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Blockchain
How blockchain will change major industries
TNW - George Beall
While much of the discussion around blockchain has surrounded bitcoin and its ups and downs, corporations and businesses are quickly waking up to the possibility of using blockchain to secure and improve
Blockchain
Blockchain Technology Is Creating a Sharing Economy, Even Better Than the Internet
Inc Magazine - By Brian D. Evans
Back in the 90s, consider the thought of someone telling you, "If you sit in front of this screen beside a humming box, you can access other people all over the world that are sitting in front of screens
How Blockchain Could Revolutionize Music Streaming
Investopedia - Rakesh Sharma
It may be time for another disruption in the music industry. The industry, whose revenues plummeted due to disaggregation by technology services, is …
Mental Health
70 Percent of Musicians Say They Have Suffered From Anxiety or Depression. What's Next?
billboard.com - Cherie Hu
In the wake of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington’s suicide, more and more artists in the music industry have spoken out about the need to …
Award Shows
The Unlikely Story of How INXS Came to Rule the Late '80s With 'Kick'
billboard.com
As Chris Murphy, the longtime manager of INXS, remembers it, “I really thought I was fucked.” On an afternoon in 1987, Murphy, a wisecracking …
Music Industry
Blockchain & The Music Industry
nesthq.com - By: Nathan Beer
In our latest NEST HQ documentary, we explore the ever-growing world of blockchain, the underlying technology behind Bitcoin and Ethereum, and its …
Billboard shifting how it charts Apple Music and other streaming services next year
9to5Mac - Michael Potuck
Billboard has announced that it will adjust how it weights and calculates streaming music starting in 2018. Changes will include more weight given for paid music services like Apple Music than ad-supported
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Showtime websites secretly mined user CPU for cryptocurrency
The Verge - Shannon Liao
This past weekend, Showtime websites were found to be running a script that allows the sites to mine visitors’ extra CPU power for cryptocurrency, as pointed out by users on Twitter. The afflicted sites
Try this trick to go straight to sleep
Ladders - Monica Torres
Photo: bnilsen via Flickr Each time you choose to stay up a little longer bingeing that Netflix show, you’re beckoning death, slowly cutting off years …
Los Angeles
Trumpeter Herb Alpert: 'The guys that are in control are not honoring the arts' - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times - By Randall Roberts
While walking from his sculpture and painting studios to his recording studio on a typically Pacific-breezy afternoon, trumpeter, A&M Records co-founder and philanthropist Herb Alpert paused to describe
Technology
Cryptocurrency jobs are popping up like crazy — even for non-techies
TNW - Tristan Greene
A report released this month by Angel List indicates cryptocurrency jobs have risen by over 100 percent in the past six months. While Bitcoin value fluctuations may be testing investor confidence, the
3 companies that are shaking up traditional markets thanks to blockchain
TNW - Josiah Motley
The blockchain, and cryptocurrency as a whole, can feel a bit overwhelming. It’s obviously on the rise, but so much of it is a mystery to the average person. Usually the first questions will revolve around
The world's first blockchain smartphone is in development
Engadget - Rachel England
The $1,000 device is aimed at the crypto community. Sirin Labs, the company behind the $14,000 Solarin smartphone, is now developing an open-source model that runs on a fee-less blockchain. The Finney
Keybase launches fully encrypted Slack-like communications tool — and it’s free
TechCrunch - Ron Miller
Keybase added to its encrypted tool kit today when it launched Keybase Teams, an open source, Slack-like communications tool with end-to-end encryption. Desktop and mobile versions are available for download
Turntables
Watch this robot rock band destroy their instruments
TechCrunch - Josh Constine
What happens when a mad scientist’s musicbots rebel against their own precision? You get “Automatica”, the latest video from Nigel Stanford, who scored 15 million views controlling water, fire, and lightning
'Making Creativity Work' - Free music industry course
decodedmagazine.com
The music industry is a diverse, fantastic and fun world to work in but for those who dream of entering it, breaking through can seem like a pretty …
Astronomers discover nearly pitch black planet
New York Post - By Mike Wehner
When you imagine planets outside of our solar system you might dream up ocean worlds, thick plains of ice, or boiling seas of molten rock. Worlds …
11 things you did not know about 'Cheers,' unless you know a lot of things about 'Cheers'
Fox News - By
Could you imagine Ed O’Neill as the proprietor of “Cheers?” The future star of “Modern Family” and “Married with Children” auditioned to be ladies man Sam Malone, back when the character was intended be
It’s official: San Francisco is the richest urban area in America
Quartz - By Dan Kopf & Preeti Varathan
The thriving, technology-driven wealth of the Bay Area is the envy of the rest of America, with good reason. According to the latest data from the US Census Bureau, San Francisco tops the list of the largest
Fibromyalgia
What is fibromyalgia? Chronic pain forces Lady Gaga to pull out of concert
TODAY
Health The "severe pain" that made Lady Gaga cancel a performance at the Rock in Rio music festival in Brazil Friday is caused by a difficult to diagnose and treat condition that affects mostly women until
Patreon raises big round at ~$450M valuation to get artists paid
TechCrunch - Josh Constine
In an era where art is shared and streamed for free, Patreon offers new hope for turning content creation into a career. Illustrators, comedians, game makers, and musicians use Patreon to let fans pay
After Irma: Caribbean Tourism, Island by Island
The New York Times - By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM
Some of the most idyllic — and tourism-dependent — destinations in the Caribbean have been crippled in the wake of one of the most powerful Atlantic basin storms ever recorded. Ferocious storms are nothing
Startups
How AWS Cloud is demolishing the cult of youth
redmonk.com - By James Governor
We live in a society obsessed with youth. Tech is no different from the wider culture. Startup culture in particular thrives on the idea that you’re …
Music Videos
Critter & Guitari Intro ETC 720p Video Synthesizer
synthtopia.com - synthhead
Critter & Guitari have introduced the ETC - a 720p generative video synthesizer. … Read More Critter & Guitari Intro ETC 720p Video Synthesizer
This new digital music store could change the way we pay artists
The Verge - Nikki Erlick
In the streaming economy, Voltra hopes to bring the focus back to music ownership Paolo Fragomeni can play half a dozen instruments and owned around 4,500 LP records and a thousand 45s at the peak of vinyl
New YouTube Rules Restrict Ads to Vetted Channels as PewDiePie Declares The 'Adpocalypse'
Ad Age - Garett Sloane
YouTube updated its policies on Thursday to get more control over which videos can make money from ads, requiring for the first time that channels …
Warner and YouTube sign new deal... 'under very difficult circumstances'
musicbusinessworldwide.com
Warner Music Group has inked a new global licensing deal with YouTube – but not without some serious reservations. MBW has got hold of a leaked …
Decibel Insight scores $9M Series A for ‘digital experience analytics’ tech
TechCrunch - Steve O'Hear
Decibel Insight, a U.K. startup that has built “digital experience analytics” tech to help large companies understand how individual customers interact with its websites and apps, has raised $9 million

