Analysts forecast a Bitcoin crash to the $60K level, revisiting 2026 lowThe price of Bitcoin is about $75,800 at the time of publication, a nearly 40% decrease from the all-time high of about $126,000 reached in October 2025.

SolarSquare in talks to raise up to $60M as India’s rooftop solar market draws major VC interestSolarSquare could be valued at up to $500 million in the financing expected to close next month.

Passive Bug Zapper Tracks Its Kill CountIf it’s summer in a warm, humid climate, bugs can be the bane of your existence. A natural solution is to place a passive bug zapper to catch bugs at night. But what if that isn’t fancy enough? [Nicolas Boichat] spices it up with a passive bug zapper that tracks its kill count.
But how exactly do you detect a bug zap? With an antenna, of course! When a bug gets caught, it arcs, creating an electromagnetic pulse. A small loop antenna on the backside of the zapper receives the signal.

The final PCB, attached to the bug zapper.
It was also in part an experiment to see how good you can “vibe-EE” and, well, mixed results. Claude was able to correctly identify basic concepts of EE needed here, but was largely worthless at making schematics. After some manual circuit doodling, then building, [Nicolas] successfully got an ESP32-C6 to detect the voltage spikes.
Of course, where there’s data, there must be a dashboard. Using existing graphing libraries and a custom PCB, [Nicolas] has the ultimate bug zapping experience.
We’ve covered a similar idea in the past, namely one based on current sensing.

IK Multimedia reveal ReSing Voices Japanese Pack ReSing Voices Japanese Pack includes 10 new vocal models which the company say marks an important step in ReSing's evolution toward a global ecosystem for voice creation, and marks the first in a series of releases covering additional languages.

Blue Origin cleared to fly New Glenn mega-rocket after April mishapJeff Bezos' rocket company confirmed an engine failure led to the loss of an AST SpaceMobile satellite last month, but offered little detail.

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Guitar Center Launches Folk-Roots Line Mitchell Silver CreekGuitar Center announced on Thursday that it has "launched the Mitchell Silver Creek Folk Instrument Line, a game-changing seven-piece collection of high-quality instruments including banjos, mandolins and resonator guitars at price points accessible to a wide range of players. Mitchell looked toward the historic icons, developing a collection that meets high standards for quality and playability."

“With the new Mitchell lineup, we focused on creating instruments that feel inspiring and effortless to play from the very first note,” Rich Thrush, Vice President of Mitchell, told MC. “These instruments combine thoughtful design, dependable quality, and player-focused refinement to deliver an experience that keeps musicians engaged, growing, and coming back to play.”

According to a statement, "Mitchell has built player-focused acoustic instruments under Guitar Center's leadership since the brand’s formation in 1986. This line extends that legacy to a wider range of acoustic musicians and leans into Mitchell’s promise of high-quality instruments with great playability. The collection was built to meet that standard, using the finest instruments in the category as its benchmark throughout design and production."

“These instruments were built to the quality and performance standards of the most iconic instruments available today, but to also be affordable by real, working musicians,” said Gabe Dalporto, CEO of Guitar Center.

“We looked toward the historic icons of folk instruments and re-imagined them with our own design for playability, consistency, and modern relevance,” said Thrush. “The goal was to build instruments that feel and respond like they cost twice as much.”

Collection Overview (courtesy of Guitar Center):

Banjos

RB100 Resonator 5-String Banjo ($349.99): Traditional resonator banjo built for strong projection and bright, focused tone. Clear articulation and forward presence suited for bluegrass and ensemble playing.

OB100 Open Back 5-String Banjo ($249.99): Open-back banjo delivering warm, mellow tone with natural decay and balanced volume. Ideal for folk, old-time and acoustic settings where nuance and feel are central.

Mandolins

FM200 F-Style Mandolin ($349.99): F-style mandolin with carved arched top and solid spruce construction. Strong projection, crisp articulation and the classic response that bluegrass and traditional acoustic playing demand.

AM100 A-Style Mandolin ($169.99): A-style mandolin with arched spruce top and balanced body design. Even projection and clear, consistent tone suited for folk, Americana and ensemble work.

DM200E Double Cut Acoustic-Electric Mandolin ($299.99): Modern double-cut acoustic-electric mandolin with hollow carved Okoume body and onboard electronics. Expanded fret access and flexible performance across stage and studio environments.

Resonator Guitars

RR200CE Resonator Guitar ($429.99): Spider-style acoustic-electric resonator guitar with strong projection, sustained response and clear articulation. A sweet-sounding humbucker pickup with volume and tone controls for versatility in live and studio settings.

RR100 Resonator Guitar ($349.99): Biscuit-style resonator guitar with mahogany construction delivering punchy, dry tonal character with quick decay and strong midrange presence. Rooted in traditional blues and folk.

The collection is available exclusively at Guitar Center stores nationwide and at guitarcenter.com.The post Guitar Center Launches Folk-Roots Line Mitchell Silver Creek first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

Improving an Aquarium Chiller with an Industrial Controller TransplantA healthy aquarium ecosystem requires very specific conditions, with factors like the salinity and temperature having to be just right to keep said ecosystem happy. As some species are adapted to fairly cold water, this requires the use a water chiller. Recently [The Blunt Oracle] modified one of these aquarium-focused chillers with a much better controller to make it both more accurate and potentially more efficient as well.
The target for the surgery was a generic Shanhuchong Y-160 chiller that after a brief teardown turned out to use an STC-1000 style controller. The biggest disadvantage with this unit is probably that it just has one temperature probe, which monitored the temperature of the heat exchanger rather than that of the chilled water tank.
This controller was replaced with a Wi-Fi-equipped Elitech ECS-974T sourced for $50 off AliExpress that uses the same 71 x 29 mm form factor. Following that it was just a matter of some creative rewiring – as shown in the top image – and installing the twin temperature probes of the new controller.
Being able to monitor also the temperature of the chilled water adds a layer of redundancy that’s very welcome after splurging thousands of clams on a fancy aquarium and its inhabitants. As a bonus the Wi-Fi interface allows for it to be monitored and controlled remotely, with [The Blunt Oracle] pushing the Home Assistant configuration in a PR as well that recently got merged. They’d also like to extend their thanks to Elitech for having pretty good documentation that really helped with creating the HA configuration file, which is a rarity with many of such controllers.

