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coolest video you’ll see this week.Donning all black, the tech maestro soared on what looked like a souped-up drone of his own design — dubbed the “SkySurfer” — during the brief flight over Broadway. Kowald, an engineer, called it “the world’s most powerful and solid hoverboard aircraft.” The board was put together by hand — propellers, rotors and all.“It contains about as much power as eight to 10 average houses all at the same time,” he said.Just over a month ago, Kowald, who earned a

In March, news emerged that Square, the financial payments system co-founded by Twitter's Jack Dorsey, would acquire JAY-Z's music streaming platform TIDAL. The deal was finalized on Monday, according to a report from Music Business Worldwide, with Square paying $302 million for an 80% stake in TIDAL.

Charles Geschke was the co-founder of Adobe, the software giant that created Photoshop and PDFs.Geschke was working at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s when he began developing the computer language Interpress, which was intended to provide high quality printing. When Xerox wasn’t interested in moving forward with Interpress, Geschke and his colleague John Warnock left the company and founded Adobe Inc.

Last week, Spotify launched “Loud & Clear,” a website marketed by the streaming platform as an attempt to pull back the curtain on how it compensates artists. In its mission statement, “Loud & Clear” says it “aims to increase transparency by sharing new data on the global streaming economy and breaking down the royalty system, the players, and the process.” The site’s launch comes as the controversy over streaming royalties continues to build.

The issue of fake streams — plays of music registered by bots or real people hired to stream certain tracks — has drawn special attention in the world of hip-hop, where the appearance of authenticity is crucial.

WTOP News.A Dutch engineer, Ottens began working for Netherlands-based electronics company Royal Philips in his early 20s. In 1960, after eight years at the company he’d risen to be head of product development, Dutch News reported.Within a year in the role, he and his team had created the world’s first portable tape recorder, an invention which would revolutionize the music industry go on to sell over a million units.

showing Tom Cruise practicing his golf swing, doing a magic trick and laughing at his own pratfall now says he did not mean to freak anyone out.“I’d like to show people the technical possibilities of these things.

Big Hit Entertainment, the entertainment company responsible for South Korean pop sensations BTS, has invested $4 million KRW (close to $3.6 million USD) into the A.I. firm Supertone, according to a report in Music Business Worldwide.

Today is Twitter's 2021 Virtual Analyst Day, and the social media platform has announced that it's exploring a long-rumored new feature: the ability to charge users for specific tweets and other exclusive content.

SoundCloud could soon roll out a new feature allowing users of the streaming platform to directly pay the artists they listen to, according to a new Billboard report. The plan is still under consideration, according to Billboard's sources at SoundCloud.

Twitter is in the early stages of developing a new subscription-based payment model, according to a new report from Bloomberg. Citing a focus on "revenue durability," charging users for access to exclusive content would allow the site to operate without relying as heavily on targeted advertising.

wrote the Singapore-based automaton firm on their website. “They are able to inform, entertain, and even exchange a simple conversation with you upon activated via QR code.”A video demonstration of the janitorial joke droid in action was recently posted to Facebook by the UK’s Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, which plans on leasing two of the LionsBot creations for their pediatric ward in Kent, the Daily Mail reported.

Spotify has successfully obtained a patent for a new technology that would use recordings of the user's voice to enhance the platform's individually tailored music recommendation algorithms. The patent, filed in February 2018 and granted on January 12, 2021, was first reported by Music Business Worldwide.

The practice of artists or their labels purchasing streams of songs in order to make the musician appear to be more popular than they are is one of the most controversial and shadowy pitfalls of the streaming era.

endorsing Donald Trump for President, actress Kirstie Alley is calling out Twitter for permanently suspending his account. “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” the company said in a statement shortly after 6 p.m Friday evening.

A new draft of the COVID-19 relief bill contains a provision that would bring felony charges to companies that illegally stream copyrighted material, as The Hollywood Reporter points out. The text of the provision was spearheaded by Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina.

TikTok released its "Year In Music" report yesterday, and the summary claims that over 70 artists who found success on the platform in 2020 all secured deals with major record labels.

Christopher Walken might be from another planet, the enigmatic actor claimed that he’s never possessed a cellphone or a computer. The Oscar winner dropped the bombshell during a virtual appearance on “The Late Show” Monday.

The first Friday of every month, Bandcamp waives its usual processing fee for purchases of music and merch on the site and sends all the money to the artists selling the product. December's edition is tomorrow, and it just so happens to fall on the week where everyone's sharing what they've listened to the most on Spotify.

Spotify has applied for a patent for a new “Plagiarism Risk Detector And Interface” that will scan inputted music for plagiarism, according to filings obtained by Music Business Worldwide. The interface is reportedly being developed to help artists avoid lawsuits by revealing similarities in already-published songs.