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How blockchain will change major industries

Blockchain Technology Is Creating a Sharing Economy, Even Better Than the Internet

How Blockchain Could Revolutionize Music Streaming

70 Percent of Musicians Say They Have Suffered From Anxiety or Depression. What's Next?

The Unlikely Story of How INXS Came to Rule the Late '80s With 'Kick'

Blockchain & The Music Industry

Billboard shifting how it charts Apple Music and other streaming services next year

Showtime websites secretly mined user CPU for cryptocurrency

Try this trick to go straight to sleep

Trumpeter Herb Alpert: 'The guys that are in control are not honoring the arts' - Los Angeles Times

Cryptocurrency jobs are popping up like crazy — even for non-techies

3 companies that are shaking up traditional markets thanks to blockchain

The world's first blockchain smartphone is in development

Keybase launches fully encrypted Slack-like communications tool — and it’s free

Watch this robot rock band destroy their instruments

'Making Creativity Work' - Free music industry course

Astronomers discover nearly pitch black planet

11 things you did not know about 'Cheers,' unless you know a lot of things about 'Cheers'

It’s official: San Francisco is the richest urban area in America

What is fibromyalgia? Chronic pain forces Lady Gaga to pull out of concert

Patreon raises big round at ~$450M valuation to get artists paid

After Irma: Caribbean Tourism, Island by Island

How AWS Cloud is demolishing the cult of youth

Critter & Guitari Intro ETC 720p Video Synthesizer

This new digital music store could change the way we pay artists

New YouTube Rules Restrict Ads to Vetted Channels as PewDiePie Declares The 'Adpocalypse'

Warner and YouTube sign new deal... 'under very difficult circumstances'

Decibel Insight scores $9M Series A for ‘digital experience analytics’ tech