This probably won’t come as a shock, but I’m something of a nerd when it comes to technology. Yeah, I like gadgets and devices and toys and machines that go “ping,” but I’m especially interested in the tech that affects music—and vice versa.

Back around 2013, I got involved with a company that created a touring museum exhibit that went to science centres around North America. The owner of the company came up with the idea when he heard an “Ongoing History” program called “Format Wars,” which looked at all the different ways music was captured, stored, and distributed: vinyl, tape, CDs, and so on.

We called the exhibit “The Science of Rock’n’Roll,” and it explored how science and music have influenced each other, not just over the years, but over the centuries. The two things go hand in hand, each affecting the other and providing ways for creativity to expand into directions that were once thought impossible.

The exhibit did okay, too, booking runs at science centres in Toronto, Boston, Kansas City, Detroit, Cleveland, and a few other markets.

“The Science of Rock” spun off into a children’s book I co-wrote called “The Science of Song.” It’s aimed at kids 13 and under and STEM teaching: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

It’s been a minute since the book, the museum exhibit, and that original “Format Wars” show, so I thought it might be time to revisit the subject. And with that in mind, here’s a timeline of the biggest technological advances in music.

Prepare to geek out.

Songs heard on this show:

• Beck, Where It’s At
• Bjork, Headphones
• The Kills, Tape Song
• Kraftwerk, The Model
• SSQ, Walkman On
• Red Hot Chili Peppers, Give It Away
• Evanescence, Bring Me to Life
• Sarah McLachlan, Building a Mystery

Here’s Eric Wilhite’s playlist.
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Hollerado is a weirdly creative bunch of guys. Take the case of their album, 111 Songs.

Someone in the group came up with the idea of writing a song for every fan who wrote in and asked for one. The initial concept was to release a special promotional bundle with the record, a T-shirt, a poster and a custom song that would go with their second album, White Paint. Fantastic.

But so many fans wrote in—more than a hundred people paid to be a part of this—that the project took two years to complete. The result is equivalent to more than five full-length albums and was finally released on March 24, 2015. Hollerado went to iTunes who then refused to sell a five-hour collection for nine dollars.

The band wouldn’t compromise—Apple wanted to sell it for $35—so the 111 Songs album has gone down in Hollerado history as a fantastic money-losing passion project.

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Canadian actor Jim Carrey and his girlfriend Min Ah have officially tied the knot.

On Wednesday, a spokesperson for the 64-year-old actor confirmed the news to People, E! News and Entertainment Weekly.

TMZ, who was first to report the news, said that the couple shared their vows in a small, private ceremony in Los Angeles.

The wedding comes seven months after Carrey and Ah were photographed together at the César Awards in Paris in February.

When the Ace Ventura: Pet Detective actor received an honourary award, he gave Ah a shout out during his speech.

“Thank you to my wonderful family, my daughter Jane, and my grandson Jackson. I love you now and forever. Thank you to my sublime companion, Min Ah,” Carrey said in French.

“I love you, Min Ah. And finally, thank you to the funniest man I have ever known: my father, Percy Joseph Carrey who taught me the value of love, generosity, and laughter,” Carrey added.

Carrey and Ah were first photographed together in February 2022 as they were leaving a charity comedy show hosted by Judd Apatow in Los Angeles.

Carrey was previously married to his Dumb and Dumber costar Lauren Holly from 1996 until 1997 and to Melissa Womer, with whom he shares daughter Jane, from 1987 to 1995.

In 2020, the Mask actor told Howard Stern that he doesn’t regret any of his past relationships.

“I don’t regret. I don’t have those things. But I do appreciate the people that have come through my life for the good that they gave me,” Carrey said.

Carrey tends to be very quiet about his personal life.

In 2022, Carrey announced that he was “fairly serious” about ending his acting career.

In an interview with Access Hollywood to promote the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 — where the actor reprised his role as the villainous Robotnik — Carrey said he planned to retire from the big screen.

“Well, I’m retiring,” Carrey said casually, adding that he was “fairly serious” about it.

When asked if he would reconsider for certain opportunities, Carrey said “it depends.”

“If the angels bring some sort of script that’s written in gold ink that says to me that it’s going to be really important for people to see, I might continue down the road, but I’m taking a break,” he said.

Carrey went on to say that he’s content with his life off-screen and has enjoyed working on other forms of art like painting.

“I really like my quiet life and I really like putting paint on canvas and I really love my spiritual life and I feel like — and this is something you might never hear another celebrity say as long as time exists — I have enough. I’ve done enough. I am enough,” he added.

