A Bird’s Brain Holds Clues to the Sounds of Music

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...
Interesting Engineering

New Musica supercomputer performs 45,110 trillion calculations/sec with 1,088 Nvidia chips

A new top 100 supercomputer called Musica delivers 45.11 petaflops using 1,088 Nvidia H100 GPUs to power simulations and ...

USC Carolina Band songs on soundtrack for new EA College Football ‘27 video game. Listen here

USC’s Carolina Band recorded songs for EA Sports back in March, and they have finally been released. Here’s where to listen.
Tech Xplore

Australian musicians hate AI using their songs, but have little legal protection

Music from Kylie Minogue, John Farnham, INXS, Midnight Oil, AC/DC, Tones and I, Gotye, Ben Frost, Nick Cave, Tame Impala, Parkway Drive, The Living End and Vance Joy has been found in a database of 12 ...
Frontiers

Science shows why our taste in music can’t be siloed into catch-all genres

Music genres have long been used to describe people's musical taste. Now, a team of scientists has examined music tastes of a broad German sample and found that it is not sufficient to know what ...