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How the ‘Facebook of music’ is using big data to find the next pop star by https://is.gd/i5N9le
“Artists tell us everything about themselves. It’s the Facebook of music,” Perry said. “They aggregate their social media with us. More [concert] show listings for emerging artists are posted with us than any other single site in the world.
Online music hub ReverbNation was founded in 2006 as a social networking and career-building tool for up-and-coming artists. Since then, the company has had a continued track record of success in bringing new talent to the fore in popular music.
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Should we be worried about the dangerous potential of artificial intelligence?
Sort of, says Max Tegmark, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tegmark is a co-founder of the F…
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Narro Reading of Google finally admits you don’t need special hardware for augmented reality
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In 2014 Google said it was going to revolutionize the way we use smartphones through augmented reality. With AR, developers who built apps that worked on Android phones could drop virtual objects alongside real ones through the phone’s camera. These fictional objects would look like they existed in real life, dramatically changing the experience of…
In a First in China, a Court Will Handle Proceedings Only on Internet by https://is.gd/84j769
Legal disputes in e-commerce, digital copyrights and other internet-based contracts in China can now be settled without requiring plaintiffs or defendants to abandon the comfort of their easy chairs at home.
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Amazon has an algorithm that designs clothes by replicating human creativity by https://is.gd/8L1w9m
At its core, Amazon’s goal is to remove as much friction as possible from a customer finding what they want, ordering it, and having it land on their doorstep. Its ambitions started with books, but have since extended to just about every other category, including clothes.
MIT Technology Review reports that a team at the e-commerce company, working at a San Francisco research center, has devised an algorithm that analyzes images to learn about specific styles of clothing. It then creates similar new items from scratch.
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Award-winning writer and translator Ken Liu talks about why Obama, Zuckerberg are fans of futuristic stories coming out of China
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