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Twitter is testing a feature that lets a tweet's author limit who can reply, giving the options of Everyone, People You Follow, and Only People You Mention — Twitter today acknowledged that it's begun testing a new setting that let users limit who can reply to tweets.
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Joe Rogan's podcast, which he said had ~190M downloads/month in 2019, will become a Spotify exclusive this year; his YouTube will no longer have full episodes — A massive gain for the platform — Joe Rogan, comedian and host of one of the most popular podcasts in the world, is taking his show to Spotify.
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| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Joe Rogan's Spotify deal will likely be worth $100M+; his full 11-year library will hit Spotify Sept. 1 and be exclusive to Spotify before year's end — His full library, dating back 11 years, is to hit the service Sept. 1, and become exclusive to Spotify after that, before the end of the year
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Shopify unveils a business debit card called Shopify Balance, Shop Pay Installments for merchants, and opens its AI-powered fulfillment network to merchants — Shopify today announced a slew of finance, shipping, and retail updates for its direct-to-consumer commerce platform.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo says Apple may not include wired EarPods in iPhone 12 box to boost AirPods sales, and raises AirPods sales estimates for 2020 from 80M to 93M units — According to the latest report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple may not include the wired EarPods headphones in the box of the iPhone 12.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple and Google launch the first public version of their Exposure Notification API in updates to iOS and Android — Apple and Google today made available the first public version of their exposure notification API, which was originally debuted as a joint-contact tracing software tool.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian ride-hailing company Ola says it is cutting 1,400 jobs, or 35% of its workforce in the country, as revenue dropped by 95% in the last two months — Ola said on Wednesday it is cutting 1,400 jobs in India, or 35% of its workforce in the home market, as the ride-hailing firm works …
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| Ray Kurzweil / Wired: |
Vaccine trials that use AI to rapidly test trillions of possibilities with simulated patients could replace slow and costly human clinical trials — Simulators that can rapidly test trillions of options would accelerate the slow and costly process of human clinical trials.
Tweets: @nxthompson, @wired, @mlipsitch, and @maartenvsmeden
| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Telemedicine company American Well raises $194M and says it's seen a 1,000% increase in virtual visits on average because of the pandemic — - Companies in the telemedicine space are continuing to attract investors during the coronavirus pandemic. — That's because many hospitals … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook will limit offices to 25% occupancy, put people on shifts, and require temperature checks and masks when it reopens workplaces in July — - Company plans to put employees on shifts to reduce numbers — Grab-and-go meals, temperature checks, updated shuttles coming| Taylor Lyles / The Verge: |
Sony says PlayStation Now has 2.2M subscribers and PlayStation Plus has 41M+ subs; Xbox Game Pass had 10M subs and Xbox Live had 90M active users in April — PlayStation Plus has amassed over 41 million subscribers, too — Sony says 2.2 million people are subscribed to PlayStation Now …
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| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
A look at Crucible, the first of two major titles scheduled for release this year from Amazon Games, shows that Amazon is finally serious about video games — An intriguing blend of MOBA and battle royale. — 4m ago — Amazon does seemingly everything.| Nick Corasaniti / New York Times: |
Profile of the founders of Occupy Democrats, who run a Facebook page employing meme tactics for the left, regularly outperforming pages for Trump and Fox News — Occupy Democrats, a Facebook page that Rafael and Omar Rivero started eight years ago, has emerged as a counterweight to right-wing meme machines.| New York Times: |
Starship Technologies' fleet of delivery robots helped residents of Milton Keynes, a small city of 270K in UK, with grocery deliveries during the lockdown — Like many other places, a community 50 miles outside London went into quarantine. A fleet of delivery robots has been helping with the groceries.
Tweets: @mit_csail, @dintersmith, @eringriffith, and @nytimes
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook Shops, a free tool that helps businesses easily list products on their Facebook Page, Instagram profile, Stories, or in ads — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook Shops, a new e-commerce feature that allows businesses to easily list their products on Facebook and Instagram.
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| Charlotte Tucker / EU-Startups: |
Helsinki-based Happeo, which offers intranet, enterprise social network, and collaboration software to companies, raises €10.9M Series A led by INKEF Capital — Today Finnish startup Happeo, an employee communications platform, announces having raised approximately €10.9 million … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Truework, which helps banks, rental agencies, and others securely check employment details of applicants online, raises $30M Series B led by Activant Capital — As organizations look for safe and efficient ways of running their services in the new global paradigm of increased social distancing … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Productivity tool Notion's free tier gets unlimited notes and blocks — There's never been a better time to check out the collaborative note-taking app — Notion, the workspace and note-taking app, just became much more appealing to individual users. The company said today that people …
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