India temporarily blocking Telegram to prevent exam fraud, Google Earth's flight simulator is now available, and millions of songs were used for AI music training episode artwork

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India temporarily blocking Telegram to prevent exam fraud, Google Earth's flight simulator is now available, and millions of songs were used for AI music training

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-The government recently annulled the results of a key medical school entrance test because it said that the answers were leaked ahead of time on Telegram. -The Atlantic has published four searchable databases of music that has been used to train AI models. The scope is pretty staggering, with 12 million tracks in one database, 9 million in another, and the two final ones each containing about 100,000 songs. -Google Earth has a flight sim mode of its own, and it can now be accessed by anyone globally via their browser. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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