DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist

  DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF

                                                                      

                 By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane

AI PICKS MUSIC HITS WITH NEAR 100% ACCURACY

                                            Source:  Stock

• AI can identify a hit song with 97.2% accuracy, according to new scientific research
• The researchers, from California-based Claremont Graduate University, believe the technology can be used to predict what TV shows, movies and even social media posts are going to be a smash
• The scientists say they applied machine learning to the neurophysiologic data of 33 volunteers who listened to a selection of new music that included rock and hip-hop
• Based on that data, AI, which evaluated the data in 800 different was, spotted hit songs with near 100% accuracy
• Without AI analysis, the same data was 69% correct in spotting hit songs
• The researchers say the neural activity of 33 people can predict, through AI analysis, whether or not millions of others will listen to & love the song, turning it into a 700,000 plus internet streaming service listener hit
• The AI's accuracy is amazing & the use is very valuable as 168,000 new songs are released every week with less than 4% making it to the "hit" category
• Although it could put music moguls like Simon Cowell into a defensive mode.

ONE OF WORLD'S HOTTEST FLYING TAXIS

                                    

                       

                   Source:  Eve Air Mobility

• At the 2023 Paris Air Show, Eve Air Mobility's eVTOL proved itself to be one of the world's hottest eVTOL flying taxis 
• 50 jets were purchased by Norway's Wideroe Zero and 30 by Nordic Aviation Capital - all on top of the 2,770 orders placed by businesses in 26 nations around the world thus far
• Also, Eve and United Airlines just announced they will partner on eVTOL operations in San Francisco between the city and SF International Airport
• Here are the key facts on the Embraer subsidiary eVTOL Eve:

1. Small but sustainable, 100% electric aircraft that can carry a pilot, 4 passengers and is designed to fly autonomously
2. Speeds up to 125 mph
3. Range of 60 miles
4. Full-scale prototype 2nd half 2023
5. Full-scale testing 2024
6. Certification 2026

• Eve has pulled in billions of dollars in eVTOL sales and is an urban air mobility company to watch.

RICHARD BRANSON'S SPACE TOURISM TO TAKE OFF

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• Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space tourism trips will start taking off between June 27 & June 30th
• The flights to the outer edges of where space begins will be private space flights at a cost of $450,000 per passenger
• The trips to suborbital space will occur monthly and take both scientists and space tourists 60 miles up for 90-minute flights
• Virgin Galactic stock rallied late last week by 47% on the news that the company would launch its first commercial flights
• After years of delays, giant mother aircraft VMS Eve will launch passenger space-vehicle Galactic 01 (SpaceShipTwo) for the space flight
• Another space trip is scheduled in August
• Virgin Galactic has had to overcome delays, technical issues and money-making problems to reach launch point
• Branson himself was aboard SpaceShipTwo in 2021 for a successful test flight
• 800 people have put money down for their journeys to space.

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