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AI Developments at the U.S. Copyright Office in 2024

“Consistent with the seemingly engrained-in-stone principle that only human-created works are eligible for copyright protection, the Office has to date refused to register multiple works generated by AI platforms.” U.S. Copyright Office “The art challenges the technology, and the technology…

You can stream Apple TV+ for free this weekend

You’ll be able to stream as much of The Morning Show as your body can physically handle this weekend, thanks to a new Apple TV+ promotion. After teasing some kind of Apple TV+ news on social media, Apple has confirmed…

H2Rescue truck snags Guinness World Record

Hydrogen-fueled trucks can keep thousands of tons of carbon out of the air every year. A prototype rescue truck from the US Department of Energy shows just how viable the clean-burning haulers are becoming – by bagging a new world…

2024 Winners and losers: Oppo

It’s not easy summing up Oppo’s year. In its home market of China, Oppo was a solid top brand – virtually matching vivo and trading blows with Honor, Xiaomi, and Huawei. But on the global stage, we saw very few…

Evolution journal editors resign en masse

Over the holiday weekend, all but one member of the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Human Evolution (JHE) resigned “with heartfelt sadness and great regret,” according to Retraction Watch, which helpfully provided an online PDF of the editors’ full…