“I put a pitch-shifter on the master bus!”: In the era of lo-fi beats and bedroom recording, does sound quality even matter anymore?

With bedroom-produced DIY tracks topping the streaming charts and explosive distortion the new norm on TikTok, is sound quality becoming irrelevant in 2026?
The Daily Standard

AI ready for government work

CELINA - The Mercer County Board of Elections appears to be the first county department to have adopted an artificial intelligence policy to govern the usage of the increasingly ubiquitous technology ...
MyNorthwest

Federal immigration officials scout warehouses as they eye more detention space

Federal immigration officials are scouting warehouses and beginning to purchase some of them to transform into detention and ...
Porterville Recorder

Q&A: How Don Was returned to his Detroit roots for fresh musical inspiration

When the jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard invited his friend, the musician-producer Don Was, to headline a night at a jazz series Blanchard was curating for ...

For doctors, AI ‘ambient listening’ takes notes so they can focus on the patient

Doctors across the Pioneer Valley, including those at Holyoke Medical Center and Cooley Dickinson in Northampton, started using AI virtual scribes in 2025.

I thought I'd heard my dad's voice for the last time. A movie helped me find it again

I had missed that voice more than I knew. Being able to hear him again — young him, even if he wasn't talking to me, or ...