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Autotune can often sound robotic because it shifts off notes into perfect pitch, a new version listens to the notes you've already sung and uses them to help fill in the gaps
Elon Musk-backed firm OpenAI has built a text-generating AI that it says is too dangerous to release because of potential misuse
The New York Times' online quiz can pinpoint where in the UK or Ireland you grew up by the words you use and how you say them. We asked a linguist to explain why dialects persist
New Scientist went to meet the UK schoolchildren who have left their classrooms to join a global protest that calls for the government to declare a climate emergency
Media reports suggest Russia is contemplating disconnecting from the global internet. The move is not about isolationism but security, says James Ball
Hung-Chun Chang told New Scientist about his team’s controversial project to find drugs for depression and schizophrenia using clones of gene-edited monkeys
The rise of wireless charging for electric cars means you may never have to worry about plugging in again
The US Navy has a project that plans to use an autonomous submarine to launch a swarm of attack drones from underwater
Investigators are using artificial intelligence to locate children who have been trafficked for sexual exploitation
Scientists read and react to peer reviewed research, making the pages of leading scientific journals like The Lancet a good venue to fight for gender equity, says Jessica Wade
