'Guerilla' liberals form a'Fight Club' to oust Schumer after walking right into Trump's Oval Office trap Billionaire family posts VERY unusual obituary after heir, 40, met violent end at $2.8m hunting lodge following marriage scandal I know why Usha Vance ditched her wedding ring. Most women would do the same if they'd suffered her humiliation: KENNEDY'Canceled' comedian Louis CK devours Hollywood legend's widow on streets of NYC as steamy romance is revealed Troubled 350lbs son of Hollywood icon is forced to humiliating new low... as his movie star brother luxuriates in $7m Montecito mansion'Dementia gene' now linked to another devastating neurological disease, study shows Trump's losing control... MAGA's imploding... and White House insiders tell me why they're REALLY worried: ANDREW NEIL Tourists warned against visiting 8 popular destinations in 2026 - including European hotspot where locals don't want you Dawson's Creek star James Van Der Beek looks healthy in new social media video as his wife gushes'he's bouncing back' amid cancer battle Her moving videos about the handsome boyfriend who ghosted her went viral and catapulted her to overnight fame. Anna Kepner's grim cause of death aboard Carnival cruise ship confirmed, as homicide investigation continues Brigitte Bardot, 91, is rushed to hospital again as she battles a'serious illness' after undergoing surgery One of America's best-known billionaire's secret thoughts about Trump's state of mind revealed World's coolest streets revealed - as two UK high streets make the top 31 Disney brings Olaf to life! AI-powered snowman robot can walk and talk just like the Frozen character - as delighted fans say'it's like he jumped right off the screen' READ MORE: Inventor is forced to cut robot open to prove there's no-one inside Disney has brought one of its most legendary characters to life - and he's seriously worth melting for. Measuring just three feet (one metre) tall, Olaf the robot can walk and talk just like the delightful eternally optimistic snowman from the Frozen movies.

In 2017, fresh off a PhD on theoretical chemistry, John Jumper heard rumors that Google DeepMind had moved on from game-playing AI to a secret project to predict the structures of proteins. He applied for a job. Just three years later, Jumper and CEO Demis Hassabis had led the development of an AI system called AlphaFold 2 that was able to predict the structures of proteins to within the width of an atom, matching lab-level accuracy, and doing it many times faster--returning results in hours instead of months. Last year, Jumper and Hassabis shared a Nobel Prize in chemistry. Now that the hype has died down, what impact has AlphaFold really had? How are scientists using it?

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'Guerilla' liberals form a'Fight Club' to oust Schumer after walking right into Trump's Oval Office trap Billionaire family posts VERY unusual obituary after heir, 40, met violent end at $2.8m hunting lodge following marriage scandal I know why Usha Vance ditched her wedding ring. Most women would do the same if they'd suffered her humiliation: KENNEDY'Canceled' comedian Louis C.K. devours Hollywood legend's widow on streets of NYC as steamy romance is revealed Troubled 350lbs son of Hollywood icon is forced to humiliating new low... as his movie star brother luxuriates in $7m Montecito mansion Brigitte Bardot, 91, is rushed to hospital again as she battles a'serious illness' after undergoing surgery'Dementia gene' now linked to another devastating neurological disease, study shows Trump's losing control... MAGA's imploding... and White House insiders tell me why they're REALLY worried: ANDREW NEIL Anna Kepner's grim cause of death aboard Carnival cruise ship confirmed, as homicide investigation continues Dawson's Creek star James Van Der Beek looks healthy in new social media video as his wife gushes'he's bouncing back' amid cancer battle Her moving videos about the handsome boyfriend who ghosted her went viral and catapulted her to overnight fame. Pam Bondi's furious response after beauty queen prosecutor who upstaged her has Comey and James indictments thrown out by judge Google Maps blunder turns tiny village into shortcut route, causing it to be'bombarded' by lorries that are damaging people's Grade II-listed homes READ MORE: Scientists issue warning over mind-altering'brain weapons' There are five key stages of the human brain, a new study has revealed. Researchers from the University of Cambridge compared brain scans of 3,802 people aged between 0 and 90. Their analysis revealed that the average human life is split up by four pivotal'turning points' between five key stages - childhood, adolescence, adulthood, early ageing, and late ageing.

Employees work on laptops in the Moore Kingston Smith office in London on Nov. 13. LONDON - When accountants at mid-tier firm Moore Kingston Smith began using artificial intelligence to speed up their work, profit margins jumped. Colleagues in another team running checks against corporate fraud created a report for customers in two hours, something that previously took two weeks. The rollout of AI is raising hopes that Britain's economy can escape the productivity problem that has dogged it for two decades, even as slow growth pushes finance minister Rachel Reeves toward tax hikes in Wednesday's budget. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.

