If you have a Windows, a Linux or a Mac, and that you have iTunes installed on your computer, you see that when you start the media player now, iTunes is gonna to tell you to update to 11 Version, available since November 29th.

And a great surprise waits you : the interface has been completely reviewed. In the screenshot that you can see at the top of the post (click on the picture to see in full screen), you can see some news :

• The main menu is reduced to a small icon at top left, with the principal actions (like new list, add songs ...)

• Under the player : 
  • at left, you have a dropdown menu with "Music", "Films", "TV Shows" and "Home share"
  • at the center, you can sort the songs by Albums, Artists, Kinds of music, Lists, with Radio and Match in compelement
  • at right, simply a link to the iTunes Store, who has a new interface too :



• iTunes has now a new Now playing interface, in particular when you click on "Albums" under playing : when you select an album, a banner with colours of the album cover appears and shows you the songs of the album.

• Other new functions : 
  • New features in iCloud added
  • Support for iPad mini added
  • iTunes DJ feature is not longer available 

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Astronomers think they have discovered, with Hobby-Eberly Telescope at Texas's McDonald Observatory the largest black hole ever observed, which has
the mass of about 17 billion times the Sun's.


This monster, whose age is estimated at about 8 billion years, is located at 220 millions light-years from Earth in the spiral galaxy NGC 1277, which is 10 times smaller than the Milky way.

To be honest, the supermassive black hole is very immense : 11 times greater than the orbit of Neptune around the Sun. It is so huge that it represents 14 % of the mass of NGC 1277, against only 0.1% usually. A proportion so high that it could force experts to revise their theories about galaxy formation, they say.

"It is really a unusual galaxy", says Karl Gebhardt of the University of Texas, Austin. "It is almost entirely a black hole. It could constitute the first object of a new class, galactic black holes", says the researcher, co-author of the study published on Wednesday by the British magazine Nature.

First or second biggest black hole ?

We're sure that NGC 1277's black hole is the 2nd biggest black hole found ever, and could be the first. The mass of current number one, discovered only in 2011, has not yet been calculated accurately and oscillates between 6 and 37 billion times Sun's mass.

Black holes create a gravitational field so intense that not even light can escape. A black hole forms when a very large star collapses on itself at the end of his life. It can then continue to grow, swallowing up other stars or fuse with other black holes, which sometimes create these supermassive black holes that occupy the center of galaxies. But NGC 1277's black hole challenges this theory by its disproportionate size compared to its galaxy.

Thus, we ask this question : is this extraordinary black hole unique or is it indicative of a cosmic formation mechanism, and this unknown until now ?
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One of the biggest European festivals resurfaces : the READING & LEEDS FESTIVAL, which will run from 23rd to 25th August 2013 at Richfield Avenue (for Reading) and Bramham Park (for Leeds), has announced the 4 first artists who will be in 2013 Edition :


Main Stage 
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NME Radio 1 Stage
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BBC Radio 1 Dance Stage
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BBC Radio 1Xtra Stage (New Stage)


With loads of changes happening at the festival this year, from new stages to more acts than ever before, the first band names get Reading Festival fans ready for what is going to be a HUGE festival season ahead. And there's lots more to come, the headliners are missing ...

The festival reserves us many surprises, and we wait the next days and the next weeks for more artists !

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Source : http://www.readingfestival.com/news/whos-playing-first-bands-announced
Reading Festival website : http://www.readingfestival.com/
Leeds Festival website : http://www.leedsfestival.com/...
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We see currently that opinions are divided : is Windows 8 good and better than Windows 7 ? Many people ask this question, and always find what is missing in the last Microsoft OS.

However, Windows 8 does a good start : only one month after the release of Windows 8, 40 million copies have already been sold. Remember that Windows 7 has been sold 670 millions copies ; in about 1 year and half or 2 years, Windows 8 will be (already) the best OS sold in the world.

And the number of Windows 8 copies is not the only one to grow up fast. There are currently in the Windows Store 21,183 apps, and on October 26th there was a bit more than 10,000 apps. To compare, Mac App Store has "only" 12,665 apps ... thus, on the side operating system, Windows overwrites Apple ...

For the OS, it is just a begin ...

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Europeans, and especially French, are concerned : the Main Square Festival, one of the greatest festivals in France, does his comeback !
The ninth edition of the festival will be held on 5th, 6th and 7th July 2013 at the Citadel Vauban in Arras (north of France), as editions 2010, 2011 and 2012.

And indeed, in 2012, the atmosphere was not better than in 2011, Linkin Park and Coldplay set the fire while this year we really had no real headliner, except Pearl Jam and Blink-182 ...

