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Sonarworks Reference 4 makes it easy to calibrate recording studio speakers

Mar18
by on March 18, 2019 at 5:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Music, Plugged


Sonarworks, a Latvian startup, is on a mission to make sure everyone hears music the way it’s meant to sound – no matter which model headphones or speakers you’re using. And that starts with helping recording studio engineers get accurate sound from theirs. Sonarworks’ Reference 4 Studio Edition with Mic is a bundled package including software for calibrating your speakers and headphones. It comes with a microphone and everything you need to determine what kind of curve your audio is on and automatically configure a settings-map that can be used as a VST plugin in your DAW, or applied system-wide to…

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TNW2019 Daily: Robots!

Mar18
by on March 18, 2019 at 4:45 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Events, Insider


I can’t believe there are only 52 days left until TNW Conference. It’s really fun sharing conference highlights each day – but also it makes me wish the countdown would hit zero already, because I can’t wait. Today, I really want to talk about artificial intelligence and machine learning. I’ve mentioned in a previous TNW2019 Daily that I’m obsessed with it. Ask my siblings how often I spent talking about Battlestar Galactica growing up. I’d be embarrassed, but this fact makes me insanely cool. Anyways, TNW2019’s Machine:Learners track will cover the fascinating topic of AI. The conversation on the future…

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Attend the Chivas Venture Final at TNW2019

Mar18
by on March 18, 2019 at 3:22 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Events, Insider


Every day, startups are innovating ideas that move us towards a sustainable future. It’s more important than ever to make a positive impact on our society and our planet – that’s why these startups should be recognized. Chivas Venture 2019 is a global competition that gives away $1 million in no-strings funding every year to social entrepreneurs that blend profit with purpose. To date, Chivas Venture has already given away $4 million to the most promising startups making a positive impact on our world. We’re proud to say that this year’s top five finalists will go head to head at…

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Inside Craig Wright’s blockchain patent ‘empire’

Mar18
by on March 18, 2019 at 3:19 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Hard Fork


Steven Craig Wright, the man who has, on various occasions, claimed to be Bitcoin’s legendary creator (or creators) Satoshi Nakamoto is trying to build a cryptocurrency and blockchain patent empire. A recent Hard Fork investigation showed the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) had published 95 patents applications filed by Wright – all of which were submitted under nChain Holdings Ltd, where he is the chief scientist, a role he’s held for well over three years and the only one featured in his LinkedIn profile. We wanted to delve deeper into the data to understand the true extent of his empire,…

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Citibank ditches plans for its own cryptocurrency, bets on SWIFT instead

Mar18
by on March 18, 2019 at 3:15 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


One of the world’s top 20 banks by asset value, is ditching plans to create its own digital asset – and abandoning all of its cryptocurrency experiments. Instead, it’s betting on a SWIFT. Citibank is not following in the footsteps of JP Morgan with the creation of its own cryptocurrency, believing there are better ways of making improvements to existing financial transaction systems, CoinDesk reports. “Based on our learnings from that experiment we actually decided to make meaningful improvements in the existing rails,” said Citibank global head of innovations for treasury and trade solutions, Gulru Atak. “We are considering the…

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