Financial Times: Sources: Google and UMG are in talks to license artists’ melodies and voices for AI-made songs; goals include making a tool for fans and paying copyright owners  —  New technology that can mimic artists’ voices has been seen as growing threat  —  Google and Universal Music are in talks … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Victoria Song / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 review: better battery, slimmer bezels, Wear OS 4, and overall improvements, but few changes, pricier, and works best with Samsung phones  —  Samsung focuses on refining a tried-and-true formula, but how much longer can it afford to coast? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Roper Technologies, which makes engineering products for niche markets, acquires Syntellis, which sells enterprise performance management software, for $1.25B  —  Roper Technologies, a lesser-known company that creates engineering products for niche markets, this morning announced … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: Dutch engineer Bram Moolenaar, who in 1991 released and then maintained the very popular Vim open-source code editor, died on August 3 at 62  —  The open source software legend left us on August 3 at age 62.  —  Computing as we know it today was built in no small part by individuals … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google debuts Project IDX, an AI-enabled browser-based dev environment using the open-source Visual Studio Code and that integrates Google’s PaLM 2-based Codey  —  Google today announced the launch of Project IDX, its foray into offering an AI-enabled browser-based development environment … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google updates Messages with group end-to-end encryption and turns RCS on by default for new and existing users, but some have to agree to their carrier’s ToS  —  After testing group end-to-end encryption for the past few months, Google Messages has now fully rolled it out and is enabling RCS by default too. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Google and UMG are in early talks to license melodies and voices for AI-made songs; goals include making a tool for fans and paying copyright owners  —  New technology that can mimic artists’ voices has been seen as growing threat  —  Google and Universal Music are in talks … Lees verder op Tech Meme