—With files from Global News

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EDMONTON – Ryan Nugent-Hopkins will miss his second straight game Thursday as the Edmonton Oilers visit the Vancouver Canucks.

The veteran forward has been placed on injured reserve with a lower-body injury suffered in practice Monday.

Nugent-Hopkins also sat out Edmonton’s 6-5 overtime loss to Vancouver in Tuesday’s season opener.

Head coach Mike Babcock called Nugent-Hopkins day-to-day, but added that to him that usually means “two weeks.”

The Oilers also placed forward Matthew Savoie and defenceman Alec Regula on long-term injured reserve.

Edmonton recalled forward Josh Samanski from the AHL’s Bakersfield Condors under emergency conditions.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 1, 2026.

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A man wanted in an attempted murder investigation in Brampton, Ont., has been arrested in northern Manitoba three years after an arrest warrant was issued, according to Peel Regional Police.

Police said its investigation dates to Feb. 3, 2022, when officers responded to a shooting near Queen Street East and Rutherford Road in Brampton.

A man was found suffering from gunshot wounds and sustained serious, but non-life-threatening, injuries.

On May 8, 2023, investigators executed search warrants at multiple locations across the Greater Toronto Area and seized five firearms, approximately 10 kilograms of methamphetamine and significant quantities of fentanyl and cocaine.

Police then issued an arrest warrant for 36-year-old Nakeem Jamar Johnson. He was wanted for attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, possession of a firearm, two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking, four counts of knowledge of unauthorized possession, four counts of possession of a loaded prohibited firearm and four counts of possession of a prohibited device.

Johnson was arrested on Sept. 22 in Cross Lake, Man., which is about 530 kilometres north of Winnipeg.

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A Florida woman has been indicted for “attempting to kill” Rihanna, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office alleged on Wednesday.

The unsealed indictment, shared in a press release on Wednesday, revealed that Ivanna Lisette Ortiz, 36, has been indicted after she “fired a semiautomatic rifle at the singer’s Beverly Crest home earlier this year.”

“Every person deserves to feel safe in and around their home,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said. “Shooting at an occupied home is a serious, violent crime that is both reckless and dangerous. It is pure luck and not a matter of restraint that no one was killed or injured.”

The indictment against Ortiz charges her with one count of attempted murder, 10 felony counts of assault with an assault weapon and three felony counts of shooting at an inhabited dwelling or camper.

Ortiz, appearing in court wearing yellow jail clothes, spoke only to her lawyer, who entered a not guilty plea for her on Wednesday. The judge then ordered her held on $2.6 million bail.

She is set to return to court on Oct. 29 for a pretrial hearing at the Foltz Criminal Justice Center.

If convicted as charged, Ortiz faces up to life in state prison.

The move came a day after another judge ruled that Ortiz is mentally competent to stand trial. The secret grand jury proceedings were held as Ortiz was undergoing months of psychiatric evaluation. The jurors returned their indictment June 18, but it was kept under wraps for three months until the judge ruled on her competency.

Ortiz previously pleaded not guilty through her lawyer to more than a dozen other felony counts in Los Angeles Superior Court in March.

Prosecutors say Rihanna, her partner A$AP Rocky, her mother, and her three children, RZA Athleston, 4, Riot Rose, 2, and 1-year-old Rocki Irish Mayers, were all at home during the time of the shooting, and many others were at their home in the Beverly Hills area when Ortiz allegedly opened fire on the property on March 8.

Hochman said when Ortiz was charged that Rihanna and A$AP Rocky were together in an Airstream trailer at the time of the shooting, while her mother, their children and staffers were in the main house.

The three counts of firing at a dwelling were for Rihanna’s house, her trailer and a neighbour’s house, prosecutors said. The 10 assault counts were for Rihanna and family, two staffers and two people in the neighbouring house.

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) responded to a report of the shooting at 1:15 p.m. local time on March 8 in the Beverly Hills Post Office neighbourhood, an LAPD spokesperson told Global News.

The suspect is accused of firing multiple rounds with what police described as an AR-15-style rifle from inside a vehicle, targeting the home of the Love on the Brain singer.

Police discovered bullet-holes in a gate at Rihanna’s home, as well as in an RV parked in the driveway of the property.

This isn’t the first time the Grammy-winning singer has experienced a serious incident at her home.

In 2018, a 27-year-old man broke into Rihanna’s house after hopping a fence, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney.

Rihanna was not home at the time and the man, identified as Eduardo Leon, spent 12 hours inside the home before he was discovered by the singer’s assistant.

