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Tencent Music acquires China-based Lazy Audio, a platform for audiobooks, podcasts, and radio shows, for $417M (Eva Mathews/Reuters)
on January 16, 2021 at 16:00
Eva Mathews / Reuters: Tencent Music acquires China-based Lazy Audio, a platform for audiobooks, podcasts, and radio shows, for $417M — (Reuters) - China's Tencent Music Entertainment Group said on Friday it acquired audiobook platform Lazy Audio, owned by Shenzhen Lanren Online Technology Co, for 2.7 billion yuan ($417 million).
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Galaxy Buds Pro review: good sound quality, voice detect feature is nice, but the touch controls are finicky and some features only work with Samsung devices (Chris Welch/The Verge)
on January 16, 2021 at 15:25
Chris Welch / The Verge: Galaxy Buds Pro review: good sound quality, voice detect feature is nice, but the touch controls are finicky and some features only work with Samsung devices — They don't win at any one thing, but they strike a great mix in terms of sound quality, ANC, and comfort
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How a group of Dorsey's lieutenants overcame his reluctance to ban Trump's account when it became clear Trump was using his Twitter presence to incite violence (New York Times)
on January 16, 2021 at 14:40
New York Times: How a group of Dorsey's lieutenants overcame his reluctance to ban Trump's account when it became clear Trump was using his Twitter presence to incite violence — Jack Dorsey, the chief executive, had reservations about locking the president's account. But the calls for violence that his tweets provoked were too overwhelming.
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A survey estimates that Apple Pay users reached 507M worldwide in September 2020, about 50% of the total iPhone userbase, adding ~66M users from September 2019 (Horace Dediu/Asymco)
on January 16, 2021 at 13:15
Horace Dediu / Asymco: A survey estimates that Apple Pay users reached 507M worldwide in September 2020, about 50% of the total iPhone userbase, adding ~66M users from September 2019 — IN a recent release, Apple reported that “more than 90% of stores in the US, 85% of stores in the UK, and 99% of stores in Australia accept Apple Pay.”
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Study: smartwatches like Apple Watch and Fitbit, which can measure heart rate variability, could help detect COVID-19 at least a week before symptoms appear (Megan Cerullo/CBS News)
on January 16, 2021 at 11:10
Megan Cerullo / CBS News: Study: smartwatches like Apple Watch and Fitbit, which can measure heart rate variability, could help detect COVID-19 at least a week before symptoms appear — Smartwatches and other wearable devices that continuously measure users' heart rates, skin temperature and other physiological markers …