Apple's new streaming music service arrives next week, report says

Apple may be just days away from showing off its new Spotify competitor — and it almost certainly spells the end of the Beats service Apple purchased for $3 billion last year

The company will unveil a two-tier music streaming service at its World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco next week, according to a Wall Street Journal report . The streaming platform will roll out as an update to the company's Music app, with an upcoming update to iOS.

See also: Apple reportedly working on a Google Now competitor

Citing "people familiar with the talks," the report claims Apple has been "rushing" to make the service ready and finalize licensing deals with labels. Three of the biggest labels — Sony, Warner Music and Universal Music — have yet to sign off on the service, which could potentially delay the announcement. The Journal calls that eventuality "unlikely." Read more...

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Privacy Advocates Hope Sunset Of Section 215 Marks Dawn Of Surveillance Reform

In a rare Sunday session, the Senate voted 77 to 17 yesterday to advance the USA Freedom Act, a bill that hopes to rein in, albeit partially, the NSA’s surveillance programs that touch American citizens. The procedural vote’s success will likely lead to a mid-week vote on the bill itself. While the Senate has moved forward in the work of reauthorizing parts of law that the NSA… Read More

25 of the most potent TV commercial earworms ever, all in one video

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Watching a cascade of 11,000 marbles is oddly satisfying

One engineer just created the coolest toy ever.

Marble machine engineer Jelle Bakker has built the most epic of marble run machines: a behemoth that allows more than 11,000 marbles to slip and slide down its ramps. In the video's YouTube description, Bakker describes the sound of so many marbles racing each other as almost "deafening."

Sorry, but this probably puts any marble collection you might have to shame.

Dental student removes his own wisdom teeth while looking in a mirror

Amy Schumer has a ruff time as a stripper for a dog's bachelor party

Police dash cam captures extremely close lightning strike

Finally, an X-Wing drone is added to the fleet of DIY 'Star Wars' airships Read more...

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Non-Sequiturs: 06.01.15

* The "Stepford Hipsters" of Abercrombie & Fitch have to make reasonable accommodations for employees wearing hijabs. [ATL Redline] * The EPA is seeking comment to a proposal to limit the pesticide exposure of bees, yeah... I am sure a few labels will stop the coming global agricultural disaster that colony collapse portends. [JD Supra] * David Boies is leading a legal all-star team fighting the construction of a new Warriors Arena, guess BSF will be rooting for the Cavs. [San Francisco Business Times] * We love a dash of dry humor buried in an answer -- classic rockers Led Zeppelin admit to being one of the "greatest bands in history," deny other allegations. [Lowering the Bar] * On the rarity of Mark Fuller resigning from the federal judiciary -- it is about a once-in-every-ten-years kind of an event. [Legal Schnauzer] * Creating laws to keep up with advancements in artificial intelligence is bound to be... complicated. [Legal Theory Blog] * Judge Alex Kozinski gets testy in a dissent, calling the result (denying insurance coverage for sunken oil barrels before they started actually leaking) "absurd." [Trial Insider]

Second Circuit Sympathetic To Contract Attorneys?

Is it possible the 2d Circuit will be on the side of doc reviewers?

Global warming may cause largest ocean species migration in 3 million years

If greenhouse gas emissions are not curtailed soon, then global warming may bring about the most sweeping re-arrangement of ocean species in at least 3 million years, according to a new study

The study, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, shows that by the end of the century, the polar regions may be have some of the most abundant and diverse sea life of anywhere on the planet, while the tropics, which are currently the crown jewel of marine species richness, may be drained of much of its iconic marine life.

The stakes involved in which ocean species live where are high since, globally, we depend on proteins derived from fish, crustaceans and mollusks for up to a quarter of our animal protein intake, according to the World Health Organization. In 2010, fish provided more than 2.9 billion people with almost 20% of their intake of animal protein, according to the Marine Stewardship Council, and 4.3 billion people with about 15% of such protein. In some countries, these figures are higher Read more...

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