Electronic music artist and tech creator Look Mum No Computer has been chosen to represent the UK at this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, the BBC has announced. Look Mum No Computer is a solo artist, songwriter and YouTuber, who is also described as an inventor of unique musical machines. The singer first arrived on the music scene back in 2014 as Sam Battle, frontman of indie rock band Zibra. The group performed at Glastonbury in 2015 for BBC Introducing. Since then, he has been performing and recording under his solo name.

Chatbots and image generators, newly on the rise, have sparked our imaginations--and our fears. As artificial-intelligence machines sharpen their ability to translate written prompts into images that accurately capture both style and substance, some visual artists worry that their specialized skills might be rendered irrelevant. Even so, the new technologies at our disposal broaden our understanding of the relationship between artist and work. In her cover for the April 24 & May 1, 2023, Innovation & Tech Issue, her first for the magazine, JooHee Yoon addresses the topic in a clever image that illustrates the reciprocity and the tension that can exist between artists and these high-tech tools (is the robot hand drawing the real hand, or vice versa?). Yoon's cover also demonstrates what makes artists unique: their ideas and their point of view. M. C. Escher (1898-1972), a Dutch graphic artist whose approach was an inspiration for Yoon, is a case in point.

In a car outside a convenience store in Flint, Michigan, in late 2016, Kemo Parks handed his cousin Dequavion Harris a gun. Things happened quickly after that: Witnesses saw Harris "with his arm up and extended" toward a red truck. The wounded driver sped off but crashed into a tree. EMTs rushed him to the hospital. He was dead on arrival.

When Leonardo DiCaprio's relationship with model/actress Camila Morrone ended three months after she celebrated her 25th birthday, the lifestyle site YourTango turned to neuroscience. DiCaprio has a well-documented history of dating women under 25. "Given that DiCaprio's cut-off point is exactly around the time that neuroscientists say our brains are finished developing, there is certainly a case to be made that a desire to date younger partners comes from a desire to have control," the article said. It quotes a couples therapist, who says that at 25, people's "brains are fully formed and that presents a more elevated and conscious level of connection"--the type of connection, YourTango suggests, that DiCaprio wants to avoid. YourTango was parroting a factoid that's gained a chokehold over pop science in the past decade: that 25 marks the age at which our brains become "fully developed" or "mature." This assertion has been used as an explanation for a vast range of phenomena.

Malicious campaigns involving the use of deepfake technologies are a lot closer than many might assume. Furthermore, mitigation and detection of them are hard. A new study of the use and abuse of deepfakes by cybercriminals shows that all the needed elements for widespread use of the technology are in place and readily available in underground markets and open forums. The study by Trend Micro shows that many deepfake-enabled phishing, business email compromise (BEC), and promotional scams are already happening and are quickly reshaping the threat landscape. "From hypothetical and proof-of-concept threats, [deepfake-enabled attacks] have moved to the stage where non-mature criminals are capable of using such technologies," says Vladimir Kropotov, security researcher with Trend Micro and the main author of a report on the topic that the security vendor released this week.

In August, Patrick Hillman, chief communications officer of blockchain ecosystem Binance, knew something was off when he was scrolling through his full inbox and found six messages from clients about recent video calls with investors in which he had allegedly participated. "Thanks for the investment opportunity," one of them said. "I have some concerns about your investment advice," another wrote. Others complained the video quality wasn't very good, and one even asked outright: "Can you confirm the Zoom call we had on Thursday was you?" With a sinking feeling in his stomach, Hillman realized that someone had deepfaked his image and voice well enough to hold 20-minute "investment" Zoom calls trying to convince his company's clients to turn over their Bitcoin for scammy investments.

Abstract--We present the problem of two-terminal source coding with Common Sum Reconstruction (CSR). Both terminals want to reconstruct the sum of the two sources under some average distortion constraint, and the reconstructions at two terminals must be identical with high probability. We employ existing achievability results for Steinberg's common reconstruction and Wyner-Ziv's source Figure 1: The dashed line separates the two terminals. For example, let for some distortion measure d(,) and D 0. We obtain the two terminals in Figure 1 be two compute nodes optimizing the "Two-terminal Source Coding with Common Sum Reconstruction" some function with synchronous SGD, and let X Two stochastic gradients are correlated since must produce a Common Reconstruction (CR) of the sum they are noisy estimates of the gradient of the function. The butterfly all-reduce algorithm employs is a Doubly Symmetric Binary Source (DSBS) and d(,) is the two-terminal communication setup as a basic building Hamming distortion measure.

Armed with a newly minted undergraduate degree in geology, Jasper Baur is in the mining business. Not those mines where we extract metals or minerals; the kind that kill and maim thousands of people every year. As a freshman at upstate New York's Binghamton University in 2016, Baur started working with two geophysics professors, Alex Nikulin and Timothy de Smet, to look into employing instrument-equipped drones to speed the slow, hazardous task of finding land mines. Baur stuck with the research all the way through college; now a grad student in volcanology at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, he is still pursuing it. "It seemed like a really relevant and impactful use of science," he said.

Mayor Darrell Steinberg says he hopes the new high-speed wireless service will attract businesses to the city. Mayor Darrell Steinberg says he hopes the new high-speed wireless service will attract businesses to the city. Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg has a message for his neighbors to the south in Silicon Valley who might be sick of the high prices and overcrowding: "If you are a small business or an entrepreneur and you are trying to make it in in the Bay Area and you can't, don't move to Seattle -- move to Sacramento." One of the lures he's using to draw businesses is newly installed Verizon fifth generation, or 5G, wireless. Each generation of faster wireless speeds has helped spark innovation.

This article was originally published by Ozy. In 2016, Houston's petrochemical industry had countless job positions that were unfilled. And at the same time, a number of the city's residents were looking for work. So, how was Houston going to fix this? In an effort to help match eligible candidates with open positions, private companies began to step in.