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An AI musician just got a multi-million dollar record deal

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-15 22:12:00

Malte Mueller/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways An AI-generated artist got a $3 million record deal. A human artist uses AI platform Suno to generate the persona. Creative industries continue to sue AI companies. An AI-generated musician persona run by a human R&B artist has received a $3 million record deal -- amidst several lawsuits targeting AI companies encroaching on creative industries. Also: Will AI damage human creativity? Mos

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New subscribers can get three months of the Apple Music Family Plan for free

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-16 21:01:26

Apple Music is running a promo in which new subscribers can get three free months of the Family Plan tier. That's a savings of $51, which is nothing to sneeze at. After this lengthy free trial is up, it costs $17 per month. Just note that you only have until September 24 to get this deal. The Family Plan allows six different users to access the platform. It offers cross-device support and each user is tied to an Apple ID, so their favorite music won't mess with anyone else's algorithm. Apple M

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New subscribers to Apple Music can get three free months of the Family Plan

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-16 18:00:38

Apple Music has a great deal going on right now for those interested in the Family Plan. New subscribers can get three free months of that plan — which, at $17 per month normally, comes out to $51 in savings for the whole period. The Family Plan allows six different users to access the platform. It offers cross-device support and each user is tied to an Apple ID, so their favorite music won't mess with anyone else's algorithm. Apple Music actually topped our list of the best music streaming pl

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With Strings Attached

news.ycombinator.com Caroline Noël 2025-10-15 02:59:45

In March 2025, an anonymous buyer purchased the 1715 “Baron Knoop” Stradivarius for $23 million (U.S.), making it the most expensive violin ever sold. (The seller, the American stringed-instrument collector David L. Fulton, had purchased it for a more modest $2.75 million in 1992.) Previous record setters have included the 1721 “Lady Blunt,” which fetched $15.9 million in 2011, and the “Joachim‑Ma,” which went for $11.25 million in February 2025. All three of these models were made by Antonio S

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Show the Physics

news.ycombinator.com Freek Pols 2025-10-15 17:13:30

1. Show the Physics# This book presents a selection of the 99 best, most beautiful physics demonstrations from the Dutch book series “ShowdeFysica” [Frederik et al., 2023, Frederik et al., 2017, Frederik et al., 2015] as published by the Dutch Association for Science Education. The three original volumes are cherished in the Netherlands by physics teachers and are used as a useful resource for many lectures. We hope that this translated and updated open access book will be just as valuable to a

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Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-15 02:34:15

A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit where music publishers sued the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project, an effort to preserve early music recordings that only exist on brittle shellac records. No details of the settlement have so far been released, but a court filing on Monday confirmed that the Internet Archive and UMG Recordings, Capitol Records, Sony Music Entertainment, and other record labels "have settled this matter." More details may come in the next 45 days, when parties

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Statistical Physics with R: Ising Model with Monte Carlo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 04:19:04

isingLenzMC: Monte Carlo for Classical Ising Model Stable release on CRAN Description Classical Ising Model is a land mark system in statistical physics. The model explains the physics of spin glasses and magnetic materials, and cooperative phenomenon in general, for example phase transitions and neural networks. This package provides utilities to simulate one dimensional Ising Model with Metropolis and Glauber Monte Carlo with single flip dynamics in periodic boundary conditions. Utility fun

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Apple Music Now Lets You Transfer Playlists From Spotify. Why You May Want To

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-20 04:11:00

Apple Music app customers have a new feature, though not many know it exists. Apple Music subscribers can now grab songs or playlists from other music platforms, notably Spotify, and bring them to Apple. The ability to transfer music from other music services is buried in the Music App settings. Initially tested in Australia and New Zealand last year, this transfer option has now been rolled out to the US, UK, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany and several other countries. It's powered by the Song

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Apple Music deal: Get the Family Plan free for three months

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-21 05:25:35

Apple Music is running a promo in which new subscribers can get three free months of the Family Plan tier. That's a savings of $51, which is nothing to sneeze at. After this lengthy free trial is up, it costs $17 per month. The Family Plan allows six different users to access the platform. It offers cross-device support and each user is tied to an Apple ID, so their favorite music won't mess with anyone else's algorithm. Apple Music actually topped our list of the best music streaming platform

