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.
This monster, whose age isestimated at about8 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 timesgreaterthan the orbit ofNeptunearound the Sun. It is so huge that it represents 14 % of the mass of NGC 1277, againstonly 0.1% usually. Aproportionso high that itcould forceexpertsto revisetheir theories aboutgalaxy formation,they say.
"It is really aunusualgalaxy", saysKarlGebhardtof the Universityof Texas,Austin."It is almost entirelya black hole.Itcould constitute the firstobject of anew class,galactic black holes", saysthe researcher, co-authorof the study publishedon Wednesday by theBritish magazineNature.
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 ofcurrentnumber one, discovered only in2011,has not yetbeen calculatedaccurately andoscillates between 6and 37billion timesSun's mass.
Black holescreatea gravitational fieldso intense thatnot even lightcan escape.A black holeforms when avery largestar collapseson itselfat the endof his life.Itcan then continue togrow,swallowing upother starsorfuse with otherblack holes, whichsometimes createthesesupermassive black holesthat occupy the centerof galaxies.ButNGC1277's black hole challenges thistheoryby itsdisproportionate size compared toits galaxy.
Thus, we ask this question : is this extraordinary black holeuniqueor is it indicative of acosmicformation mechanism, and this unknown until now ? ...
One of the biggest European festivals resurfaces : the READING & LEEDS FESTIVAL, which will run from23rd to 25th August 2013atRichfield Avenue(forReading)andBramhamPark (for Leeds), has announced the 4 first artists who will be in 2013 Edition :
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 ! ____________________ 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/...
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 copieshave 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 sideoperating system, WindowsoverwritesApple ...
Europeans, and especially French, areconcerned : theMain Square Festival, one of the greatest festivals in France, does his comeback! Theninthedition of thefestival will be heldon 5th, 6th and 7th July 2013at the Citadel Vaubanin Arras (north of France), aseditions2010, 2011 and2012.
And indeed,in 2012, the atmospherewas notbetter than in2011,Linkin ParkandColdplayset the firewhile this yearwe really hadno realheadliner, except Pearl JamandBlink-182 ...
Regarding2013, we must wait December 10th 2012to know thefirst names.The newlogo ?Not bad, butincomprehensible... 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 ... ___________ Main Square Festival Website (in english) : http://mainsquarefestival.fr/en/...
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 : 1stin the top 75 and top 100 songs of 2011 by Pitchfork Media andPopMatters, 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"MidnightCity","Reunion"is already talking aboutitwith the video"ComingSoon".Good news forfans,these children withsuperpowersare still there ... ...andthey re-appeared inthe 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 thefilm 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 thechildren learn that theyhavetelekinetic powers,to control andtofly items. When they use these powers, their eyes are bright and blue sky. But the"doctors"findhow to getaftertheir abilities. Thefivekids decideto escape fromboarding school,and the next day,they decide totest theirpowers in aabandonedwarehouse.They movetractor wheels, rocks...aboutthe girl,she playswith the trailerof a camperby rockingon all sides.And aboveall, children"attack"on the sun,witha beautiful sunset,even if it isfast ...
"Reunion"begins: aftersunset, childrenstopmoving thesun.Butthe youngest girlisvery bright, and the "shadowyhandlers"detectwhere thechildren 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 ...
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”. ...
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 :
A new Blink-182.com website is in building and will come soon !...
New interface of YouTube TV - Science and Technology Menu
After video streaming service on Nintendo Wii, Google has launched YouTubeTV, 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 userfinds hisonline videos, historyorsubscriptions.Between thesecategories isthe Connection menuand settings.It is herethatwe connect tohisaccount.To do this,you can confirmthe connection by openingthepagewww.youtube.com/activatefrom a browser.Then simplyenterthe code shownonYouTubeTV.Another optionavailable:thecombination of devicestofind a videoon a smartphoneor tabletand thenwatch iton TV.
Here are 2 other snapshots of YouTube TV (click on them to see on fullscreen) :
The spaceoften gives ussurprises ...this was the casea few days ago(September 16th):EuropeanHerschelSpace Telescope(in collaboration with NASA) has managed to captureina singleimage,a picture of thedeath of a starand the birth ofanother.
What you can see in this picture at the top (see the picture in highest quality here) a huge cloud of gas withinside the W44-supernova remnantin 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, whichis in theconstellationof the Eagle, is a "vastpurplesphere" 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 starsare in constant formation. Any material rejected by the supernova will thus serve to create a new star", explains the Huffington Post*.
________ * French website in collaboration with Lemonde.fr Source : Le Monde (french post) ...
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 :
Placebo has so many surprises to give us. They have already offered to their Fans "B3EP", with 5 new songs, whoseB3songwas playedseveral timesbefore the release oftheEP.
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
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 inuntilyou see the starsand 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.
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.
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
Hisdecision is taken :StevenSinofsky,the "father ofWindows", leftMicrosoftafter 23 yearsin one of the biggest companies of the world, and only 2-3 weeks after Windows 8 release ; he cedes his place toJulieLarson-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 ......
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 ofSkypein May 2011 (for more than $ 8,5 B, about 6 B €), bothservicesareduplicated : Skypeallows users tosendinstantmessages, like Messenger.
Windows Live Messenger will disappear on 2013, but itwill not beof atechnical point of view : "Skypeismoving fromaP2Pservicetoa modern, suitable formobile devices" said The Verge website. Thus,Messengerwill not disappearcompletely. "SkypeandMessengermeet", said Tony Bates, Microsoft's head. _________ Source : lemonde.fr...
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 ......