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Apple Music will now pay up to 10% more to artists who create music in its immersive spatial audio format, as the company looks to push its surround sound format. According to Music Business Worldwide, from January “music available in Spatial Audio on Apple Music will receive a greater share of royalties from the platform.” The report says Apple sent an update to its label partners confirming that beginning with January 2024’s month-end payments “pro-rata shares for Spatial Available plays will be calculated using a…

Doja Cat has responded to accusations that she’s encouraged young people to get plastic surgery after she herself underwent breast enhancement surgery.It all began after Doja announced that she had undergone plastic surgery.“ot my titties done and my clit bedazzled,” Doja told fans in an initial tweet last Monday. From there, she responded to a number of replies, starting with one inquiring about how she felt. The inquiries continued on Sunday, with one eager fan asking Doja to show off her new goods.“We want to see your…

Spatial agreement between reconstructed and measured European summer drought. High-resolution, 0.5° spatial correlation coefficients (color scale) between the tree-ring stable isotope (TRSI) proxy record and the gridded European-wide self-calibrated Palmer Drought Severity Index (scPDSI) target data calculated over the common period 1901–2018 CE. (Created by Ulf Büntgen.). Credit: Journal of Roman Archaeology (2022). DOI: 10.1017/S1047759422000332…

KFC customers in Germany were shocked on Wednesday to receive a push notification encouraging them to indulge in fried chicken on the eve of the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht. “It’s memorial day for Kristallnacht! Treat yourself with more tender cheese on your crispy chicken,” read the message from the fast food company’s app, as translated to English. Note: in the original German, the notification used the phrase “Reich Pogrom Night,” which is currently the favored term, according to Vice News.Kristallnacht, meaning…

Koo — the made-in-India rival of Twitter — will not charge users for a verification badge, its co-founder and CEO Aprameya Radhakrishna said as he took on the larger rival for allegedly first creating bots and now charging users for verification.Koo, which allows users to express views in Indian languages, has already crossed 50 million downloads and is now flying into the rival's nest, starting a campaign on Twitter by making itself prominently visible on verified handles and offering them better deals on its platform at…

Some of the conditions associated with the term neurodiversity. Credit: AIB Insights (2022). DOI: 10.46697/001c.34627 Unwavering focus, superior analytical ability and mathematical talent are just some of the untapped skills neurodivergent people can bring to workplaces, a University of Otago researcher has highlighted. …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain COVID-19, rather than the threat of climate change, has spurred Australians to become more sustainable, according to research from The University of Queensland. …

Peter Moore, a former Xbox executive, has revealed that Microsoft “encouraged the console wars” during the Xbox 360 era to drive competition between itself and Sony.  This was stated during the Front Office Podcast (spotted by IGN), with Moore clarifying that it was not done to create division, “but to challenge each other.” Of course, Sony was also guilty of this at times, with the E3 2013 game sharing video from PlayStation being a jab at the initial plans for heavy DRM restrictions on the Xbox One.…

It would have been easy enough for Top Gun: Maverick to simulate the actors playing the pilots flying through the sky with green screen and digital effects. However, the Maverick production went the extra mile by having these actors go through insane flight training so that they’d be used to high g-forces and acrobatic plane movement. when actually up in the air. The downside to taking part in such a spectacle was there was a lot of vomiting on the Maverick set, but Tom Cruise provided some encouragement for his younger…

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, speaks to media representatives at the Tesla Gigafactory construction site In Grünheide near Berlin, September 3, 2020.Julian Stähle | picture alliance via Getty ImagesElon Musk on Friday flatly denied a claim by the head of ex-President Donald Trump's new social media company that Trump had encouraged Musk's bid to buy Twitter."This is false," Musk tweeted in reply to a New York Post article about that claim by Trump Media & Technology Group CEO Devin Nunes."I've had no communication,…