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YouTube ‘Premium Lite’ subscription offers ad-free viewing for less

The Verge

Premium Lite is currently being tested in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. “In The new “ Premium Lite ” plan was spotted by a user on ResetEra , and YouTube subsequently confirmed the test offering in a statement given to The Verge.

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Anyone is building a marketplace for advice, one 5-minute call at a time

TechCrunch

Anyone , an audio app that’s building a ‘marketplace for advice’ one five-minute phone call at a time, is launching new versions of its iOS and Android apps today* and beginning to large-scale onboarding after operating in a limited closed beta for the past six months. This is short-form, topic-specific audio.

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A new asynchronous video startup, Weet, helps employees communicate on their own schedule

TechCrunch

Another, newer entrant is SuperNormal , a year-old, Stockholm, Sweden-based work communication platform that employs video and screen recording tools to help teams create and send asynchronous video updates throughout the day and which raised $2 million in seed funding led by EQT Ventures in December.

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Minut tells your Airbnb guests to keep it down, already, sheesh

TechCrunch

Minut is taking an approach of sound analysis on the edge of the network — in other words, without sending video or audio data to Minut’s servers. Sweden, France and Spain. The selling point is to be able to offer near-real-time data, without compromising guest privacy. It has offices in the U.S.,

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek explains how the company plans to help artists (and itself) make money

The Verge

The company wants to be at the center of creator monetization Spotify hosted an event on Monday to discuss its ambitions in audio, and one message came through loud and clear: the company wants to play a major role in helping creators make money. Because what we realized is that we’re no longer this kind of small startup from Sweden.

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What’s the best student laptop? We asked students

The Verge

Audio quality is an important consideration for kids’ laptops. Caspian Fischer Odén, a ninth grader from Sweden, told me he has trouble with his Chromebook because his school has blocked downloading apps from the Google Play Store. Wallace plans to buy Bella a better device in the next few weeks.

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Querying the Environment: A Smart Model for Pull Content

Museum 2.0

This project in Avesta, Sweden, in which visitors use special flashlights to explore a historic site and reveal interpretative content of interest, is an elegant example of how museums can innovative the label experience. Which brings us back to Sweden. Here's one lovely answer: Meta.L.Hyttan.