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IN 2006 EMI, the world’s fourth-biggest recorded-music company, invited some teenagers into its headquarters in London to talk to its top managers about their listening habits. At the end of the session the EMI bosses thanked them for their comments and told them to help themselves to a big pile of CDs sitting on a table. But none of the teens took any of the CDs, even though they were free. “That was the moment we realised the game was completely up,†says a person who was there.
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We present a visualization of all the nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning. Each of the tiles in the mosaic is an arithmetic average of images relating to one of 53,463 nouns. The images for each word were obtained using Google’s Ima
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Tecktonik-Anhänger erkennen sich an aufwendig gestylten Frisuren in schrillen Formen und Farben, am liebsten Vokuhila mit Kakadukamm. Dazu hautenge Röhrenjeans, Glitzertops, auffälliges Make-Up. Mädchen und Jungen in androgyner Eintracht, die weit meh
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Many of today’s virtual worlds have been influenced by science-fiction writer Neal Stephenson’s vision of a Metaverse, described in his novel Snow Crash. Stephenson’s Metaverse swallows up the Web and Internet into a 3-D space that users navigate with ava
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Matthew Mason sits down with us to discuss what’s next, from the Google Lunar X Prize to super artificial intelligence.
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Der Besuch von Popkonzerten ist teuer geworden, doch zumindest in diesem Jahr können die Fans darauf hoffen, nicht noch tiefer ins Portemonnaie greifen zu müssen. “Ich glaube, dass 2008 die Preise für Eintrittskarten nicht steigen werden”, sagt Klaus S
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Es war Frühling 1987. In Kreuzberg demonstrierten die Autonomen, und selbst brave Bürger brachen das Gesetz: Sie boykottierten die Volkszählung. Bis zum Bundesverfassungsgericht schaffte es die Debatte. Es ging um Fragen wie diese: Welchen Schulabschlu
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Weil mit dem Suchbegriff “Lyrics” unter anderem Songtexte auf lyricsmania.com gefunden wurden, hat der US-Verband der Musikverleger National Music Publishers Association Google zur Zensur aller lyricsmania-Seiten in ihren Suchergebnissen aufgefordert. Der
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Für kurze Zeit sah es so aus, als hätte Prince, “The Artist formerly known to sell albums”, das Internet und die neue Musikwelt verstanden. Dass dem nicht so ist, stellt er nach wie vor regelmäßig unter Beweis. Einem Taxifahrer, der regelmäßig über
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Tetrical is a 3D Tetris game in Flash that you can play in your browser.
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In this special interview Rick Falkvinge, the founder and the leader of Swedish Pirate Party, gives his own views on the wildly heated political filesharing debate in Sweden, evaluates the political and technological prospects of P2P and talks about the d
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Pretend that instead of being responsible for your household budget, which means paying for rent or a mortgage, transportation, some schooling costs, groceries, healthcare, vacation, etc., you are instead responsible for a considerably larger budget that
