Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, October 16th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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And of course, the weekend long read suggestions.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Google's got a new hu. world of tech.

Google's got a new hum to search feature that it says could let you identify that song that's been stuck in your head for days simply by humming or whistling or singing it into Google

search you can be like do do do do do do do do do do do do do do and Google be all like yeah that's Tom's diner by Suzanne Vega

quoting the verge the new feature is available today in the Google app on

both iOS and Android or in the Google assistant.

Just ask Google, what's the song or tap the newly added search a song button and then

hum your earworm.

Google will then show you results based on how likely a match it

thinks it is, after which you'll be able to tap results to listen to it just

like you would any other song that you looked up in Google search. Google says

that the feature works by using its machine

learning models to quote transform the audio into a number-based sequence

representing the song's melody end quote which it can then compare to existing songs.

The company says that it trains these models on a variety of sources including humans singing,

whistling or humming, as well as studio recordings, stripping away things like the instruments and vocal quality

to focus just on that numeric sequence.

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