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Leaked from today's 404 episode:

- What it's like to experience new technology after 25 years in jail.

- Ante up that $100 if you want to message Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

- Why the next big DJ will be an algorithm.

- Enough with the social-media "gurus," "ninjas," "masters," and "mavens."… Read more

There comes a time in the life of every yodel when it's time to try something different.

As you might have heard or seen if you've opened a computer, switched on a television, or walked down a city street over the last week, Yahoo has a new ad campaign.

As part of the $100 million effort, Yahoo sought out musicians to record the famous Yahoo yodel in just about every corporate-sanctioned niche musical category, and it released the results of the effort on Monday.

Like your yodel to sound like Coldplay? We recommend Modern Rock 2. Looking for … Read more

To music fans of a certain age, the word Muzak conjures up treacly instrumental versions of popular rock songs, piped to captive audiences in places like elevators and dentists' offices. But in fact, Muzak had a long history of recording and broadcasting transcriptions of classic jazz and Tin Pan Alley songs before it took this unfortunate turn in the 1960s and '70s, and in the '80s it evolved into a pioneer of satellite radio, offering 15 channels of programmed music from established artists--years before XM and Sirius started doing same thing for consumers. Now, it offers more than 80 channels, … Read more