Russian composer, People's Artist of the RSFSR Vladimir Shainsky, died at the age of 92 in the United States, BBC reports, citing his relatives. Shainsky became famous primarily for his children's songs for Soviet cartoons. The composer wrote melodies for such classic animated films, ...

American writer Harper Lee, who became famous for her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” has died at the age of 90. Reports of the writer's death were confirmed by the mayor's office of her hometown of Monroeville, where she lived for the past few years. The cause of the writer's death is not specified. Harper Lee was born in 1926...

The American company Warner/Chappell, which for many years sold the rights to perform the famous song “Happy Birthday to You,” is not itself its copyright holder, a US federal court has ruled. For every use of a famous song in film, television, advertising and public events, the company...

Thanks to scientists from the University of Pittsburgh, you can now identify the author of any photo. The attribution program is based on ultra-precise neural networks that have been trained over an extensive database of images. The authors have collected 120 thousand pictures of different genres, taken by 25 famous photographers throughout the ...