Regarding 2013, we must wait December 10th 2012 to know the first names. The new logo ? Not bad, but incomprehensible ... the logo thereafter (which comes from Main Square 2013 Facebook Page) is surely better :



The Main Square Festival website is currently not updated, it will be updated in a few days ...

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In one year, Anthony Gonzalez becomes one of the kings of electronic music. M83 has succeed to be very known with the double album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, in particular with 2 songs, "Midnight City" and "Reunion".
And the videos of these 2 songs are like 2 mini-parts of a movie. And we're sure about one thing : many people want that a movie must be made.

Midnight City, the best success of M83

The video for "Midnight City" is officially released October 17, 2011, and tells the story of five telekinetic children who live in a boarding school where "doctors" examined them to find out more about their superpowers. Fortunately, these five children escaped the residence and then decided to test their powers in a abandoned warehouse. The end of the clip, which is really beautiful, is a very fast sunset made ​​by children.
The sound, meanwhile, is a mixture of electro-pop and new wave, with at the end a solo saxophone, essential according to Anthony Gonzalez.




Already, comments on Facebook and YouTube were predictable when you see the clip: M83 fans will say that these children should play in a film, and the clip might even be a part of the trailer for this movie. Some names for the film are proposed, like "Superstellar 5555" or "Midnight 83" (my favourite).
The result, "Midnight City" somehow becomes the anthem of the group : 1st in the top 75 and top 100 songs of 2011 by Pitchfork Media and PopMatters, 2nd best song in the United Kingdom and 8th best song in France. Actually the video has been viewed more than 19 millions times.


Reunion : Midnight City, part 2

After "Midnight City", "Reunion" is already talking about it with the video "Coming Soon". Good news for fans, these children with superpowers are still there ...
... and they re-appeared in the video for "Reunion".



 

Here, our freinds with various psychic abilities are pursued by their "shadowy handlers" in an attempt to recover them. The youngest girl becomes luminous, sends a large flash of light (small reference to the "Tron"movie) and then loses consciousness. Then there is a duel between the head group of children and one of the "shadowy handlers", which is also endowed with telekinetic powers who come from a girl with bright red eyes, kidnapped by the "doctors".
About "Reunion",a pop-electro song, like in "Midnight City", with a tendency Dream Pop and Post-Punk. The song and above all the voice of Anthony Gonzalez reminds us a bit of Depeche Mode songs

The reaction of M83 fans ? Easy. Same thing as "Midnight City" : they would like that M83 make a film with these kids. 7 minutes with them, it's too small, but 2 hours ore more, it would be a success in cinema, then in DVD.
Actually the video has only 1,4 million viewers, but stays a great video.

Midnight 83 : what the film should be

For a 2 hour movie, we would like to put a lot of things ! We can imagine that at the beginning of the film, these children, with two animators, are in an astronomy evening where they observe the stars and constellations. Then, a meteorite falls near the tents, and children are attracted by the light emitted by the meteorite (reference to the movie Skyline). They lose consciousness, and they are "doctors" on the agreement of the parents of children who take them to a boarding school. This is here that "Midnight City" part begins.

Later the children learn that they have telekinetic powers, to control and to fly items. When they use these powers, their eyes are bright and blue sky. But the "doctors" find how to get after their abilities.
The five kids decide to escape from boarding school, and the next day, they decide to test their powers in a abandoned warehouse. They move tractor wheels, rocks ... about the girl, she plays with the trailer of a camper by rocking on all sides. And above all, children "attack" on the sun, with a beautiful sunset, even if it is fast ...

"Reunion" begins: after sunset, children stop moving the sun. But the youngest girl is very bright, and the "shadowy handlers" detect where the children are to recover them. About the "shadowy handlers", they have found before an other girl with superpowers, and they control her so that one of the "handlers" in car can use telekinesy (and the girl has so red light eyes). This one pursuit them, and the young boy managed to kill him with his own car.

After, we can imagine that all the telekinesic kids prepare a map to destroy the "shadowy headlers" project (like by example control the world and people by telekinesy) and children save so the world ... maybe there could be a love story between two kids ...

For M83 fans it will be very amazing if a movie like that appears in cinema. And for the title, "Midnight 83", we can't find better than this one. We hope now that M83 and Anthony Gonzalez do a movie and so make us happy ... 
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We talk rarely about Iceland. But about Icelandic music, we know only one band : Sigur Rós.

This ambient/post rock band from Reykjavik, whose the songs are unique and a bit closed to some songs of Radiohead, is currently known for their 2 last albums, "Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust" and "Valtari".

