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TikTok inks licensing deal with Merlin to use music from independent labels in videos and new Resso streaming service
TikTok, the fast-growing user-generated video app from China’s Bytedance, has been building a new music streaming service to compete against the likes of Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music. And today it’s announcing a deal that helps pave the way for a global launch of it. It has inked a…
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Microsoft’s software plan for the Duo Android phone is surprisingly realistic
Welcome back to Processor, a mostly daily newsletter mostly about computers, by which I mostly mean the consumer electronics industry at large. I’m Dieter and if you already know all of the above, thanks for sticking around. If you’re new, welcome! I’m going to leave the analysis of the truly…
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Twitter has fixed a bug that made its app crash – here’s how to install the update
Twitter has released a fix for a bug in a recent update that caused its mobile app to crash unexpectedly. After installing the latest release (version 8.28), many Android users found that the app shut down immediately after being opened. At first, Twitter recommended that users simply avoid installing the…
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Captain Marvel 2 is targeting a 2022 release date, claims report
Captain Marvel 2 is targeting a 2022 release date, according to a report on THR. The movie now has a writer, Megan McDonnell, who worked on the first season of upcoming Disney Plus show WandaVision. The movie will apparently focus on Carol Danvers in the present day rather than the…
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PSA: Never open a WhatsApp message from the crown prince of Saudi Arabia
Bay Area! I’ll be talking with Anna Wiener about Uncanny Valley, her brilliant new memoir of a life in tech, on February 4th at Manny’s in San Francisco. It’s our second-ever Interface Live event, and it would mean the world to me if you came to say hello and talk…
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Google’s latest user-hostile design change makes ads and search results look identical
Did you notice a recent change to how Google search results are displayed on the desktop? I noticed something last week — thinking there must be some kind of weird bug messing up the browser’s page rendering because suddenly everything looked similar: A homogenous sea of blue text links and…
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