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AI-generated music continues to evolve as Suno rakes in $125 million from VC investors, offering users the ability to create longer, more musically rich tracks than its Big Tech competitors Google and Meta.

Just when we think things can’t get any worse in the classroom, along comes Vegetative Learning. Yes, it’s as bad as it sounds. But there’s hope. And most kids aren’t going to like it.

The controversial funding package could put Speaker Mike Johnson’s gavel at risk.

Narrowing profit margins and stifling regulations are pushing Europe’s farmers to the brink.

(1) PRESIDENT’S DAY WEEKEND. Get ready for Boskone 60, coming February 17-19, 2023 in Boston – and via the internet. The convention’s guests are Nalo Hopkinson - Guest of Honor; Victo Ngai - Official Artist; Tui T. Sutherland - Special Guest; and Dave Clement - Musical Guest. Full information at the link. Boskone 60 will be held in person

Nearly everyone who wants an iPhone already has one. What's next for Apple?

I think the best part of Pitchfork’s demise — parent publisher Condé Nast laid off a ton of the music mag’s employees and announced it would be absorbed by GQ (!) — is that Condé Nast Editorial Director Anna Wintour remained on brand while informing the staff of their fate. According to a tweet, newly laid-off

Tech downgrades, it's just business, becoming a billionaire, and building useful things for useless people

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The tsunami of technology that inundated the masses over the past 100+ years has been an extraordinary phenomenon.