About "Valtari", the band has create a series of 16 "films" (actually 15 are released), called The Valtari Mystery Film Experiment : the band has given a dozen film makers the same budget and asked them to create whatever comes in to their head when they listen to songs from the band's forthcoming album. The idea is to abandon the usual approval process from Sigur Rós, and allow film makers utmost creative freedom.

Here is the 15th "film" of the series, called “Varúð”.


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Travis Barker (Blink-182) at Main Square Festival, Arras, France, July 1st 2012
Blink-182 will never stop. After their tour for "Neighborhoods", Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker currently do some changes.

Their new EP, "Dogs Eating Dogs", will be released on December 18th, and this only more than one year after "Neighnorhoods. The EP is available to pre-order on Blink-182 Official Website, and in 3 packages (with digital EP, T shirts, poster and Holiday Card for Christmas). At the same time, for 2012 Christmas, Blink-182 has a new logo :
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New interface of YouTube TV - Science and Technology Menu
After video streaming service on Nintendo Wii, Google has launched YouTube TV, adapted for televisions connected to Internet.

Available at the adress YouTube.com/TV, YouTube TV has now a new interface : great icons, great menus, great miniatures, a bit like XBOX 360 dashboard :
• the menu is in left sidebar (to change menu ↓ and ↑ key),
• and the videos are in great size in a horizontal bar (to change video ← and → key).

In the main column, the user finds his online videos, history or subscriptions. Between these categories is the Connection menu and settings. It is here that we connect to his account. To do this, you can confirm the connection by opening the page www.youtube.com/activate from a browser. Then simply enter the code shown on YouTube TV. Another option available: the combination of devices to find a video on a smartphone or tablet and then watch it on TV.

Here are 2 other snapshots of YouTube TV (click on them to see on fullscreen) :
 
Search screen - Here : results for "Muse"
Video playing screen - Blink 182 : Live in Vegas 2011 HD
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The space often gives us surprises ... this was the case a few days ago (September 16th): European Herschel Space Telescope (in collaboration with NASA) has managed to capture in a single image, a picture of the death of a star and the birth of another.

What you can see in this picture at the top (see the picture in highest quality here) a huge cloud of gas with inside the W44-supernova remnant in purple (= the death of a star) and a new generation of stars in blue sky (whose the birth of a new one).

The W44-supernova remnant, which is in the constellation of the Eagle, is a "vast purple sphere" of 100 light-years in diameter located at about 10 000 light-years from our planet, and could be aged 20 000 years.

"In the constellation of the Eagle, the stars are in constant formation. Any material rejected by the supernova will thus serve to create a new star", explains the Huffington Post*.

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* French website in collaboration with Lemonde.fr
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Matthew Bellamy at Muse concert at O2 London Arena, 27th October 2012

Muse has a few hours ago added 7 dates for Summer Stadiums 2013 Tour ! Here are the 14 dates for Summer 2013 with the 7 new dates in red :

May 22nd : Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK
May 25th : Emirates Stadium, London, UK
May 26th : Emirates Stadium, London, UK
June 1st : Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK
June 4th : Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands
June 7th : Olympic Stadium, Barcelona, Spain
June 10th : Estadio Dragao, Porto, Portugal
June 15th : Stade de Suisse, Bern, Switzerland
June 18th : Rock Werchter Festival Site, Rostelaar, Belgium
June 21st : Stade de France, Paris, France
June 22nd : Stade de France, Paris, France
June 26th : Stade Charles Ehrmann, Nice, France
June 28th : Stadio Olimpico, Turin, Italia
July 6th : Stadio Olimpico, Roma, Italia


Don't forget that tickets will be available on November 23rd on muse.mu !

About Summer Stadiums 2010, here's an other video of a concert of Muse in LCCC, Manchester :



Related post : Muse : Summer Stadiums 2013 (The 2nd Law Tour)...
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Placebo has so many surprises to give us. They have already offered to their Fans "B3EP", with 5 new songs, whose B3 song was played several times before the release of the EP.

But the day I write this article, Fiona Brice, pianist and violonist of Placebo (who was present in concerts during Battle For The Sun Tour, has informed on her Twitter account that she probably will record with Placebo members the 7th studio album of the band :


Fiona Brice ‏@Fiona_Brice
Hampstead Heath today. Beautiful November. #Hipstamatic #BuckhorstH1 #Inas1982 pic.twitter.com/Ag3CeoDq

Becky Pearce @Im36Degrees
@Fiona_Brice how was work in the studio with placebo? I'm excited :)

Fiona Brice ‏@Fiona_Brice
@Im36Degrees you should be excited! All good thanks ;)



According to several sources, Placebo will release the 7th album in march 2013. But we don't know the name of the album, the artwork and the songs.


