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Beyoncé Defeats Piracy and Makes Us Finally Embrace Tidal

Did you listen to Beyonce’s hottest new record? Maybe watch her hour-long short film? If you have, then it’s very like because you signed up for Tidal. Which begs the question: is Tidal starting to actually win? With Lemonade dropping as a Tidal exclusive (until tonight—when it is available on iTunes) and my own desire…

World’s Angriest Kanye Fan Sues Over Being Tricked Into Using Tidal

So, the grand experiment that is Tidal continues to be a rousing success. A Kanye West fan is now suing the artist and the service for using what he alleges are deceptive marketing practices to trick people into using Tidal. Justin Baker-Rhett is that fan—probably ex-fan now—and he’s claiming that he only signed up for…

Kanye West’s New Album Finally Available Outside Tidal

After insisting rather strongly that his new album, Life of Pablo, would never be available outside of Tidal, it appears that Kanye West has finally backed down. Just in case you haven’t already torrented the hell out of the album already, Life of Pablo is now also available streaming on Spotify, Apple Music and Google…

Jay Z Says He Got Ripped Off On Tidal

Jay Z is mad. Why is Jay Z mad? Because he threw $56 million at Tidal, the oft-controversial streaming service that even his own friends are slowly backing away from. With things maybe not going exactly according to plan, Beyoncé’s husband has decided he can’t take it any longer, and the businessman has started lobbing…

Heartless!  Kanye Posts Pablo Track to Apple Music After All

Remember that Tidal subscription you got to listen to Kanye’s new album The Life of Pablo? Turns out not all of that Mr. West’s definition of “exclusive” is somewhat looser than most. A track from the album, “Famous,” is now up on Spotify, Apple Music, and Google Play (although it is a slightly altered version…

Kanye Can’t Stop Piracy

The Life of Pablo has been downloaded over 500,000 times since its release on February 14, according to TorrentFreak. What does that mean? That means half a million people looked at that free sample subscription to Tidal and said “nah.” They saw a “sign up for free” label and then looked at their old copy…

Kanye Continues Trying to Make Tidal Happen

Tidal Will Stream Original TV Shows, Sure, Why Not? 

Tidal failed to beat Spotify. Now it’s taking on Netflix. Jay Z’s streaming app is launching two original television series. On to the next one! The first series, Money and Violence, is about criminals in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Creator and star Moise Verneau is a self-funded, self-taught showrunner, and it became a cult YouTube hit during…

Lil Wayne’s Label Sues Tidal for “Desperate and Illegal” Album Debut

Birdman has been busy. In addition to allegedly plotting to murder his former collaborator Lil Wayne, his record label Cash Money is suing Jay Z’s Tidal streaming service for putting out Lil Wayne’s most recent album without permission, according to TMZ. When Lil Wayne released the unimaginative but appropriately named The Free Weezy Album on…

Prince is starting to remove his back catalog from music streaming services, with tracks disappearing from Spotifyand Rdio so far. They’re still available on Google Play, Deezer and Tidal—though it’s not clear how long that will last.

Jay Z’s Troubled Music Service Tidal Loses Another CEO

The latest boss of Jay Z’s floundering music streaming service Tidal has already washed out. Tidal’s interim CEO Peter Tonstad stepped in after the company ditched former CEO Andy Chen in April, but he just left the company. Executives in Oslo and New York will run Tidal until a replacement is found. “The only thing…

Jay Z Dumps Tidal’s CEO, Now Has 98 Problems 

…or is it actually 100? In any case, Tidal, the music streaming site slash charity for millionaire musicians owned by Jay Z, is out of a CEO. About twenty-five employees, including CEO Andy Chen, have reportedly left the company this week. Jay Z bought the streaming service in March and gathered some of the richest…

Why the Ocean Needs Digital Technology to Create Our Energy

Almost one third of our electricity needs can be met by a predictable, renewable and yet largely untapped resource: ocean waves. Generated by wind blowing over ocean waters, ocean waves travel large distances with little loss of energy. As such, they are a renewable resource that is more consistent and predictable than wind or solar…

Bring Back SoundCloud’s Fantastic Desktop App

With all these rich musicians making a ruckusabout Jay Z’s overpriced streaming music service, I’m getting a little emotional. Not about Jay Z’s overpriced streaming music service. About the bygone golden era of streaming music’s erstwhile golden boy: SoundCloud. In a way, you can chart that golden era to the lifespan of the SoundCloud desktop…

See If You Can Hear the “High Definition” Audio Jay Z Is Selling

Jay Z’s newly acquired and relaunched streaming music service Tidal claims only one difference from Spotify and the rest: superior audio quality. Is it worth switching? Here’s a simple testthat’ll help you decide whether it’s worth forking over $20 a month for the best of the best quality. Sixteen of the world’s richest pop stars…

Taylor Swift Put All Her Music On Jay-Z’s Pet Streaming Service

Taylor Swift, part-time pop star and full-time crusader for the rights of impoverished pop artists, made headlines last year when she yanked her music off Spotify. Well, streaming Swift is back — on a service you’ve probably never heard of. Tidal was a tiny Norwegian streaming service that basically no-one had heard of, until Jay-Z…

Can You Hear the Difference in High Quality Music? Test Yourself

Here’s a simple test that lets you toggle between an extremely high-quality file music file and a low-quality music file. Can you tell the difference? We’ve been hearing for years that MP3 encoding ruins music with its lossy compression. But can you really tell the difference? New streaming music subscription service “Tidal” is amongst the…

The Copia eBook Platform and Hardware Get Social With eReading

Copia is an open platform that wants to help you share with the world world exactly how you rate the entire Norah Roberts oeuvre. It’s like Goodreads on steroids, and it’s paired with two new lines of eBook readers. First, the platform. Copia is a social networking platform that lets you set up a profile,…

World’s First Tidal Turbine Farms to Power 40,000 Scottish Homes (or Pubs)

Following the apparent success of SeaGen, a small deployment of tidal turbines of the coast of Northern Ireland, Scottish Power is seeking approval for plans to build two farms of 20 100-foot, err, watermills promising a steady power supply for up to 40,000 homes. As with the previous example of tidal power generation, the most obvious…