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Your weird music video of the day: The wonder of the Floppotron 3.0

June 17, 2022June 17, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Computer Hardware, Computers, Floopotron

What can you do with old, obsolete computer equipment? Recycle it, of course. But this guy’s definition of “recycle” is

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Gadgets 

Into gaming? How about a gaming computer that costs US$44,000?

January 29, 2022January 29, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Computers, Gaming, Gaming Computers

Gamers are all about hardware. CPU speed. GPU power. Liquid cooling. Super-fast RAM. Tons of storage. And if you have

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Ongoing History of New Music 

Ongoing History Daily: The computer possessed by the ghost of Kurt Cobain

October 29, 2021October 29, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Computers, Ghosts, Halloween, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana

Here’s a weird ghost story just in time for Halloween. I’ll give you the facts and you can decide whether

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Gadgets 

Here’s Why Apple is a Consumer Electronics and Services Company and Not a Computer Company

April 5, 2017April 4, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Apple, Computers, iPad, iPhone, iPod, MacBook, Macs

At one point, Apple was all about the Mac. Now? Not so much. You will find more statistics at Statista

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Music History 

Once Upon a Time, Computers and the Internet Were Like This

December 16, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Computers, Internet

A while back, I wrote a story on how much technology has changed the radio industry. Here’s another nostalgia trip,

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Cool! 

This Music Inspires Machines to Write Songs

October 10, 2016October 9, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments AI, Artificial Intelligence, Computers, FlowMachines, Google

On Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data was a pretty formidable violinist. But while he was technically accurate, his playing

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Can Robots Write a Beatles Song? Almost.

September 28, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments AI, Beatles, Computers, Robots

Computers and robots will never replace flesh-and-blood artists, right? Well, not so fast. Leaps in artificial intelligence have now made

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Music History 

Who Was First to Play Music on a Computer? It Was the Australians

July 10, 2016July 10, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments CISIRAC, Computers

Here’s a great story on how music came to computers from The Conversation: We don’t think twice about playing music

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Gadgets 

Secrets Behind U2’s Audio and Video Technology for Innocence + Experience Tour

July 19, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Computers, Innocence + Experience Tour, Projection, U2, Video Screen

If you’ve been to see U2 on their current tour, you probably left impressed with the stage set-up and the

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The Mysterious Singing Computer Woman of the Soviet Union

June 29, 2015June 29, 2015 Alan Cross 1 Comment Aretha Franklin, Computers, USSR

Peter forwards this one from Silicon Valley: When I was 14 or so, in 1989, I worked at the Advanced

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WTF? 

Bored with Your Computer? The Maybe You Need the App That Replaces All Your Icons with Kanye West

June 23, 2014June 23, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments app, Computers, Desktop, Icons, Kanye West

Um, no thanks.  But, hey, fill yer boots.

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