Leon pleaded no contest to stalking and was ordered to stay away from Rihanna for 10 years. He was sentenced to formal probation for five years and placed on GPS monitoring for 90 days.

—With files from The Associated Press

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Strength for artificial-intelligence stocks is helping the U.S. market to hold firmer on Thursday, even as pressure from the bond market continues to rattle financial markets worldwide.

The S&P 500 rose 0.3 per cent and was on track to break a three-day losing streak. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 211 points, or 0.4 per cent , as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.5 per cent higher.

Technology stocks helped lead the way after Micron Technology delivered a stronger profit report for the latest quarter than analysts expected. The maker of memory chips for computers also said growth is strengthening, and it gave forecasts for upcoming profit and revenue that topped analysts’ estimates.

CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said it’s benefiting from the AI boom, which is driving demand for memory.

Micron’s stock edged down by 0.1 per cent , which analysts attributed to how much its stock had already jumped before the profit report. It came into the day with a gain of more than 270 per cent for the year so far, towering over the less than 12 per cent rise for the overall S&P 500.

But other AI stocks benefited from Micron’s optimism about continued demand related to AI. Nvidia rose 0.6 per cent , and Alphabet climbed 1.5 per cent after Google released its latest AI model, Gemini 4 Argon.

The gains came despite more swings in the bond market, where fast-rising yields have been rattling financial markets worldwide.

The 10-year Treasury edged up to 5.30 per cent from 5.29 per cent late Wednesday. That’s near its highest level since 2002, but any kind of plateau would count as relief when the 10-year yield has been jumping from less than 5 per cent roughly a week ago and from less than four per cent before the war with Iran began.

High yields slow the overall economy by making it more expensive for everyone to borrow money, while undercutting prices for stocks and other investments.

Yields are on the rise for a range of reasons, including worries about high inflation and oil prices, signals that the U.S. economy remains solid and Washington’s insistence to continue to spend much more money than it brings in.

Those worries don’t look to be going away anytime soon, and oil prices climbed again Thursday to keep the pressure up on inflation. The price for a barrel of Brent crude oil rose 1.9 per cent to US$99.88, continuing its swings on uncertainty about when the war with Iran will allow the global oil industry to return to normal.

Another report also signaled the U.S. economy is powering through its many challenges. Fewer U.S. workers applied for unemployment benefits last week, which could mean fewer layoffs. That followed a report on Wednesday that said the U.S. economy’s overall growth was even stronger in the spring than earlier thought.

Canada’s main stock index, the Toronto Stock Exchange, dipped slightly at the open by about 0.1 per cent, as gains for some technology stocks were offset by losses concentrated in the financial and banking sector. Shares of Shopify were up 2.3 per cent, Blackberry’s stock gained 2.5 per cent and Constellation Software was up close to four per cent, while shares of some of Canada’s largest banks were down between roughly 0.75 and 1.5 per cent each.

In stock markets abroad, London’s FTSE 100 dropped 0.8 per cent after the 10-year U.K. government bond’s yield briefly jumped to 5.53 per cent before pulling back to 5.42 per cent . The CAC 40 in Paris fell 0.6 per cent following a similar, early-morning leap for the 10-year French government bond yield.

In Asia, stock indexes finished stronger thanks to optimism around AI following Micron’s profit report. Japan’s Nikkei 225 jumped 3.3 per cent , and South Korea’s Kospi climbed 1.9 per cent.

– with a file from Global News’ Ariel Rabinovitch

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Trailer Park Boys actor Mike Smith, known for playing Bubbles on the show, has had a sexual assault charge against him dismissed in a Nova Scotia court.

A three-day trial was set to begin Thursday, after he pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual assault in connection to an incident alleged to have taken place on Dec. 30, 2017.

Media packed the Dartmouth, N.S., provincial courthouse Thursday morning, expecting Smith to appear.

Smith’s defence lawyer, Stan MacDonald appeared on his behalf. The Crown told the judge they would be submitting no evidence in the matter, and the defence motioned for the charge to be dismissed, which was granted.

“Smith is happy to put this behind him,” MacDonald told the media outside the courtroom.

In a statement, Trailer Park Boys Incorporated, which handles the business operations of the TV franchise, stated Smith will be “resuming his responsibilities.”

“The court has dismissed the charge against Michael Smith, concluding the legal proceedings that began in October 2025 regarding an allegation dating to December 2017,” the statement read.

“Now that he is cleared of this matter, Mike is resuming his responsibilities with Trailer Park Boys Incorporated.”

The company added it will provide no further comment.

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From the instantly recognizable sound of The Blue Album to Pinkerton and the many records that followed, fans have spent decades arguing over which Weezer album truly stands above the rest.

