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YouTube Music makes collaborative playlists available to everyone 

In May, Google launched a solution that will let you transfer Play songs to the YT Music app in one click, and it’s a feature you may want to take advantage of before the Play Music app starts shutting down in September.

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YC-backed Artifact looks to make podcasts more personal 

Historically, podcasts have been focused on appealing to as many listeners as possible. It all started when cofounder and CEO Ross Chanin lost his grandfather. Over a beer with his friend George Quraishi, a journalist, they decided to try out the idea of a more personal podcast for a specific, smaller audience, starting with Ross’s Aunt Cindy.

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Twitter enforces its new hate policy by banning David Duke 

Twitter has banned notorious white supremacist David Duke, enforcing a new policy against hate speech links it introduced earlier this month. He was “permanently suspended” for Twitter Rules on hateful conduct.

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COVID-19 vaccine trials from the University of Oxford and Wuhan both show early positive results 

There are more promising signs from ongoing efforts to develop a vaccine that’s effective in preventing COVID-19: Two early trials, one from the University of Oxford, and one from a group of researchers in Wuhan funded in part by the National Key R&D Programme of China. Both early trials showed efficacy in increasing the presence of antibody respons […]

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Metacritic changes its user review policy to combat score bombing 

To prevent score bombing, Metacritic makes users wait 36 hours before reviewing a brand new game.

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Apple and Ireland win appeal against the European Commission’s $15 billion tax ruling 

The General Court of the European Court of Justice has annulled an EU decision that involved Apple’s subsidiaries in Ireland. Four years ago, the European Commission said that Ireland had failed to collect €13 billion in taxes from Apple — roughly $15 billion. According to the press statement, “the Commission did not succeed in showing to the requisite legal […]

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Google buys $4.5 billion stake in India’s biggest mobile network 

Google has paid $4.5 billion for a 7.7 percent share of Jio, India’s biggest mobile network.

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Google makes education push in India 

Google said on Monday that it has partnered with CBSE, a government body that oversees education in private and public schools in India, to deliver a “blended learning experience” across 22,000 schools in the world’s second largest internet market by the end of this year. The Search giant, which today also announced plans to invest $10 billion […]

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Zoom announces new Hardware as a Service offering to run on ServiceNow 

Zoom announced a new Hardware as a Service offering today that will run on the ServiceNow platform. At the same time the company announced a deal with ServiceNow to standardize on Zoom and Zoom Phone for its 11,000 employees in another case of SaaS cooperation. For starters, the new Hardware as a Service offering allows customers, who use the Zoom Phone and […]

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Waze lets drivers display their moods in the app 

Waze is rolling out a brand refresh and app update that lets users share their mood.

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