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OpenAI’s deals with publishers could spell trouble for rivalsOpenAI’s legal battle with The New York Times over data to train its AI models might still be brewing. But OpenAI’s forging ahead on deals with other publishers, including some of France’s and Spain’s largest news publishers. OpenAI on Wednesday announced that it signed contracts with Le Monde and Prisa Media to bring French and […]
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Goldilocks Beverage Coaster Tells You When It’s Just RightIf you ask us, morning is the only excuse we need for a hot caffeinated beverage — weather be damned. Wherever [gokux] is, they may be experiencing actual winter this year, given that they are out there getting cozy with a hot cup of what-have-you. But how do they know it’s at the right temperature for drinking? Enter the temperature-monitoring smart coaster.
At the heart of this build is a GY-906 infrared temperature sensor, which senses the warmth (or lack thereof) and displays the degrees on a small OLED screen thanks to a Seeed Xiao SAMD21. To make things simple, there is also an ideogram that corresponds to the current temperature — snowflake for too cold, danger sign for too hot, and thumbs up for that just-right range. Although this coaster is mostly 3D-printed, the mug sits on a slotted piece of aluminium that is removable for easy cleaning. This would be a good-looking and useful addition to any desk.
This is isn’t the first temperature-indicating beverage coaster we’ve seen. The most recent one ultimately used a probe, which is likely about as accurate (and messy) as you can get with these things.

PDP-10 Fits in Your Living Room[Oscar] at Obsolescence Guaranteed is well-known for fun replicas of the PDP-8 and PDP-11 using the Raspberry Pi (along with some other simulated vintage computers). His latest attempt is the PDP-10, and you can see how it looks in the demo video below.
Watching the video will remind you of every old movie or TV show you’ve ever seen with a computer, complete with typing noise. The PDP-10, also known as a DECsystem-10, was a mainframe computer that usually ran TOPS-10. These were technically “mainframes” in 1966, although the VAX eclipsed the system. By 1983 (the end of the PDP-10’s run), around 1,500 had been sold, including ones that ran at Harvard, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and — of course — MIT. They also found homes at CompuServe and Tymshare.
The original 36-bit machine used transistors and was relatively slow. By the 1970s, newer variants used ICs or ECL and gained some speed. A cheap version using the AM2901 bit-slice CPU and a familiar 8080 controlling the system showed up in 1978 and billed itself as “the world’s lowest cost mainframe.”
The Knight terminals were very unusual for the day. They each used a PDP-11 and had impressive graphics capability compared to similar devices from the early 1970s. You can see some of that in the demo video.
Naturally, anyone who used a PDP-10 would think a Raspberry Pi was a supercomputer, and they wouldn’t be wrong. Still, these machines were the launching pad for Adventure, Zork, and Altair Basic, which spawned Microsoft.
The cheap version of these used bitslice which we’ve been talking about lately. [Oscar] is also known for the KIMUno, which we converted into a COSMAC Elf.

Believe generated $952.7m in annual revenues last year, up 15.7% YoYThe company’s full-year financial results were published on Wednesday, March 13
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Stu Bergen named interim CEO of DeezerAnnouncement follows the departure of Deezer CEO, Jeronimo Folgueira
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Critter & Guitari’s Kaleidoloop returns for the first time since 2016 with all-new featuresCritter & Guitari has released a new version of its portable looper Kaleidoloop with extra features, including new playing modes.
The Kaleidoloop was discontinued in 2016, but it’s back. It’s now white and has a smaller form factor to make it more portable, while the interface has been adjusted slightly too.