Now, they are weighing in.

In an interview with host Drex, band members Brian Bell and Scott Shriner share their thoughts. Their answers offer an interesting look at the records that have defined the band’s career, while potentially giving fans a new perspective on some familiar favourites.

Whether you have a personal pick locked in or you’re still debating the merits of Weezer’s extensive catalogue, this is a question worth hearing the band answer for themselves.

Watch and see if you agree with their choice.

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An Indian airline captain who was at the controls of a FlyDubai flight when his copilot stabbed him in an apparent attempt to crash the plane has been hailed as a hero, with his actions to thwart the disaster drawing praise from world leaders and those who knew him.

Capt. Smit Machchhar, who is from India’s financial hub of Mumbai, was seriously injured in Wednesday’s attack. Passengers described how the pilot still managed to open the cockpit door to let them in. They restrained the attacker while the Boeing 737 descended sharply, according to witnesses and Israeli authorities.

The attack forced the flight carrying 174 people from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to Tel Aviv, Israel, to make an emergency landing in Tabuk in northwestern Saudi Arabia.

Machchhar was taken to a hospital in stable condition, the Indian Embassy in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, said late Wednesday. Embassy officials said Thursday that his family had been briefed on his recovery.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday called Machchhar a hero.

“In the face of the gravest danger and despite being seriously injured, he showed immense courage and an unwavering resolve to protect the lives of others. His valor helped save hundreds of lives and avert a great tragedy,” Modi wrote on X.

Modi also praised the captain for demonstrating “patience, presence of mind and courage,” saying his “actions prevented another 9/11-like attack from happening.” He said he had spoken with Machchhar’s parents and wife and that the pilot was undergoing treatment.

“Smit’s bravery fills every Indian with pride,” Modi said.

According to Machchhar’s LinkedIn profile, he has worked for FlyDubai for about four years. Before joining the airline, he spent 11 years with SpiceJet, an Indian low-cost carrier, where he served as a senior commander and line training captain. He logged more than 9,750 flying hours with SpiceJet, according to the profile.

SpiceJet, in a post on X, praised Machchhar’s “heroic courage” and “selfless actions.” “You are a hero to us all, Captain,” the airline wrote.

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Machchhar, who is married and has two children, trained as a pilot at Mainland Air in the New Zealand city of Dunedin for 18 months, beginning in 2008, the school’s head Philip Kean told 1News, a New Zealand television news channel.

Kean said Machchhar “did very well” as a student and later returned to India, where he worked as a recruiter for the school.

“We’re all very proud of him here and wish him a speedy recovery,” Kean said.

The school, which opened in 1991, offers a range of certifications, from private pilots’ licenses to a diploma in aviation, and is popular with international students.

A report published last year by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority found that 39 international students, all from India, were enrolled at the school at the time of its review, accounting for half of its total enrollment.

In a podcast interview last year, Machchhar recalled how nervous he was and how he made mistakes during his first commercial flight in India, and the lessons he learned from the experience.

“At that stage, relaxing would have been the best option, he told interviewer Zalak Mehta of the Bona-Fide Banter podcast.

“Stressing is not going to help, at least … in this industry,” he added.

Machchhar also described an onboard emergency when a pregnant woman went into premature labor, forcing the crew to divert the plane. He said he followed procedures carefully and ensured a safe landing on the first attempt.

“It was methodical. It was quick. It was as quick as it should have been,” he said.

Wednesday’s attack triggered a major security response in Israel, with authorities scrambling fighter jets in case of a possible hijacking.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attacker, an Omani national, was arrested in Saudi Arabia and was undergoing interrogation there. His motive for the attack was not immediately clear.

Netanyahu also praised Machchhar’s “extraordinary bravery” in a post on X, saying the wounded captain fought back after being stabbed, opened the cockpit door and helped passengers and crew overpower the attacker, preventing what Netanyahu described as a “catastrophic midair disaster.”

“He saved the lives of 174 people, including Israeli citizens and other nationals,” Netanyahu wrote.

Shota Musayev, a dentist and eyewitness, told The Associated Press how the wounded Machchhar managed to open the cockpit door to let them in before they grappled with the copilot.

Musayev then treated Machchhar.

“Poor pilot, he was just praying the whole time and was in contact with me, and I was afraid we would really lose him,” Musayev said.

In Ghatkopar East, the Mumbai suburb where Machchhar’s family lives, neighbors spoke of how easy-going he is and also lauded his courage.

“He has a lot of bravery in him,” said Ami Sapani, a neighbour who knows the family. “God is with him.”

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