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[Link] Spotify’s attempt to use the Facebook playbook over Joe Rogan won’t wash

Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com

Two decades ago, the late and much-lamented David Bowie said something that was eerily prophetic. “Music itself,” he observed, “is going to become like running water or electricity.

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[Link] Google Stadia’s salvaged future as a back-end cloud service is here

Read: 25/10/2021 arstechnica.com

Quick Google Stadia recap: Things have not been great. Google's AAA cloud gaming service launched in 2019 to middling reviews and since then has severely undershot Google's sales and usage estimates by hundreds of thousands of users.

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[Link] Netflix edits Squid Game phone number after woman deluged with calls

Read: 9/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

Netflix has edited out a phone number that appears in its hit series Squid Game after a South Korean woman and others who use similar combinations were deluged with calls – with some callers even asking to join the show’s life-or-death games.

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