proof of bake, st lucia buns with my homegrown saffron

proof of bake, st lucia buns with my homegrown saffron

Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Android Tablets Out There?

Longtime Slashdot reader hadleyburg writes: For a user with an Android phone and who's happy to stick within the Google ecosystem, an Android tablet might seem like the more obvious choice over an iPad. Of course, iPads are a lot more popular, and asking about Android tablets is likely to invite advice about sticking with what everyone else has.

The Slashdot community on the other hand -- being a discerning and thoughtful crowd -- might have some experience in this area and be willing to share the pros and cons they have found.

The use case is someone not requiring any heavy usage -- no video editing or gaming -- just email, browsing, YouTube, video calls, and that sort of thing.

AI-Generated Song Tops Country Music Chart

Slashdot readers Tablizer and fjo3 share news that an AI-generated country song has topped the U.S. sales chart for the first time this week. ABC News reports: The new country tune, "Walk my Walk" by Breaking Rust, recently hit No. 1 on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chart, reaching over 3 million streams on Spotify in less than a month. That success has garnered mixed reactions from music fans and artists alike, particularly on TikTok, where hundreds of users have posted videos addressing the tune and others discussing the music in the comments.

Billboard has acknowledged Breaking Rust is an AI act and said it is one of at least six to chart in the past few months alone. "Ultimately, this feels like an experiment to see just how far something like this can go and what happens in the future and in other disciplines of art as well," senior entertainment reporter Kelley L. Carter told ABC News. "AI artists won't require things that a real human artist will require, and once companies start considering it and looking at bottom lines, I think that's when artists should rightly be concerned about it," she added.

No Jeffrey Epstein client list or blackmail scheme exists, convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell told the U.S. Department of Justice last month. ABCNews.com reports:

"Love Will Tear Us Apart" is a song by the English #rock band #JoyDivision, released in June 1980 as a non-album single. Its lyrics were inspired by lead singer #IanCurtis' marital problems and struggles with #epilepsy. The single was released one month after Curtis' suicide. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" reached number one in New Zealand and was certified #doublePlatinum in the United Kingdom, selling and streaming over 1,200,000 units.