AI technology has advanced rapidly in recent years, bringing with it immense possibilities as well as unique challenges. For Spotify, one such challenge is the removal of AI-generated songs from its platform due to artificially generated streams that were earning royalties for their creators. Artists on Spotify earn money based on the number of times …
From Catherine Hardwicke, the director of Twilight and Thirteen comes Prisoner’s Daughter, a gritty new thriller that tells the story of a mother who will do anything for her son, and a father who aims to make up for a lifetime of crime and neglect. And ahead of the film’s debut, a new trailer has …
Structural organization of the AcrB trimer indicating the location of mutated residues with relevant substitutions and their relation to the proximal and distal binding pockets. Credit: npj Antimicrobials and Resistance (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s44259-023-00001-8 Bacteria can rapidly evolve resistance to antibiotics by adapting special pumps to flush them out of their cells, according to new research …
As a sequel to Breath of the Wild, Tears of the kingdom of course has numerous connections to its predecessor from the world the game takes place in to its characters to its story. But it also has an extremely tangible connection: it reads your Breath of the Wild save data, and uses that data …
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) recently imposed restrictions on Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the makers of Call of Duty, due to concerns about Microsoft’s potential dominance in cloud gaming. In a further blow to Microsoft, the regulator has now prevented the two companies from acquiring any interests in each other without …
Image via Warner Bros / Marvel Studios Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is attempting to break Marvel’s recent spell of misfortune, but this only seems to be prolonging the long-standing curse of the DCU, despite the director of this threequel taking on the role of CEO of the latter franchise. Meanwhile, Karen Gillan may …
Sony Group announced on Friday that PlayStation 5 sales would increase by six million units in the current business year. However, the company also forecasted a slip in profit from a record high due to weaker financial services sales offsetting gains from gaming, music, and movies. Sony expects its operating profit for the year to …
If you have free time tomorrow, don’t miss the new BlackBerry release in the United States. It’s not a phone, but a movie based on the book “Losing The Signal” that tells the rise and fall of BlackBerry, starting with their two-way pager that revolutionized the mobile email industry. BlackBerry devices were a must-have for …
Editor’s Note: The following article discusses plot points from Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. Bridgerton and its spinoff series, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, explore the concepts of marriage and love within a heterosexual context. While there are discussions of the rarity of love matches among the people of the ton, the show has given …
Land-use change and runoff, 2005 and 2100. Credit: PLOS Water (2023). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pwat.0000083 Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently published a study in the journal PLOS Water that focuses on the Sudbury-Assabet and Concord watershed in eastern Massachusetts, and which links hydrological changes, including floods, drought and runoff, to changing patterns of land …