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In tech news it turns out that all Dutchman are not house music DJ’s, some of them are also hackers. Spanish police arrested a 35-year-old Dutchman named Sven Olaf Kamphuis in connection to a massive Internet attack. The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, slowed down connections around the world for two days last March. [...]
Manufactured pop music, literally
This is old news if you are Japanese, but for the rest of us, the latest trend in pop music is literally manufacted pop stars. Meet Hatsune Miku they biggest pop sensation to hit Japan since karaoke. The teenage pop star is a hologram projected on stage using mirrors. She sells out stadiums in Tokyo, [...]
Video selfies
At this point every woman has at least one sexy selfie they took of themselves and posted on Facebook. But what I am doing here, is taking that to the next level with the magic of video. Human communication is 99% nonverbal. So little things like facial cues can make a huge difference. Smartphone apps [...]
DJU
The goal of the Mmmmaven Project in Boston, Massachusetts is to be the Harvard of DJ schools. Set for release this summer it will be the country’s first form of secondary education that teaches students how to be electronica producers. Cofounders David Day and Alex Maniatis want to make Boston the Bristol of America. The [...]
Download Abelton free all May
Abelton and SoundCloud are teaming together this month to give all SoundCloud users a free copy of Abelton Lite! For those not familiar Abelton Live is the software used by artists such as Skrillex and Deadmau5 to make music. There were a few bugs to streamline in the downloading process at first but they seem [...]
Dubstep heavy Call of Duty trailer
Activison released the dubstep heavy trailer for the highly anticipated Call of Duty: Black Ops II and you can watch it right here. The video game is set to drop November 13th in time for Christmas. This time around Activison asks: what would happen if America’s advanced weapons technology were turned against us? Rumors are [...]
Scientists invent robots that can pick music
Dr. Nick Collins of Sussex University has developed three electronic judges with their own individual tastes for an upcoming dubstep competition in London. The machines are programmed to have a “taste” for music by listening to a specific genre and uploading complex algorithms using a program called SuperCollider. Supposedly they can identify other good music [...]
U.S. files anti-trust suit against Apple
Last week the U.S. government filed a anti-trust lawsuit against Apple Computers, Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon and Shulster, charging that the conglomerate had a monopoly on the burgeoning eBook industry. The case will convene in a New York district court. It seems your beloved MacBooks, iPhones, iPods and of course iPads are [...]
M.I.A. & WikiLeaks sittin in a tree
Julian Assanges, that guy who founded WikiLeaks and blew the whistle on all those classified government documents, got his own show, and it is in Russia. The show will premier on the English language station Russia Today (RT) next week. You can watch the trailer for it above. It will start with a theme song [...]
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