Engadget

MARCH 25, 2025

The once-iconic music-sharing platform Napster just sold for $207 million, according to reporting by CNBC. Napster holds numerous licenses to stream millions of songs, which is what made it an attractive prospect to Infinite Reality. A company called Infinite Reality ponied up the cash.

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Byte Technology

JULY 18, 2017

Ask yourself this question: what’s one consistent element of every outstanding and beautifully designed WordPress site you’ve ever seen? Indeed, having the perfect fonts can mean so much to the readability of a site, and using typefaces that meld perfectly with other design elements can really make a huge impact on the user experience.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Separately, stock image supplier Getty Images took Stability AI to court for reportedly using images from its site without permission to train Stable Diffusion , an art-generating AI. This approach allows us to have multiple licensed sources in our training set, including artists, and avoid any issues related to copyright infringement.”

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

The purchase order for $224,000 describes “clearview licenses” and lists “ICE mission support dallas” as the contracting office. The technology could identify someone just from a photo and put names to faces through its trove of 3 billion images scraped from social media sites — often against the platforms’ rules.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

A huge global web outage swept across the internet this morning, taking out popular sites including Amazon, Twitch, and Reddit. The outages started at around 5:30AM ET, with a large number of sites affected. Major news sites like CNN , The New York Times , The Guardian , and the Financial Times were also affected.

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Futurism

MARCH 3, 2025

As Forbes reports , new data from the content licensing platform TollBit shows that AI chatbots send a whopping 96 percent less traffic to publishers' websites than traditional search engines even as companies like OpenAI and Perplexity promise tangible gains to media companies that partner with them.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. A company spokesperson told me via email: “Program admins will be able to ask Ava for reporting across the travel and spend programs, whether that is via text, graph, PDF, etc. Welcome to The Interchange !

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Engadget

MARCH 17, 2025

Mark Gurman at Bloomberg followed up on that , reporting that iOS 19, iPadOS 19 and macOS 16 will fundamentally change the look of the operating systems and make Apples various software platforms more consistent. His thinking is that Apple wouldnt redesign a core app like Camera without bringing changes to some of the rest of the OS, as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

I went to the Web site but saw only an incomplete calendar of events for the next week (there are lots of concerts, tours, child projects there). Then we just received a full-color 16-page annual report, printed on heavy paper, featuring 10 pages of donors names. Expensive to produce and mail, but it has no value to me.

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The Verge

MARCH 14, 2021

The middle eastern country of Oman has blocked the Clubhouse voice chat app saying it lacked the proper permit to operate, as some activists raised concerns that it was an act of censorship, Reuters reported. According to WAF, Oman “prohibits the use of several encrypted VoIP applications without an official license.”.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 2, 2020

It also includes bans on chokeholds and rubber bullets in addition to restrictions on tear gas and other crowd-control weapons, as reported by TechCrunch. Massachusetts joins cities like Portland, Maine, and Portland, Oregon, as well as San Francisco and Oakland in Northern California, that have banned police use of facial recognition.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Facebook says a “small number” of customers have been locked out of their new Oculus Quest 2 headsets, following a string of reports that buyers were unable to use the virtual reality headsets because their Facebook accounts were suspended. On Twitter, it urged users to contact Oculus if they had problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Spot.Us - Community Funded Reporting Intro from Digidave on Vimeo. He is also the founder of Spot.Us, an open source project, to pioneer “community funded reporting," funded by the Knight Foundation News Challenge. Dave's new site launches today. Dave interviews Beth - Beth interviews Dave ). Dave is a journalist 2.0,

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Nucleus

OCTOBER 14, 2021

It is provisioned via a site license rather than the more common seat license, so you can feel free to give access to anyone who could benefit. The Board has on-demand access to high-level data visualizations profiling the health of the organization, without the staff burden of creating time-intensive manual reports.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

A remake of the Nintendo 64 classic GoldenEye 007 has leaked online, and it’s playable on PC using an emulator, Video Games Chronicle reports. According to a report from 1Up at the time which has now been corroborated by VGC , the issue came down to the sheer number of rights-holders for the game.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The situation means that although seven Australian publishers have joined the program, covering over 25 publications, The Guardian reports that one outlet, Nine, chose not to negotiate with Google until the new code is brought in. After launching in the US , the tab recently arrived in the UK.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2020

Later in the year, Cognizant announced that it would leave the content moderation business and shut down its sites earlier this year. Moderators who view graphic and disturbing content on a daily basis will also get access to weekly, one-on-one coaching sessions with a licensed mental health professional.

