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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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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Subreddit moderators far removed from recent bannings say they're concerned with Reddit's leadership and strategy — Reddit Is A Shrine To The Internet We Wanted And That's A Problem — Reddit has a problem. It's a well-documented problem, which, oddly, is a big part of the problem.
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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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| 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 …
| 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 …
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| 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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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Profile of Yahoo's Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos, man in-charge of securing web properties that collectively serve over a billion users — Paranoid-in-Chief: Yahoo's Alex Stamos Wants to Secure the Entire Internet — It's an early and sunny Saturday after the week-long RSA …
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| 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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| Bertel King, Jr / Android Police: |
Amazon Releases Fire OS 5 Developer Preview Based On Android Lollipop, Official Launch Slated For Later This Year — Born and raised in the rural South, Bertel knows what it's like to live without 4G LTE - or 3G, for that matter. The only things he likes sweeter than his tea are his gadgets … | 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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