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Teyana Taylor has shared some words of gratitude for “icon” Janet Jackson after the singer surprised her backstage at a recent London show.In an Instagram update shared Monday night, Teyana reflected on the “love” and “energy” she felt during a sold-out London stop on her farewell tour. After thanking fans for giving her a “magical” night she’ll never forget, Teyana turned her attention to Janet, whose “beautiful surprise” helped further drive home the amount of respect and admiration she has for her fellow artist.“Def…

Gen Xers and boomers will remember the musical powerhouse that was Janet Jackson in the late 1980s. But now her music has been found to have a new power — it can crash laptops.  This week Microsoft chief software engineer Raymond Chen shared the story of what happens when older Windows XP laptops play the music video for Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation.” Specifically, Chen recalls a colleague’s tale from Windows XP product support. An unnamed major computer manufacturer discovered that playing the…

The "brown noise" is a legendary tone purportedly capable of causing people to lose control of their bowels when subjected to its gut-punching harmonic resonance. South Park did a whole thing on it. Turns out that the 5400 RPM hard drives from a number of old Windows-era laptops possess a brown note of their own: Janet Jackson's 1989 mega-hit 'Rhythm Nation.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAwaNWGLM0c According to Microsoft Software Engineer, Raymond Chen, who recounted the tale in a Microsoft Developers Blog post…

We are a part of a rhythm nation...that is accidentally destroying our hard drives. Gif: Gizmodo/A&M RecordsIn more vintage music news, Janet Jackson’s 1989 dance-pop song “Rhythm Nation” is making headlines today, but not because it’s an amazing song, but because the tune could apparently crash people’s hard drives with a weird frequency.Sometimes a song resonates with you so deeply that it moves you to your core, and sometimes a song resonates with your laptop so deeply that it crashes your hard drive. This was the…

Getty Images/iStockphotoPlaying Janet Jackson's 'Rhythm Nation' on some older laptops causes them to crash. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen explains why. According to Chen, a "major computer manufacturer" at some point in the 2000s discovered that Rhythm Nation, a Jackson hit released in 1989, was crashing some laptops and caused a nearby laptop to crash even though it wasn't playing the song.The reason, explains Chen, is that Rhythm Nation contained one of the "natural resonant frequencies" on laptops with 5400rpm…

Getty Images/iStockphotoPlaying Janet Jackson's 'Rhythm Nation' on some older laptops causes them to crash. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen explains why. According to Chen, a "major computer manufacturer" at some point in the 2000s discovered that Rhythm Nation, a Jackson hit released in 2009, was crashing some laptops and caused a nearby laptop to crash even though it wasn't playing the song.The reason, explains Chen, is that Rhythm Nation contained one of the "natural resonant frequencies" on laptops with 5400rpm…

While it’s normal for friends to judge our music tastes and take away your aux privileges, our devices usually won’t complain about our listening habits (even if we ask them to repeatedly play a song that most humans would find insufferable). However, according to a story shared by Microsoft principal software engineer Raymond Chen on his blog The Old New Thing, some Windows XP-era laptops did end up taking exception to the music video for Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” because it contained a sound that crashed their…

Producer Janet Yang has been elected the 36th president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.The news was announced by the organisation’s Board of Governors on Tuesday (2 August).This is the first time a person of Asian descent has ever been elected for this position. “Janet is a tremendously dedicated and strategic leader who has an incredible record of service at the Academy,” said Academy CEO Bill Kramer. “I am thrilled that she is taking on the esteemed role of Academy President and look forward to…

TOKYO—Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has embarked on an international lobbying blitz for a proposal she says will stave off a global recession, working to address technical and diplomatic challenges to her plan to cap the price of Russian oil.The goal of the proposed price cap, which Ms. Yellen has been championing for months, is twofold: bring energy prices down by keeping Russian oil flowing to the global market and limit the revenue Russia derives from the sales. The novel proposal has…

HONG KONG—Chinese Vice Premier Liu He and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellenspoke by videoconference about topics including American tariffs on Chinese goods, amid expectations that the Biden administration could roll back some of the duties on more than $350 billion in Chinese imports this week. During the virtual meeting on Tuesday, Mr. Liu, China’s top trade negotiator, told Ms. Yellen that the lifting of additional tariffs and sanctions were of great interest to China, according to a statement by the country’s…