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Spotify continues to change music. What’s next – will AI musicians replace music made by humans?
John Hawkins, University of Canberra Spotify was started, according to its official claims, because its founders “love music and piracy was killing it”. In Mood Machine, music journalist Liz Pelly argues this is rewriting history. In fact, she points out, Spotify founder Daniel Ek initially patented a platform around 2006, for circulating “any kind
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ICYMI: Memory Safety, Ecosystem Talks, and Java Interoperability at FOSDEM 2025
The Swift community had a strong presence at FOSDEM 2025, the world’s largest independently run open source conference, held every year in Brussels, Belgium. FOSDEM highlighted a range of Swift-related talks related to memory safety, a broad ecosystem around Swift including using it to develop web services and embedded projects, and new areas of the
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Google Cloud and Philips Collaborate to Drive Consumer Marketing Innovation and Transform Digital Asset Management with AI
AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, there would be no Google Cloud, as they are the ones building the future on our platform. In this monthly round-up, we dive into some of the exciting projects redefining businesses, shaping industries, and creating new categories. For
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More predictable benchmarking with testing.B.Loop
Go developers who have written benchmarks using the testing package might have encountered some of its various pitfalls. Go 1.24 introduces a new way to write benchmarks that’s just as easy to use, but at the same time far more robust: testing.B.Loop. Traditionally, Go benchmarks are written using a loop from 0 to b.N: Using b.Loop instead is a trivial change:
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Mathematicians uncover the logic behind how people walk in crowds
The findings could help planners design safer, more efficient pedestrian thoroughfares. Jennifer Chu | MIT NewsMIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2025/mathematicians-uncover-logic-behind-how-crowds-walk-0324) Next time you cross a crowded plaza, crosswalk, or airport concourse, take note of the pedestrian flow. Are people walking in orderly lanes, single-file, to their respective destinations? Or is it a haphazard tangle of personal trajectories,
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Introducing swiftly 1.0
Today we’re delighted to introduce the first stable release of swiftly, a Swift version manager that takes the pain out of installing, managing and updating your Swift toolchain. The latest version of Swift is bundled with Xcode for writing apps for Apple platforms. But perhaps you want to install Swift on a different platform like
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IBM contributes key open-source projects to Linux Foundation to advance AI community participation
IBM is contributing 3 open-source projects—Docling, Data Prep Kit and BeeAI—to the Linux Foundation. This move signals not only the potential growth of these projects but also IBM’s ongoing commitment to open-source AI. “We’re continuing our long history of contributing open-source projects to ensure that they’re easy to consume and that it’s easy for others—not just us—to contribute,”
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Co-op mode: New partners driving the future of gaming with AI
Leaders in the games industry are using Google Cloud’s AI to drive unprecedented advancements in game development, including smarter, faster, and more immersive gaming experiences. And just like any successful game studio is the work of a broad and diverse team, our partner ecosystem is ready to help level up any project, including with game-industry-specific AI tools.
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NASA Invites Media to Annual FIRST Robotics Rocket City Competition
The Rocket City Regional – Alabama’s annual For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Robotics Regional Competition – is scheduled for Friday, March 14, through Saturday, March 15, at the Von Braun Center South Hall in Huntsville, Alabama. FIRST Robotics is a global robotics competition for students in grades 9-12. Teams are challenged
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Reducing malnutrition in hospitals with AI cameras
Malnutrition in patients leads to health problems and high costs. Hospitals are tackling the problem with AI-powered surveillance cameras and specially formulated food. In Switzerland, between 20% and 40% of patients are already malnourished when they enter hospital, and their nutritional status often worsens during their stay. This has a significant effect on the healing process and