Plus, audio recording's humble beginnings.
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The Futurist is your daily tech, cosmic, and science (both weird or otherwise) newsletter with articles and content curated just for you. What Was the First Sound Ever Recorded by a Machine? Hint: Again… not Queen’s classic Bicycle Race! (Scroll to the bottom for the answer!) | | “We all know the line: For more than 150 million years, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. We imagine bloodthirsty tyrannosaurs ripping into screaming duckbills, gigantic sauropods shaking the ground with their thunderous footfalls, and spiky stegosaurs swinging their tails in a reign of reptiles so magnificent, it took the unexpected strike of a six-mile-wide asteroid to end it. The ensuing catastrophe handed the world to the mammals, our ancestors and relatives, so that 66 million years later we can claim to have taken over what the terrible lizards left behind. It’s a dramatic retelling of history that is fundamentally wrong on several counts.” | How much do you pay for all your monthly subscriptions? If your answer is “too much,” then the last thing you’d want is to add another. Luckily, you can still get the upgrade your computer desperately needs — and without any recurring fees. This Microsoft Office and Windows 11 bundle gets you eight productivity apps and Microsoft’s latest operating system for just $60. That’s right: pay once and keep it all for life. [Ad] | “Same-sex behavior is sometimes said to be an ‘evolutionary conundrum’ since it doesn’t appear to directly help with the reproduction of genes and the survival of species, at least on the surface. However, in a new study, scientists demonstrate how same-sex sexual behavior has evolved independently multiple times across hundreds of different animal species and likely plays an invaluable role in forging complex social relationships.” | “A group of 23andMe users' data was stolen by hackers and posted for sale on BreachForum, Wired reported. … On Friday (Oct. 6), the company confirmed that data was compromised, but said that there wasn't a data breach. Instead, the hackers guessed the logins for users and then used DNA Relatives, an opt-in 23andMe feature where users share information with each other, to gather more data.” | Supercharge your virtual meetings and webinars by signing up for a Zoom account with WorkingLive. For only $12.99/month, host unlimited meetings and webinars with up to 500 participants and all the features of a premium Zoom plan. [Ad] | “Using a tech-modified plate and plenty of imagination, researchers have created a fun way for both diners and chefs to enhance a dining experience. And yes, this essentially means you now have permission to play with your food.” | Interested in having one of your social posts featured in The Futurist? | | The answer: Innovative sound “tracings” in the 1850s | According to this Time Magazine article: “The question of which sound was the first ever to be recorded seems to have a pretty straightforward answer. It was captured in Paris by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in the late 1850s, nearly two decades before Alexander Graham Bell’s first telephone call (1876) or Thomas Edison’s phonograph (1877).” | | | | |
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