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Mr Eazi, Black Coffee and Ajebutter22: The African music artists backing startups

TechCrunch

His win came when the global appetite for Amapiano, a style of house music that emerged in South Africa , and Afrobeats, a popular music genre that originated from Western Africa , had increased exponentially. It was a much-needed success for the African music scene, and though it didn’t appear so, it was a boost for its tech scene. .

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Duolingo is working on a music app

TechCrunch

Duolingo , a language learning app with over 500 million users, is working on a music app, TechCrunch has learned. The company also posted a job that was soliciting a freelance music composition and curricular consultant, but the company is no longer accepting applications for that position. Total revenue also nearly doubled at $369.5

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How Japanese rock star Miyavi performs in a world without live music

The Verge

The only live music I’ve managed to see all year came from an unexpected place. Born Takamasa Ishihara in Osaka in 1981, Miyavi is best known for his fast-paced, catchy electro-rock music and frenetic guitar playing. So we heard lots of ‘it’s not the time to shoot a music video.”’ Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge. “I

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Apple Music is adding more DJ mixes with new features powered by Shazam

The Verge

Last year Apple showed how it could embed Shazam’s music identification features even more deeply within iOS 14 , and now it’s taking things another step forward within Apple Music. Apple Music DJ Mix. Apple Music DJ Mix. This is a new path for getting DJ mixes onto Apple Music alongside older ones like Dubset’s platform.

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Snap acquired Voisey, an app to create music tracks overlaying your own vocals

TechCrunch

startup that features instrumentals that you overlay with your own voice to create short music tracks (and videos), and also lets musicians upload instrumentals that become the basis for those tracks. million to date (per PitchBook data), and it’s ranked at 143 in iOS in Music in the U.S. Voisey did not respond to our email.

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Developers are now using AI for text-to-music apps

TechCrunch

Now, they are looking to help you generate bits of music by just typing some words. You just have to type in a prompt like “Calming piano music to listen to while studying” or “Funky beats for a podcast intro” to let the app generate a music clip. You type in a prompt for music and it churns out a track.

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Elon Musk says Neuralink tech will allow users to stream music directly into their brains

TechSpot

It's been a while since we last heard about Neuralink, the company Elon Musk founded in 2016 to develop "ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces." The startup has developed flexible threads, thinner than a human hair, which can be injected into the brain to detect neuron activity. It even built a robot.

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