Meta has been showing off its next virtual-reality headset, the Meta Quest 3. It’s due to go on sale this Autumn for $499.99.
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Sonos doubles down on spatial audio with its latest speaker
Sonos has unveiled its latest speakers, and spatial audio is a key focus for the company in 2023 as its CEO has made clear.
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Kano is launching some new Stem Players without Kanye West
British firm Kano started off making computers for kids, before moving into music-tech in 2021 with the Donda Stem Player.
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The latest music-streaming service comes from… Polaroid?
Taking the prize for the most unexpected entry into digital music in 2022 is Polaroid, the brand best known for its range of instant cameras.
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Spotify stops making Car Thing, its first hardware device
We reported on Spotify’s financial results yesterday, but another piece of news has emerged since then.
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Artiphon unveils second-generation Orba music-making device
Music hardware startup Artiphon has been showing off its Orba 2, the second generation of its music-making gadget.
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Kanye West launches a $200 Donda Stem Player with Kano
When will Kanye West’s new album ‘Donda’ come out? Good question: it remains imminent. However, today we learned that when it DOES come out, it will ship alongside some hardware.
Go to West’s official website and you’ll see the ‘Donda Stem Player’, a $200 / £200 device that will be released alongside the album – initially in the US and UK.
What does it do? “Customise any song,” is the pitch. The circular device will be able to split any song into stems, isolate the parts, add effects, and control the vocals, drums, bass and samples.
Judging by the FAQ on the website, owners will load music onto their device using the Stemplayer.com website. It’s not entirely clear whether it will ship with stems for ‘Donda’ itself, although that seems to be the implication.
The image of the Donda Stem Player includes the line ‘Yeezy Tech x Kano’. Kano is the British company that made its name with buildable computer kits for children.
There is already a link here. Kano’s CEO, Alex Klein, wrote some lyrics for the track ‘Water’ on West’s ‘Jesus Is King’ album. Klein tweeted a link to West’s site today as the player was launched:
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Gaana’s next music streaming frontier is… a robot
Smartphones, smart speakers, connected cars… and now robots are the new frontier for music streaming. In India at least, courtesy of a partnership between educational robotics company Miko and streaming […]
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Sonos revenues grew 90% year-on-year in first quarter of 2021
Audio hardware firm Sonos published its latest financial results yesterday, and they were good ones. The company’s revenues grew by 90% year-on-year to $332.9m in Q1 (its fiscal Q2), helping it to […]
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Apple predictions: VR/AR headset in 2022, AR glasses in 2025
Oh, and don’t forget AR contact lenses sometime after 2030. By which time nobody will remember the prediction or the predictor enough to check whether it was right. In fairness, […]
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Native Instruments sells majority stake to Francisco Partners
By the end of 2020, Native Instruments had more than 1.5 million monthly active users of its products for making music and DJing. This, plus the wider buzz around music […]
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Sonos Radio is the third most-streamed service on its devices
The latest musicians to curate channels on Sonos Radio were announced yesterday: D’Angelo, FKA Twigs, Björk and the Chemical Brothers are the latest artists to turn DJ for the hardware […]