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Spotify’s paid subscribers accelerate as podcast listening grows 200 percent
Spotify’s continued investment in podcasts appears to be paying off, after the company reported that podcast listening has increased by 200 percent year-on-year in its fourth quarter earnings today. The company says it now has over 700,000 podcasts on its platform, and that over 16 percent of its users now…
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Spotify is buying The Ringer to boost its sports podcast content
Sports is one of the most popular topics in podcasts and today Spotify doubled down on its sports content with a big acquisition: it announced that it is buying The Ringer, the popular network of podcasts created and run by broadcaster Bill Simmons, with some 30 podcasts in its mix…
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YouTube is killing off its old design next month, like it or not
Starting next month, YouTube’s new desktop interface will be mandatory, whether you like the redesign or not. It’s currently possible to switch between the old and new looks, but from March onwards, Google is killing off the classic look for good. As 9to5Google explains, Google has been tweaking YouTube’s design…
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StaffPad, a stunning Windows music writing app, is now available on iPad
StaffPad launched as a truly unique app for Windows-based tablets nearly five years ago, allowing composers to scribble notes on a screen and convert the handwritten music into a typeset score. At its launch, StaffPad was described as “groundbreaking” by professionals that had been waiting for such an app, but…
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Iowa’s caucus fracas shows we’re still too ignorant about how apps work
By now you probably know the broad outlines of what went down in Iowa on Monday night: a hastily built, poorly written, badly distributed, slipshod app crashed and the Iowa Democratic Party utterly failed to plan sufficient backup solutions, delaying the reporting of caucus results. The web was awash with…
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Intel Core i9-10900K leak shows CPU has the upper hand vs AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
Intel’s Core i9-10900K has had more benchmarks leaked, with new 3DMark processor scores indicating that the incoming 10-core flagship handily beating AMD’s Ryzen 9 3900X. The benchmarks, spilled on Twitter by the ever-watchful TUM_APISAK, show the 10900K recording a score of 28,462 for Physics in Fire Strike Extreme, and a…
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