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Fandom is the Rollout: How Fandoms Redefine Music Marketing

Hacker Noon

Fandom is the Rollout: How Fandoms Redefine Music Marketing

I studied PR and Advertising for two years before I realized I had already watched one of the most sophisticated marketing operations in the industry from a fan account at 2am. I was just there because I loved music. Comeback season meant…

Hacker Noon

Heavys H1E review: Born for One Thing

Heavys H1E: Two-minute review Few audio brands have made as much noise on social media as Heavys. In the best headphones arena, the company made heavy music (sound)waves with its Heavys H1H headphones, a couple of years ago, and now it has…

Roblox will soon add offline and browser-based play modes

Engadget

Roblox will soon add offline and browser-based play modes

Roblox has revealed that players will be able to play in-browser and offline in the near future.

Engadget

Fool's Theory says the biggest 'challenge' developing Songs of the Past was making sure Dandelion's story didn't 'steal…

Fool's Theory says the biggest 'challenge' developing Songs of the Past was making sure Dandelion's story didn't 'steal…

CD Projekt Red and Fool's Theory say there were narrative challenges when developing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past The expansion is about Dandelion, but they didn't want him to "steal the show" from Geralt There was also…

Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems

Wired

Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems

The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature.

Wired

Central Eurasia names its 2026 Road to Battlefield winners: Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ

TechCrunch

Central Eurasia names its 2026 Road to Battlefield winners: Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ

Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ took the top three spots at the regional final of Road to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 2026 and will represent Central Eurasia in the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this…

TechCrunch

Switzerland takes a Swiss Army knife to Microsoft 365

ZDNet

Switzerland takes a Swiss Army knife to Microsoft 365

Two divisions of Switzerland’s government are shifting from Microsoft 365 to open-source openDesk. Here’s why.

ZDNet

Scientists unlock secrets of ancient Egyptian materials with proteomics

Ars Technica

Scientists unlock secrets of ancient Egyptian materials with proteomics

Credit: Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm Credit: Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm The precise composition of ancient Egyptian paints, binders, adhesives, and similar materials…

Ars Technica

Daily Trust

Atiku: We’re restoring subsidy, but moving it from importation to production

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has accused the Tinubu Presidency of deliberately distorting concerns raised by Dangote Refinery in an attempt to discredit his production subsidy proposal, saying the refinery’s warning against…

Daily Trust

China’s car exports beat last year’s record with four months to go

The Next Web

China’s car exports beat last year’s record with four months to go

China exported more than 6.2 million passenger cars in the first eight months of this year, beating its full-year total for 2025 with four months to spare, while domestic sales fell 25.6% in August. Europe absorbed much of the growth…

The Next Web

BookTok influences what you read, even if you aren't on social media

ABC News

BookTok influences what you read, even if you aren't on social media

BookTok is said to have cut out the step between author and reader. But what does that mean through the filter of a social media algorithm?

ABC News

Nigeria: Lagos Fashion Week Looks Beyond The Catwalk To Fashion's Future

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