Janet Jackson and her catalog of songs have done things to our hearts and minds for years. Apparently, the rhythm in her nation does things to laptops too. Raymond Chen, a Microsoft employee, has been ...

Raymond Chen wrote about the discovery regarding Jackson's signature 1989 music video earlier this month in a blog post, and the Empress of Pop has since reacted via Instagram Jack Irvin has over five ...

Janet Jackson is still a major force in pop culture, but she used to be everywhere. Her records topped charts. Her music videos played endlessly. The merest glimpse of just one of her nipples could ...

Janet Jackson’s 1989 hit “Rhythm Nation” was a pop game-changer — a cutting-edge smash that incorporated the militaristic clatter of industrial music and Public Enemy in the context of a towering, ...

For a decade or so, a major threat to your laptop wasn’t a virus, malware, or hacking — it was Janet Jackson’s hit song, “Rhythm Nation.” What you might think of as an apocryphal urban legend was ...

Janet Jackson's album Rhythm Nation has reached a major milestone, and fans are celebrating. Rhythm Nation was released on September 19, 1989, meaning that the album has reached its milestone 35th ...

We are a part of a rhythm nation...that is accidentally destroying our hard drives. Gif: Gizmodo/A&M Records In more vintage music news, Janet Jackson’s 1989 dance-pop song “Rhythm Nation” is making ...

Few musicologists have taken a genre’s pulse as literally as Richard J. Ripani, who has counted the number of beats per minute in a half-century of rhythm-and-blues hits, from the Johnny Otis ...

In his blog, The Old New Thing, Microsoft principal software engineer Raymond Chen revealed that most Windows XP-era laptops (circa 2001-2007) can’t handle playing the music video for Janet Jackson’s ...

Microsoft's chief software engineer blogged about it. Raymond Chen says a specific frequency, like the one in "Rhythm Nation," makes Windows XP hard drives go black. Good morning. I'm Rachel Martin.

Millions of people have been turning up to Janet Jackson‘s ‘Rhythm Nation’ for over three decades, but some laptop computers apparently are not fans of the chart-topper. Last week, Microsoft revealed ...