If you want to change Spotify policy, first sell 120 million albums

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As anybody who has ever filled out a feedback form will know, most suggestions — no matter how well intended or sensible — go straight in the bin. If you’re lucky,...

Can tech turn transport into a subscriber service?

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Car sharing might solve our addiction to owning our own vehicles suggests Stuart Matthews.

Samsung to throw everything at the wall with Galaxy Unpacked, but will anything stick?

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What are you doing in three weeks’ time? Samsung hopes that on Wednesday 11 August you’ll be tuned in to the company’s live stream for the next Galaxy Unpacked event.  Actually, given...

Facial recognition ad tech flunks the creepiness test, but someone will make it work

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Billboards are a pretty inefficient way of advertising to people, if you think about it.  You plaster pictures of your product on a big poster by the side of the road and...

We spent a day looking for Covid and Vaccine disinformation on Facebook: Here’s what...

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Like most of us who believe in science rather than crackpot conspiracy theories, I'd unfollowed the few Facebook friends who - out of the blue - started posting anti-vaccination rants.  But here...

I’ve never had a VR injury, but I do have one embarrassing tech tale

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Not since Nintendo encouraged people to pretend the Wii remote was a bowling ball have there been so many TV-related accidents.  According to UK insurer Aviva, it saw a 31% year-on-year increase...

Smart glasses won’t be ubiquitous until they carry an Apple logo

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So, Facebook is the latest company to try and make smart glasses a thing that people would voluntarily pay money for and then put on their face. In public. Perhaps aware of its...

Why the tech industry could do more to help close the gender gap

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In 1843, mathematician and writer Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace wrote the first computer algorithm. It can only be assumed she would have expected all women to, one day, be...
Spatial audio now available on Android – but does anyone care?

Spatial Audio now available on Android… but does anyone care?

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Android users that subscribe to Apple Music (rare breeds) can now experience spatial audio too.  The format - powered by Dolby Atmos - was touted as “the next generation of sound” when...

Is Chrome’s latest security update enough to keep you safe?

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With the launch of Chrome 91, Google will roll out an update which will assist Enhanced Safe Browsing by filtering out harmful extensions and protecting against infected downloads. Since the initial launch...