Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross win Golden Globe for Challengers film scoreNine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have won a Golden Globe for their work on the 2024 sports drama film, Challengers.
The pair, who have also composed music for films such as Gone Girl and Queer, bagged this year’s award for Best Original Score for their work on the Luca Guadagnino-directed movie which stars Zendaya as tennis player Tashi Duncan.

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Reznor and Ross were also nominated for Best Original Song for Compress / Repress – also of the Challengers soundtrack – though didn’t win. Their award for Best Original Score marked their third win at the Globes, as they formerly won within the same category in 2010 for The Social Network, and also in 2020 for the Pixar film, Soul.

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The duo are also composing the score for a brand new gaming franchise which is being developed by Naughty Dog, the studio behind gaming smash hits such as Crash Bandicoot, The Last Of Us, and Uncharted. Titled Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, it is currently in development for PlayStation 5.
In a recent interview with IndieWire, they explained why they have flourished as composers outside of Nine Inch Nails: “What we’re looking for [from film] is the collaborative experience with interesting people. We haven’t gotten that from the music world necessarily, for our own choice. You mentioned disillusionment with the music world? Yes. The culture of the music world sucks,” Reznor said.
“That’s another conversation, but what technology has done to disrupt the music business in terms of not only how people listen to music but the value they place on it is defeating. I’m not saying that as an old man yelling at clouds, but as a music lover who grew up where music was the main thing. Music [now] feels largely relegated to something that happens in the background or while you’re doing something else. That’s a long, bitter story.”
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Music Marketing Strategies To Stop In The New YearSay goodbye to five outdated music marketing strategies and get ready to level up in 2025. From ditching pre-saves to embracing smarter, more authentic ways to connect with fans, here’s how to stay ahead in the music industry.
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Chris Castle: Trends driving the Music Business in 2025In this Hypebot exclusive, artist advocate, blogger and attorney Chris Castle joins our select group of industry leaders sharing their perspective on trends driving the music business in 2025.
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As more K-Pop Artists go solo, learn whyBLACKPINK's ROSÉ is the latest success in the ongoing trend as more K-Pop artists go solo and forge their own paths both within the genre and on the global stage.
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CES 2025: Lenco launches 3 new turntables starting at £199CES2025: Dutch hi-fi manufacturer Lenco has launched three new turntables ahead of this year’s CES tech convention.
Starting with the most affordable of the bunch, we’ve got the LBTA-165 – a fully automatic, belt-driven turntable featuring auto-return and auto-start, perfect for those looking to dip their toes into the world of vinyl records.

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This model comes with a pre-fitted Audio Technica AT3600L Moving Magnet cartridge, switchable pre-amplifier, Bluetooth transmission for connecting to headphones or speakers (such as the Kanto ORA), and is capable of playing at 33 and 45 RPM speeds.
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Available in either a Black Wood or Wood finish, the LBTA-165 is priced at £199/$249/€219.
Next up is the Lenco LBT-215, another belt drive turntable offering playback at both 33 and 45 RPM speeds. The deck features an Audio Technica AT-VM95E Moving Magnet Cartridge, metal platter, tonearm, fully-adjustable counterweight, and Bluetooth capabilities similar to the LBTA-165.
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It also sports a USB port for easy digitisation of your vinyl collection. Simply connect the turntable to your PC or Mac and use your preferred recording software to convert your favourite vinyl records to a digital format for playback on your digital audio players.
Available in a sleek black gloss finish, the LBT-215BK is priced at £299/$359/€329.
Finally, for vinyl enthusiasts seeking premium sound and convenience, Lenco has introduced the LS-570WA turntable, a “perfect all-in-one solution” that promises “exceptional sound quality” and an “effortless setup”.
Like its peers, the LS-570WA is a belt-drive deck designed to deliver “smooth and accurate playback” at both 33 and 45 RPM. However, it stands out with its integrated four-speaker system, providing 80 watts of “powerful audio without the need for external speakers.”
With Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity, users can stream music wirelessly from their smart devices. The turntable also features a Moving Magnetic Cartridge (MMC), Start/Stop control buttons, and a built-in pre-amplifier with an ON/OFF switch, offering the flexibility to connect to external audio systems when desired.
Supported by four sturdy wooden legs, the LS-570WA is incredibly easy to set up – just attach the legs, and you’re ready to go in seconds.
The LS-570WA is priced at £389/$469/€389. All three models will be available from 6 January in the UK and April in the US.
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Classical Highlights for December 2024As the year wound to a close, our editors still found terrific albums to celebrate in December. Check out our selections for the month as we start working on reviewing the new music of 2025.

