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Strategic shift beyond music content helps streaming service to grow advertising income by 29% to €281m Spotify recorded a doubling in podcast listening hours in the fourth quarter of 2020, as locked-down listeners hunting for entertainment tuned in to Michelle Obama and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, driving a Wall Street-beating 24% year-on-year increase …

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The internet might not be as funny as real life but it is funny. We asked comedians to tell us how funny. Here’s what Sam Taunton said Years ago an electrician came around to replace the light fittings at my ex-girlfriend’s all-female sharehouse. He walked in, announced he’d forgotten his toolbox, asked to use the …

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Paying $14.99 a month for workout videos when you can find them free on YouTube might seem pricey, but Josh Taylor finds some advantages I abandoned my paltry selection of panic-bought fitness equipment and the hastily cobbled-together workout videos from my local gym fairly quickly over the course of Melbourne’s 2020 lockdowns. But there was …

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Having stepped down as Amazon’s chief executive the billionaire is ‘super passionate’ about many other projects Inside the mind of Jeff Bezos A quarter of a century after he founded Amazon in a Seattle garage, Jeff Bezos announced this week that he is preparing to loosen his grip on the $1.7tn (£1.2tn) company. The billionaire …

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Scientists at MIT have taken the leafy greens online – in the hope they will be able to warn about explosives Name: Spinach. Age: About 2,000 years old, originating, it is said, in Persia. Continue reading… Scientists at MIT have taken the leafy greens online – in the hope they will be able to warn …

Spam’s new frontier? Now even spinach can send emails Read More »

From lonely birds to legal eagles, our critics share their favourite digital diversions to combat the boredom and uncertainty of the Covid era I’m not sure why I keep going back to Cloudpunk (PS4, Xbox, PC, Switch). The sprawling, dystopian city of Nivalis is every bit the future imagined by the cyberpunk fiction of the …

Comfort and control: video game recommendations for the ongoing lockdown Read More »

Lack of exclusive content for streaming gaming service hits plan to compete with Nintendo and Sony Google has shuttered its internet game development studio, the company has announced, and is all but abandoning the idea that Stadia, its groundbreaking streaming service, could be a top-tier competitor to traditional games consoles. In a blogpost from Phil …

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The failure of two online giants shows you can’t just pour in money and watch games pop out – a game studio culture takes time to develop It was perhaps not the most surprising video game industry revelation of all time. Last week, Bloomberg published an eviscerating exposé on the dysfunctional culture at Amazon Game …

Amazon, Google and why you can’t just invent a blockbusting games developer Read More »

Movement to unionize workers in Alabama faces tough opposition as the retail giant launches aggressive anti-union drive A push to unionize workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama is running into tough opposition as the retail giant, whose profits have boomed during the coronavirus pandemic despite concerns over worker safety, has launched an aggressive anti-union …

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The promotion signifies the company’s future is rooted in its web services, with competition from tech giants Microsoft and Google Amazon on Tuesday said its billionaire founder Jeff Bezos would step down as chief executive officer and become executive chairman after nearly 30 years at the company. The transition will promote current cloud computing head …

Who is Andy Jassy? Amazon’s new CEO ushered in the era of cloud computing Read More »