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Win over $12k worth of production gear by remixing Madonna’s Ray of Light in Beatport’s Global Remix Challenge https://musictech.com/news/competitions/beatport-madonna-remix-challenge-ray-of-light/

Win over $12k worth of production gear by remixing Madonna’s Ray of Light in Beatport’s Global Remix Challenge
More than $12,000 worth of production hardware and software is on the line in Beatport’s latest Ray of Light Global Remix Challenge.

This is another #Reddit discovery I wanted to share, a Norwegian-style syndicalist flag.
#Anarchism #Syndicalism

What a picture/image!
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/28/ice-agents-spotted-downtown-on-michigan-avenue-along-chicago-river

Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border chief says people arrested based on ‘how they look’
The immigration agents made arrests in downtown Chicago and the River North neighborhood Sunday.

Yard treasures. Any idea what that might have been for? Must be some old GDR gear. #project25

Of course, I don't know 'hardware', as you can tell from my technical description, but I have a sample from another tuning peg gear, and the peg and gear for testing, I get to Home Hardware and they have loose bolts of small dimension. I quickly learn that #6 is too large, #4 is too small and they have no #5's where the thread matches.
But you know what works? Do you remember those little chrome bolts with the hex-wrench heads that used to hold expansion cards in the ibm-pc? Perfect match, only 5mm too long, easily compensated by buying a matching nut and my 53-years owned pawnshop 5-string, my first banjo, is back in action!

Google unveils the $1,799 Pixel 10 Pro Fold, with a Tensor G5 chip, a new hinge with a gear-less design, 6.4" outer and 8" inner screens, available October 9 (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/hands-on/762080/google-pixel-10-pro…

The Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold is the first fully dust-resistant foldable
Google’s third folding phone is the first to come with full dust protection thanks to a new hinge.

Gear-shifting tunable meta-shaft for low-frequency torsional vibration suppression
Dongxian Wang, Hao Zhou, Jianlei Zhao, Zhou Hu, Yangyang Chen, Rui Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13621

Gear-shifting tunable meta-shaft for low-frequency torsional vibration suppression
Metastructures with band gaps provide a new solution for the torsional vibration attenuation in shaft systems, while tunable band gaps remain challenging, typically relying on additional physical fields or complex assembly processes. In this study, a gear-shifting tunable meta-shaft with self-locking gear (SLG) resonators is proposed, where a simple gear-shifting mechanism replaces complex tuning methods to achieve low-frequency torsional vibration suppression in tunable frequency ranges. First…

What a legend.
And for those out there who are not familiar with state-of-the-art country guitar playing, there are some incredible videos embedded in the article.
#guitar #CountryMusic

“I was hitting sessions until my eyeballs were popping out. I’d go in early in the morning, start at 10 and get home midnight”: Session hero Brent Mason has played on over a thousand records. Here’s what he’s learned about getting the job done
Decorated with accolades from the Grammys to the Academy Of Country Music, the legendary Nashville sessioneer reveals his secret-weapon gear, why he surrendered to the metronome, and the key to nailing that first take

Google hires NBA star Stephen Curry as a "performance advisor" for its Health, Pixel, and Cloud products, including testing Fitbit's new personal health coach (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/762146/google-pixel-stephen-curry…

Google signs Stephen Curry to pitch its Pixel, health, and AI gear
Google has brought NBA star Stephen Curry on board to help shape up the company’s hardware, features, and AI services.

Trump tariffs bring chaos, as shipments halted from Europe, Asia https://cdm.link/trump-de-minimis-chaos/

Trump tariffs bring chaos, as shipments halted from Europe, Asia - CDM Create Digital Music
The Trump administration's trade policies do more than increase costs for US consumers. Their historic scale and disorganized rollout are causing global disruptions. That hurts independent music gear makers and label owners. It's also ironically likely to cripple manufacturers trying to work in the USA. The only (sort of) good news: shippers and exporters are trying to find solutions, and at least some of the disruptions should be temporary. But those solutions won't come free.

MultiPark: Multimodal Parking Transformer with Next-Segment Prediction
Han Zheng, Zikang Zhou, Guli Zhang, Zhepei Wang, Kaixuan Wang, Peiliang Li, Shaojie Shen, Ming Yang, Tong Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11537

MultiPark: Multimodal Parking Transformer with Next-Segment Prediction
Parking accurately and safely in highly constrained spaces remains a critical challenge. Unlike structured driving environments, parking requires executing complex maneuvers such as frequent gear shifts and steering saturation. Recent attempts to employ imitation learning (IL) for parking have achieved promising results. However, existing works ignore the multimodal nature of parking behavior in lane-free open space, failing to derive multiple plausible solutions under the same situation. Notab…

Cowboys veteran RB named fantasy football sleeper for 2025 season https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-javonte-williams-fantasy-football-sleeper-2025-nfl-season

Today's quest: I need one tiny bolt, about two millimeters width, maybe a half centimeter long and thread pitch unknown, to fasten a gear to a tuning peg shaft. I live downtown Toronto. What are my chances?