Toyota’s CES 2025 press conference: How to watchFive years ago, Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda went to CES to share with the world his “personal field of dreams” — a plan to build a prototype city on a 175-acre site at the foot of Mount Fuji in Japan, where people would live and work amongst all of Toyota’s projects, including autonomous vehicle technology, […]
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Reverse-Engineering the Polynomial Constants in the Pentium’s FPUDie photo of the Intel Pentium processor with the floating point constant ROM highlighted in red. (Credit: Ken Shirriff)
Released in 1993, Intel’s Pentium processor was a marvel of technological progress. Its floating point unit (FPU) was a big improvement over its predecessors that still used the venerable CORDIC algorithm. In a recent blog post [Ken Shirriff] takes an up-close look at the FPU and associated ROMs in the Pentium die that enable its use of polynomials. Even with 3.1 million transistors, the Pentium die is still on a large enough process node that it can be readily analyzed with an optical microscope.
In the blog post, [Ken] shows how you can see the constants in each ROM section, with each bit set as either a transistor (‘1’) or no transistor (‘0’), making read-out very easy. The example looks at the constant of pi, which the Pentium’s FPU has stored as a version with no fewer than 67 significand bits along with its exponent.

Multiplexer circuitry allows for the selection of the appropriate entry in the ROM. The exponent section always takes up 18 bits (1 for the significand sign). The significand section is actually 68 bits total, but it starts with a mysterious first bit with no apparent purpose.
After analyzing and transcribing the 304 total constants like this, [Ken] explains how these constants are used with polynomial approximations. This feature allows the Pentium’s FPU to be about 2-3 times faster than the 486 with CORDIC, giving even home users access to significant FPU features a few years before the battle of MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, and today’s AVX extensions began.
Featured image: A diagram of the constant ROM and supporting circuitry. Most of the significand ROM has been cut out to make it fit. (Credit: Ken Shirriff)

Stacy’s Computer Has Got It Going OnAccording to [ClassicHasClass], the best way to open an Atari Stacy is to not open an Atari Stacy. Apparently, these old computers were not pleasant to work on. The cables were not keyed and were prone to short against things. Screws easily strip out plastic holes. Of course, there wouldn’t be a story if there wasn’t a teardown and an upgrade that you can check out in the post.
The Stacy was one of Atari’s earliest portable systems and the first ST portable (that is, STacy). There’s a backlit LCD, a keyboard and trackball, and the usual ports. You could make do with a single floppy or spring for a second floppy or an internal SCSI hard drive. The 8 MHz 68000-based machine would set you back north of $2,300 back in 1989.
The original plan was to run the thing on C-cell batteries, but that would give you about 15 minutes of operation. They finally decided it was a luggable — you’d have to plug it into the wall. The battery compartment was there, but empty and glued shut.
Apparently, there were about 35,000 of these made, but they seem somewhat rare. But we do like a rare retrocomputer. Or even some that aren’t so rare.

How Crane Games are Playing Claw Games with the PlayerFresh from AliExpress, [Big Clive] got another fascinating item to tear down: a crane claw, as used in those all too familiar carnival games. These games feature a claw the player moves into position above a pile of toys or other items. Lower the claw gently down in the hopes that it grabs the target item. In a perfect world, the claw will move your prize and deposit it, via a chute, into your waiting hands. Of course, everyone knows that these games are rigged and rely less on skill or luck than the way that they are programmed, but the way that this works is quite subtle, as you can see in the video below.
Despite how complex these crane claws may appear, they are simply solenoids, with the metal rod inside providing the claw action. The weight of the rod and claw section opens the claw via gravity. The strength of the claw is thus fully dependent on how strongly the solenoid is being driven, which, as [Clive] demonstrates, depends on the voltage and the duty cycle. At only 12V, the target plushie will easily slip away again as the claw barely has any strength, while at 24V, it’s pretty solid.

The basic way these crane games are programmed is to use a voltage and/or duty cycle that depends on the amount of money spent (in credits) and the monetary value of the items you can ‘win.’ If you’re very lucky you’ll get a solid catch even with a floppy claw. Most of the time you’ll have to wait until you get a solid claw. While a simple concept, it seems more designed to game the player. As [Clive] duly notes, just buying the item will probably save you a lot of money and frustration.
Or, build your own, of course. There are plenty of examples.

Tenable CEO Amit Yoran diesLongtime entrepreneur and cybersecurity executive Amit Yoran passed away Friday after a battle with cancer. Cybersecurity company Tenable, where Yoran was CEO and chairman, announced his death in a press release. Before becoming Tenable’s CEO in 2016, he held a number of roles including president of RSA, founding CEO of NetWitness, and CEO of In-Q-Tel. […]
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