insert_link Tech Made Simple Spotify joins Google and Twitter, will ‘pause’ political ads in early 2020 As first reported by AdAge, Spotify states that it will “pause” political advertising early in 2020 on its ad-supported tier and its original and exclusive podcasts, saying it doesn’t have the resources to properly vet such ads. “At this point in time, we do not yet have the necessary level of robustness in our processes, systems and tools to responsibly validate and review this content,” the company said in […] todayDecember 30, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple Spotify’s Tastebuds lets you discover New Music through Your Friends’ Playlists Spotify is testing a new feature, Tastebuds, that lets users discover new music through their friends, TechCrunch reports. The feature was first discovered by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who found the prototype on the web version of Spotify through reverse-engineering. While not much is known about the feature yet, a dummy landing page that explains, “Now you can discover music through friends whose taste you trust,” can be found […] todayDecember 20, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple Marques Brownlee Launches a New Tech Podcast It seems like every YouTube creator has a podcast these days, and that now includes Marques Brownlee. Brownlee, one of YouTube’s most prominent creators who has more than 9 million subscribers on his tech-focused channel MKBHD, is launching a new podcast called Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast. The podcast will be similar to the videos on his channel, focusing on product reviews and interviews with people in the tech industry. […] todayAugust 13, 2019
insert_link News Moonrise Podcast Explores How We Can Return to the Moon With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, there has been plenty of retrospectives and examinations on the impact of the space race and the lunar missions. In addition to a flood of books and documentaries, there are a handful of podcasts as well. One of those new podcasts is The Washington Post’s Moonrise, hosted by Lillian Cunningham. Cunningham is the creator of a couple of other excellent […] todayJuly 25, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple Google is Testing a Play Button for Chrome’s Toolbar It appears that Google will soon add a play button to its Chrome browser. As first reported by ZDnet and Techdows, the button will live on Chrome’s toolbar, and will allow users to play or pause a video or music that’s playing in a tab. The feature is called "Global Media Controls," and it’s currently being tested on Chrome’s Development browser, Canary. Once it’s enabled, the feature appears next to […] todayJuly 10, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple Spotify Tests Social Listening Feature TechCrunch reports that Spotify appears to be testing a new feature called Social Listening, which would let multiple users add songs to a queue in real time, somewhat like the defunct social media platform Turntable.fm (minus the chat and open invite policy). The feature, unearthed by reverse-engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong, is just a test right now. There’s no indication that it would ever make its way to the consumer […] todayJune 6, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple Queen Rhapsodizes to the top of the Streaming Charts Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” is the most-streamed song from the 20th century, and the most-streamed classic rock song of all time. The song, which reached and stayed at No 1 in the UK for 9 weeks in 1975 and then again in 1991 following Freddie Mercury’s death, has now been streamed 1.6 billion times across platforms that include Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and other streaming services, according to Queen’s label, Universal […] todayDecember 21, 2018
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