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    • More than 200 publishing and music organizations, including Reuters and the Press Association, call for adoption of the new EU copyright directive (Freddy Mayhew/Press Gazette)

    Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette: More than 200 publishing and music organizations, including Reuters and the Press Association, call for adoption of the new EU copyright directive  —  The Press Association, Evening Standard, Independent and Reuters are among more than 200 publishing and music organisations across Europe calling … More than 200 publishing and music

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    • This architecture firm works with a ‘cookbook for buildings’ to avoid design chaos

    For our ongoing series Fundamentals, we’re looking at different companies worldwide and the basic principles they were built on. This time: architectural firm UNStudio.Imagine you’re running an architect firm with offices on three different continents, employing people from 27 nationalities, and designing for clients in over 30 countries. How do you make sure the many

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    • The Bay Area is no longer the best place to start tech companies, as rising housing costs push workers to join established companies with market salaries (Byrne Hobart)

    Byrne Hobart: The Bay Area is no longer the best place to start tech companies, as rising housing costs push workers to join established companies with market salaries  —  California is hard to beat.  There are richer places with worse weather, there are (a few) nicer climates with worse economies … The Bay Area is

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    • Amazon's Alexa platform, which has 80,000 skills, has yet to have a breakout hit; interviews with developers show Amazon pays up to $5,000/month for a skill (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

    Matt Day / Bloomberg: Amazon’s Alexa platform, which has 80,000 skills, has yet to have a breakout hit; interviews with developers show Amazon pays up to $5,000/month for a skill  —  The advent of the smartphone triggered an app gold rush.  So far that hasn’t happened with Alexa. Amazon's Alexa platform, which has 80,000 skills,

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    Stalking Last.fm Streams On Spotify

    Back in the early days of social media and Web 2.0, Last.fm was one of the premier music sites on the internet. With a huge library containing what felt like every song ever, along with an excellent algorithm for recommending new tracks, it quickly gained a large following. Unfortunately, its business model and following changed

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    • Intel and a consortium including Google and Microsoft debut CXL, a new open standard for faster interconnect between datacenter CPUs and accelerator chips (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

    Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Intel and a consortium including Google and Microsoft debut CXL, a new open standard for faster interconnect between datacenter CPUs and accelerator chips  —  A consortium of technology companies has formed to create a new standard, called Compute Express Link, to provide … Intel and a consortium including Google and Microsoft

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    • Facebook pulled ads from Sen. Warren's campaign calling for the breakup of Facebook and other tech giants, citing policy violations, but is now restoring them (Cristiano Lima/Politico)

    Cristiano Lima / Politico: Facebook pulled ads from Sen. Warren’s campaign calling for the breakup of Facebook and other tech giants, citing policy violations, but is now restoring them  —  Facebook removed several ads placed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign that called for the breakup of Facebook and other tech giants. Facebook pulled ads

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