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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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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google is rolling out a Messages update that shows iMessage reactions as Emojis — The latest update to Google Messages prepares for a new way to handle the annoying iMessage reaction messages often seen in mixed group chats. — Update: This feature has already begun rolling out for some, allowing us to see it in action.
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In a filing, GoDaddy says a third-party gained access to info from up to 1.2M Managed WordPress accounts, including customer numbers and admin passwords — In disclosures to the Securities and Exchange Commission, web registrar and hosting company GoDaddy has revealed that it discovered it had been hacked.| 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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| Tom Matsuda / The Block: |
Crypto payments service MoonPay, which lets users buy with card, Apple Pay, and more, raises $555M led by Coatue and Tiger Global at a $3.4B valuation — Quick Take — MoonPay has closed a $555 million raise led by Coatue and Tiger Global. Existing investor Blossom Capital and new investors NEA …
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| Sujeong Lim / Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartwatch shipments in Q3 2021: Samsung's share rose to 17% with Galaxy Watch 4 series launch, retaking #2 behind Apple, whose share dropped 10% YoY — - Samsung achieved its highest quarterly shipments with the launch of the Galaxy Watch 4 series, narrowing the gap with Apple.
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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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| 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.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Nreal Light review: compact design and relatively affordable, but limited device and app support, inconsistent UX, and the mixed-reality mode is patchy — Through a glass, darkly — Nreal has sold me on the appeal of watching TV with a pair of glasses, and I wish I could recommend buying the glasses that did it.
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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| Vish Gain / Silicon Republic: |
Dublin-based Fonoa, which offers automated tax compliance tools in 100+ countries, raises $25M from Index Ventures and others — Dublin's Fonoa has just raised $25m to fund further development and international expansion of its global tax automation platform.
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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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WhatsApp's privacy policy for European users will be reorganized to provide more information on the data it collects and how it is used, after record DPC fine — LONDON (AP) — WhatsApp is adding more details to its privacy policy and flagging that information for European users …
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Analysis: 14 of the world's biggest crypto mining companies moved 2M+ machines out of China following the country's ban in May, with a majority going to Russia — China's ban on cryptocurrency mining in May triggered an exodus of miners and a global race to relocate millions of the clunky … | Anita Ramaswamy / TechCrunch: |
Render, which offers cloud-based DevOps tools, raises a $20M Series A led by Addition, following a $4.5M seed in October 2020 — DevOps cloud platform Render, which won our Disrupt SF 2019 Startup Battlefield, announced today that it closed a $20 million Series A funding round led …
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