You can spend your entire life devouring music, both new and old, and barely scratch the surface of all there is to discover.

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When Lou Reed dropped out of this year's lineup, it meant only 77-year-old reggae producer Lee "Scratch" Perry was left to represent boomer-era music.

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Two years ago, Microsoft scrapped its old mobile operating system and started from scratch.

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That's a lot of scratch for a 13-year-old who just wants to hack the ball around with his friends.

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Improving the atmosphere in an existing stadium is obviously different to building it up from scratch and Keirle says one solution for Old Trafford could be to pump noise via microphones around the ground.

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But this approach is such a radical change from the operation of the old console that games developers will be forced to start from scratch, using a new style of computer programming to produce games for the PlayStation 3.

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Four years after being appointed, Johansson is in some ways starting from scratch - an unexpected way for the 57-year-old itinerant Swede to bow out, which he will do after the tournament.

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Repair specialists iFixit carried out a scratch test on the iPhone 5, and discovered that a two-year-old could make a new iPhone 5 look real old, real fast.

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The plant was built from scratch, using Japanese factories as a benchmark, so there weren't a lot of old habits to break.

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