Don Widener is the Technical Director of BAE Systems’ Advanced Analytics Lab and Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) Analysis Portfolio.
BAE Systems is a global defense, aerospace and security company employing around 83,000 people…

Dr. Don Widener, Technical Director of BAE Systems’ Advanced Analytics Lab – Interview Series

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are working on a project to combat disinformation online, including media campaigns to incite violence, sow discord, and meddle in democratic elections.
The team of researchers relied on artificial…

Early Warning System for Disinformation Developed with AI

The cassette players and recorders are long gone, and your CD burner probably doesn’t work anymore. And you just can’t risk going down to your favorite record store for another shot of vinyl. All the streaming is fine, but you want something for…

You can now cut your own vinyl records for only $81

A few weeks back while COVID-19 was still only looming in the background, the music world was ‘shocked’ by Chuck D’s announcement that Flavor Flav was fired from Public Enemy after Flav served Chuck D with “a cease and desist over the group’s…

Turns out, that Flavor Flav/Public Enemy firing was all a publicity stunt

Nikon becomes the latest arts-oriented company to offer free online streaming. Nikon’s USA branch just made its entire Nikon School Online curriculum free for the month of April.
Nikon’s statement says that “Nikon’s mission has always been to empower…

Nikon is making its entire online school curriculum free for the month of April

If there ever was an iconic album cover of an even more iconic album it is the one on The Beatles’ Abbey Road album. That same zebra crossing turned into one of the bigger tourist attractions in London with tourists flocking to the location…

The iconic Abbey Road crossing gets a facelift

The surge and resurrection of the vinyl industry have been stopped in its tracks by the outbreak of COVID-19. As New Musical Express (NME) reports, the numbers recorded in the week of March 23 show that the US sales of vinyl records are at their…

Vinyl sales hit a 60 year low amid the pandemic

As governments around the world come to terms with the impact of COVID-19, citizens are facing new draconian restrictions which include travel bans and forced quarantine. These are the types of restrictions which are normally associated with…

AI Powered State Surveillance On Rise, COVID-19 Used as Scapegoat

On the day when it was to announce the lineup for its 54th festival, Montreaux Jazz Festival, one of the iconic live events, it announced that due to the growing COVID-19 concerns, it is postponing the event. “A rescheduled date to be communicated as…

Montreaux Jazz Festival to release free streams of more than 50 live performances

Label: Kranky
Dearborn, Michigan duo Windy and Carl haven’t had an album out since 2012 and still, whenever somebody mentions drone and post-ambient music, their name is one of the first ones to pop up. The reason is very simple. They were, and still…

(((O))) Review: Windy & Carl – Allegiance and Conviction

Musicians, artists and connected businesses are coming up with new ideas to help out people with social distancing, isolation, or quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Flood Magazine reports on one such initiative by the giant guitar maker Fender.…

Fender is offering free guitar lessons to help ease the isolation

Digital Music News (DMN) reports on the three new initiatives launched by Spotify to help artists who are inhibited to earn a living during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. As the report says, first of all, “Spotify has established the COVID-19 Music…

Spotify launches initiatives to help artists during the pandemic crisis

Everybody who’s smart enough is staying home during this virus crisis. At some point though, you might lose ideas of what to watch, particularly if you want to do it for free. This is particularly true if you are a rock music fan.
To alleviate the…

Music concerts and documentaries you can watch online for free

“How Long” as a song title is appropriate in many ways, particularly at this moment. As is its opening line – “How long has this been going on?” Paul Carrack, then the leader of a cultish British band, Ace, wrote this song… only he knows how long…

“How Long” reaches number one on the charts after 45 years

Digital Music News (DMN) reports that Sirius XM and Ultra Music Festival have partnered up to create a new virtual audio festival experience.
The Ultra Virtual Audio Festival will start on UMF Radio this Friday, March 20. It is a limited-run radio…

Ultra Music Festival is airing a “Virtual Audio Festival” in this time of social distancing

When Paul Shrader’s American Gigolo hit the movie theaters (remember those?) back in 1980, it became a blockbuster movie and it turned Richard Gere into a real star. Forty years later, as slashfilm.com reports, Showtime just announced that it is to…

’80s blockbuster ‘American Gigolo’ becomes a TV series

As we had already reported some eight months ago, Led Zeppelin, or more precisely, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant had to head to court again. The problem was the appeal handed in by the lawyers of the estate of Randy Wolfe (aka Randy California) late…

Led Zeppelin win their “Stairway To Heaven” appeals case

“I’ve seen fire, I’ve seen rain…” so goes the classic line from probably the best known James Taylor song from the ’70s. And now Taylor can add another thing to the list of things he has seen – he becomes the first artist to have an album chart in…

James Taylor now has a Top 10 album in each of the past six decades

Vermont duo of Loui Kiley and Vinny Marksohn, aka Bleach Day released their sophomore album as if always when COVID-19 was still ‘something distant’ on some other shores. In other circumstances, this melancholic, low-key effort might have gone…

SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: BLEACH DAY – AS IF ALWAYS

Flood Magazine reports on a three-day event that will be held at Cornell University, which will mark the opening of Robert Moog archives at its Kroch Library – the University was Moog’s alma mater. The renowned inventor almost single-handedly…