Stocks in a bear market, crypto plummeting, exorbitant gas prices and interest rates increasing. Turning to the business headlines, ‘Fed’ and ‘inflation’ are two words one seemingly can’t escape from. Just what is going on? …

Introducing a new VAE-based architecture to generate novel musical samples — Deep learning has radically transformed the fields of computer vision and natural language processing, in not just classification but also generative tasks, enabling the creation of unbelievably realistic pictures as well as artificially generated news articles. But what about the field of audio — or more specifically — music? …

[WATCH: Highlights from Qualifying, Max Verstappen’s pole position lap] Qualifying has confirmed why 2021’s F1 season will be truly exhilarating: a genuine two-horse race at the top, and an unpredictable, close midfield. Max Verstappen confirmed pre-season speculation of Red Bull’s pace-setting car by clinching pole by a sizeable four tenths…

Coded Bias is a 2020 documentary directed by Shalini Kantayya exploring how the machine learning algorithms of today perpetuate bias and the undesirable consequences that this brings. The film’s thesis is that artificial intelligence fosters an illusion of objectivity in our society. This objectivity is purportedly illusory, because of human-generated…

January is typically a quiet month for pop music with everyone is waiting for the Grammy’s. But this year, even in January, the pop music world already has a strong contender for 2021 Song of the Year. The song in the spotlight is one that is truly unexpected — a…

The Super Bowl is the most watched event on television in America, the hallmark sporting and cultural occasion of the American calendar. This year, Super Bowl LV was played between the Kansas Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on February 7, 2021. Why does a 60-minute game between twenty-two helmet-wearing…

“(The kids) are all put into this arena where you’re forced to try to survive on your own. They have to, like, do things in order to get people to like them. The game makers who this arena, just sit and watch them. …

“We had one Oscar, a Fulbright, two AFI Filmmaker Grants, two Emmy’s, and what we figured out we really needed … was a penis.” ~ Lynne Littman, film director Review of the documentary film This Changes Everything by Tom Donahue, 2018 This Changes Everything is a documentary about the systemic…

Review of the documentary film Woodstock — Three Days that Defined a Generation by Barak Goodman & Jamila Ephron, 2019 Woodstock was a music festival held in August 1969 in Bethel, New York. Billed as ‘An Aquarian Exposition: Three Days of Peace and Music’, the event drew an unprecedented audience…