Price predictions 5/22: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, SOL, DOGE, HYPE, ADA, ZEC, BCHBitcoin sold off to $76,000, giving bears an opportunity to reclaim control of the crypto market. Meanwhile, altcoins like HYPE charted new highs.

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From Spotify and UMG’s landmark AI deal to Shamrock’s $813M raise… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-upThe biggest headlines from the past few days...
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Apple Music announces new livestreaming series: Club LiveApple Music has launched a new streaming series that will broadcast some of the biggest events around the world. It’s called Club Live, and it just wrapped up its first major music festival: EDC Las Vegas.
While the festival was running last weekend (May 15-17), listeners could tune in for free to the Apple Music Radio station, Apple Music Club, to listen to sets from massive electronic artists as they were performing under the electric sky. 

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The broadcast ran across the full hours of the event — 7 p.m. PT – 5:30 a.m. PT. When the festival was closed, the channel would rebroadcast sets from the previous day. Now that the fest has passed, sets from the weekend are available to stream on demand for Apple Music subscribers. Some of the sets will be mixed in Dolby Atmos spatial audio as well.
“Club Live is an extension of what we’re building at Apple Music, a true home for artists and our global community,” said Stephen Campbell, Global Head of Dance, Electronic Music & DJ Mixes.
While hundreds of acts played over the three days, some of the sets that streamed included Porter Robinson, Levity, Josh Baker, Frost Children, and Tiësto. As of now, no future events for Club Live have been announced, but Apple Music says it will broadcast sets from “clubs, festivals, and Apple Music’s studios.”
Campbell continues: “Teaming up with iconic festivals like EDC allows us to connect fans with the energy and culture of dance music at its source. With Club Live and Apple Music as the definitive destination for all EDC DJ sets, we’re opening up these defining cultural moments by bringing world-class performances and the energy of the dance floor to audiences everywhere.”
For more information, head to Apple Music.
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Polarity Music Polarity-SCA darker, Polarity-modified version of Robbert van der Helm's Spectral Compressor: per-bin upward and downward compression, pink-noise shaping, sidechain spectral matching, freeze, and IR export. Download VST3 and CLAP for Windows, macOS, and Linux: Polarity-SC-Dark is a free, dark-themed spectral compressor plugin based on Robbert van der Helm's Spectral Compressor. It does FFT per-bin compression, allowing very detailed resonance control and spectral shaping. Supports upward and downward compression, custom threshold curves, pink-noise shaping, and sidechain spectral matching/ducking. Includes workflow tools like delta monitoring, level match, bypass, freeze, and IR export. Available as VST3 and CLAP for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Built with Rust / NIH-plug / VIZIA, licensed GPL-3.0-or-later. Read More

“Not every song has to be Imagine by John Lennon”: How one piece of advice changed Dave Grohl’s approach to songwriting foreverIn light of the release of the Foo Fighters’ latest record, Your Favourite Toy, Dave Grohl has imparted his ultimate songwriting tip – there’s no way every single track you write will go down in history as an earth-shatteringly monumental moment in musical history. And that’s absolutely fine.
Speaking on the Tape Notes podcast, the Foo Fighters frontman explains that it can be “liberating” to remove the pressure of writing a commercial smash hit, a revelation he discovered following a conversation with bassist Nate Mendel. “On the fourth record, I was stuck on a lyric and I was wasting everyone’s time,” Grohl recalls. “Everyone was downstairs waiting for me, but I was on a blank page, uninspired… And Nate says, ‘You know, not every song has to be Imagine by John Lennon.’”

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Rather than labouring for hours over writing a track as timeless as Imagine, Mendel insisted that Grohl should start by “just writing SOMETHING”, even if just to get the creative ball rolling. “It was really liberating,” the frontman says. “I was like, ‘Oh, I don’t have to write Imagine today? Great!”
The advice re-framed his creative outlook so greatly that Grohl even considered writing an essay about the approach. It would centre on being creative just for the sake of being creative – because, if you’re only writing to make a ‘hit’, it not only limits your output, but it also begs the question of why you’re even writing in the first place. “I was going to write this whole piece on why people [feel the need to] write songs,” he says.

In terms of lyrical advice, Grohl also notes that you should never compare yourself to other lyricists, as your work should always come from the heart. “Lyrics are subjective – they’re up to one’s own personal interpretation,” he says. “There’s some lyrics that I’ll read from other artists [that I think are] kind of nonsense. [But] that person is decoding some sort of emotion within themselves. No matter how quickly or how much thought they put into it, it’s revealing in some way.”
He also notes that lingering for too long on a project can sometimes be detrimental. “A problem that I’ve had in the past is self-editing to the point of losing the original intent…” he notes. “When you just do something quickly, with no self-editing, that can often be the most revealing. There’s a lot of this, that on this record.”
“As we dig through the tracks and listen to stuff, I’m constantly finding new meaning or new depth that I may not have considered before,” he concludes. “You know, I’m not the type of person that’s going to walk around with a journal and a bottle of red wine sitting in the park and writing an endless tome of fucking poetry. But, but when I have to, I will.”
Your Favourite Toy is out now.

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