The world’s hottest digital markets: a music map

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Record labels’ new-found enthusiasm for ending their iTunes dependence has created an opportunity for new digital music services. I picture the market like a game of Risk. Every week, the likes of Spotify, Rdio and Deezer are racing in to new countries with a new model — unlimited subscription access to millions of songs. But, as the services embark on this VC-funded globalisation, which are the world’s most competitive, most lucrative and most digital music markets?

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Google+ Hangouts on Air Lets You Broadcast Live to the World [Video]

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Google+ Hangouts, our favorite free video chatting service , is rolling out the ability to broadcast your Hangouts live and save them directly to YouTube with "Hangouts on Air." More

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Chasing the Moon: Absurdism With a Capital “A”

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Perhaps it comes from early exposure to Douglas Adams or eating too many Costco frozen burritos when I was in high school.

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The Most Terrifying Drug in the World [Video]

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You've never heard of scopolamine. It's synthesized from plants, like cocaine. It even looks exactly like cocaine.

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You Won’t Believe This Colorful Glass Gem Corn Is Freaking Real Corn [Food]

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This is corn. No, it's not photoshopped

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UK Prime Minister Thought ‘LOL’ Meant ‘Lots of Love’ [WTFriday]

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Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks is getting grilled today as part of an inquiry conducted by the British Parliament over last year's hacking scandal . For the most part, it's a bit dull, but there was one amazing tidbit that surfaced. British Prime Minister didn't know what LOL really meant until a couple of years ago

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Saas For Cows! Farmeron Raises $1.4 Million *Seed* to Ease Farmers’ Lives

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A lot of people in Silicon Valley are pretty obsessed with organic this and that. One or two startups have looked at the whole connecting-fams-with-consumers-directly model, even.

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Nike’s Dimpled Tracksuits Could Help Athletes Shatter World Records At This Summer’s Olympics [Olympics]

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Usain Bolt is Jamaica's not-so-secret weapon for shattering track and field records. But at this summer's Olympic games, Nike's cooked up its own secret weapon—a track suit dimpled like a golfball —that will help athletes from countries like the United States, Germany, and Russia chase him down. More

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Let there be intelligent light: The case for LEDs

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Light is the fastest known phenomenon in the universe, capable of traveling at 186,282 miles per second. The lighting business, by contrast, is one of the slowest industries in the world

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Move Over Harvard and MIT, Stanford Has the Real “Revolution in Education”

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Lectures are often the least educational aspect of college; I know, I’ve taught college seniors and witnessed how little students learn during their four years in higher education. So, while it’s noble that MIT and Harvard are opening their otherwise exclusive lecture content to the public with EdX , hanging a webcam inside of a classroom is a not a “revolution in education”. A revolution in education would be replacing lectures with the Khan Academy and dedicating class time to hands-on learning, which is exactly what Stanford’s medical school proposed last week.

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