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Apple Music pays a penny per stream

The Verge

Announcing a penny-per-stream rate is a nice PR win for Apple Music, since it is 1. There are a number of factors that contribute to that ratio looking small, which we understand can seem problematic. very simple and 2. Spotify hates talking about its per-stream payments, which the company insists are a misleading figure.

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Your attitude is the reason you’re poor

The Next Web

Researcher Barbara Fredrickson, who I talked about earlier in this article, discovered the tipping point between negative and positive attitudes is a three-to-one ratio. A calculator on Fredrickson’s website for her book Positivity can help you evaluate your own positivity ratio. Positive thinking has a tipping point, as well.

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Umbrella People wins Startup Weekend Women’s edition in London

The Next Web

That’s a pretty good ratio for business ideas and the pitches really had some meat to them. Ahead of the pitching processes we were treated to a chat with Dana El Salem of Fanshake , a platform of tools for music fans. The concept was by no means complete but it intrigued the judges.

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Assassins Creed Shadows is the best one in years, sometimes in spite of itself

Mashable Tech

It feels like there’s about a 100:1 ratio of negative-to-positive news headlines around Assassin’s Creed Shadows. There are times when it tries to include stylistic visual or musical flourishes, which I appreciate, but this isn’t Ninja Gaiden.

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Tagging Discussion

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I think that it is certainly possible to disseminate some guidelines (that some people will pay attention to) for the use of the nptech tag that could increase the signal/noise ratio. Technorati Tags: nptech , tagging , folksonomies { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 01.08.07 at 5:46 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 01.08.07

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EA is opening the patents for some of its accessibility tech

The Verge

The tech includes automated systems for improving visibility by detecting and modifying colors ( US 10,118,097 ) and contrast ratios ( US 10,878,540 ). Image: Electronic Arts. The Tampa Bay play calling screen in Madden NFL 21 with color blindness settings set to deuteranopia, simulated as seen by someone with red-green color blindness.

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Oppo’s Find N is an impressive first folding phone

The Verge

aspect ratio, unlike the Z Fold display, which is taller when unfolded. inches with an aspect ratio of 2:1, it’s actually very usable — if it weren’t for the folded device being twice as thick as a regular phone, it’d feel like the compact Android flagship that no-one else is making. The 120Hz inner display is 7.1

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