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The mono input and output have moved over to the left, while the button keys are in different positions too. But it’s not all change – it’s still a great looper to travel with or use on the go, while you can sample into it with the goose-neck microphone. And, everything you record gets saved to the microSD card.
There are six different playback modes, three speed manipulation modes, and three effects. And previously, the looping would stop when you recorded another sound, but in the new version, looping continues, making it easier to build layers without any additional equipment.
Credit: Critter & Guitari
One of the most eye-catching features, however, is the way in which users can customise the modes coded in Pure Data. You can create new modes, or upload modes that other people have shared. As a result, you can turn the Kaleidoloop into, for example, a granular or spectral processor.
It has a USB-C port on the back, while you can also use batteries. There’s a microSD slot with an 8GB card for 7GB of storage and around 20 hours of recording time, and a USB-A host port.
While Critter & Guitari hasn’t released a promo video for the new version, we’ll take any excuse to share the video for the 2016 model, which you can check out below:

The Kaleidoloop is available for $375, and you can learn more at Critter & Guitari.
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GRAMMY(R) NOMINATED JOHN ONDRASIK OF FIVE FOR FIGHTING PARTNERS WITH THE TULLMAN FAMILY FOR THE “MUSIC MATTERS CHALLENGE”Tying in with "Music In Our Schools Month," GRAMMY® nominated John Ondrasik of FIVE FOR FIGHTING and The Tullman Family Office, through its operational philanthropic wing Tullman Community Ventures, announce the “Music Matters Challenge,” which will launch on March 26, running through April 30;  with the Grand Prize winners to be announced on May 14.  The national online music challenge asks Americans to create an original rendition of the song “Let Music Fill My World,” a song recorded and written by Five For Fighting’s John Ondrasik and students of the Farragut Career Academy in Chicago, Illinois; while sharing their own story of a time where music greatly impacted them, changed their life, or moved them to where they remember that story today.   The challenge is designed to spotlight the magic of music and bring awareness to the generational impact of removing music from schools.  To enter the contest, visit: www.letmusicfillmyworld.com.  Listen to “Let Music Fill My World” HERE.

The “Music Matters Challenge” is hosted by “Let Music Fill My World,” an organization founded by The Tullman Family Office, and is on a mission to ensure that every child in America has access to music education in their schools.  Two Grand Prize winners will be awarded – one for individual entries: $10,000 in cash, plus the opportunity to participate in selecting a music teacher for an under-resourced school to receive a salary of up to $300,000 for three years;  and one for school entries, where the winning school receives a $25,000 school grant.

The idea for the competition began in 2023, when Cayley Tullman, President of The Tullman Family Office, partnered with Ondrasik of FIVE FOR FIGHTING to write a song with students from Farragut Career Academy in Chicago, Illinois.  Ondrasik, Tullman, and a group of eight students participated in weekly after-school workshops and composed an original song, “Let Music Fill My World,” which passionately expressed why music matters in their lives.  The students wrote all of the verses in the song themselves, and had the opportunity to professionally record their song and create a music video with the help of seasoned industry music producers. As a part of this effort, the Tullman Family Office fully funded a full-time music teacher for the students at Farragut Career Academy, which propelled the idea to create the “Music Matters Challenge.”  Check out video message from John Ondrasik and Cayley Tullman.

Says Ondrasik, "In speaking with philanthropist Cayley Tullman about how we can best support music in the schools in inner-city Chicago, I thought of my mom, Anna Marie.  Mom was a USC music grad and piano teacher. When LA Unified cut all music funding for schools in the 1970s, she volunteered at Van Gogh Elementary School and began putting on full musicals with the 5th and 6th grade classes.  The impact that my mother had on me, and my classmates resonates over 50 years later. Many students still keep in touch with my mom, and for the most, music has continued to be instrumental in their lives. That is why I was so proud to collaborate with students at Farragut Academy in Chicago in writing “Let Music Fill my World.” Though the title was mine, the lyrics are the kids! That effort, due to the Tullman Family Office, now provides a full-time music teacher for three years at Farragut! Lives will be changed for the better. The “Music Matters Challenge” will bring our mission and efforts to the nation, raising awareness for music in the schools while letting everyone sing and lend their voice to such a critical cause while having fun, and again, participating in a prize that will bring another full-time music teacher to a school in desperate need.”

