A HUMANOID music conductor wowed listeners at a performance in Sharjah, when it effortlessly guided a symphony orchestrau2019s players through Keiichiro Shibuyau2019s opera, Scary Beauty. The robot, Android Alter 3, gesticulated with its arms, bounced up and down and rotated, during the performance. Whatu2019s more, it even sang every now and then. u201c The android itself moves according to its own will,u201d remarked Kotobuki Hikaru, the technician behind the musical bot. Shibuya is a composer from Japan who feels that robots can be extremely useful in everyday life. But he also believes that it is up to humans to determine how to use artificial intelligence in a manner that will facilitate the human experience. u201c This work is a metaphor of the relationship between humans and technology. Sometimes the android will get crazy, and human orchestras have to follow. But sometimes humans can cooperate very comfortably,u201d he said to the New York Post. Shibuya said that the AI technology that is available right now is not perfect, which is why itu2019s interesting to see how humans and robots can come together to create art. While he composed the music, the bot is in charge of the tempo and volume of the live show. The audience that watched the performance had a mixed response. u201c I think this is a very exciting idea. We came to see how it looks like,u201d said Anna Kovacevic. Another member from the audience said that he preferred a human conductor to the android one. Tiny tot, Veda Agarwal, won the hearts of many when she joined her father, Madhav Agarwal, on stage and started crooning the song, Chhoti Si Aasha. The three- year oldu2019s mother shared a video of her performance on Twitter, where people have viewed it over 1.7 lakh times. PIC/@ Meghamadhav21, Twitt er In its latest commercial, Starbucks UK used its u2018 namewriting on the cupu2019 tradition to support the LGBTQIA+ community. The 89- second ad shows that the only person to respect a trans teenu2019s chosen name ( and therefore, their true self) is a Starbucks employee. Dil hain chhota sa heartwarming ad supports trans rights Japanese art student knits rubber bands to create innovative clothes A rubbery stitch ART student Rie Sakamoto has designed an incredible line of clothing made entirely from knitted rubber bands. Sakamoto, who will be graduating from Tama Art University in Tokyo, decided to focus on the humble, but versatile stationery for her final thesis this year. Sakamoto used thousands of brown rubber bands and knitted them to make dresses, bolero jackets and even boots. The project was inspired by the realisation that rubber bands have so many uses other than what meets the eye. Apart from its functional side, the beauty and the elasticity of the material appealed to her. Her clothes were on display, as part of a group exhibition of graduating students. While the exhibition has ended, one can track her experiments on her Twitter account. PICS/@ sakamoto_ entame, Twitt er POISON FOR DINNER? A green tree frog miraculously survived after eating one of the worldu2019s most poisonous snakes, a Coastal Taipan, in Australia recently. The frog was bitten multiple times, while trying to devour the snake alive. PIC/ Snake Take Away, Facebook MUSICIANS, roBOT team up TO CREATE music u2018 Bouncyu2019 humanoid shocks audience, as it conducts a human orchestra in Sharjah Android Alter 3 at the symphony orchestra performance in Sharjah SOCIAL MEDIA HOWLER ITu2019S A VIRAL briefs A couple, identified only as Mr and Mrs Yu, who recently visited a village in the same province as Wuhan, the epicentre of the Coronavirus epidemic, decided to livestream themselves to their own wedding. They were quarantined, so as to keep them from spreading the dreaded virus. R& B legend and four- time Grammy winner Erykah Badu has announced her decision to release an incense called Baduu2019s P*** y. It will smell like her vagina and will be available on her own soon- tolaunch online store. u201c I took lots of pairs of my panties, cut them up into little pieces and burned them. Even the ash is part of it,u201d Badu said. PIC/ @ erykahbadu, Inst agram Erykah to sell incense that smells like vagina Couple attends own wedding via livestream Officials in the city of Paulu, Indonesia are offering a reward of an unspecified amount of money to the person who manages to remove a motorcycle tyre from the neck of a crocodile. The 13- foot- long crocodile has been spotted wearing the tyre around its neck since 2016 and authorities are worried that it may end up choking the crocodile. You can win big if you get tyre off crocu2019s neck PIC OF THE DAY Bot worldu2019s Zubin Mehta IMAG ING/ UDAY MOHITE

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