Boldly going where no Predator film has gone before, Predator: Badlands flips the franchise script, putting the Predator (aka Yautja) front and center. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, the same visionary ...

Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider met as students at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf in the late 1960s. They formed Kraftwerk in 1970; the name is the German word for “power plant.” After ...

Each year The Game Awards sees its fair share of viral moments both cringe and heartwarming, but none have persisted through the years quite so much as orchestra member Pedro Eustache--better known as ...

The Game Awards 2025 has officially wrapped up, and it was quite a memorable night. Clair Obscur Expedition 33 dominated the ceremony with the highest number of nominations and an impressive nine wins ...

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Abstract: This paper introduces V2Coder, a non-autoregressive vocoder based on hierarchical variational autoencoders (VAEs). The hierarchical VAE with hierarchically extended prior and approximate ...

Abstract: We propose a new algorithm for time stretching music signals based on the theory of nonstationary Gabor frames (NSGFs). The algorithm extends the techniques of the classical phase vocoder ...

Joshua Hopkins as Papageno and Erin Morley as Pamina in the Metropolitan Opera’s Magic Flute. Photo: Ken Howard/Met Opera. This is the time of the year for familiar comforts, and at the Metropolitan ...

Students play bamboo flutes at Yinshan ethnic primary school in Yuping county, Guizhou province, on Aug 7. [Photo/Xinhua] GUIYANG — Each day after completing her homework during the summer vacation, ...