Did You Know an Oil Engineer Created Auto-Tune?

Cher's "Believe," released in 1998, was the first song to utilize Auto-Tune's now ubiquitous vocal warping vocal effects that experienced massive commercial success. What was most memorable about it wasn't that the vocals sounded mechanical or synthesized (certainly that had been done before), it was the way that they moved—seemingly jumping from pitch to pitch.

Since then Antares Audio Technology's Auto-Tune has become a brand name to the process of pitch correction—like Unilever's Popsicle is to frozen treats, or Jacuzzi is to...jacuzzis. For many, it has also become a modern parable for mass-manufactured music, peddled to an undiscerning public like an unsafe food additive.

Nonetheless, it continues to be used across all genres of music (whether your know it or not). James Blake has coaxed warm, soulful character from it; other artists, like Aphex Twin point to the otherworldly and not-quite-human aspects in a more unsettling way.

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A Goat Behind The Wheel of A Car Makes People Go Crazy

The goat's owner, Ashley Robertson, told INSIDE EDITION she had just collected the goat to take home to her farm. But on the way, she realized she needed to stop at Home Depot for a toilet gasket and briefly left him alone inside the car.

"He managed to squeeze in the front seat while I was in the store," she said. "He turned on the wipers and hazard lights, drank an old cup of McD's soda and ate a nutty bar and its wrapper. He then proceeded to poop on the seat before returning to the back of the car."

She only realized that the goat had been spotted by passersby when her sister shared the video with her and said: "This is something you would do."

Robertson said: "I watched it and realized it WAS me!"

She is both "shocked and amused" by the video, she said.

The goat is now back at Robertson's farm, where he is happily living with four female goats, chickens, dogs and cats.

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The Woman Who Makes Prosthetic Pinkies for Ex-Yakuza Members

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Is Gloving an Art Form Or a Drug Accessory? We Investigated the Crackdown on LED Gloves at EDM Festivals

The success of the art form can be seen in its fans' devotion to it online. Videos of famous glovers like Gummy and Skittles have upwards of three million YouTube views each, and the most popular gloving group on Facebook, Glover's Lounge, has nearly 20,000 members.

But just as the gloving community was coalescing on the internet over the last few years, the art form hit a major IRL roadblock in 2010, when a 15-year-old named Sasha Rodriguez died after attending Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) in Los Angeles. The coroner's office later ruled that her cause of death was due to complications from taking MDMA.

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IS OVO SOUND A RAP LABEL OR DRAKE'S PERSONAL HIT FACTORY?

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Late last month Toronto R&B/house duo Majid Jordan gave an interview at New York rap radio staple Hot 97’s Ebro in the Morning show about the advancing profile of new Canadian hip-hop and their own ascent on the heels of Drake’s “Hold On, We’re Going Home,” the 2013 hit single they co-wrote and co-produced for their label head’s Nothing Was the Same.

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11 new buildings, planned for downtown Portland, totaling over $1.5 billion in investment

Portland's Goodman family wants to add 11 new buildings and lure $1.5 billion in investment to one of downtown Portland's oldest neighborhoods. Courtesy of Downtown Development Group The Goodmans recently unveiled the proposal, which they call the "Ankeny Blocks," in anticipation of zoning changes the city plans to make that would allow developers to build taller buildings downtown. Five of the Ankeny Blocks buildings could rise as high as 460 feet, which would rank them among the tallest in the city.

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This Website Shows When The Simpsons Did It First

This is a very fast and easy way to find your favorite Simpson's quote. Frinkiac lets you to search "nearly 3 million" screen-caps of The Simpsons TV show. After you have found an image, you can go Frame by Frame to find the best moment before adding text to make a meme.

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