Baby chicks link certain sounds with shapes, just like humans do

A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba ...

Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood

A 15-second clip created by an artificial intelligence tool owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance appears more ...

AI Nailed The ‘Will Smith Eating Spaghetti’ Test—What Comes Next?

Bytedance’s video generation model Seedance 2.0 passed the ‘Will Smith eating spaghetti’ test with flying colors, a significant leap forward for AI-generated video.

The Sony WF-1000XM6 earbuds reclaim the noise-canceling crown

Apple, Bose, and Sony are in a running battle for the best noise-canceling earbuds, and the Sony WF-1000XM6 put Sony back in ...

ByteDance’s next-gen AI model can generate clips based on text, images, audio, and video

Big Tech’s race to leapfrog the latest AI models continues with the launch of ByteDance’s next-gen video generator. In a blog post, ByteDance – the China-based company behind TikTok – says Seedance ...
The Guardian

‘Magical’: how I taught Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor to sing like folk troubadours in The History of Sound

Singer-songwriter Sam Amidon had just three weeks to make the two stars sound like seasoned balladeers. He recalls their charged harmonies in the little shed at the bottom of his garden I was brought ...
Los Angeles Times

A family’s past and present intermingle in Germany’s eerie, elliptical ‘Sound of Falling’

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. There are ghosts inhabiting “Sound of Falling” — you just need to know where to look for them. German director ...
Food & Wine

Tom Yum Goong (Thai Spicy and Sour Soup with Shrimp)

A simple homemade shrimp stock brings concentrated seafood flavor to this complex soup. A deeply aromatic homemade stock — built from shrimp shells, galangal, lemongrass, makrut lime leaves, and ...