Delving into the inner workings of the title track from Kraftwerk’s most influential record

Back in the 1970s, Kraftwerk anticipated the machine-dominated world we now inhabit. We prise open The Man Machine to see how ...

What we’ve learned about the inner workings of Kraftwerk’s mythical studio via a recent auction

Here are five takeaways that seal the band's legendary Man Machine status - and shed a light on how Kling Klang really ...
Ars Technica

Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?

From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...
Live Science

NASA's Mars Sample Return is dead, leaving China to retrieve signs of life from the Red Planet

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts to collect Perseverance rover samples that could contain evidence of alien ...
Scientific American

Mars Sample That May Contain Evidence of Life Might Never Come Home

Update: A minibus spending package passed by the House of Representatives on January 8, 2026, effectively cancels the Mars Sample Return program by eliminating almost all funding for future missions.
Vogue

Are Sample Sales Good for Brands?

The amount of noise The Row’s annual sample sale generated last weekend was perhaps antithetical to the brand’s ultimate quiet luxury status. But what else could be expected? The brand’s legions of ...
IEEE

RingFormer: A Neural Vocoder With Ring Attention and Convolution-Augmented Transformer

Abstract: While transformers demonstrate outstanding performance across various audio tasks, their application to neural vocoders remains challenging. Neural vocoders require the generation of long ...
Game Rant

How Does Sample Extricator Work in Helldivers 2?

Marc Santos is a Guides Staff Writer from the Philippines with a BA in Communication Arts and over six years of experience in writing gaming news and guides. He plays just about everything, from ...
Indiana Daily Student

The history behind IU’s famous Sample Gates

While the IU community is made up of people from all walks of life, there is one thing that almost everyone has in common: a photo in front of the iconic Sample Gates. As one of the most recognizable ...
GitHub

Adding fa/en matcha-tts model for android

I have trained a matcha tts model for fa/en, It sounds very good. After reading the docs, I needed to get your opinion on some of the points before trying to merge it. First of Al, I saw the matcha ...
Architectural Digest

Inside Sample House, New York’s Buzziest Sourcing Spot

“There’s so much story that comes from touching something,” says Michael DeChillo. As the owner of Sample House—a year-old membership-based materials library—DeChillo is invested in tactility. And ...