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Evening Standard
Technology
Jon Weeks and Rachelle Abbott

OPINION - Tech & Science Daily podcast: AI song with ‘Drake’ and ‘The Weeknd’ removed by Spotify

Streaming services including Spotify, Tidal and Apple Music have removed a song made using artificial intelligence that cloned the voices of Drake and The Weeknd.

The track, called Heart On My Sleeve went viral on TikTok, and industry news website Music Business Worldwide said it racked up hundreds of thousands of plays on YouTube and a quarter of a million on Spotify before being taken down.

A study looking at biodiversity loss and the decline in animal populations globally suggests we need to act more quickly than first thought to protect nature.

Dr Robin Freeman from the Zoological Society of London who worked on the study told Tech & Science Daily the data suggests we may have underestimated the effects of historical trends in land use and climate.

Eleven Indonesian fishermen were rescued after surviving for six days on a desert island without food or water.

Two fishing boats got caught in a collision in the Pacific Ocean during Tropical Storm Ilsa, and one of them ran aground on Bedwell Island, 195 miles west of the Australian coast.

The men were spotted by an Australian border force plane on a routine surveillance mission on Monday, and taken to hospital via helicopter.

A 300 kg satellite used by Nasa to study the sun since 2002 is set to come crashing down to earth.

Nasa said The Rhessi Observatory, which was shut down in 2018, should mostly burn up in the atmosphere, but some parts are expected to fall to Earth.

And the rest

UK businesses urged to beef up their cyber security, study finds losing weight can put type 2 diabetes in remission ‘for at least five years’, planets hosted by stars with low metallicity ‘may be more suitable for life’, and Netflix reveals when password sharing crackdown will finally be rolled out.

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