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Received wisdom holds that haughty music critics, grinding our axes on fans’ beloved pop stars, are nothing more than failed musicians. This has always struck me as slander – not of critics, who certainly can be bitter and mean, but of supposedly failed musicians. How, after all, does one fail at music? To suggest success rides on certain technicalities, like talent or a career, gravely underestimates music’s draw, and nowhere is the lie more spectacularly exposed than in karaoke.Here is an arena of musical greatness in…

Animation buffs will appreciate the artistry of this gently educational film exploring the later life of Leonardo da Vinci (an avuncular Stephen Fry). The picture, directed by Pixar story artist Jim Capobianco, is a pleasing combination of styles, blending tactile stop motion with expressive 2D hand-drawn segments (overseen by Cartoon Saloon’s Tomm Moore) that bring scientific insights to life.Opening in Rome in 1516, The Inventor explores an eventful period in which Leonardo incurs the wrath of the pope (Matt Berry) and…

‘Excommunication is too good for him! I should boil him in his own drawing ink!” Pope Leo X (voiced by Toast of London’s Matt Berry) is very cross indeed with Leonardo da Vinci for dissecting cadavers. “It makes my stomach all queasy-weasy!” Berry’s papal peevishness is a spark of joy in an otherwise drab kids movie about Leonardo in his later years, made using a mix of stop-motion and hand-illustrated animation. It’s a bit of a bore and a chore, and feels like the kind of “educational” film that will be foisted on kids…

Among various acts of alleged forgery, Hough charged that Wright backdated documents to make them seem like precursors to the original 2008 Bitcoin white paper; manipulated email communications in support of his claim to be Nakamoto; inserted material post-factum into his academic papers to imply he conceived of Bitcoin long before its release; and used ChatGPT to help create additional forgeries after experts cast doubt over existing materials. The specific discrepancies identified by Hough included anachronistic use of…

In the Denver metro, rising interest rates in 2023 dampened investor interest in home purchases. The higher rates combined with long waits for building permits made buying and flipping homes less appealing, while the higher rates made renting investment properties less profitable. Investor purchases of U.S. homes dropped by 30% year over year in the third quarter, the lowest level in seven years, due to rising mortgage rates, high home prices, and a lackluster rental market. Despite higher interest rates, limited…

As a plumbing tycoon, Patrick Racz was used to enduring a deluge. But circumstances led to a very different kind of drenching, sitting in his local park in the rain contemplating the demise of his business during the dotcom crash. “I lost everything. I had young children. I was embarrassed, upset that I’d let my family down. I couldn’t look them in the face,” he recalls.His nadir came just before the emergence of a patent battle with Apple that would define his life. Nearly two decades on, he remains at loggerheads with…

Middlesex guildhall is home of Supreme Court of United Kingdom.David Bank | Moment | Getty ImagesArtificial intelligence cannot be listed as an inventor on a patent application, the U.K.'s highest court ruled Wednesday, in a decision likely to have a significant impact as AI tools grow in use.The case originated with two patent applications filed by Stephen Thaler in 2018, one for a food packaging shape and one for a type of flashing light.Rather than listing himself as the inventor, he named his AI machine, called…

An artificial intelligence system can't be registered as the inventor of a patent, Britain's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in a decision that denies machines the same status as humans. The U.K.'s highest court concluded that "an inventor must be a person" to apply for patents under the current law. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science & Machine LearningVisitIIM LucknowIIML Executive Programme in FinTech, Banking &…

AI may or may not take people's jobs in years to come, but in the meantime, there's one thing they cannot obtain: patents. Dr. Stephen Thaler has spent years trying to get patents for two inventions created by his AI "creativity machine" DABUS. Now, the United Kingdom's Supreme Court has rejected his appeal to approve these patents when listing DABUS as the inventor, Reuters reports.The court's rationale stems from a provision in UK patent law that states, "an inventor must be a natural person." The ruling stipulated that…

Should you ever have wondered who invented the self-balancing "hoverboard" … well, it was a man named Shane Chen. He has now incorporated that same technology into a design for a two-wheeled electric car, appropriately named the Shane.For readers who are unfamiliar with Chen's much-copied Hovertrax hoverboard, it's simply a small motorized platform with a wheel on either side (for a total of two wheels), which the rider stands on. The thing is not unlike a little Segway, minus the handlebars.As the rider moves down the…