The History of Windows Sound Effects Up to Windows 11 (Acapella) [Video]

Windows 11 is here, so here is the updated (and almost complete) history of some of the most popular Windows startup sounds, from Windows 95 to Windows 11.

Windows 3.X, Windows NT, Windows ME, Windows 2000, and Windows 8 are missing, unfortunately, buy it’s still nice to ear these guys perform all these sounds Acapella style.

They also had a few other sounds in one of their old videos:

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How to get better at video games, according to babies

In 2013, a group of researchers wanted to create an AI system that could beat every Atari game. They developed a system called Deep Q Networks (DQN) and less than two years later, it was superhuman. But there was one notable exception. When playing Montezuma’s Revenge, DQN couldn’t score a single point. What was it that made this game so vexingly difficult for AI? Brian Christian investigates.

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