Snopes used Google's invisible SynthID watermark to debunk a viral AI-generated image of Senator McConnell in a hospital bed. The watermark survived screenshots.

In theory, MIDI is an electrical and protocol standard that allows any such equipped instrument or computer to talk to any ...

The Xenodrive offers a somewhat unique approach to distortion (at least in hardware form) via its wavetable-based waveshaper, but a few workflow frustrations and a sonic personality best suited to ...

Coding tools are becoming an increasingly big target for Google and Microsoft as they try to catch Anthropic and OpenAI in the red-hot market. Microsoft is gearing up for coding-related announcements ...

SUPERBOOTH 2026: Korg is really leaning into baiting its considerable fanbase this year - courting social media intrigue by hiding what appears to be a tantalisingly blue-LED'd brand new synth under a ...

With TV soundtracks increasingly turning to nostalgic ’80s tracks, hear a playlist of essential hits and deeper cuts. By David Renard It’s Dave Renard, an editor on the Times Culture desk. It feels ...

This paper introduces VALL-E 2, the latest advancement in neural codec language models that marks a milestone in zero-shot text-to-speech synthesis (TTS), achieving human parity for the first time.

Vibe coding, where AI generates code from plain language, is rapidly adopted but creates significant security risks. Studies reveal thousands of high-impact vulnerabilities and exposed secrets in live ...

Instead of throwing that spent Elf Bar nicotine vape into the trash, you can pull most of the guts out, plug in a circuit board and some controls, then suck on the mouthpiece to play digital sounds.

Goose acts as the agent that plans, iterates, and applies changes. Ollama is the local runtime that hosts the model. Qwen3-coder is the coding-focused LLM that generates results. If you've been ...

Korg just officially unveiled the Phase8 synthesizer, after years of tinkering by a team led by legendary engineer Tatsuya Takahashi. This is a highly experimental synthesizer, but it's not a concept ...

AI coding agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google can now work on software projects for hours at a time, writing complete apps, running tests, and fixing bugs with human supervision. But these tools ...