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Your iPhone's Music App Gets a Handful of Upgrades With iOS 26

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-21 04:00:03

Apple released iOS 26 on Sept. 15 and the update brings call screening, new ringtones and lots of hidden features to your iPhone. The update also brings some new features to Apple Music ($11 a month) like a new crossfading feature called AutoMix and lyric translation. Apple Music has grown to be one of the largest music streaming platforms since it was released a decade ago. According to Statista, Apple Music had about 94 million paid subscribers as of June 2024. However, Spotify ($12 a month)

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Trailer for Anaconda meta-reboot leans into the laughs

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-22 21:11:29

Sony Pictures has dropped a trailer for its upcoming horror comedy, Anaconda, a meta-reboot of the 1997 campy cult classic—and frankly, it looks like a lot of fun. Starring Paul Rudd and Jack Black, the film will arrive in theaters on Christmas Day. (Spoilers for the 1997 film below.) The original Anaconda was your basic B-movie creature feature, only with an all-star cast and better production values. The plot revolved around a documentary film crew (Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Eric Stoltz, Jon

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Airbuds is the music social network Apple and Spotify wish they had built

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-22 21:36:38

A new social network has been quietly blowing up with Gen Z and younger, and it’s not from Meta. San Francisco-based Airbuds offers a mobile, social app that lets people express themselves through their music. Users can share what they’re streaming with friends through a smartphone widget that works with a range of streaming services. On Wednesday, Airbuds is announcing its raise of $5 million in funding from early-stage venture capital firm Seven Seven Six, founded by Reddit co-founder Alexis

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Around 90% of an Earthquake’s Energy Doesn’t Do What You Think It Does

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-24 17:30:30

Earthquakes can be deadly and disastrous. But what we feel may constitute a tiny sliver of an earthquake’s destructive energy, according to a new experiment. In a recent AGU Advances paper, researchers describe how they created “lab quakes,” or miniature versions of natural earthquakes created in a controlled laboratory. Doing so allowed the team to derive a complete energy budget for the quakes, a “simplified analog” of real-life earthquakes, they reported in the paper. Surprisingly, they fou

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Startup Using AI to Bring Whitney Houston Back on Tour 13 Years After Her Death

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-25 08:18:46

The estate of famed singer Whitney Houston is reviving her legendary vocals with AI for an upcoming orchestral tour, 13 years after her tragic death. The event, called "The Voice of Whitney: A Symphonic Celebration," used "stem separation technology" courtesy of an AI-powered music platform called Moises to isolate her voice from recordings and produce "near-studio quality audio." "This project demonstrates how legacy artists and their estates can create meaningful experiences for music lovers

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BlackBerry Passport getting set to follow Classic with a new life on Android

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-25 13:28:53

Blackberry The original BlackBerry Passport TL;DR The team behind BlackBerry Classic’s Android revival is now working on a similar project for the BlackBerry Passport. Zinwa Technologies, the team behind the project, plans to sell DIY kits that will allow users to run Android on the Passport. The kits aren’t available immediately, but will be available sometime in 2026, which is slightly disappointing. Old, discarded BlackBerry phones are having a renaissance moment. We recently witnessed an

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YouTube Music launches new tools for artists to reward fans with exclusive merch and videos

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-10-25 13:30:00

During YouTube’s Made On event on Tuesday, the company announced three features coming to YouTube Music, which are designed to deepen the connection between artists and their dedicated fans. One of the new features allows users to initiate a countdown for upcoming releases and to pre-save their favorite tracks or albums in advance. The countdown timer will be displayed on the album detail page, artist profile, and album shelf. Set to launch later this year, the feature aims to create buzz leadi

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Apple Music deal: New subscribers can get the Family Plan free for three months

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-25 17:15:35

Apple Music is running a promo in which new subscribers can get three free months of the Family Plan tier. That's a savings of $51, which is nothing to sneeze at. After this lengthy free trial is up, it costs $17 per month. The Family Plan allows six different users to access the platform. It offers cross-device support and each user is tied to an Apple ID, so their favorite music won't mess with anyone else's algorithm. Apple Music actually topped our list of the best music streaming platform

