HOT OUT OF GERMANY'S OVEN (Hypebot) – Now in public beta, the new Muffin player sorts music libraries by sound and recommends songs using audio fingerprinting technology originated at the Fraunhofer Institute, the inventor of the MP3. Mufin creates a fingerprint for each song based on 40 characteristics including tempo, instruments, sound density, and rhythm.
Mufin’s "soundsort" leverages these audio fingerprints to organize music by sound rather than the typical sorts by artist or title. Read More...
It’s good to be prepared. Steve Harvey opened the 2017 Miss Universe pageant on Sunday, January 29, with a very important meeting — to discuss an “escape plan,” in case he said the wrong name at the end again. The skit lampooned that infamous moment from December 2015 when the comedian was hosting the previous Miss Universe pageant and mistakenly identified Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutierrez, as the winner instead of Miss Philippines, Pia Wurtzbach. Read More...
Contrary to what Shakespeare and Netflix's The King would have you believe, King Henry V of England wasn't a wayward youth reluctant to lead, and he didn't go to war with France over a bunch of tennis balls.Nearly two centuries after Henry V’s death, William Shakespeare launched the medieval king’s name into pop culture stardom with his historical fiction plays Henry IV: Part I, Henry IV: Part II and Henry V. Read More...
