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Spotify Launches Lyrics Feature Globally for Free and Paying Users

Spotify Launches Lyrics Feature Globally for Free and Paying Users

Today, Spotify is finally rolling out its real-time lyrics feature globally, after previously only offering it in a limited selection of countries…


Researchers Trained AI to Come Up With New Drugs That Hadn’t Been Created Yet

Researchers at Vancouver’s University of British Columbia (UBC) and other universities have trained a computer to predict the molecular structure of new drugs…


Rolls-Royce’s All-Electric Airplane Smashes Record With 387.4 MPH Top Speed

Just two months after its maiden flight, Rolls-Royce’s “Spirit of Innovation” has hit a top speed of 387.4 MPH, tentatively smashing the speed record for electric airplanes, Gizmodo has reported. It also claimed the top speed of 345.4 MPH over a 3 kilometer (1.86 mile) course and lowest time to a 3,000 meter (9,843 feet) altitude (202 seconds). The records have yet to be certified, but if the 345.5 MPH speed stands, it would beat the current record of 213 MPH — held by a Siemens-powered Extra 330LE — by an impressive 132 MPH…


Alaska’s First Electric-Powered School Bus Is Performing Well – Even at 40 Below

Tok Transportation co-owner Gerald Blackard likes to joke that his electric-powered school bus is very reliable — even during a pandemic…


See Ingenuity Hovering Over the Surface of Mars as Captured by Perseverance

A new video from NASA shows the plucky little Mars helicopter Ingenuity in action, as captured by the Perseverance rover. The Perseverance rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture the helicopter taking off, hovering, moving around, and landing again in a sequence NASA described as “performing to near-perfection.”…


Croatia’s Seed-Scattering Drones Replant Forests Hurt by Fire

OKLAJ, Croatia, Nov 17 (Reuters) – Seed-scattering drones are crisscrossing Croatia’s skies in an airborne attempt to replant remote forests damaged by fire, an initiative its backers aim to promote internationally…