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+ - Music industry first revenue increase since 1999, thanks to digital distribution->

Submitted by Zaatxe
Zaatxe writes "The music industry, the first media business to be consumed by the digital revolution, said on Tuesday that its global sales rose last year for the first time since 1999, raising hopes that a long-sought recovery might have begun. The increase, of 0.3 percent, was tiny, and the total revenue, $16.5 billion, was a far cry from the $38 billion that the industry took in at its peak more than a decade ago. Still, even if it is not time for the record companies to party like it’s 1999, the figures, reported Tuesday by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, provide significant encouragement. “At the beginning of the digital revolution it was common to say that digital was killing music,” said Edgar Berger, chief executive of the international arm of Sony Music Entertainment. Now, he added, it could be said “that digital is saving music.”"
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+ - Another meteorite can explode over the Chelyabinsk region tonight->

Submitted by gold928s
gold928s writes "(Translated from Russian) According to the federal media, another meteorite can explode over the Earth today, 15 February, in the evening at 23:00.
The explosion of the first flying object was felt throughout the Chelyabinsk region, as well as in the neighboring Sverdlovsk, Tyumen and Kurgan regions, injuring 100, three seriously. Windows shattered and some buildings were affected. Many amazing videos of the sonic boom and trail surfacing on Youtube."
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