Taylor Swift has pulled her songs from streaming service Spotify, but her videos like the new star-studded extravaganza “Bad Blood” are still hosted on YouTube. twitter.com/taylorswift13 YouTube has over 1 billion people using it to watch videos, and a huge number of those viewers are watching music. That makes it the biggest place in the …
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Star striker Cristiano Ronaldo may have earned Real Madrid millions of virtual “thumbs ups”, but how many of them are genuine fans? Alex Caparros / Getty Images Click “Like” to win! Click “Like” to find out more! It seems like we’re forever being begged to Like pages on Facebook, whether they belong to a company, a band or a brand …
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British grime artist Lethal Bizzle is one of the artists benefiting from the potential of digital music. Joseph Okpako, Redferns via Getty Images The digital era has turned the music industry upside down — and it’s even redefining what makes a hit record. But that doesn’t have to be a bad thing, as streaming offers long-term benefits the traditional record …
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Taylor Swift may have shaken her music off streaming service Spotify, but streaming could yet reverse the decline of the recording industry. Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic Thom Yorke, Taylor Swift and Jay Z may not like Spotify, but it seems that streaming could be the saviour of the recording industry after all. “It’s been a rough ride for the recording industry. The …
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The Breathing Stone monitors your heart rate and plays music to head off anxiety. Biobeats The co-founder of a biometric startup backed by Will Smith has warned of the potentially “sinister” and “Orwellian” dark side of wearable and connected technology. David Plans is a founder of BioBeats, a company that builds apps and devices that sync your music to your …
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Remember this? The legendary Nokia 3310. Nokia Nokia is 150 years old! The Finnish company probably made your first phone, but in its long history it has made everything from paper to rubber boots to gas masks. The company began when fiercesomely mutton-chopped engineer Fredrik Idestam established a wood pulp mill in southwestern Finland in 1865. Idestam then built a …
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Tourists ride on Boris bikes in London’s Trafalgar Square. antb / Shutterstock On yer bike: you can finally bypass fiddly kiosks and book a Boris bike from your phone when you want to explore the capital on two wheels. The Santander-sponsored cycles hire scheme from Transport for London (TFL) allows you to hire a bicycle — popularly known as a …
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The London Eye has been illuminated with a pie chart showing the results of opinion polls in the run-up to the election. London Eye It’s general election day in the UK, and how better to celebrate democracy in action than by telling everyone you’ve exercised your civic duty on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram? Facebook has today added a button reading …
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The 1960 children’s classic is being adapted by Netflix. Random House Do you like “Green Eggs and Ham?” Then you’ll like it in your house at the click of a mouse, in a new animated series from Netflix and Ellen DeGeneres. Netflix announced the adaptation of the classic Dr. Seuss kids’ book with a suitable poem: Issued from Netflix headquarters.Delivered …
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“Marco Polo” is one of Netflix’s original shows. Netflix A senior figure at one of Europe’s biggest broadcasters has hit back at Netflix’s original programming as she insists viewers still want to watch TV the traditional way. “I don’t know if anybody is watching ‘Marco Polo’, do you?” asks Mai Fyfield, group director of strategy at BSkyB. “Nobody knows.” Online …
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