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Apple Music import tool now available worldwide, with a few exceptions

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-26 17:51:10

Following a limited launch late last month, Apple has now officially rolled out its Apple Music import tool worldwide, making it easier for users who want to switch from Spotify and other music platforms. Here is how it works, and where it is (and isn’t) available. Apple began testing its Apple Music importing tool back in February, and following a limited release to users in Australia and New Zealand in May, it began rolling it out more widely last month to users in Brazil, Canada, France, Ger

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GuitarPie: Electric Guitar Fretboard Pie Menus

news.ycombinator.com Frank Heyen 2025-10-26 15:45:45

TVCG 2023 Tiffany Luong, Yi Fei Cheng, Max Moebus, Andreas Fender, Christian Holz Virtual Reality (VR) systems have traditionally required users to operate the user interface with controllers in mid-air. More recent VR systems, however, integrate cameras to track the headset's position inside the environment as well as the user's hands when possible. This allows users to directly interact with virtual content in mid-air just by reaching out, thus discarding the need for hand-held physical contr

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Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-26 21:52:01

A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit where music publishers sued the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project, an effort to preserve early music recordings that only exist on brittle shellac records. No details of the settlement have so far been released, but a court filing on Monday confirmed that the Internet Archive and UMG Recordings, Capitol Records, Sony Music Entertainment, and other record labels "have settled this matter." More details may come in the next 45 days, when parties

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Spotify Free's Upgrade Lets You Pick Any Song You Want

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-28 01:00:03

Music streaming service Spotify is rolling out improvements to its free music tier, including the new ability to listen to any song you want, and this follows the company granting Premium users access to lossless streams. The company outlined three new ways ad-supported users can now access the specific song they want to listen to without shuffling: Pick & Play to choose any song from the interface, including your library; Search & Play to use the app's search function; and Share & Play to list

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Fringe Movement Claims the Entirety of Modern Physics Is Wrong

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-28 04:00:48

It's one thing when a respected scientist has a novel idea of what dark matter or dark energy might be, or what could explain spooky quantum phenomena like entanglement and superpositions. But the wonders of the internet has brought an entire economy built on outrage and conspiracy theories, enabling even the most crackpot grifters and fringe scientists to reach a wide audience and easily make a quick buck. We've all heard them rage against vaccines and seed oils, but one of their buzziest clai

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This Apple Music promotion gives new subscribers three free months of the Family Plan

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-28 07:36:26

Apple Music is running a promo in which new subscribers can get three free months of the Family Plan tier. That's a savings of $51, which is nothing to sneeze at. After this lengthy free trial is up, it costs $17 per month. The Family Plan allows six different users to access the platform. It offers cross-device support and each user is tied to an Apple ID, so their favorite music won't mess with anyone else's algorithm. Apple Music actually topped our list of the best music streaming platform

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New record-low price: Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Classic is already $140 off!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-28 05:20:16

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Classic launched this July, and we’ve already seen some nice deals on it, but none of them are this good. This new record-low price decreases the cost to just $359.99, saving you a nice $140. Buy the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Classic in White for just $359.99 ($140 off) This offer is available from Woot, an Amazon-owned deals website. It comes with a full-year manufacturer’s warranty, so you won’t have to worry. The only caveat is that

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tvOS 26 adds a new icon to your Home Screen, but it’s not a new app

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-29 09:11:27

tvOS 26 launches to all users next week, and after updating you might notice a new app icon on your Home Screen: Sing. But don’t get too excited. Apple Music Sing gets its own app icon in tvOS 26, but it’s the same Music app Apple Music Sing has been available for years as a way to enjoy karaoke with the existing Apple Music library. You can use the feature across any supported Apple device, but Apple TV 4K makes for an especially ideal platform since large screens and karaoke parties go hand

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The Galaxy Watch 8 Classic is $140 off, nearly the same price as the standard model

