Your weird music video of the day: The wonder of the Floppotron 3.0
What can you do with old, obsolete computer equipment? Recycle it, of course. But this guy’s definition of “recycle” is a little different. (Via Sean)
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Into gaming? How about a gaming computer that costs US$44,000?
Gamers are all about hardware. CPU speed. GPU power. Liquid cooling. Super-fast RAM. Tons of storage. And if you have the money, you can build a gaming machine that might be able to
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Ongoing History Daily: The computer possessed by the ghost of Kurt Cobain
Here’s a weird ghost story just in time for Halloween. I’ll give you the facts and you can decide whether or not you want to believe it. Gemma Franks was a bar manager
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Here’s Why Apple is a Consumer Electronics and Services Company and Not a Computer Company
At one point, Apple was all about the Mac. Now? Not so much. You will find more statistics at Statista
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Once Upon a Time, Computers and the Internet Were Like This
A while back, I wrote a story on how much technology has changed the radio industry. Here’s another nostalgia trip, this time into the ancient history of computers and the Internet. This commercial
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This Music Inspires Machines to Write Songs
On Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data was a pretty formidable violinist. But while he was technically accurate, his playing was too perfect. Like other AI machines, he couldn’t string together the notes
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Can Robots Write a Beatles Song? Almost.
Computers and robots will never replace flesh-and-blood artists, right? Well, not so fast. Leaps in artificial intelligence have now made it possible for a computer program to ape the Beatles. Almost. Sony’s CSL
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Who Was First to Play Music on a Computer? It Was the Australians
Here’s a great story on how music came to computers from The Conversation: We don’t think twice about playing music via a computer – we have them in our pockets, and in our
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Secrets Behind U2’s Audio and Video Technology for Innocence + Experience Tour
If you’ve been to see U2 on their current tour, you probably left impressed with the stage set-up and the massive tw0-sided screen that in a hockey rink stretches at least from blue
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The Mysterious Singing Computer Woman of the Soviet Union
Peter forwards this one from Silicon Valley: When I was 14 or so, in 1989, I worked at the Advanced Communications Lab of Kiev’s Communications College, a 2-year “technical professional” training school, at
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Bored with Your Computer? The Maybe You Need the App That Replaces All Your Icons with Kanye West
Um, no thanks. But, hey, fill yer boots.
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