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Soviet synthesizer bridged occultism and electronic music – Boing Boing
“The political tides turned against the Russian avant garde by the time Murzin began working on the ANS in 1938. As Isobel Clouter explains in an episode of the BBC radio show The Soundhunter, most early sound art projects were destroyed. Engineers were forced to work on art projects in secret and had little access […]
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24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed
“…there is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format. Its playback fidelity is slightly inferior to 16/44.1 or 16/48, and it takes up 6 times the space. There are a few real problems with the audio quality and ‘experience’ of digitally distributed music today. 24/192 solves none of them. While everyone fixates on 24/192 […]
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Are Microsoft and Nokia closet patent trolls? Let the EC decide. ??? Tech News and Analysis
Updated: Google has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft and Nokia and is also tattling on the companies with U.S. regulators, accusing them of patent-troll-like behavior, according to the Wall Street Journal…
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Cool Tools: Knife Skills Illustrated: A User’s Manual
via kk.org “Cooking consists mainly of three basic skills: heating things, putting things together (mixing) and taking things apart (cutting). This book is focused exclusively on the last set of skills.”
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The story of how Bill Gates discovered (& backed) a battery startup ??? Cleantech News and Analysis
via gigaom.com “Bill Gates started taking a class from Liquid Metal Battery founder and MIT Professor Don Sadoway via MIT???s online open-course program. Gates took Sadoway???s 34-lecture series on batteries and contacted Sadoway by email to meet with…
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Oxford Nanopore introduces DNA ???strand sequencing??? on the high-throughput GridION??? platform and presents MinION???, a sequencer the size of a USB memory stick
EMBARGO: Friday 17 February, noon EST/5pm UK Oxford Nanopore introduces DNA ???strand sequencing??? on the high-throughput GridION??? platform and presents MinION???, a sequencer the size of a USB memory stick – New generation of sequencing technology use…