Adds Cayley Tullman, President of The Tullman Family Office and former U.S. Diplomat: "I remember sitting on the floor in front of the couch at my grandparents’ home in California, mesmerized watching my Uncle Stan play guitar and sing. Stan struggled with mental health and addiction, but when playing music, he shined so bright.  Looking back, I believe music was his solace and gave him a way to express himself that he could not do with words alone.  I miss him a lot and know he would be proud of our mission to connect more young people with the magic of music.”

After the initial round of submissions, 10 public entries and 10 school entries will be selected for the finals, which will be voted on by the public. The top 10 winners will be selected through a combination of digital views and a panel of judges, including John Ondrasik and Cayley Tullman (additional judges TBA).

During the 2008-2009 recession, public school per-pupil spending dropped by 7% nationally, leading to drastic reductions in art and music classes. Music programs have since not recovered, with only 19 out of 50 schools including arts as a key area of their state accountability system. Students are not only losing a creative outlet. Music programs have been shown to increase standardized test scores, reduce disciplinary infractions, and improve graduation and attendance rates (College Board, 2002), (Bowen et al, 2019), (NAMM Foundation, 2015).  With the “Music Matters Challenge,” The Tullman Family Office, with the help of Five For Fighting’s John Ondrasik, is creating this initiative to help turn around these statistics.

Multiple SXSW Protests: Festival Organizers, Texas Governor respondSXSW is under fire on at least three fronts from musicians and panelists who are unhappy with how the festival, now co-owned by Penski, the publisher of Rolling Stone, Billboard, and Variety, does business.....
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Oeksound Bloom is now available Bloom promises to take the place of dynamic EQs and multi-band compressors, despite not doing either of those things. 

TIDAL adds Circles for musician-to-musician networking, career adviceTIDAL has added Circles, a new space for artists to connect with and learn from peers with similar challenges and experiences. ....
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“I always know when it’s done. It’s a feeling”: Jack Antonoff explains how he knows when a track is finishedAs producers and engineers, we often have trouble knowing when a song or mix is finished. As music is so subjective, there’s technically no end point. But Jack Antonoff can always tell when a song is finished, and in a new interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, he explains how.
The superstar producer says, “I always know when it’s done. It’s a feeling,” and says he’ll want a new song to “live in the world”.

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Antonoff, who released a new album with his band Bleachers earlier this month and is a frequent collaborator of stars like Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, and Lorde, adds, “The one thing I’ve gotten better and better about is just listening to that, because what’s crazy about this work is, none of it adds up to an actual number.
“So it’s not like I did this and I did this, and we’re doing building blocks to get somewhere. It’s so random how many records we’ve recorded this way or that way, or this song. You spend hours and money and all this stuff doing it, and then you turn around and you’re like, ‘Ah, I think it’s an acoustic song.’”
He continues, “And then, you put it down in 10 minutes, and it’s got more emotional resonance than all the shit you did. Which is why ego in the studio is so hilarious to me, because it’s like ego in church, it’s like, ‘What, do you know God better than me or something?’ It’s crazy.”
In the interview, he also discusses his production style, explaining that he’s never been a “mathematician technician” and likes to find things that “may or may not make sense.” He talks about his love for the saxophone, and leaving things in recordings that other producers might take out.
And he says about making music with other people, “It is all feeling. It’s why I’ve been very happy to divorce myself from anything that’s just not here. Everyone I’m making records with were pretty insular … but I really just tend to work with people who just have a gut feeling about something and just want to find it. That’s all making an album is.”
You can check out the full interview here:

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Fighting Streaming Fraud at the Distributor Level [Symphonic’s Jorge Brea]Fraudsters "redirect royalties away from rights holders and artists and into their own pockets to the tune of millions per year," writes Jorge Brea, the CEO of Symphonic Distribution, but there is a solution.....
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Basic Music Theory For Music Producers
Music theory can seem daunting for self-taught musicians and producers, particularly when you haven’t had any formal musical education. However, ensuring you have a solid foundational understanding of theory can help you reach new heights of musical creativity. Music theory can help you with your musical projects by helping you understand the basics of melody [...]
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