Facebook’s lead privacy regulator in Europe is now asking the company for detailed information about the operation of a voice-to-text feature in Facebook’s Messenger app and how it complies with EU law. Yesterday Bloomberg reported that Facebook uses human contractors to transcribe app users’ audio messages — yet its privacy policy makes no clear mention…
Facebook Inc. has been paying hundreds of outside contractors to transcribe clips of audio from users of its services, according to people with knowledge of the work. The work has rattled the contract employees, who are not told where the audio was recorded or how it was obtained — only to transcribe it, said the…
via Facebook Paid Contractors to Transcribe Audio of Its Users’ Conversations — TIME
Julia Holter, GAS and more appear at the series later this year. Laurel Halo has curated the 2019 edition of London’s MODE event series, which takes place this September and October in various venues across the UK capital. Julia Holter, Eli Keszler, DJ Bone, Funkineven, DEBONAIR, Rashad Becker and Parris are among the artists appearing…
via Laurel Halo curates 2019 edition of London’s MODE series — FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music.
One movie and film score that I am slowly growing to appreciate is the 2005 remake of King Kong, which was scored by James Newton Howard. As much as I love the original King Kong (which everyone should see at least once), I have to admit this remake is better than most. I found, some […]
via James Newton Howard scoring King Kong (2005) — Film Music Central
Initiative will benefit 20 new artists every year The post Sentric Music Group launches Songwriter Accelerator Program appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.
via Sentric Music Group launches Songwriter Accelerator Program — Music Business Worldwide
Amid all the 50th-anniversary remembrances of Woodstock, the names of a few performers are likely to show up as shorthand for that historic weekend in 1969. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, for example, both of whom were well-known acts when they attended the three-day event. Or maybe someone like Carlos Santana, whose band became a…
For the couple seen embracing under a blanket on the cover of the Woodstock soundtrack, milestone anniversaries of the music festival in Bethel, N.Y., are usually happy occasions. Ever since LIFE magazine’s 20th anniversary commemorative edition revealed that they were the people on the cover of Atlantic Records’ original 1970 Woodstock: Music from the Original…
via The Couple in This Famous Woodstock Album Cover Photo Is Still Together 50 Years Later — TIME
SPOT is reaching less than 1.5% of its potential addressable market outside of Europe and the Americas The post Spotify is still adding more users across Europe and North America than in Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.
Clarissa Reformina joins as VP of Creator Services, Ray Kurzeka as VP of Digital Strategy and Austin Hurwitz as VP of Music Operations The post Amazon, Universal and Paradigm executives join Troy Carter’s Q&A appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.
via Amazon, Universal and Paradigm executives join Troy Carter’s Q&A — Music Business Worldwide
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