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Aug 9, 2023

Google and Universal Music partner up to develop AI music tool

Posted by in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI

The AI tool allows people to create songs using the voices of various artists. What will this do to the music industry?

Months after an outburst over AI-engineered songs that used the voice of artists, it seems like the world’s largest record label – Universal Music Group (UMG) – is getting on board to ride the AI wave before it washes out the company.

In collaboration with Google, UMG will soon develop a tool allowing fans to create AI-generated music using musicians’ voices, reported Financial Times. The deal involves paying copyright holders their share in using their melody and allows the artists a choice to opt in.

Aug 9, 2023

Serine + Vitamin B6: No Effect On Homocysteine (Test #2)

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, health

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Aug 9, 2023

After 15 years, pulsar timing yields evidence of cosmic background gravitational waves

Posted by in categories: physics, space

The universe is humming with gravitational radiation—a very low-frequency rumble that rhythmically stretches and compresses spacetime and the matter embedded in it.

That is the conclusion of several groups of researchers from around the world who simultaneously published a slew of journal articles in June describing more than 15 years of observations of millisecond pulsars within our corner of the Milky Way galaxy. At least one group—the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) collaboration—has found compelling evidence that the precise rhythms of these pulsars are affected by the stretching and squeezing of spacetime by these long-wavelength .

“This is key evidence for gravitational waves at very low frequencies,” says Vanderbilt University’s Stephen Taylor, who co-led the search and is the current chair of the collaboration. “After years of work, NANOGrav is opening an entirely new window on the gravitational-wave universe.”

Aug 9, 2023

Julia Greer, Materials Scientist and Leader in Nanoscience Research

Posted by in categories: materials, nanotechnology

Julia Greer discusses her life background and research career in this five-part oral history.

Aug 9, 2023

Japanese Scientists Develop Novel, Completely Solid, Rechargeable Air Battery

Posted by in category: materials

Metals traditionally serve as the active materials for the negative electrodes in batteries. However, there’s been a shift towards using redox-active organic molecules like quinone-and amine-based compounds as negative electrodes in rechargeable metal–air batteries, which feature oxygen-reducing positive electrodes.

Here, protons and hydroxide ions participate in the redox reactions. Such batteries exhibit high performance, close to the maximum capacity that is theoretically possible. Furthermore, using redox-active organic molecules in rechargeable air batteries overcomes problems associated with metals, including the formation of structures called ‘dendrites,’ which impact battery performance, and have negative environmental impact.

Aug 9, 2023

Bio breakthrough cuts price of key moisturizer ingredient

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

Take a look at the ingredients in any jar of moisturizer and it’ll almost certainly contain hyaluronic acid.

The gel-like substance helps your skin stretch and flex, and reduces lines and wrinkles. It also helps wounds to heal faster and can reduce scarring.

But hyaluronic acid, also known as hyaluron, is costly to produce and raises ethical concerns because it’s largely derived from animal tissue.

Aug 9, 2023

Court of Amen

Posted by in category: futurism

Zenet Two — online book, second in ‘The Keys to Zenet’ series.

Aug 9, 2023

These new photos of SpaceX’s giant Starship Booster 9 engine test are just gorgeous

Posted by in category: space travel

The immense power of SpaceX’s Starship Super Heavy booster is on glorious display in newly released photos of a recent engine test.

That test occurred on Sunday (Aug. 6), when SpaceX briefly ignited the 33 Raptor engines of a Super Heavy prototype known as Booster 9 at the company’s Starbase site in South Texas.

Aug 9, 2023

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Plots Launch of Its Mega Rocket. Next Year. Maybe

Posted by in category: space travel

The company aims to launch New Glenn, a huge rocket with a reusable booster, on its first flight next year.

Aug 9, 2023

Google, record labels working on deal covering musical “deepfakes”

Posted by in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI

“Frank Sinatra’s voice has been used on a version of the hip-hop song ”Gangsta’s Paradise,” while Johnny Cash’s has been deployed on the pop single ”Barbie Girl.” A YouTube user called PluggingAI offers songs imitating the voices of the deceased rappers Tupac and Notorious B.I.G.

”An artist’s voice is often the most valuable part of their livelihood and public persona, and to steal it, no matter the means, is wrong,” Universal Music general counsel Jeffrey Harleston told US lawmakers last month.

Discussions between Google and Universal Music are at an early stage, and no product launch is imminent, but the goal is to develop a tool for fans to create these tracks legitimately, and pay the owners of the copyrights for it, said people close to the situation. Artists would have the choice to opt in, the people said.

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