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India.Arie says she will remove her music and podcast SongVersation from Spotify, making the R&B songwriter the latest musician to leave the streaming platform over comments made by Joe Rogan on his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience. "Neil Young opened a door that I MUST walk through," India.Arie wrote on Instagram, referring to Young's decision to leave Spotify over vaccine misinformation on Rogan's podcast.

Spotify will direct listeners to correct Covid-19 information on any and all podcasts discussing the pandemic, CEO Daniel Ek has announced. The news comes in the wake of the company losing billions in market value and musicians including Neil Young removing their music from the platform in protest at podcasters such as Joe Rogan sharing misinformation to millions of listeners.

Yesterday, Spotify removed Neil Young's music from the platform at the singer's request after Young shared an open letter criticizing the platform for spreading misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines via the popular podcast The Joe Rogan Experience. On Friday, Young shared a new statement on his website, saying that he "felt better" once his music was removed from the platform. Young's new statement focuses on his criticisms of Spotify's technology and business model.

MailOnline found.Virtual reality headsets, worth almost £400, can weigh almost 610g, though medics in the German man’s case did not detail the brand used.The man needed to wear a type of neck brace for six weeks to support his neck while it healed and he made a full recovery after 12 weeks. The headsets are becoming increasingly popular equipment among gamers, with millions of them sold in both the UK and US in recent years. Dr David Baur, an orthopedics and trauma specialist at the hospital where the man was treated, said the injury resembled “clay-shoveler’s fracture.”This fracture is named after injuries recorded in clay miners in Australia in the 1940s.Workers were injured after rapidly flinging material over their shoulders out of mining pits using shovels.This injury has also been recorded in professional athletes like volleyball players and horse riders. Dr Baur said: “Since the patient had been playing VR games for many hours weekly with lightweight devices in his hands and on his head.“We conclude that a stress-type fracture seems to be the more likely reason for the dislocated fracture of the spinous process from the seventh cervical vertebra.“The repetitive movements and intense gaming habits could have led to a fatigue fracture.”Repetitive stress fractures of this type are a common injury in soldiers on long marches, researchers said.Doctors did not detail exactly when the man was injured – but virtual reality headsets have become increasing popular among gamers in recent years. More information can be found in the Journal of Medical Case Reports.This story originally appeared on The Sun and has been reproduced here with permission.

In a new statement shared on Wednesday, Neil Young confirmed that his music will be removed from Spotify. In a post shared on his website earlier this week, the singer-songwriter blasted Spotify and its popular podcast The Joe Rogan Experience for "spreading fake information about [COVID-19] vaccines," and demanded that the platform either pull his music or its support for Rogan. The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Spotify is currently in the process of removing Young's music.

now streaming on Disney+) follows Smith, 53, as he takes his trademark quips, enthusiasm and adventurous spirit into remote slices of the natural world to discover and explore hidden places that the average person can’t reach.

explains a video on the canine conversation tool produced by the University of Glasgow. “When the accelerometer senses movement, it initiates a video call on a laptop in their living room allowing Zack to see and interact with his owner whenever he chooses.

An NFT collaboration between TikTok and Lil Nas X will no longer be released, Rolling Stone reports.

for promoting the birth of his new albums. Governing emojis body The Unicode Consortium has announced its finalized list of new emojis, set to hit devices “sometime next year.”  The 838 new characters in Unicode 14.0 offer 75 more skin tone options and 37 new emoji characters — including pregnant men, potentially useful to “MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)” singer Nas — plus more obscure options for writing the northeastern Indian language Toto, a Kyrgyz Republic currency sign and undeciphered

inaccurate information. “Examples of automated accounts you might see on Twitter include bots that help you find vaccine appointments and disaster early warning systems,” Twitter wrote in a press release-like FAQ about the new bot labels.

told Variety of his decision to lend his audio likeness to the voluntary wiretap. “I think the fans are gonna love it.

coronavirus pandemic — by installing a giant 3D cat billboard above one of the Japanese megacity’s busiest districts.“We all felt warmth the moment the cat appeared on-screen,” marveled one gawker of the hyperrealistic “Catzilla” attraction, which overlooks the Shinjuku train station from a 1,664-square-foot curved 4K LED screen on the side of a building, Reuters reported.

