Month: July 2023
Spotify now has 220 million paying subscribers
Spotify had 220 million Premium subscribers and 551 million monthly active users as of June 30th, the company announced today in its latest earnings report. That represents a 27 and 17 percent increase, respectively, compared to the same period last year and is above its outlook released last quarter. But…
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Ubisoft won’t be deleting your accounts full of games despite initial perception
Despite initial worries, Ubisoft will not be deleting inactive accounts which have purchased games stored on them. Last week Ubisoft’s policies were brought into question when a user tweeted a picture of an email explaining account deletion. The email read that after not using the said account, it was “temporarily…
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EU passes law to blanket highways with fast EV chargers by 2025
The Council of the EU has adopted new rules intended to make it much easier for EV owners to travel across Europe, while simultaneously helping to reduce the output of harmful greenhouse gases. The new regulation is set to benefit owners of electric cars and vans in three ways: It…
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July heatwaves ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change
It’s been a viciously hot July for much of the planet thanks to heatwaves made worse by climate change. A new study breaks down how much of a role the climate crisis played in bringing on record-shattering temperatures this month. Huge swathes of the Northern Hemisphere have been sweltering for…
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Social Media Has Run Out of Fresh Ideas
From corporate rebrands to AI-powered video reels to text threads, social media companies are throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. Source
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Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem
Mastodon, the decentralized network viewed as a viable alternative to Twitter, is rife with child sexual abuse material (CSAM), according to a new study from Stanford’s Internet Observatory (via The Washington Post). In just two days, researchers found 112 instances of known CSAM across 325,000 posts on the platform —…
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