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Spotify says it will launch a subscription later this year called HiFi that will offer “CD-quality, lossless audio”; Spotify currently tops out at 320kbps audio — Your turn, Apple Music — Spotify is going hi-fi. Well, “HiFi.” It's taken longer than competitors like Tidal …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Spotify debuts features for creators like polls and Q&A tools to make podcasts interactive, partners with Wordpress to turn text into podcasts using Anchor — Spotify on Monday announced a slew of new tools to help podcast creators on its platform develop more interactive shows.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify announces many new development tools for artists, including an expansion of Marquee promotions and opening up the Canvas visual looping tool to all — As part of its news announced at its live event today, Spotify announced a set of new creator tools and resources … | Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Gartner: in Q4 2020, Apple sold 80M new iPhones globally, overtaking Samsung to become the largest smartphone vendor, increasing its market share by ~15% — Apple overtook Samsung to become the largest smartphone vendor worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2020, a feat not achieved by Apple since 2016 …
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Clubhouse says it has added security safeguards and banned a user after some Clubhouse audio and metadata was found on a third-party website — - The app's creators had been warned user data was vulnerable — An unidentified user streamed audio chats to their own website
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| VICE: |
Researchers say a change in iOS 14.5 beta, which improves how iOS handles pointers, makes sandbox escapes and “0-click” attacks much harder to pull off — Multiple exploit developers tell Motherboard an upcoming change in iOS could make zero-click exploits harder to pull off.
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| Alex Barker / Financial Times: |
Microsoft says it will work with Europe's four largest news publishing lobbying groups to “mandate payments” for content used by “gatekeepers” — Seattle-based company aligns with press industry and exploits difficulties of rivals — Microsoft has joined forces …
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| Anton Troianovski / New York Times: |
Russian officials are trying to lure people onto social networks tied to the government, in an attempt to keep dissent from going viral at moments of crisis — The Kremlin has constructed an entire infrastructure of repression but has not displaced Western apps. Instead, it is turning to outright intimidation.| Ben Smith / New York Times: |
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Google tells ad partners that it will lift its ban on all political ads starting Wednesday, after banning them following the Capitol riot — Google informed its advertising partners Monday that its platforms will resume accepting all political ads starting Wednesday, after banning them following … | Basil Kronfli / WIRED UK: |
A look at Xiaomi, known to copy others and skimp on traditional R&D, as it successfully undercuts rivals on everything from smartphones to pens and backpacks — Xiaomi has been launching low-cost, occasionally half-baked tech for years. Now it's time everyone took it seriously
Tweets: @basil_knows and @neiltwitz
| Cory Doctorow / Pluralistic: |
Deep dive on CALERA, the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act unveiled by Sen. Klobuchar, that would effectively revamp US antitrust enforcement — When it's railroading time, you get railroads. — When the railroads turn into the personal satrapies of rail-barons, you get trustbusters.
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Boston-based Creatio, which offers low-code customer relationship and process management tools, raises $68M, its first outside funding since launching in 2014 — Boston-based Creatio has received its first outside funding, a $68 million minority stake the company hopes to use to allow … Sponsor Posts
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