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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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| 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: |
Inside “Bitcoin Week”, a series of events in El Salvador that let industry experts and crypto proponents celebrate their bitcoin allegiance — Bitcoin bulls, as undeterred as ever, flocked to a week of events and revelry in the first country to make the cryptocurrency legal tender.
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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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| 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, Forbes, Daring Fireball, Daring Fireball, and CNET
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| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
Investigation shows how Facebook and Google fund misinformation globally by paying millions of dollars in ad revenue to the operators of clickbait pages — A month after the fall of the democratic government. — In 2015, six of the 10 websites in Myanmar getting the most engagement …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
A look at projects like the Voguverse and companies like Pixel Vault that are trying to build media franchises around their NFT collectibles — There's a long way to go — In the online auction market OpenSea, you can pay around $600 to buy a portrait of a robot in streetwear — and, if you're lucky, a stake in a new media empire.| 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: @janetnovack, @robertegger, @washingtonpost, and @hypervisible
| CTech: |
8fig, which provides equity-free flexible funding for e-commerce sellers by analyzing their growth, raises a $50M Series A — Five months after announcing its Seed round, Israeli startup 8fig, which provides equity-free flexible funding and supply chain management tools for e-commerce sellers …
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FinSMEs, Globes Online, Business Wire, and PYMNTS.com
| Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: |
Thirty startups attained $10B+ valuations globally in 2021 so far, compared to 15 new decacorns in 2020 and five in 2019 — More new startups valued at $10 billion or above have been minted in 2021—far more than in any prior year, and double the number created in 2020 …
Tweets: @robmonster and @davemcclure
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Twitter's AI ethics researchers on getting public feedback about algorithmic bias, why responsible AI is hard, why they think algorithms can be saved, and more — While other tech giants hide from their internal researchers, Twitter is doing its failing — and fixing — in public
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Beyond Search. Tweets: @sherryaske, @hkanji, @platformer, @jackbandy, @tanit, and @caseynewton
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