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2012: Music

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

Why the Great Lakes need to be the center of our climate strategy

The inside story of how tiny hedge fund Engine No. 1 reshaped Exxon’s board

This plant-based plastic is inspired by the chemistry of spider silk

News

Big Energy takes another hit: Keystone XL pipeline’s sponsor officially kills the project

Stimulus update: Is a 4th stimulus check really coming?

GameStop grabs a new CEO and CFO from Amazon, and a board chair from Chewy.com

Co.Design

As countries run out of cemeteries, Japan has a thoughtful new way to bury the dead

How the developer of a $1.4 billion real estate project plans to track its lofty goals

Heels are making a post-pandemic comeback. Here are 5 fabulous pairs

Work Life

How to make office friends if you’re planning to keep working from home

How to have deeper (and better) conversations with your coworkers

Just graduated? Here are 5 things you must know about salary negotiation