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Spotify removes shuffle play as the default option on albums for premium users, so tracks play in the order artists intended, after Adele requests the change — Adele has persuaded Spotify to take the shuffle button off all album pages so tracks play in the artist's own order.
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Meta's head of safety: “we don't plan to finish the global rollout of end-to-end encryption by default across all our messaging services until sometime in 2023” — Move comes as child safety campaigners express concern plans could shield abusers from detection
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Sources and internal docs show Facebook's race-blind policies around hate speech left minorities more likely to see derogatory and racist language on the site — Last year, researchers at Facebook showed executives an example of the kind of hate speech circulating on the social network …
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| Nicole LaPorte / Fast Company: |
A look at Spotify's podcast investments, including its push into advertising and video, as it appears poised to dominate the industry — With 3.2 million podcasts on its platform and more monthly active users than Apple, Spotify is the new heavy in podcasting. It's just getting started.| Adam Minter / Bloomberg: |
Apple's Self Service Repair, likely created to ward off regulatory pressure, may increase repairability of its own devices and spur an industry-wide change — A new approach to fixing products will benefit consumers, designers and the environment. — Years ago, long before the iPhone …
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Use of shopping bots that scour retail sites for hard-to-find items soared during the pandemic; one developer is selling such bots for $40 plus a $30/month fee — Use of programs that scour retail sites for hard-to-find items has soared since the start of the pandemic| Naureen S Malik / Bloomberg: |
Texas, which has the most vulnerable power grid in the US, is attracting crypto miners with incentives, cheap power, and lax regulation — Crypto miners with more than double the power demand of Austin are descending on the anti-regulation state. — Texas, already home to the most vulnerable power grid … | Charles Mandel / BetaKit: |
HiMama, which makes an app for childcare centers with scheduling, daily reports, parental communication, and more, raises a $70M Series B led by Bain Capital — HiMama, a childcare centre software solutions provider and Certified B Corp, just got a large baby bonus thanks to a $70 million Series B round … | Michelle F Davis / Bloomberg: |
Sword Health, which provides digital physical therapy, raises a $163M Series D at a $2B valuation led by Sapphire Ventures — - Valuation is more than 18 times where it was viewed in January — Founder: One goal is to develop therapies that sidestep opiods| Bloomberg: |
Paytm shares dropped ~13% after a 27% first-day fall after its $2.5B IPO, cutting its market value to ~$12B, in one of the worst debuts by a major tech company — - Founder Sharma draws comparison to early struggles of Tesla — Critics had questioned the company's valuation based on losses
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Jay Last, a pioneer who founded Fairchild Semiconductor, which laid the technical, financial, and cultural foundation for Silicon Valley, dies at 92 — He and seven others left the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory to create their own silicon company, Fairchild Semiconductor …
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| Eileen Yu / ZDNet: |
Singapore-based buy now, pay later startup Pace raises a $40M Series A — Singapore's buy now, pay later fintech player, Pace, has secured $40 million in Series A funding, pulling in investors such as Japan's Marubeni Ventures and South Korea's Atinum Partners.
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