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Undiminished Diva [Marc Almond]

15/05/2015

His ability to produce the heartbroken diva performance is undiminished....

The Rise if the Robopets. Or not.

14/05/2015

When engineers work on robotic dogs, they work on social intelligence, they address what people need from their dogs: companionship, love, obedience, dependence...

A Solid day of Metal Misbehaviour : Impericon Festival

14/05/2015

If you aren’t familiar with Manchester Academy, it’s like a music-y Hogwarts… every time you visit, it’s sprouted a few new performance spaces and the butterbeer’s gone up another six quid....

Flowers traced to Paleolithic burial site

13/05/2015

The most plausible hypothesis is that complete flowers were placed on the tomb...

Goblinballs, Golden Gods, Gowns.

13/05/2015

The crowd are jubilant, golden-faced and shiny-eyed, there to dance until they can dance no longer....

Image by Jakob Helbig University of Copenhagen.

Catching Rays to Save Sunlight

12/05/2015

Regardless of method, when you store energy there is a theoretical limit to the energy density.... And then there is reality. ...

Jam in the middle of Wasp Season. Live Metal [Skyforger]

12/05/2015

Meanwhile, the other venue in the side street had a light tank parked outside it. This was the metaller equivalent of a large open jar of jam in the middle of Wasp Season....

Soundboxes Workshop with Derek Holzer

11/05/2015

A unique audiovisual cabinet of curiosities. No prior skills or experience necessary!...

Autechre live, Ticket Presale

11/05/2015

SOUNDCRASH PRESENTS AUTECHRE LIVE + SPECIAL GUESTS - OBJEKT, POWELL, RUSELL_HOWELL + ROB_HALL...

If Blastbeats could Kill : [Throes]

11/05/2015

Throes have crafted this album with meticulous attention to texture, a welcome relief in a genre that can make the error of equating creativity with technical wizardry. ...

You like? Social media, sharing and sales

10/05/2015

Marketing campaigns focused on social media and socioeconomic groupings are likely to give the greatest boost...

I’m not an arrogant jerk maniac (Chibi The Birthday Massacre)

10/05/2015

It’s important to me to know that people can come up and talk to me and know that I’m not an arrogant jerk maniac....

Banking on Algorithms : Predicting Financial Collapse

09/05/2015

The learning mechanism of neurones has inspired researchers at the University of Valladolid (Spain) to create algorithms that can predict whether a bank will go bust....

An extortion and shakedown racket. Which you elected.

09/05/2015

You accepted your economic betters' paltry bribes and transformed mass media consumer distraction into your mode of being...

Blues Pills Photo: Carl Byron Batson. Not to be reproduced without express prior permission.

Taking the Tablets, Popping the Blues [Blues Pills]

08/05/2015

Psychedelic riffs chimed out and drifted over the O2 like clouds of incense then metamorphasised into groovy guitar solos...

Serra Pelada Goldmine, Brazil, 1986, Sebastiao Salgado

Paddle8 Photograph Auction for Survival International

07/05/2015

Images donated by some of the world's best known photographers...

Wooing the M-Shopper. Retail goes Mobile

07/05/2015

Low spenders in particular shop more often and place larger orders after adopting mobile....

Far below the Sturgeon threshold [Eschaton]

07/05/2015

There is evidence of some technical instrumental ability here and there, but they're failing to do anything worthwhile with those chops....

(Badly) Analysing The Evolution of Pop Music With SCIENCE

06/05/2015

It's exciting to be able to study the evolution of popular music scientifically. But now we want to go further, and find out not just how the music has changed, but why....

Mystical Moves, Dance and Freedom : Interview [Salah El Brogy]

06/05/2015

There’s a thriving dance community in the UK that really helps you keep that fire in your belly...

Bricks and Mortar has good news in store

05/05/2015

When brick-and-mortar stores were added, consumers made more frequent purchases overall....

Atmospherics and Optigans, Soundscapes and Steinways [Jacco Gardner]

05/05/2015

From swirling layered atmospherics to stripped-down minimalism and back again, it all hangs together well as a coherent whole...

Walk Quicker, Live Longer

04/05/2015

Even short walks add up to a lot when repeated many times over the course of a week....

Pre Election Metal Meanderings [Arcturus] [Skyforger] [Plage]

04/05/2015

What more could you want from a black metal album? Arson? Murder? Goat-shagging???...

Tackling Obeersity : Calorie Labels on Booze

03/05/2015

Most were completely unaware that alcohol contributed to the total calories that they consumed....

Describing Das Unheimliche. Interview: Davide Carbone/Honzo [Honzo]

03/05/2015

There is plenty of temporary music out there right now. The format does not matter but the intentions of the producers do. ...

Trebuchet Talks

02/05/2015

Listen to the podcast or book tickets to future events. ...

Transforming the Office with Liquid Crystal Smart Windows

02/05/2015

A novel liquid crystal technology allows displays to flip between transparent and opaque states ...

Don’t Blame Bonamassa : Tours, Tickets and Touts

02/05/2015

PR and marketing people know full well how to get their talent to the right audience but while much of this can be done for free, more often than not someone, somewhere, sometime will have to sign a...