It’s a TV. It’s a roller coaster. It’s a 4D Disney World experience. It’s the Sphere, and it’s a lot more fun than my phone.
Well, great news — just get them a preorder of the Rat Wars vinyl and explain that’s why it didn’t ship on time. It’s a perfect present for anyone who remembers when Trent Reznor scored Quake, a real uncle-type gift. (The album rips, obviously.)
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The experience, called Beat Galaxy, was made in part by Universal Music Group (UMG), and features a runner / music game you can play with music from UMG artists. It’s not nearly as polished as Epic’s newly-launched Fortnite Festival, but if you’ve been looking for something like that in Roblox, Beat Galaxy is in the ballpark.
One user (@robdad_) on TikTok spotted the upcoming feature, which uses AI to generate a playlist based on a prompt, like “get focused at work with instrumental electronica.” Spotify confirmed to TechCrunch that it’s testing the tool.
The app — on iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS — now directs you to Apple TV to buy or rent movies and shows. This means you can only access purchased or rented content from the Apple TV app as well.
Then check out the full score for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, which was shared online for free by Stephen Barton, one of the composers on the game. This rules! More developers should do this.
A Savanah, Georgia NBC morning show booked a young Dan Deacon, who would eventually become known for his frenetic live performances, in 2005. (Here’s an NPR story if you don’t know who I’m talking about.)
The audacity to put him on right when people were waking up is astounding. I grabbed a time-stamped link below, but the pre-performance interview is well worth a watch if you’re curious about this young Deacon’s equipment.
Ten years old, but new to me: a website that plays a tone every time a Wikipedia page is updated. It’s a soothing antidote to ... basically every other browser tab, at this point.
The bell-like sounds of a celesta correspond to edits with a net addition of content to Wikipedia, and the strums of a clavichord correspond to net subtractions of content.
That, of course, is from Wikipedia.
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Rapper/podcaster Danny Brown enters his Steam Deck review (not necessarily the OLED model, but still) as the ultimate in-flight companion device.
That 10 percent number translates to about 40 jobs, including part of the company’s playlist curation team, sources told Bloomberg.
Spotify announced layoffs affecting 17 percent of its staff earlier this week.
Apple announced collaborative playlists for Apple Music at WWDC, and while it appeared in some iOS 17.2 betas, it’s not present in Tuesday’s iOS 17.2 release candidate, 9to5Mac reports. Barring an unexpected surprise, you shouldn’t expect to see collaborative playlists in the final release.
Apple’s iOS 17 website still says the feature is coming “later this year,” but at this rate, I doubt that’s going to happen.
