Whether you want to or not, everyone knows “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.” Recorded in 1958 by 13-year-old Brenda Lee, the song’s use in Home Alone helped make it a holiday staple. But have you ever wanted to hear a Spanish version created with help from AI? No? Too bad!
Universal Music Group on Friday released “Noche Buena y Navidad,” a Spanish adaptation of the song that features an AI version of Lee’s vocals. Rewritten in Spanish and produced by produc
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is suing Elon Musk and his pro-Trump group America PAC in an attempt to stop the billionaire’s controversial $1 million giveaway to registered voters.
Krasner filed the suit on Monday, calling Musk’s efforts an “illegal lottery scheme.”
“America PAC and Musk are lulling Philadelphia citizens—and others in the Comm
The social platform X has suspended a new account on behalf of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that posted messages in
How did you pick a college: the academics, the cost, the campus? For today’s high schoolers, a new metric has entered the chat—how the college will look on TikTok.
According to Teen Vogue, high school TikTok influencers are increasingly choosing schools based on how they’ll present on social media content. “Part of Morgan McGuire’s calculation
For years, the EU has had a grand plan to try and keep track of those passing in and out of its trading bloc of 27 countries. It would introduce a biometric border-check system that would log fingerprints and photographs, similar to what’s in place at the U.S. border.
The system was first meant to be introduced in 2022. Then May 2023. Then the end of that year. A new date of October 6, 2024, was set, but that’s
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Google’s free NotebookLM made improvements on October 17 to what has become one of the most powerful ways to use AI. You can now customize its most popular featur
On July 18, we experienced one of the biggest screw-ups in the history of the digital era. Millions of computers worldwide running the Windows operating system didn’t turn on. The culprit: a configuration issue with the Falcon Sensor tool developed by cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike. In simpl
European scientists have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm capable of interpreting pig sounds, aiming to create a tool that can help farmers improve animal welfare.
The algorithm could potentially alert farmers to negative emotions in pigs, thereby improving their well-being, according to Elodie Mandel-Briefer, a behavioral biologist at University of Copenhagen who is co-leading the study.
The scientists, from universities in Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Fr
The month of October has me thinking about monsters—and, specifically, mutants.
That’s a strange way to start a conversation about tech topics, I realize. But stay with me: I promise this is going somewhere.
I keep having the thought, y’see, that some of the best and most useful apps out there would be even better if we could somehow combine ’em and create new, superpowered mutant app mega-tools.
And there’s no place that’s more true than with the time-