Hip-hop legend RZA set to lead Music Lab session at San Francisco Apple Store

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Developing Your Sound with RZA will focus on the techniques RZA uses to produce new music. Presented together with smart instrument maker Roli, the session will focus on iPad Pro, GarageBand, and Roli's own musical instruments.

Signups for the session are open now at Apple's website.

For those who can't make it to RZA's in-person session at Union Square on January 27, Apple will offer the same course - featuring a video introduction by RZA - in all of its stores as part of the "Today at Apple" initiative.

Today at Apple is a twist on the company's long-running in-store training and events. It's part of a broader philosophical shift at Apple Retail, designed to integrate stores more tightly into the communities they serve.

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Music Ally: 20 Music/Tech Startups We'll Be Watching in 2018 (Haawk)

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Here at Music Ally, we covered a lot of new music/tech startups for the first time in 2017. We’ve now chosen 20 of them that we think have the potential to make an impact in 2018 and beyond, from analytics to artificial intelligence, and from blockchain tech to radio monitoring.

Haawk
Haawk raised $2.5m of seed funding, and straddled the boundaries of copyright protection and content distribution: it’ll handle YouTube Content ID tasks for its clients, as well as rights management on Facebook, Vimeo and SoundCloud. But it also promises to distribute music to Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon, Pandora and other streaming services, as well as working in the sync-licensing sphere.

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Never Panic About Leaving the Oven On Again: This Smart Sensor Alerts You To Anything Wrong at Home

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Ever leave the house with a nagging panic? Whether your personal nightmare is that you left the coffeepot or iron being left on or the pipes bursting when you're not home on a below-freezing night, there's a new smart home sensor that could be just the kind of anxiety-killing remedy that we need.

Denver-based Notion is a "complete home awareness solution and all-in-one IoT (Internet of Things) home sensor" that can monitor and send you instant alerts on things happening across your entire home — from motion and temperature changes to water leaks and sounding alarms. The second generation of their product, released on November 7th, integrates with your existing Nest thermostat to help you save energy and money — and relieve anxiety.

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HAAWK, Which Tracks Down Revenue for Rights Holders, Buys RoyaltyClaim and TuneRegistry

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HAAWK, a rights management and content monetization firm started by Ad-Rev co founder Ryan Born, has acquired RoyaltyClaim and TuneRegistry. Terms of the deal were not disclosed although Haawk had previously raised $2.5 million in seed venture capital from Rincon Venture Partners.

Prior to this current acquisition, HAAWK bought certain assets from Dart Music, which specialized in cleaning up music rights metadata, among other rights management services. That company filed for bankruptcy last summer and its assets were sold in separate deals to HAAWK and Core Rights LLC this fall.

As part of the current deal, RoyaltyClaim founder Dae Bogan will become CEO of HAAWK while Born will retain the titles of chairman, president and CFO.

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