $30 million Series A funding round led by Standard Investments with participation from Munich Re Ventures (MRV), Moore Strategic Ventures, Xerox Ventures and INT3 as well as existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Zeev.....»»
NASA’s Mars rover has just completed a historic task
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has finished what the space agency is calling “humanity’s first sample depot on another planet.”.....»»
Rocket Lab aces its first launch from U.S. soil
Rocket Lab has completed its maiden mission from its new launch site in the U.S., sending its trusty Electron rocket skyward with a payload of three satellites......»»
SpaceX completes fueling test, will now work toward massive engine firing test
SpaceX said it loaded more than 10 million pounds of fuel onto the vehicle. Enlarge / SpaceX completed a wet-dress rehearsal of its Starship launch system on Monday. (credit: SpaceX) SpaceX on Tuesday confirmed that it f.....»»
China chipmaker Loongson completes tape-out of new homegrown CPU
China's CPU developer Loongson Technology recently has successfully completed the tape-out of its new processor, LS2K1500, which will be mainly used to power industrial control systems such as electric power, railway transportation, smart manufacturi.....»»
Ken and Roberta Williams are back to evolve the adventure game genre
Ken and Roberta Williams had unfinished business with adventure games, so they came back to realize their evolution of the genre with Colossal Cave......»»
Researchers find persistent gender gap among scientific editors
To determine the representation of women among scientific journal editors—key players in the scientific community who have the final say about what papers get published—a team led by NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) researchers has completed the largest stu.....»»
China SiC device maker Inventchip gets new funds for capacity expansion
Driven by growing market demand for SiC components for EV applications, China's SIC semiconductor specialist Inventchip Technology has recently completed its Pre-B round of financing, raising hundreds of millions of CNY to support capacity expansion.....»»
Complex mechanics of cellulose composites revealed
An international team of researchers, led by Assistant Professor J Naveen (VIT, India), has finally completed and published a comprehensive survey of the complex structure of the natural fibers embedded in and reinforcing polymer composite materials......»»