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Spotify removes the shuffle button from all album pages for premium users, so that 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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| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
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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| Washington Post: |
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.
Tweets: @nicolelaporte1
| Andrés Engler / CoinDesk: |
El Salvador plans to build a “Bitcoin City” initially funded by a $1B “bitcoin bond”, with $500M to build mining infrastructure and $500M to buy more bitcoin — El Salvador, the only country in which bitcoin is a legal tender, is going to build an entire city based …
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| Michael D McDonald / Bloomberg: |
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| 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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Daring Fireball, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Android Authority, Daring Fireball, Forbes, Daring Fireball, and CNET
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| 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 … | 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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| Heather Kelly / Washington Post: |
To age in their own homes and avoid assisted living facilities, some seniors are embracing smart home tech, often at the cost of their privacy and independence — The tipping point came nearly seven years ago when 82-year-old Evelyn was still living alone in her Georgia home.
Tweets: @robertegger, @janetnovack, @washingtonpost, and @hypervisible
| 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 … | Joel Khalili / TechRadar: |
Profile of Manal al-Sharif, a technologist whose social media activism pressured Saudi Arabia to let women drive and who now informs people about digital rights — Meet Manal al-Sharif, technologist by trade and ‘activist by accident’ — Born into a devout Muslim family in Saudi Arabia … Sponsor Posts
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