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Explore space and stars like you have never though it ! "100.000 Stars" by Chrome Experiment allows you to see the Sun, planets positions, stars (with their infos), and a great vision in 3D of our galaxy, the Milky way

You can also click on "play" logo to take a tour from Sun to the galaxy to have a global vision of our stellar neighorhood. To have infos about stars, zoom in until you see the stars and their names, then click on a star.

Go to the "100.000 Stars" animation here ! You need just have a good graphic card and 2 Go RAM Memory to see stars and the galaxy in high quality.

Here are some screenshots of "100.000 Stars" :

The Milky Way Galaxy
Little zoom-in on the Milky Way Galaxy
Some hundreds and thousands of stars
The Sun
 
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Muse, during the concert at Stade de France, June 11th 2010

Muse has announced the first dates of European Stadiums Tour in summer 2013 :

June 4th : Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands
June 18th : Rock Werchter Festival Site, Rostelaar, Belgium
June 21th : Stade de France, Paris, France
June 22th : Stade de France, Paris, France
June 26th : Stade Charles Ehrmann, Nice, France
June 28th : Stadio Olimpico, Turin, Italia
July 6th : Stadio Olimpico, Roma, Italia

The tickets for these 7 first dates go on sale from November 23th.

Muse also has released an EP of 3 live songs during Muse Stadiums Concerts in 2010. to download it, become muse.mu member, go to Members and you'll see the download link with the code to extract songs and videos.

Here's one of the videos, Muse at Stade de France, June 11th 2010.

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Eclipse taken 2 minutes after solar crown
A total solar eclipse has taken place on 13–14 November 2012 (UTC), beginning in local time on November 14 west of the International Date Line over northern Australia, and ending on November 13 east of the date line off the western South American coast. Its greatest magnitude is 1.0500, occurring only 12 hours before perigee, with greatest eclipse totality lasting just over 4 minutes.
In Port Douglas, Australia, the eclipse has been total at 8:45 / 8:50 PM (UTC).

Here's a view of where the eclipse was visible : (more informations here)





Here's some photos of the eclipse (Photo credits Panasonic) :

20 seconds before total eclipse
Totally eclipse : solar crown
View of Port Douglas, Australia - Port Douglas at middle on darkness
Great view of the solar crown

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His decision is taken : Steven Sinofsky, the "father of Windows", left Microsoft after 23 years in one of the biggest companies of the world, and only 2-3 weeks after Windows 8 release ; he cedes his place to Julie Larson-Green.

It's in a letter, posted by Paul Thurrot's Supersite for Windows, that Steven Sinofsky explains his departure from Microsoft :
"After more than 23 years working on a wide range of Microsoft products, I have decided to leave the company to seek new opportunities that build on these experiences. My passion for building products is as strong as ever and I look forward focusing my energy and creativity along similar lines."

Many people on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social networks, after knowing his departure, didn't want that Steven Sinofsky quits Microsoft. "He has an abitilty to present products and get some level of excitement" ; "You will be missed" ; "Good luck and enjoy what's next" are some of messages of support.

Windows has now a new leader, Julie Larson-Green, known as great programmer and presenter of many Windows products (often with Michael Angiulo). All the future of Windows is now on their hands ......
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Drawing #3 : 2nd Portrait of Tania de Matos by me.
"Tania, my little angel ..."

Contrast, light and gamma adjusted.

Original picture here....
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It's a reality : Microsoft has announced, November 7th, the end of Windows Live Messenger for 2013.

The instant messaging service, launched on 1999 as "Microsoft Network Messenger" (MSN), became one of the most popular. With the acquisition of Skype in May 2011 (for more than $ 8,5 B, about 6 B €), both services are duplicated : Skype allows users to send instant messages, like Messenger.

Windows Live Messenger will disappear on 2013, but it will not be of a technical point of view : "Skype is moving from a P2P service to a modern, suitable for mobile devices" said The Verge website.
Thus, Messenger will not disappear completely. "Skype and Messenger meet", said Tony Bates, Microsoft's head.

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After the two following videos "Midnight City" and "Reunion", Anthony Gonzalez, leader of M83, has devoiled a new video for probably the 3rd single from the album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, "Steve McQueen." The video doesn't follow "Reunion", but is nice to watch.

The video was created in conjunction with creative film-making community, Genero TV. The winning directors were Balthazar Auxietre & Sylvain Derosne.

Steve McQueen will be released with remixes from Maps, SALM, Beutaucue and Alluxe on November 25th. A pre-order is available in some countries via iTunes.




And, about the 2 other videos, M83 should make a movie, these kids are awesome ......
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