A bicycle wheel with guitar strings, a touch-operated synth, and the “Demon Box” were just a few of the new instruments on show at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition this weekend.

Abstract: This paper proposes a novel Viterbi-Like successive cancellation (VL-SC) decoding algorithm for polar codes. The algorithm employs the bit log-likelihood-ratio as the “penalty value” within ...

The question of AI’s place in music is just one moral dilemma out of the myriad that have surfaced since ChatGPT’s genesis in early 2023. Over the last three years, computer science college dropouts, ...

Abstract: Weighted vertex cover (WVC) problem, as one of the most important combinatorial optimization problems, is a general form of the classic vertex cover problem. The existing researches focused ...

In an age of hyper-digital and sociologically separated world, RADII taps three bands from the Baybeats lineup to help understand the gravity of why the live music experience is so important today.

When Tomahawk shut down in 2016, it was powered by a team of six. A decade later, developer J Herskowitz has vibe-coded it back to life as Parachord with an assist from Anthropic's AI. I’ve ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

Macworld reports that iOS 26.4 beta introduces “Playlist Playground,” an AI-powered feature allowing Apple Music subscribers to create custom playlists using text prompts or song selections. The ...