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IN THE POCKET He was once king of the green baize, but now snooker legend Steve Davis appears to be forging a new career as a DJ, playing festival dates throughout the summer. We’re guessing that he’ll do fine at cueingcuein up the records, particularly if there are breaks involved…

MAN ENOUGH TO BE MAU5? EverE wanted to be deadmau5? Well, now you can experience what his life is (possibly) like in a VR game known as Absolut deadmau5, whichwhi challenges you to navigate the streets of Toronto and make it to a gig. You can don the virtual ears on iOS and Android.

DRIVE TIME To us, computer music hardware might mean MIDI controllers and monitors, but to Paweł Zadrożniak it means floppy drives, hard disks and scanners. He’s used them to create the masterful Floppotron 2, which can play a variety of songs including the Star Wars theme.

VIDEO NO-GO A patent approval suggests that Apple may be planning to implement an infrared-based technology that could be used by venues to stop iPhone cameras from operating. Well, perhaps at least it means fewer people holding their smartphones in the air.

BERNIE WORRELL RIP Music suffered another sad loss in June, when it was announced that Bernie Worrell, the king of P-funk keyboard playing, had lost his battle with lung cancer. A supremely talented musician, Bernie could play the Minimoog like no one else.

BAD BLOOD... It’s common for couples to bicker over possessions when n they split up. Calvin Harris and Taylor Swift gave it a musical twist recently, indulging in some public bickering over authorship of the Rihanna-sung This Is What You Came For.