engineers
Mike Dean is back in the spotlight with his new album 4:23 featuring The Weeknd as co-executive producer. The Dawn FM hitmaker also lends his vocals to four tracks: “Defame Moi,” “Artificial Intelligence,” “More Coke,” and “Emotionless.” The stalwart multi-instrumentalist, producer, engineer, blunt god, and all-around legend revealed on Twitter that he and The Weeknd followed their back-to-back Coachella appearances supporting Metro Boomin […]
An apparent payout mistake resulted in Google sending a security engineer and self-described hacker nearly $250,000. Sam Curry, who works as a security engineer for the blockchain tech company Yuga Labs, revealed in a recently shared tweet that it’s been several weeks since Google “randomly sent me $249,999.” At the time, Curry added, he had […]
In an interview with Kevin Durant and his podcast co-host Eddie Gonzalez, engineer Derek “MixedByAli” Ali revealed just how much music Kendrick Lamar leaves on the cutting room floor. Ali has worked with Kendrick on every one of his solo albums since 2012’s Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, but he says he’s worked on a lot more than […]
Jaden Smith salutes Nikola Tesla in the newly released MSFTSrep collection. On Tuesday, the multihyphenate dropped the fall/winter 2020 range inspired by the inventor/engineer’s life and work. There’s 22 unisex pieces include references to some of Tesla’s most notable projects—such as the earthquake generator and death ray—and embodies one of his most famous quotes: “If you want to find […]
If it weren’t for the lockdowns, Cardi B‘s “WAP” may have never seen the light of day. Less than two weeks after the record-breaking hit was released, Cardi’s go-to music engineer revealed how the track was created amid the global health crisis. Evan LaRay Brunson told Grammy.com that the Bronx rapper had recorded the first verse to “WAP” back in 2019, but didn’t revisit the track […]
Some new Drizzy is on the near horizon. On Tuesday, OVO engineer Noel Cadastre celebrated his birthday by revealing that Drake is 90 percent done with his latest album. “Studio for my bday,” Noel captioned his latest Instagram post. “we 90% but y’all gonna have to wait on that last 10% [shrug emoji].” Drake paired this […]
MythBusters host and electrical engineer Grant Imahara has passed away. He was 49. According to the The Hollywood Reporter, Imahara died after he suffered from a brain aneurysm. “We are heartbroken to hear this sad news about Grant. He was an important part of our Discovery family and a really wonderful man. Our thoughts and prayers go […]
When Travis Scott’s ASTROWORLD dropped in 2018, it initially released with a bizarre mix on the Nav and Gunna collab “Yosemite.” While both Travis Scott and Gunna’s vocals were at an ideal volume on the track, Nav’s closing verse was substantially quieter seemingly for no reason. The volume of the verse was later tweaked, but Travis […]
Serial troll Elon Musk is back at it on Twitter. The SpaceX founder sent out a tweet suggesting that Tesla had received 250,000 pre-orders for the Cybertruck on Tuesday, but all is not as it seems. He tweeted “250k” in what is likely a reference to the number of pre-orders his company has received. The “orders” […]
A 9-year-old Belgian boy is about to receive a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. Laurent Simons is gearing up to graduate from the Eindhoven University of Technology in December and already has his eyes set on a Ph.D. In an interview with CNN, Laurent’s parents credited the boy’s grandparents with noting that the child could […]