Snapchat is rolling out Spotlight, a hub for longer-form video loops a la TikTok, The Verge reports. Spotlight is currently available in the Snapchat app in 11 countries including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and more.

latest episode of the Apple series The Oprah Conversation? Oprah sits down with former President Barack Obama in the same cozy living room.

Donald Trump issued an executive order regarding TikTok on Thursday, barring transactions with parent company ByteDance if they don't sell the app in 45 days, according to The Hollywood Reporter. With over 100 million users in the U.S., the video-sharing platform has come under fire over user data privacy and security concerns.

William English was a computer engineer who built the first computer mouse.English worked alongside Douglas Engelbart (1925 – 2013), the inventor of the computer mouse, to bring Engelbart’s visionary ideas to life. It was English’s design and construction that made Engelbart’s concept into a reality, one that allowed computer users to control their machines without keyboards or punch cards for the first time.

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek discussed streaming and sustainability in a recent interview with Music Ally published on Thursday. Ek denied criticisms that Spotify pays insufficient royalties to artists, and insisted that the role of the musician had changed in today's "future landscape." Ek claimed that a "narrative fallacy" had been created and caused music fans to believe that Spotify doesn't pay musicians enough for streams of their music.

Alongside the star-studded lineup of both emerging and established musical acts of Digital FORT 2.0, you’ll see Terrace Martin, a notable jazz musician and member of the new supergroup Dinner Party, inspired to inspire the next generation of artists and creators. As part of Dolby’s new “Get Inspired to Inspire” campaign, they’re hitting at the root of what it means to be a creator and helping you solve some of the major challenges along the way.

video scroll of clips impacted by the issues shows that many have tons of visible comment engagement, but no hearts — a ratio which rarely happens.The app has acknowledged the issue.“Hi TikTok community! We’re aware that some users are experiencing app issues – working to quickly fix things, and we’ll share updates here!” the official TikTokSupport Twitter accounted tweeted Thursday afternoon.The widespread problem rocketed the topics of #tiktokdown, #tiktokbanned and #riptiktok to the top of

As far as big skin care splurges go, LED treatments feel somewhat anticlimactic. They're designed to penetrate deep into your skin to treat inflamed zits, calm redness from healing breakouts, and lessen the appearance of fine lines.

In late April, audio clips surfaced that appeared to capture JAY-Z rapping several unexpected texts. Did you ever imagine you’d hear JAY-Z do Shakespeare’s “To Be, Or Not to Be” soliloquy from Hamlet? How about Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” or a decade-old 4chan meme? All of these unlikely recitations were, of course, fake: “entirely computer-generated using a text-to-speech model trained on the speech patterns of JAY-Z,” according to a YouTube description.

On April 23, more than 12 million players of the battle-royale video game Fortnite put down their guns to watch a digital avatar of Travis Scott teleport around a beach, tower against a blood-red sky, and launch audience members into outer space. It was all part of a 10-minute virtual concert, the game’s biggest event ever, according to Fortnite maker Epic Games.

Since his first appearance in Animal Crossing (then Animal Forest) back in 2001, K.K. Slider — that even-keeled hound never seen without his trusty six-string — has been slinging ditties and stealing hearts. This past Friday, he returned for the franchise's long-anticipated Nintendo Switch iteration, Animal Crossing: New Horizons. You probably already know that, given the fact that everyone who managed to snag a copy of the game has been posting about it incessantly.

Dionne Warwick has slammed the hologram tour of her late niece Whitney Houston, calling it a “waste of time”.

With much of the concert industry grinding to a halt due to coronavirus concerns, a Twitter search for the phrase “Couch Tour” offers reassurance that live music has already found one comfortable way to exist outside physical venues. Over the last decade, the Couch Tour phenomenon—where fans join together online to experience performances in real time—has proven itself as both a business model and community builder.

Bandcamp is responding to the novel coronavirus crisis's catastrophic effect on the music industry with a special one-day event. On Friday, March 13, the site will donate the service fees it receives from each sale of music and merchandise to the artists whose work was purchased.

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is having an unprecedented effect on the music industry. Over the past week, countless artists and touring agencies have had to cancel tours across the globe due to the virus’ rapid spread, leaving thousands of musicians, tour managers, engineers and venue workers out of jobs.

Recently, I spent a good hour or two trying to determine if I had completely dreamed up an episode of . Here’s what I remember: In one of the early episodes, when Will has recently pulled up to his relatives’ ostentatious mansion with only a hardshell suitcase and a neon T-shirt, he’s astounded to learn that they’re so rich they have a videophone—a device through which one can talk to anyone, anywhere as if they were in the same room.