Cracker frontman David Lowery is suing Spotify for $150 million over unpaid royalties. Does he have a point?
David Lowery is upset again. The former frontman for ’90s alt-rock band Cracker is once again taking aim at the new digital music economy. This time, his target is Spotify and the way it handles royalty payments for artists.
Congress also set aside more money for the space agency than the Obama Administration had asked for: almost $19.3 billion for next year.
Congress has asked NASA to figure out how astronauts might set up camp on the Red Planet (assuming they survive the six-month journey).
CVS, Walgreens, Kaiser, and Department of Veterans Affairs among biggest leakers, reports ProPublica. Now you can look up the details.
The U.S. has strict rules against the unauthorized sharing of medical records, codified in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. But a new report by the investigative journalists at ProPublica uncovered plenty of privacy breaches, suggesting that the government has been shoddy at enforcing the law and in tracking repeat offenders. CVS, for example, violated HIPAA 204 times between 2011 and 2014; the government’s own Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) led the march of shame, with 220 major violations.
Mark Zuckerberg, Afghanistan, diversity in tech, and more . . .
The gifts have been gifted. The in-laws are gone. It’s time to relax. We’ve compiled a list of our favorite Fast Company longreads that you may have missed during this long and busy year. So, in this blissful time between merry madness and the start of 2016, read about Mark Zuckerberg’s plans for the future of Facebook, the U.S.’s challenge of getting out of Afghanistan, the state of tech’s gender-diversity push, or—for something lighter—what the condiment aisle says about current American demographics in Hot Sauce, USA.
When visiting China, Rex Kuo and Charles Ng of Australia-based Orbitkey learned a warmer way of doing business.
When Rex Kuo and Charles Ng began to build their company, Orbitkey, which sells a kind of futuristic key ring, they found themselves taking a lot of meetings with suppliers in China. They found business was done quite differently there than in Australia (where Orbitkey is based).
Bitcoin has yet to find its “killer app” but the currency’s being traded at higher volumes than ever.
Though headlines about bitcoin this year have focused on the challenges facing the cryptocurrency, it’s still booming with some of the highest mining and transaction rates in its history, according to recent statistics.
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