Old videos of Taylor Swift have resurfaced online as fans think that years ago the singer was trying to clue them in on her new album. The pop superstar is due to release her album The Tortured Poets Department (TTPD) in April, which she revealed at the 2024 Grammy Awards she had been recording in …
The boom of AI-generated music has caused a divide across the industry. While superstars like Drake and Bad Bunny have rejected its rise in popularity. The Recording Academy has embraced the new recording technology. Now, Earthgang is set to show their support for the latest creative wave. Come Friday, February 23, fans will learn just …
The show’s fourth season examines the strange, symbiotic relationship between our two most basic desires: ‘innovation and getting off’ Over the last four decades, the internet has transformed the way we have, talk about, and view sex. What’s less spoken about is the symbiosis of this relationship. Sex has always been a driving force in …
Drake and Olivia Rodrigo, two UMG artists who have gone viral on TikTok. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Prince Williams/Wireimage, Kevin Mazur/Getty Images TikTok is about to get a lot quieter. Universal Music Group, the largest music corporation on the globe, is planning to take its music off TikTok as it struggles to negotiate a new licensing …
Summary: Researchers made a significant discovery using an artificial neural network model, suggesting that musical instinct may emerge naturally from the human brain. By analyzing various natural sounds through Google’s AudioSet, the team found that certain neurons in the network selectively responded to music, mimicking the behavior of the auditory cortex in real brains. This …
Ed Newton-Rex says generative AI has an ethics problem. He ought to know, because he used to be part of the fast-growing industry. Newton-Rex was TikTok’s head AI designer and then an executive at Stability AI until he quit in disgust in November over the company’s stance on collecting training data. After his high-profile departure, …
With the rise of AI-generated modelling agencies and no copyright protections, many models – like Nassia Matsa – are discovering that they don’t have the rights to their own bodies I am sitting on the tube on my way to a casting when opposite me I see an ad for an insurance company. The model …
Spectrum internet and phone service customers in the eastern Coachella Valley experienced service interruptions Friday after fiber optic lines were cut in what Indio police believe was vandalism. Spectrum said all of its affected lines had been repaired by the evening. Indio Police spokesperson Ben Guitron said staff from Frontier Communications notified the department at …
My heart’s pounding more than normal as I wait for Jia Tolentino to pick up my call. There’s something about interviewing another writer that feels specifically terrifying. Are they going to think my questions are dumb? Are they going to be quietly editing my ramblings in their head? Are they going to read the resulting …
Texas has many celebrities; movie stars, musicial legends, famous athletes, etc. But amongst those celebrities are ones that became famous thanks to the Internet. And Texas is full of stars that became famous thanks to the power of social media & the Internet. Which internet celebrities are from Texas? Believe it or not, there are actually …