‘The next major music platform should give people something to do with the music’: Spotify’s former Head of Innovation on his plans to launch an interactive music service, and whether AI features will help or hinder streaming
 ‘The next major music platform should give people something to do with the music’: Spotify’s former Head of Innovation on his plans to launch an interactive music service, and whether AI features will help or hinder streaming

Mauhan M. Zonoozy was Head of Innovation at Spotify, and now he’s taking on the world of music streaming with his own interactive platforms.

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‘You can literally fix anything if you watch enough YouTube’: I met with tech repair experts and campaigners to learn how to fix my broken gadgets — and why it’s so important
 ‘You can literally fix anything if you watch enough YouTube’: I met with tech repair experts and campaigners to learn how to fix my broken gadgets — and why it’s so important

Is fixing your tech easy? I spoke to green gadget companies, volunteer repairers and campaigners to understand your right to repair your possessions

I conducted a blindfolded Bluetooth speaker test with 4 colleagues and no, JBL didn’t win — here’s which portable speaker got the most votes based on their ears only
 I conducted a blindfolded Bluetooth speaker test with 4 colleagues and no, JBL didn’t win — here’s which portable speaker got the most votes based on their ears only

My colleagues blind-ranked 5 portable speakers from best to worst on sound alone — and the results may surprise you.

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What does a backyard Dolby Atmos home music studio look like when you’re a sound engineer for major artists? The shed of my dreams, that’s what
 What does a backyard Dolby Atmos home music studio look like when you’re a sound engineer for major artists? The shed of my dreams, that’s what

The shed of my dreams is very very spatial — and it was all done as a DIY project.

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Miss your CD collection? This wall-mounted display for Spotify and Apple Music promises to bring back its ‘feeling of connection’ — but its maker insists he doesn’t want to kill off physical media
 Miss your CD collection? This wall-mounted display for Spotify and Apple Music promises to bring back its ‘feeling of connection’ — but its maker insists he doesn’t want to kill off physical media

Spine Music founder Ricardo Amorim is putting his love for albums and CD collecting into a new digital music display.

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Exclusive: ‘We…ask the impossible of these guys, and they figure it out’: I saw inside Beats’ labs to see how 12 years with Apple changed the company — and why ‘the testing, the tuning, the science behind the fit and the sound’ is the hidden secret
 Exclusive: ‘We…ask the impossible of these guys, and they figure it out’: I saw inside Beats’ labs to see how 12 years with Apple changed the company — and why ‘the testing, the tuning, the science behind the fit and the sound’ is the hidden secret

Twelve years after Apple acquired Beats, TechRadar was granted exclusive access to the company’s Culver City headquarters and engineering labs to discover how the iconic audio brand has preserved its cultural identity while becoming one of Apple’s most impressive hardware organizations.

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I found my 2006 iPod nano during a clearout and honestly, I think we’ve lost something beautiful in the streaming age
 I found my 2006 iPod nano during a clearout and honestly, I think we’ve lost something beautiful in the streaming age

From iTunes to Spotify: what recovering my iPod nano 2006 during a clearout revealed about how my music listening habits have changed

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Q Acoustics’ handsome 3040c floorstanding speakers are cheaper than most rival bookshelf buys, and a thorough testing reveals a poised, clear, balanced listen
 Q Acoustics’ handsome 3040c floorstanding speakers are cheaper than most rival bookshelf buys, and a thorough testing reveals a poised, clear, balanced listen

Q Acoustics completes the line-up of its acclaimed 3000c series of passive loudspeakers with this compact 3040c floorstander and for this money, knocks it out the park

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‘You’ll notice I do not call it AI music, because I don’t think it’s music’: Qobuz’s Managing Director Dan Mackta on music streaming’s biggest problem, and how he hopes to tackle it
 ‘You’ll notice I do not call it AI music, because I don’t think it’s music’: Qobuz’s Managing Director Dan Mackta on music streaming’s biggest problem, and how he hopes to tackle it

‘The whole thing is just a really, really big bummer’ — Qobuz’s Managing Director on the scourge of AI-generated audio in streaming, and why he still refuses to call it music

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Custom McLaren paint jobs, tapered damping tubes, and drivers that ‘hang in the air’: I spoke to Bowers & Wilkins about its massive snail-shaped loudspeaker Nautilus, and why it’s still so successful it’s backordered for years, even 33 years after launch
 Custom McLaren paint jobs, tapered damping tubes, and drivers that ‘hang in the air’: I spoke to Bowers & Wilkins about its massive snail-shaped loudspeaker Nautilus, and why it’s still so successful it’s backordered for years, even 33 years after launch

Three years’ worth of backorders, custom paint jobs, and 33 years of success: I spoke to Bowers & Wilkins about its most iconic loudspeaker ever.

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