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Tableau

JUNE 16, 2021

Forrester found that “while 96% of education decision-makers report considering skills that recruiters value when designing curriculum, only 39% of respondents say they have a strong understanding of what recruiters are looking for today.” We’ve provided free Tableau licenses to more than 1.7 Academic respondents recognize this gap.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

based co-founders of another music-licensing company, Music Vine. It does so by offering an alternative to expensive music licensing platforms as well as free music options like YouTube’s Audio Library or Creative Commons ‘ music. Now with over 500,000 users on board, the startup is announcing the close of its £4.6

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The Verge

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Their popularity may be contributing to a decline in traditional kids TV viewership, with Nickelodeon losing 44 percent of its overall viewership since 2015, according to a Forbes report. And especially while production is shut down and harder to make, partnering with YouTubers or licensing their shows helps build these services’ catalogs.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

While the boo-boo was still active, PC World reported it let you add Netflix originals like Stranger Things , Cobra Kai and The Crown but lacked licensed shows and movies. Netflix giveth, and Netflix taketh away. Even the available content was a buggy mess.

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The Verge

JANUARY 15, 2022

AT&T, Dish, and T-Mobile dropped billions of dollars in a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) auction to acquire more 5G spectrum licenses in the midrange 3.45GHz to 3.55GHz band, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal ( WSJ ). Photo by George Frey/AFP via Getty Images. billion, and T-Mobile followed behind at $2.9

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The city responded by adopting new regulations in 2023 mandating Airbnb owners live on site and limiting short-term rentals to one per block, but enforcing these rules proved difficult and illegal properties were easily able to resurface on Airbnb, city leaders say. Jack Brook, Associated Press/Report for America Census data.

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The Verge

MARCH 23, 2022

As spotted by MacRumors , Apple added a key symbol next to all three vehicles in a list on its site , indicating support for the feature. Today, Apple announced that users in Arizona can use their Wallet to carry their driver’s license or state ID and has plans to expand this feature to a number of other states in the near future.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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The Verge

JANUARY 5, 2021

The report highlights a $25,000 ad buy from incumbent Senator David Perdue claiming his opponent, Jon Ossoff, “is China-bought and would provide our adversaries with just another way to threaten our national security.”. Notably, The Markup also found a specific instance in which Facebook was paid to promote false claims.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

— Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Image prompts : Microsoft is enabling Bing users to tap into their most creative selves — through AI, of course, via the use of OpenAI’s DALL-E image creator, Frederic reports. Fund-ception : Roundtable raises funding round on Roundtable , Romain reports.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

The company says the section will offer a mix of curated and personalized news stories, but for select publishers the bigger news is that it will see Facebook paying them to license their content. The Guardian previously reported that some publishers expect these payments to be worth millions of pounds a year. Image: Facebook.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Clothes, accessories and luxury goods are the most popular product items for counterfeiting, according to the 2022 intellectual property crime threat assessment report. Image Credits: MarqVision (opens in a new window) under a license. In essence, when a product is identified as fake, it needs to be reported to a marketplace.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2021

If a station doesn’t send out an error or a driver doesn’t report it, network providers might never know there’s even a problem. Terry said it could take as long as 30 days to get an electrical contractor on site to repair these non-electrical problems. Terry, who co-founded ChargerHelp! ,

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2020

If you’re an Android user with Dark Sky and you’re wondering where to go now for your weather report , there are a few alternatives to choose from. The weather.gov site can be placed directly on your phone’s home screen. In addition, a variety of other apps (some not even weather-related) will lose access to the Dark Sky API.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Instead, as TC+ editor Alex Wilhelm reported , UBS “invested $69.7 Welcome to The Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. billion was scrapped. bank regulator.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Today, we’re mostly amazed at how quiet Twitter gets during Burning Man, and excited that we’re doing a Labor Day sale for TechCrunch Plus , if you’ve been wanting to read our subscription site but you’ve been holding off for whatever reason. The social media giant is launching the “Close Friends” features globally, Ivan reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They allegedly used alcohol orders as an excuse to scan users’ driver’s licenses. Court documents outline a complicated fraud scheme involving bots, GPS spoofing, social security numbers bought on dark web sites, and driver’s licenses copied from unwitting app users.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

At the time, many DJs relied on questionable file-sharing sites, creating a poor experience for fans. Thriving alongside giants like Spotify Scaling a business works for streaming giants like Spotify, which recently reported its first full year of profitability. Those websites were strewn with pop-up [ads] and malware, Zisook recalls.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

One purpose is to allow users to modify their own information (if the site allows logins.) Data from the CRM is manually reported and put up on the CMS. Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. In addition, sometimes nonprofits want to expose data from the CRM to the CMS.

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