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Ten years ago, at the Boston Music Hack Day held at the MIT I built the Infinite Jukebox - a hack that takes (almost) any song and makes it last (nearly) forever. The hack made use of the Echo Nest audio analysis to identify parts of the song that were self similar and automatically created looping points that the engine could use to play an every changing and never ending version of the song.

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In today’s issue of Back Row: Brad Pitt’s face has been captivating the internet; I interviewed a doctor whose speculation that he’s had a facelift has gone viral. , author of , offers her take on the fascination with Pitt — and the veracity of plastic surgery analysis videos on TikTok and Reels. News highlights from London Fashion Week, including Daniel Lee’s heavy-handed new Burberry collection. Seven months ago, a Reddit user shared a photo of Brad Pitt, writing, “This is Brad Pitt @ 59 years old.

It seems kind of crazy, but after more than a decade of being friendly on social media and having dozens of common friends, Kay Murray and I finally met in person for the first time recently at the Soccerex conference in Miami Beach. Not surprisingly, she was just as warm in person as you would have expected, dropping what she was doing to sit down and talk. At the end of our conversation, I asked if she’d be up for coming on my podcast, and she said yes.

María Fernanda Mora’s willingness to get out of her comfort zone is extremely impressive. The Mexico City-based Liga MX Femenil broadcaster, studio host and journalist for Fox Sports Mexico speaks English as her third language (after Spanish and German), but she didn’t hesitate to agree to be interviewed publicly in English for the first time when I asked her about it recently. And there was a lot to talk about. On Monday night, the two best teams historically in the Mexican women’s league, Tigres and Monterrey, were set to meet again, and the Mexican women’s national team will try to get back to the World Cup for the first time since 2015 in July at the CONCACAF qualifying tournament in Monterrey.

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Peter Berg’s 2008 superhero flick, Hancock, turned 15 earlier this month. But I doubt anyone would want to remember (let alone celebrate) this anniversary. If you google the movie, chances are you’ll quickly learn how viciously viewers hated it for promising an unconventional superhero tale (interestingly, the film wasn’t based on a comic) and delivering a dumpster fire. Yet, despite its terrible reputation, Hancock isn’t as awful as most of its haters (I doubt it has any fans) recall.

9/10 In recent years I’ve become increasingly fascinated by professional wrestling as a form of theatrical entertainment, yet knew little about the Von Erich wrestling family. I purposely avoided reading about the Von Erichs prior to seeing The Iron Claw. All I knew was that the family was known for its tragic history. Finally seeing that history left me floored. The first comparison that came to mind was the biblical story of Job, in which Satan inflicts repeated calamities and injustices upon the godly Job to taste his faith.