POWER

Too Little, Too Late? Sony Music Fires Off Blanket Warning Against the AI Mining of Its Catalog

May 17, 2024

Too little, too late? Sony Music has fired off a blanket warning against the unauthorized training of AI systems on its song catalog and other IP. The overarching Sony Music Group today made that clear-cut announcement on behalf of Sony Music Entertainment (SME) as well as its various subsidiaries and Sony Music Publishing (SMP). Spanning

Pandora Hits Back at MLC Lawsuit Over Streaming Royalties: ‘Legally Incoherent’

May 16, 2024

Music In a strongly-worded response, Pandora says the royalties group "thinks it knows better than the entire music publishing industry." Illustration by Thiago Prudêncio/SOPA Images/LightRocket...

Huey Lewis Calls Musical Inspired by His Band’s Songs a ‘Creative Outlet’ After Losing His Hearing

May 16, 2024

Music You may not think of Buddhist philosophy and Huey Lewis as the same time very often, but it works for him when considering...

Materials

Yes, we have enough materials to power the world with renewable energy

January 31, 2023

Powering the world with renewable energy will take a lot of raw materials. The good news is, when it comes to aluminum, steel, and rare-earth metals, there’s plenty to go around, according to a new analysis. In the 2015 Paris Agreement, world leaders set a goal to keep global warming under 1.5 °C, and reaching

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Mitsubishi Power Receives Order for H-25 Gas Turbine for Taiwan’s Chang Chun Petrochemical

January 28, 2023

TOKYO, Jan 26, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Power, a power solutions brand of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), has received an order for an H-25 gas turbine for the Taiwanese firm Chang Chun Petrochemical Co., Ltd. The turbine with 30-megawatt (MW) output capacity will be the core of a new high-efficiency...

Anker

Anker 347 Power Bank (PowerCore 40K) discounted by up to 44% – NotebookCheck.net News

January 27, 2023

The Anker 347 Power Bank (PowerCore 40K) is reduced at Amazon in the US and the UK. (Image source: Anker)The Anker 347 Power Bank (PowerCore 40K) is currently discounted by up to 44% at Amazon in the US. The gadget is also reduced at Amazon UK by 15%, available in black or white. The device

Nunavut

Nunavut power utility’s servers hit by cyber attack

January 26, 2023

The territorial utility that provides power to Nunavut can’t say yet if customer data was copied after a cyber attack earlier this week. Qulliq Energy Corporation (QEC) was targeted in a cyberattack on last weekend, the firm said on Thursday. “QEC’s network was breached, and the corporation took immediate actions to contain the situation.” Outside

Conor

Conor McGregor reacts to debut of Dana White’s Power Slap League: “I could potentially be the Joe Rogan of Power Slap”

January 20, 2023

Former UFC dual-weight champion Conor McGregor has reacted to the premiere of Dana White’s Power Slap League. ‘The Notorious’ has been out of action since...

Batteries

How old batteries will help power tomorrow’s EVs

January 18, 2023

Battery recycling is one of MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2023. Explore the rest of the list here. To Redwood Materials, the rows of cardboard boxes in its gravel parking lot represent both the past and the future of electric vehicles. The makeshift storage space stretches for over 10 acres at Redwood’s new

POWER

Awk: Power and Promise of a 40 yr old language (2021)

January 16, 2023

Languages don't enjoy long lives. Very few people still code with the legacies of the 1970s: ML, Pascal, Scheme, Smalltalk. (The C language is still widely used but in significantly updated versions.) Bucking that trend, the 1977 Unix utility Awk can boast of a loyal band of users and seems poised to continue far into

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