From ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ to ‘Drive, Baby, Drive’

The shooting death of Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has quickly become a rallying point in the broader ...
USA Today

How do you get a REAL ID? Not having one could soon cost you $45

For those who are planning to travel by plane this holiday season, more than a ticket will be needed to board. Travelers now need a REAL ID-compliant identification to board a federally regulated ...
The New York Times

I’m a Psychoanalyst. This Is What Technology Is Doing to Us.

Dr. Barrie-Anthony is a psychoanalyst. For the vast majority of my psychotherapy patients, the gravitational pull of phones and social media alters the most important aspects of who they are, their ...
Rolling Stone

Tate McRae Preps Deluxe Edition of ‘So Close to What’: ‘I Can’t Wait for You to Hear’

SO CLOSE TO WHAT??? (deluxe) is out Nov. 21 and includes the singer’s latest hit, “Tit for Tat” She added: “In the moment, I’m [asking] ‘What do I want out of life? What do I want to do with my music?
The Hill

What salary is considered ‘upper class’ in 2025? It depends on who you ask

(NEXSTAR) – Wealth is in the eye of the beholder, a recent survey of 1,000 Americans found. GOBankingRates asked 1,000 adults across different generations what salary they think is necessary to be ...
The New York Times

What Is Amazon Web Services?

The cloud-computing division of the internet giant is used by thousands of internet customers, many of whom reported disruptions on Monday. By Melissa Eddy An outage at Amazon Web Services on Monday ...
Greek Reporter

Maria Callas’ Legendary Voice Captured as Gold Spectrogram Sculpture in Dubai

Greek artist Nikos Floros created a breathtaking, three-meter tall sculpture of gold and bronze from Maria Callas’ voice echogram. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain A monumental sculpture of ...
IEEE

Is GAN Necessary for Mel-Spectrogram-Based Neural Vocoder?

Recently, mainstream mel-spectrogram-based neural vocoders rely on generative adversarial network (GAN) for high-fidelity speech generation, e.g., HiFi-GAN and BigVGAN. However, the use of GAN ...