Apparently, when people sing Sinatra's My Way in a Philippines karaoke bar, and they sing it poorly, they die.

The University of Rochester has just devised a way of reproducing music in a file that's compressed 1,000 times smaller than an MP3 file. The way they do it—physically modeling an instrument in a computer and then feeding it input variables (breath, tongue, fingers) in order to generate the output tone—seems super…