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Birds and bytes: how one YouTuber taught a starling to store and retrieve data

A YouTuber, Benn Jordan, has successfully managed to save a PNG file to a starling songbird. To do so, Jordan took a sketch of a bird, converted it into an audio wave, and taught the sterling to ...
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"I Saved A PNG Image To A Bird": YouTuber Stores 176KB Drawing Of A Bird Inside A Bird's Song

Science and music YouTuber Benn Jordan has stored an image of a bird within a bird, before getting the bird to reproduce the image at an estimated rate of 2 megabytes per second. Though parrots take ...
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YouTuber saves PNG file to a live bird in what may be a world first

TL;DR: Musician and acoustic scientist Benn Jordan achieved a potential world first by encoding data onto a live European starling. Using a spectral synthesizer, he transformed an image into sound, ...
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Did a former ‘New York Times’ reporter exploit musicians for his personal gain?

Not every day does an email from a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist land in your inbox — which is perhaps why Ian Urbina made sure to put in the subject line “(No, this is not spam, ...