Google has teamed up with Japan’s Osaka University to create an AI tool that can reconstruct music from brain scans.
They trained an advanced deep neural network to match changes in brain activity with musical characteristics such as mood, genre, and instrumentation, as participants listened to music.
They then engaged MusicLM to interpret the data, and reconstruct the songs, which you can hear in the Tech & Science Daily podcast.
A US federal court has ruled that Reddit doesn’t need to identify users who pirate movies, as the Hollywood film industry continues to tackle piracy.
Our Tech Journalist Mary-Ann Russon explains how the 20 major film companies were using the social platform to find copyright infringers, and how the industry could target internet service providers in the UK.
A Labour MP has had to apologise after sharing a doctored image of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pouring a pint at a beer festival.
It was altered to show a poorly poured pint of stout, with a woman in the background looking disapprovingly at the PM’s effort, and MP Karl Turner said he was sorry for “inadvertently sharing an image which apparently turns out to have been fake".
And the rest,
Meta seeks EU user consent to show targeted Facebook and Instagram ads, YouTube takes on TikTok with tools to easily turn any video into a Short and Chinese regulators propose two-hour daily phone limit for under 18s.
Plus, how Atlantic orcas are 'learning from adults' to target boats, and a 39 million-year-old extinct whale ‘may be heaviest animal that ever lived’.
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