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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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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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| 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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| 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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| 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, @washingtonpost, @hypervisible, and @janetnovack
| 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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| Simon Johnson / Reuters: |
Ericsson to buy cloud communications company Vonage for $6.2B, expects the deal to close in the first half of 2022 — Mobile telecoms equipment maker Ericsson (ERICb.ST) said on Monday it had agreed to buy cloud communications firm Vonage for $6.2 billion.| 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 … | Charles Mandel / BetaKit: |
HiMama, a Certified B Corp selling daycare software in Canada and the US that improves parental communication, 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 … | Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Spotify's Findaway acquisition will turn it into an audiobook producer, distributor, and retailer, while making it an all-encompassing audio app — This story is part of a group of stories called — Last week, Spotify announced plans to spend an undisclosed amount of money to acquire Findaway … | 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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