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LONDON —A Norwegian company that is planning to create a doomsday vault to preserve the world’s most important music works has partnered with Microsoft on what it calls a “paradigm-breaking” storage solution capable of holding recordings for many thousands of years. Oslo-based Elire Group teamed up with the tech giant to come up with a “proof of concept” silica glass platter that can be used as a medium for storing master-quality digital copies of music recordings, which are burnt into the glass using state-of-the-art laser optics. Elire plans to initially store the glass capsules in a dedicated space inside the Arctic World Archive, an existing underground storage facility located on a remote arctic island midway between Norway and the North Pole. Opened in 2017, the Arctic World Archive ...
B2B music company Songtradr has acquired Musicube, an AI metadata and music search company that helps match music to content and a brand’s target audience. Using neural networks and proprietary AI, Musicube’s software is delivered via web widgets and an API that offers metadata at scale for labels, publishers, music supervisors and more. It also allows customers to search for tracks, playlists and artists based on audiences, moods, genres, vocal features, instruments and tempo. With the acquisition, Songtradr expands its portfolio of tech-enabled music solutions, which also include music technology and data companies Tunefind and Pretzel, both of which the company purchased last year, and Jaxsta, which Songtradr invested in back in 2020. “Musicube has approached audio analysis from an enti...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: COURTESY OF NETFLIX / Resident Evil A new trailer for Netflix’s Resident Evil has arrived, and it revealed a lot of monsters and mayhem. Is Wesker A Tyrant In The New Netflix Resident Evil Series? Since its announcement, Netflix’s Resident Evil series has spawned nothing but questions, specifically about the casting of Lance Reddick as the game’s iconic villain Albert Wesker. In May, a teaser trailer revealed further expounded on a cast announcement photo shared in June. At the time, we only knew Reddick was playing Wesker. The trailer confirmed Ella Balinska (Charlie’s Angels) and Tamara Smart (Artemis Fowl) would be playing his twin daughters, Jade and Billie. Related Stories Now a new trailer has arrived, and it is revealing even more details abo...
In a letter sent to Twitter Monday morning, an attorney for Elon Musk wrote that the company “is actively resisting and thwarting his information rights” in regards to a dispute over spam accounts, and threatened to terminate the deal. The letter, sent by a lawyer for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meager & Flom, follows a weeks-long back and forth between Musk and the company regarding how many active users of the service are real people, as opposed to bots or spam accounts. Musk, who declined due diligence early in the process, has since requested further data from the company, and also tweeted that the deal was “on hold,” although behind the scenes work appears to have continued since then. The letter says that the company sent over information to...