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Stories about The Echo Nest

Why “This Is My Jam” Stopped Overthinking Music Discovery

Can a service that only showcases one song at a time fix the music discovery problem?

Why “This Is My Jam” Stopped Overthinking Music Discovery

It’s Official: Music Gets Louder Every Year

It’s Official: Music Gets Louder Every Year

Can Computers Write Music That Has A Soul?

Computer algorithms are at the cutting edge of modern classical music composition and can even write ‘new’ works by Bach and Mozart. Will such music ever be considered authentically human?

Can Computers Write Music That Has A Soul?

The Echo Nest Makes Pandora Look Like a Transistor Radio

More cowbell! Everyone from Christopher Walken enthusiasts to major record labels to Columbia University is excited about The Echo Nest. The many uses, frivolous and non-, of Echo Nest’s massive 30-million-song dataset.

The Echo Nest Makes Pandora Look Like a Transistor Radio

Impact

Air pollution might be why you’re going bald

The next XPrize wants to catalog the riches of the rainforest before it’s too late

The beef industry wants you to think that it has a ‘minimal’ environmental impact (it does not)

Creativity

Fox files trademark to make ‘Ok Boomer’ meme into a TV show. Uh . . . Ok, Boomers

What South Dakota’s meth ads say about the sorry state of antidrug PSAs

‘Parasite’ director offers the best (and most hilarious) answer yet to the Marvel Question

Co.Design

Spend a day inside the design studios you wish you worked for

Warby Parker is launching a new brand, Scout, to sell contact lenses

See the states where designers make the most money for their work

Work Life

You don’t have to spend big to train your employees

These are the biggest personal branding mistakes women make

What your private Slack channels say about your company’s culture