Here’s every parent’s dream: a college acceptance letter for their kid, totally unsolicited, magically landing at the doorstep.
More than just a few eyebrows were raised when Apple Music announced earlier this week that R&B artist Mary J. Blige would interview Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a half-hour segment on Blige’s new show, The 411. That’s largely because the one-minute teaser released by the streaming service was downright uncomfortable—featuring Blige passionately singing about racism and police brutality to a stilted-looking Clinton sitting two feet away.
Lyor Cohen used to oversee Warner Music Group and Def Jam, where he helped bring artists like Jay Z worldwide fame. He currently serves as CEO of his own independent company 300 Entertainment—a label that’s signed rising artists like Young Thug and Fetty Wap, who have prospered as major labels have struggled in the digital era.
Seeking an MBA? Stanford will give you one for free—if you promise to then go live for two years in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, or Wisconsin.
Playlists, playlists, playlists. Every major music streaming service these days is touting the originality of its personalized, curated content (however ironic that is).
Thanks to major leaps in technology of late, we may now be in the age of AI-generated pop music. But a machine in the 1950s did it first.
A decent amount of puzzled head-scratching followed Microsoft’s $26-billion takeover of LinkedIn this summer.
Britain leaving the European Union doesn’t mean its universities are going, too. At least not without a fight.
The US election—or rather, America’s utter apathy about the electoral process—has lured Joss Whedon back to the internet.
New year, new college rankings.
Tinder, that tried-and-trusted bastion of awkwardness and discomfort, is getting all the more personal. The dating app will now let users add their favorite song to their profile.
It’s English literature.
Yale is making some changes to its freshman application. While high school students applying to the elite US university were previously given free rein on its secondary essay requirement (“Reflect on something you would like us to know about you”), applicants this year will face a set of newly specific questions:
An explosion rocked the lower Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea on the night of Sept. 17. In a press conference shortly afterward, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio stressed there was “no specific and credible threat against New York City at this point in time from any terror organization”—though he noted the incident is being treated as an “intentional act.”
A tentative truce between Russia and the US came into effect in conflict-ridden Syria last Monday, brokered after months of tenuous back-and-forth.
It turns out there are still some things being a billionaire doesn’t automatically get you—such as the right to tear down your neighbors’ homes for your own convenience.
Greed apparently doesn’t score degrees.
There were high hopes. Earlier this summer, reports emerged (paywall) that Apple was in talks to buy Tidal, the subscription music streaming service headed by rapper Jay Z, and merge it with its own Apple Music platform.
Education hasn’t seen such a counterintuitive idea in a while.
Three months of unlimited, ad-free access to 135 million songs could be yours for less than the price of bottled water.
Connecticut got a weird shock this week. A judge, ruling on an 11-year-old lawsuit, declared the entire state’s public education system abysmal—enough so that it’s actually violating the US constitution.
Gone, officially, is the headphone jack from Apple’s new iPhone. Retired. Dead. Defunct.
Apple rolled out a slew of product updates today (Sept. 7), the most important of which are the much-anticipated iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus.
Apple Music has 17 million subscribers, Apple CEO Tim Cook proudly announced at the company’s event in San Francisco today (Sept. 7). Not too shabby for a music-streaming service that’s only been around since June 2015 and was expected to die a quick death.
