Implants have been used for quite some time, and as the future becomes the present, the technology powering them gets better and better. One of the more troubling aspects of those gadgets, though, is powering them. After all, you can’t have all those power cables we’re so accustomed to in our day-to-day lives trailing out of your body, now can you

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When Microsoft Songsmith promised to provide a custom backing track to anything that you sang, the Series of Tubes known as the Internet quickly used the tool to record versions of popular songs. They were laughably bad , filled with cheesy beats and backing synths plucking out “oom-pa-pa” rhythms. As a research problem, Songsmith was a success; as a creative tool, it was (let’s just admit it) a big fat failure

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