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-10-29 17:35:07

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple’s new smartwatches have the spotlight this week, but Android users have a reason to celebrate, too. That’s because Samsung’s gorgeous, Bluetooth-enabled Galaxy Watch 8 Classic is cheaper than ever at Woot through September 19th. It’s down to $359.99 ($140 off), nearly matching the price of the $349.99 Galaxy Watch 8. Not a bad discount for a watch that came out fewer than two months ago. Samsung Galax

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Apple Music deal: New subscribers can get three free months of the Family Plan

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-30 01:05:37

Apple Music has a great deal going on right now for those interested in the Family Plan. New subscribers can get three free months of that plan — which, at $17 per month normally, comes out to $51 in savings for the whole period. The Family Plan allows six different users to access the platform. It offers cross-device support and each user is tied to an Apple ID, so their favorite music won't mess with anyone else's algorithm. Apple Music actually topped our list of the best music streaming pl

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Will the latest iPhone kill off the Sim card?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-30 07:27:58

Will the latest iPhone kill off the Sim card? 8 hours ago Share Save Graham Fraser Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images With smartphones, where Apple leads others often follow - so it launching an iPhone this week without a traditional Sim card is raising questions over the future of a very familiar piece of phone tech. All phone users will be used to the small plastic cards they need to delicately insert into their devices to make them operate. But for buyers of the iPhone Air, that w

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Will the latest iPhone kill off the SIM card?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-30 12:27:58

Will the latest iPhone kill off the SIM card? 4 hours ago Share Save Graham Fraser Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images With smartphones, where Apple leads others often follow - so it launching an iPhone this week without a traditional SIM card is raising questions over the future of a very familiar piece of phone tech. All phone users will be used to the small plastic cards they need to delicately insert into their devices to make them operate. But for buyers of the iPhone Air, that w

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YouTube Music rolls out dual-pane Now Playing redesign on Android, iOS

9to5mac.com Abner Li 2025-10-30 14:45:16

After testing first got underway in November, YouTube Music is now rolling out a big Now Playing redesign on Android and iOS. The Song/Video switcher is no longer at the top of Now Playing, but Cast remains next to the three-dot overflow menu. After the song name (which can be tapped to access Related) and artist, you now get the controls row. This does not really impact one-handed usage, but it does move things further up the screen. This is followed by a new boxy scrubber that gets rid of t

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Latest Tech News

An AI musician just got a multi-million dollar record deal

New subscribers can get three months of the Apple Music Family Plan for free

New subscribers to Apple Music can get three free months of the Family Plan

With Strings Attached

Show the Physics

Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

Statistical Physics with R: Ising Model with Monte Carlo

Apple Music Now Lets You Transfer Playlists From Spotify. Why You May Want To

Apple Music deal: Get the Family Plan free for three months

Your iPhone's Music App Gets a Handful of Upgrades With iOS 26

Trailer for Anaconda meta-reboot leans into the laughs

Airbuds is the music social network Apple and Spotify wish they had built

Around 90% of an Earthquake’s Energy Doesn’t Do What You Think It Does

Startup Using AI to Bring Whitney Houston Back on Tour 13 Years After Her Death

BlackBerry Passport getting set to follow Classic with a new life on Android

YouTube Music launches new tools for artists to reward fans with exclusive merch and videos

Apple Music deal: New subscribers can get the Family Plan free for three months

Apple Music import tool now available worldwide, with a few exceptions

GuitarPie: Electric Guitar Fretboard Pie Menus

Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

Spotify Free's Upgrade Lets You Pick Any Song You Want

Fringe Movement Claims the Entirety of Modern Physics Is Wrong

This Apple Music promotion gives new subscribers three free months of the Family Plan

New record-low price: Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Classic is already $140 off!

tvOS 26 adds a new icon to your Home Screen, but it’s not a new app

The Galaxy Watch 8 Classic is $140 off, nearly the same price as the standard model

Apple Music deal: New subscribers can get three free months of the Family Plan

Will the latest iPhone kill off the Sim card?

Will the latest iPhone kill off the SIM card?

YouTube Music rolls out dual-pane Now Playing redesign on Android, iOS

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