New diffusion AI models that make songs from scratch are complicating our definitions of authorship and human creativity.

One of the earliest and most influential examples of artificial intelligence was Christopher Strachey's draughts (checkers) program, developed between 1951 and 1952. Strachey, a schoolmaster and ...

In these days of multi-gig OSes, we cast our eyes back to something both much bigger and much smaller.… The Reg FOSS desk only recently came across interesting news about a very cool project ...

the paper is specifically concerned with a magnetic drum unit using a ring-type magnetic recording head, wherein the type of magnetization is referred to as longitudinal. This is at present the most ...

Going over the river and through the woods was more dangerous back when cars had crummy bias-ply tires, rear-wheel drive, and ...

This is because the machine's working memory is on a magnetic drum spinning at 3,700 rpm: 64 tracks of 64 sectors, holding 4,096 31-bit words. The processor is bit-serial which partly explains why so ...

Stereolab have shared their new single 'Melodie Is A Wound', a delightful follow-up single to their new album’s announcement earlier in the month, a looping ...

What makes a brand magnetic? Leo Hadden at BrandOpus explains why the agency created an index to help find out.

New research from a team of cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists finds that chimpanzees drum rhythmically, using ...

serving as "0s" and "1s" without any external magnetic field or complex wiring. This opens up exciting possibilities for creating memory devices that are not only faster and more robust but also ...

Comedian John Mulaney on this year's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees including the White Stripes and Outkast, and snubs ...