Spotify now lets artists list virtual tour dates on their pages

Sep15
by on September 15, 2020 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Apps


The coronavirus pandemic has forced many music festivals and venues to shut down or cancel events. Live performances are a much more lucrative option for artists to earn money, rather than try and get millions of streams on their songs. To help artists attract more people to their events,  Spotify is now introducing a virtual tour feature for musicians to list their online performances. We’ve seen a glimpse of this feature through a leak by Jane Manchun Wong, but now the company is launching it for real. Spotify is working on Virtual Events The virtual event shown here is actually 2020 iHeartRadio Music…

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A realistic picture of how AI fits into today’s economy

Sep14
by on September 14, 2020 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: artificial intelligence, syndication


So you’re interested in AI? Then join our online event, TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial intelligence is transforming industries and businesses. There’s a difference between a shiny new thing and a thing that works. You just need to look at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to see how much of the technology we create just doesn’t cut it and gets tossed into the wastebin of innovation because it doesn’t find a working business model. Where does artificial intelligence stand? Recent advances in machine learning have surely created a lot of excitement — and fear —…

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The classic game of chess has found a new home: Twitch

Sep13
by on September 13, 2020 at 8:00 am
Posted In: gaming, syndication


As a global pandemic continues to determine a new normal, tens of thousands of viewers have been tuning in to watch people play chess on a livestreaming website called Twitch.tv. An American chess grandmaster, Hikaru Nakamura, along with a number of celebrities of the video game world, is leading a renaissance in the ancient game. While viewers eagerly await Nakamura’s streams to begin, they are treated to a slideshow of memes involving Nakamura’s face superimposed into scenes from pop culture. First, a reference to a well-known Japanese animation, next a famous upside-down kiss with Spiderman and finally, Nakamura’s characteristic grin…

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How CRISPR is tackling the troubling immune response that’s plagued gene therapy until now

Sep12
by on September 12, 2020 at 8:00 am
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One of the major challenges facing gene therapy — a way to treat disease by replacing a patient’s defective genes with healthy ones — is that it is difficult to safely deliver therapeutic genes to patients without the immune system destroying the gene, and the vehicle carrying it, which can trigger life-threatening widespread inflammation. Three decades ago researchers thought that gene therapy would be the ultimate treatment for genetically inherited diseases like hemophilia, sickle cell anemia, and genetic diseases of metabolism. But the technology couldn’t dodge the immune response. Since then, researchers have been looking for ways to perfect the…

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