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Taylor Swift will withhold her latest album “1989” from Apple Music, says lack of royalties during three month free trial hurts smaller artists — To Apple, Love Taylor — I write this to explain why I'll be holding back my album, 1989, from the new streaming service, Apple Music.
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Idea for a new “dependent contractor” class of workers gains momentum as on-demand companies face lawsuits from contract workers — What A New Class Of Worker Could Mean For The Future Of Labor — Faced with lawsuits that could threaten their business models …
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| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
Amazon starts weighting product ratings to favor reviews that are newer, helpful, and verified — Amazon updates customer reviews with new machine-learning platform — The e-commerce giant created a new in-house model to show off more up-to-date and helpful reviews for buyers.
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| Zac Bowden / WinBeta: |
Windows Insiders get Windows 10 for free, Windows 7/8.1 not required — Microsoft published a blog post last night which spoke about a number of things which are changing for Windows Insiders on the heels of the Windows 10 RTM, which is set to launch on July 29th.
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| Justin Pritchard / Associated Press: |
CA DMV releases incident reports for self driving car prototypes: 6 accidents, most in self-driving mode, caused by other drivers, no serious injuries — California reveals details of self-driving car accidents — LOS ANGELES (AP) — California state officials released reports Thursday …
| Sebastian Anthony / Ars Technica: |
How lithium-ion batteries, industrial design and Moore's law created modern laptops — The creation of the modern laptop — An in-depth look at lithium-ion batteries, industrial design, Moore's law, and more. — The world's first commercial laptop—though that is certainly stretching the term—was the Osborne 1.
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| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg Business: |
Former US Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges who allegedly stole $820K in bitcoin during Silk Road investigation to plead guilty — Ex-U.S. Agent Charged With Bitcoin Theft to Plead Guilty — One of two former U.S. agents charged with pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars … | Peter Wayner / The Atlantic: |
Amazon to pay authors of self-published Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owners' Lending Library e-books based on pages read, not downloads, from July 1st — What If Authors Were Paid Every Time Someone Turned a Page? — When I recently learned of Amazon's new plan to pay some authors … | Dune Lawrence / Bloomberg Business: |
The nine-year-old history of the notorious Zeus malware and the hunt for its creator, the financial industry's most-wanted hacker — The Hunt for the Financial Industry's Most-Wanted Hacker … In any global outbreak, it's important to identify Patient Zero. In the movies, you get a leggy Gwyneth Paltrow.
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| Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey says VR will be primarily for gamers and enthusiasts for at least 2 years — Oculus Rift Inventor Palmer Luckey: Virtual Reality Will Make Distance Irrelevant (Q&A) — Will virtual reality be as significant a new technology as smartphones were a decade ago?| Jennifer Parker / Bloomberg Business: |
Travel industry tests using virtual reality experiences to advertise travel destinations — How Oculus and Cardboard Are Going to Rock the Travel Industry — As advertisers jump on VR, it may just be a matter of time before you can rack up air miles, virtually — Holy cow.
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| Joel Hruska / ExtremeTech: |
AMD denies rumor that it's mulling breakup or spinoff — Rumors about AMD's breakup or acquisition by various companies are common, but they don't often come from the likes of Reuters. According to the news agency, AMD is once-again mulling a breakup or spinoff.
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