Neil Young then returns to Spotify boycott platform two years ago, he said in a new blog post. Canadian singer Joe Rogan has left the platform due to vaccine misinformation on his podcast. Since Rogan’s podcast is no longer exclusive to Spotify, he’s back. “My decision came as Apple and Amazon music services began to introduce the same disinformation podcast features that I oppose on Spotify,” he said — which isn’t exactly the position he had in mind.
When Young downloaded his catalog from Spotify, he added that he was fed up with Spotify’s “bad” sound quality. In particular, nothing has changed there.
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Instead of its App Store.
Days after Apple began allowing iOS users in the EU to use third-party app stores, the company announced more changes to the way developers distribute their apps. Most importantly, those that meet certain criteria can allow users to download apps from their website. Available this spring, the Web Distribution option will allow developers to completely bypass the app ecosystem for their apps. To be eligible, developers must sign up to the new App Store rules and pay for each user install after a certain threshold.
This is one of the more useful AI-powered features.
AI-powered visual search features helped Ray-Ban’s Meta sunglasses make some impressive (and ) tricks — but the new one in the latest beta looks pretty useful. It identifies places of interest and gives you detailed information about them – a kind of tour guide for travelers. In a Threads post, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth (owned by Meta) explained why the Golden Gate Bridge is orange (easier to see in fog), the history of San Francisco’s painted women’s houses, and more, with a few sample illustrations.
Users can also subscribe to third-party tagging services.
Open-source Twitter alternative Bluesky is about to test one of its more ambitious ideas: letting its users run their own moderation service. The change will bring Bluesky users and developers together to work on custom tagging tools for the fledgling social media platform.
Bluesky has seen a surge in growth since removing its waiting list and opening up to all users in February. The service added nearly 2 million new users, bringing its total community to just over 5 million. Additional moderation may be required.
