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Apple Podcasts and Spotify podcasts are available through Amazon Alexa-enabled devices like Echo speakers in the US, starting today (Ashley Carman/The Verge)

Ashley Carman / The Verge: Apple Podcasts and Spotify podcasts are available through Amazon Alexa-enabled devices like Echo speakers in the US, starting today  —  Sad for HomePod  —  Starting today, Apple Podcasts is available through Amazon Alexa-enabled devices like Echo speakers. Apple Podcasts and Spotify podcasts are available through Amazon Alexa-enabled devices like Echo

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India shuts down internet in two states that are home to 32M people, after protests over a citizenship bill, as Kashmir shutdown continues into its fourth month (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India shuts down internet in two states that are home to 32M people, after protests over a citizenship bill, as Kashmir shutdown continues into its fourth month  —  India maintained a shutdown of the internet in the states of Assam and Meghalaya on Friday, now into 36 hours … India shuts

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Game.tv raises $25M Series A led by Intel Capital for Tourney, its rapidly growing AI-powered esports platform focused on small gaming communities (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Game.tv raises $25M Series A led by Intel Capital for Tourney, its rapidly growing AI-powered esports platform focused on small gaming communities  —  Game.tv has raised $25 million in funding to build out Tourney, its AI-powered esports tournament platform for mobile games. Game.tv raises M Series A led by Intel Capital

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Google says it has captured more than 10M miles of Street View imagery, and, via Google Earth, mapped out the parts of the world where 98% of people live (Richard Nieva/CNET)

Richard Nieva / CNET: Google says it has captured more than 10M miles of Street View imagery, and, via Google Earth, mapped out the parts of the world where 98% of people live  —  Exclusive: The search giant has also mapped out the parts of the world where 98% of people live, through satellite photos

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Unencrypted hard drives with payroll data, including names, bank account numbers, compensation info of 29,000 Facebook employees, stolen in a car break-in (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Unencrypted hard drives with payroll data, including names, bank account numbers, compensation info of 29,000 Facebook employees, stolen in a car break-in  —  – Some 29,000 current, former employees impacted by theft  — Unencrypted hard drives were stolen from payroll worker’s car Unencrypted hard drives with payroll data, including names, bank

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Hackaday Podcast 046: Bring Us Your Nonsense, Hacking NES Clones, Grasping FPGAs, Many a Music Hack, and Fish Tanks Full of Random

Difference of two Vikram moon images, contrast tweaked. Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys highlight the most delightful hacks of the past week. Need a random-number showpiece for your office? Look no further than that fish tank. Maybe the showpiece you actually need is to complete your band’s stage act? You want one of

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