China's AI promise lures top Asia fund away from Korea and Taiwan The AI frenzy that's gripped global equity markets for months is getting a fresh look from investors, as focus shifts to finding stocks that can drive the next leg of the sector's rally or at least withstand future selloffs. A top-performing Asian money manager is boosting exposure to artificial-intelligence stocks in China while retreating from those in South Korea and Taiwan, citing relatively better valuations and outlook. "Some of the names are still quite cheap in terms of valuation," said Kelly Chung, who helps oversee the Value Partners Asian Income Fund as well as the Asian Innovation Opportunities Fund. "The capital expenditure in China to invest in AI is still very low. There is still a big room for them to actually go up in terms of AI infrastructure investment" when compared to the U.S., she said in an interview.

State-of-the-art symbolic music generation models have recently achieved remarkable output quality, yet explicit control over compositional features, such as tonal tension, remains challenging. We propose a novel approach that integrates a computational tonal tension model, based on tonal interval vector analysis, into a Transformer framework. Our method employs a two-level beam search strategy during inference. At the token level, generated candidates are re-ranked using model probability and diversity metrics to maintain overall quality. At the bar level, a tension-based re-ranking is applied to ensure that the generated music aligns with a desired tension curve. Objective evaluations indicate that our approach effectively modulates tonal tension, and subjective listening tests confirm that the system produces outputs that align with the target tension. These results demonstrate that explicit tension conditioning through a dual-level beam search provides a powerful and intuitive tool to guide AI-generated music. Furthermore, our experiments demonstrate that our method can generate multiple distinct musical interpretations under the same tension condition.

Data Flows and Colonial Regimes in Africa: A Critical Analysis of the Colonial Futurities Embedded in AI Recommendation Algorithms Angella Ndaka, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Fátima Ávila - Acosta, Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Harnred Mbula, Centre for Epistemic Justice, Nairobi, Kenya Christine Amera, Centre for Epistemic Justice, Nairobi Kenya Sandra Tiyani Chauke University of Pretoria, South Africa Eucabeth Majiwa Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya Abstract In the last few years, Africa has experienced growth in a thriving ecosystem of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and systems, developed and promoted by both local and global technology players. While the sociotechnical imaginaries about these syst ems promote AI as critical to achiev ing Africa's sustainable development agenda, some of them have subtly permeated society, recreating new values, cultures, practices, and histories that threaten to marginalize minority groups in the region. Africa predominantly frames AI as an imaginary solution to address complex social challenges; however, the narrative subtly ignores deeper power - related concerns, including data governance, embedded algorithmic colonialism, and the exploitation that propag ates new digital colonial sites. However, the development of current AI ethics in Africa is in its infancy and predominantly framed through lenses of Western perspective, with the social and ethical impacts of the AI innovations and application on African epistemologies and worldviews not prioritized. To ensure that people on the African continent leverage the benefits of AI, these social and ethical impacts o f AI need to be critically and explicitly considered and addressed. This chapter will therefore seek to frame the elemental and invisible problems of AI and big data in the African context by examining digital sites and infrastructure through the lens of power and interests. It will present reflections on how these sites are using AI recommendation algorithms to recreate new digital societies in the region, how they have the potential to propagate algorithmic colonialism and negative gender norms, and what this means for the regional sustainable development agenda. The chapter proposes adopting business models that embrace response - ability and consider the existence of alternative socio - material worlds of AI. These reflections will mainly come from ongoing discussions with Kenyan social media users in this author's user space talks, which take place every month. Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; algorithmic colonialism; Data; response - ability; digital sites Section 1: Introduction The growing global interest, combined with rising investments in AI skilling and infrastructure development, is a key driver of the expanding landscape of AI technologies and systems across Africa.

Generation of dynamic, scalable multi-species bird soundscapes remains a significant challenge in computer music and algorithmic sound design. Birdsongs involve rapid frequency-modulated chirps, complex amplitude envelopes, distinctive acoustic patterns, overlapping calls, and dynamic inter-bird interactions, all of which require precise temporal and spatial control in 3D environments. Existing approaches, whether Digital Signal Processing (DSP)-based or data-driven, typically focus only on single species modeling, static call structures, or synthesis directly from recordings, and often suffer from noise, limited flexibility, or large data needs. To address these challenges, we present a novel, fully algorithm-driven framework that generates dynamic multi-species bird soundscapes using DSP-based chirp generation and 3D spatialization, without relying on recordings or training data. Our approach simulates multiple independently-moving birds per species along different moving 3D trajectories, supporting controllable chirp sequences, overlapping choruses, and realistic 3D motion in scalable soundscapes while preserving species-specific acoustic patterns. A visualization interface provides bird trajectories, spectrograms, activity timelines, and sound waves for analytical and creative purposes. Both visual and audio evaluations demonstrate the ability of the system to generate dense, immersive, and ecologically inspired soundscapes, highlighting its potential for computer music, interactive virtual environments, and computational bioacoustics research.