UMG Head Lucian Grainge Outlines 2026 Streaming 2.0 Plans, Plots ‘Special Events and Products for Superfans — Both Virtually and in the Physical World’

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Universal Music Group head Lucian Grainge. Photo Credit: UMG Another year, another internal rally-the-troops memo from Universal Music head Lucian Grainge, who’s shed a bit of new light on the major’s 2026 “Streaming 2.0” and superfan plans. Grainge just recently mass-emailed this “UMG New Year’s Memo 2026” to staffers. AndContinue Reading

“It bothers me that there is a generation that has never plugged into a tube amp because they have a free one on their laptop”: EarthQuaker Devices and Dr. Z launch a tube-loaded preamp pedal – and it could be the missing piece of your digital rig puzzle

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(Image credit: EarthQuaker Devices) EarthQuaker Devices has partnered with guitar amp expert Dr. Z for the ZEQD-Pre – a tube-loaded preamp that might just be the pedal that digital modeler users have been dreaming of. It’s a pretty big collaboration. On the one hand, you have one of the gearContinue Reading

Bayer and Cradle enter collaboration to enhance AI-enabled antibody discovery and optimization

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Cradle provides a scientific AI software platform focused on protein engineering / Bayer continues to utilize AI in R&D, reinforcing commitment to modernize and scale its drug discovery and development efforts / Bayer and Cradle to jointly work on a machine learning research project to further develop capabilities Berlin, AmsterdamContinue Reading

Napster Music Streaming Service Abruptly Shuts Down in Pivot to AI—’Napster is No Longer a Music Streaming Service’

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Photo Credit: Napster After its acquisition by AI company Infinite Reality, Napster abruptly shuts down its music streaming service and pivots to… AI assistants? Back in November, Digital Music News covered Napster’s $3 billion funding apparently falling through, leaving the music streaming platform’s future uncertain. Now, the company has abruptlyContinue Reading

What’s Fire?! Mariah The Scientist Seemingly Checks Hazel E After She Drops Emojis Under Clip Of Young Thug (PHOTO + VIDEO)

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Whew, Roomies! Mariah The Scientist is making it clear that she’s stepping and standing ten toes down behind her fiancé Young Thug. That’s the energy she had when she peeped Hazel E leaving a random comment under a video of her man. RELATED: Congrats! Young Thug Proposes To Mariah TheContinue Reading

BTS Reunion Album Release Date Revealed

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2024 Olympics: BTS’ Jin Was “Nervous” About Surprise Role in the Paris Olympics BTS has some dynamite news. The K-pop boy band—comprised of Jimin, 30, Jung Kook, 28, Jin, 33, Suga, 32, J-Hope, 31, RM, 31, and V, 30—will be releasing new music in March, nearly four years after 2002’sContinue Reading

My Parents Told Me I’d Never Own a Home, Now They Want to Move In

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Sometimes the toughest battles we face aren’t at work or out in the world. They happen within our own families. When labels, favoritism, and jealousy take hold, the people we expect to support us can become the first to doubt us. One of our readers, Shaila (34, F), shared a painful dilemma with us. Did she make the right choice? We’ll letContinue Reading