One of the biggest focuses at this year’s Facebook f8 developer conference is digital music. Daniel Ek from Spotify spoke, and he’s currently on a panel with Troy Carter, who manages Lady Gaga. Trying something new is the key theme of the future of digital music. When asked about taking risks with digital music, Troy Carter said: The 💜 of EU tech The latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art....

I love my cute lil’ Nest Thermostat — it makes my home feel like a spaceship. But there’s one thing that’s stopped me from feeling total futuristic vibes: its integration with other voice-activated assistants. Yeah, the Nest works wonderfully with Google Home, but Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa? You’d have more luck speaking to a potato. But this might change very soon. Ina blog postpublished this week, Google announced that it’s bringing Matter to Nest and Android....

Computers are good at answering questions. What’s the shortest route from my house to Area 51? Is 8,675,309 a prime number? How many teaspoons in a tablespoon? For questions like these, they’ve got you covered. There are certain innocent-sounding questions, though, that computer scientists believe computers will never be able to answer – at least not within our lifetimes. These problems are the subject of theP versus NP question, which asks whether problems whose solutions can be checked quickly can also be solved quickly....

Until recently it was thought neutron star mergers were the only wayheavy elements(heavier than Zinc) could be produced. These mergers involve the mashup of the remnants of two massive stars in a binary system. But we know heavy elements were first produced not long after the Big Bang when the universe was really young. Back then, not enough time had passed for neutron star mergers to have even occurred. Thus, another source was needed to explain the presence of early heavy elements in the Milky Way....

Finally, after a bitter four-month struggle, Microsoft has managed to provide the NoDo ‘copy and paste’ update to all current Windows Phone 7 owners. Owners of Windows Phone 7 handsets on the Spanish network Telefonica are the last in the world to get the NoDo update, which was supposed to be little more than a slight feature boost to the mobile line. The update was delayed greatly due to both carrier delays, and distribution problems, and other factors....