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Pretty Soon We'll Spend More Time With Smartphones Than TVs

Pretty Soon We'll Spend More Time With Smartphones Than TVs | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it
Cool chart from mobile analytics firm, Flurry. It says people are spending 127 minutes per day with their smartphones, up from 66 minutes per day in 2010. This means we spend more time with mobile phones and apps than we do on the web. This time spent is rapidly approaching the time we spend watching TV.
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Measuring the Evolution of Contemporary Western Popular Music : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group

Measuring the Evolution of Contemporary Western Popular Music : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it
Researchers in Spain used a huge archive known as the Million Song Dataset, which breaks down audio and lyrical content into data that can be crunched, to study pop songs from 1955 to 2010.

A team led by artificial intelligence specialist Joan Serra at the Spanish National Research Council ran music from the last 50 years through some complex algorithms and found that pop songs have become intrinsically louder and more bland in terms of the chords, melodies and types of sound used.

.../... (Abstract from Reuters available at http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/26/us-science-music-idUSBRE86P0R820120726)
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