coolest video you’ll see this week.Donning all black, the tech maestro soared on what looked like a souped-up drone of his own design — dubbed the “SkySurfer” — during the brief flight over Broadway. Kowald, an engineer, called it “the world’s most powerful and solid hoverboard aircraft.” The board was put together by hand — propellers, rotors and all.“It contains about as much power as eight to 10 average houses all at the same time,” he said.Just over a month ago, Kowald, who earned a

In March, news emerged that Square, the financial payments system co-founded by Twitter's Jack Dorsey, would acquire JAY-Z's music streaming platform TIDAL. The deal was finalized on Monday, according to a report from Music Business Worldwide, with Square paying $302 million for an 80% stake in TIDAL.

Last week, Spotify launched “Loud & Clear,” a website marketed by the streaming platform as an attempt to pull back the curtain on how it compensates artists. In its mission statement, “Loud & Clear” says it “aims to increase transparency by sharing new data on the global streaming economy and breaking down the royalty system, the players, and the process.” The site’s launch comes as the controversy over streaming royalties continues to build.

The issue of fake streams — plays of music registered by bots or real people hired to stream certain tracks — has drawn special attention in the world of hip-hop, where the appearance of authenticity is crucial.

WTOP News.A Dutch engineer, Ottens began working for Netherlands-based electronics company Royal Philips in his early 20s. In 1960, after eight years at the company he’d risen to be head of product development, Dutch News reported.Within a year in the role, he and his team had created the world’s first portable tape recorder, an invention which would revolutionize the music industry go on to sell over a million units.

showing Tom Cruise practicing his golf swing, doing a magic trick and laughing at his own pratfall now says he did not mean to freak anyone out.“I’d like to show people the technical possibilities of these things.

Big Hit Entertainment, the entertainment company responsible for South Korean pop sensations BTS, has invested $4 million KRW (close to $3.6 million USD) into the A.I. firm Supertone, according to a report in Music Business Worldwide.

Today is Twitter's 2021 Virtual Analyst Day, and the social media platform has announced that it's exploring a long-rumored new feature: the ability to charge users for specific tweets and other exclusive content.

SoundCloud could soon roll out a new feature allowing users of the streaming platform to directly pay the artists they listen to, according to a new Billboard report. The plan is still under consideration, according to Billboard's sources at SoundCloud.

Twitter is in the early stages of developing a new subscription-based payment model, according to a new report from Bloomberg. Citing a focus on "revenue durability," charging users for access to exclusive content would allow the site to operate without relying as heavily on targeted advertising.

wrote the Singapore-based automaton firm on their website. “They are able to inform, entertain, and even exchange a simple conversation with you upon activated via QR code.”A video demonstration of the janitorial joke droid in action was recently posted to Facebook by the UK’s Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, which plans on leasing two of the LionsBot creations for their pediatric ward in Kent, the Daily Mail reported.

Spotify has successfully obtained a patent for a new technology that would use recordings of the user's voice to enhance the platform's individually tailored music recommendation algorithms. The patent, filed in February 2018 and granted on January 12, 2021, was first reported by Music Business Worldwide.

The practice of artists or their labels purchasing streams of songs in order to make the musician appear to be more popular than they are is one of the most controversial and shadowy pitfalls of the streaming era.

endorsing Donald Trump for President, actress Kirstie Alley is calling out Twitter for permanently suspending his account. “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” the company said in a statement shortly after 6 p.m Friday evening.

A new draft of the COVID-19 relief bill contains a provision that would bring felony charges to companies that illegally stream copyrighted material, as The Hollywood Reporter points out. The text of the provision was spearheaded by Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina.

TikTok released its "Year In Music" report yesterday, and the summary claims that over 70 artists who found success on the platform in 2020 all secured deals with major record labels.

Christopher Walken might be from another planet, the enigmatic actor claimed that he’s never possessed a cellphone or a computer. The Oscar winner dropped the bombshell during a virtual appearance on “The Late Show” Monday.