Not every performer began their career as a child star -- but thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) we can now all catch a glimpse of what their childhood fame might have looked like. It comes after an image of an infant Elon Musk -- showing the billionaire as a toddler wearing brown overalls -- gave the internet baby fever. The adorable (or possibly disturbing?) photo is not from the billionaire's own family archives, however. Like these celebrities, it too was made with the help of artificial intelligence. The AI-made toddler version of Ed Sheeran has his soulful blue eye and his vibrant red hair.

British people have a lot of questions, and these days all they have to do is shout at their voice assistant Alexa and they will probably get the answer. Amazon has now revealed its most asked questions for Alexa in Britain this year, ranging from the weird, wonderful and straight-up nosey. From the height of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to Gordon Ramsay's net worth, hundreds of questions have been asked, with some being more popular than others. The net worth of the second richest man in the world, and new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, was one of the most frequently asked question from Alexa owners. One of the most popular questions was'Alexa, how tall is Rishi Sunak'.

Pop songs will get shorter on average by the end of this decade because of faltering attention spans and'skipping culture' on streaming services, experts say. Attention spans of music fans has dropped from 12 seconds to eight since the year 2000, according to research from Samsung. As a result it's more important than ever for musicians to draw listeners in early, keep the overall length of a track short and'load choruses up front'. On music streaming services like Spotify, artists don't get royalties from a song being played if the listener doesn't get beyond the first 30 seconds. By 2030, it will therefore be more important than ever for songs to quickly progress to the next track on an album before listeners get bored, the experts say.

When I try to introduce the concept of AI DApps, I often find that it is particularly difficult when people lack an accurate grasp of what machine learning is. There is an overwhelming amount of information online about machine learning targeted toward audiences with different levels of technical expertise. In this series, I introduce machine learning at different technical levels, with the aim of providing a basic framework that helps you understand machine learning, regardless of your background, starting at the highest level. In traditional programming, programmers write programs, which are made of lines of code that instruct computers to perform certain tasks. For example, a programmer can write a program to detect whether the word "book" exists in a news article.

In a world full of smart devices, self-driving cars and voice assistants, Shazam is the closest technology comes to actual magic. The software allows you to hold your phone up to a speaker and answer the age-old question, "what is this song and who's it by?" without the humiliation of having to ask the DJ. And in 2018 the answer, most frequently, was "Solo by Clean Bandit". The song, which features US star Demi Lovato, was tagged 9.1 million times. British artists performed five of Shazam's top 10 songs, with Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa and newcomer Tom Walker all making the chart.

Streaming music revenues surpassed income from the sale of traditional formats for the first time last year, as the booming popularity the service put an end to the era of the CD. Revenue from music fans paying for services such as Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music surged more than 41% to $6.6bn (£4.7bn), accounting for more than 38% of the total global market for recorded music. The sale of physical formats, primarily CDs, fell 5.4% to $5.2bn to account for 30%. It marks a tipping point for the music industry, which has depended on income from CDs to fill record labels' coffers and artists' pockets since the 1980s. CD sales have been in decline for years as the industry was hammered by illegal piracy and failed to make much money as user numbers and margins fell in the early days of streaming.

Jenna Dewan Tatum, Laverne Cox, Ashanti, Eve and Iggy Azelea discuss their fashion choices on the red carpet at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. Pharrell Williams and Shay Haley of the band N.E.R.D. perform their song "Lemon" during the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards in Inglewood, Calif. The nation's largest radio station operator iHeartMedia has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to shed billions of debt it has been saddled with for more than a decade. The San Antonio-based company, which has more than 850 radio stations, says it will continue to keep operating after reaching an agreement with creditors for more than $10 billion of its $20 billion in debt. That means its popular iHeartRadio streaming radio app, which has 270 million monthly listeners, will continue to be found on smartphones, video game consoles and other devices.