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Spotify introduces a new track format with variable tempos

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by on May 20, 2015 at 3:47 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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At its event in New York today, Spotify announced it’s creating a new track format intended for exercising users. The music is able to change its tempo depending on how quickly the user is running. It uses your phone’s sensors to detect your running pace, and changes the beats per minute of the music to match it. The company is working with several musicians, including Tiesto, to create music to match your mood and activity. It’s also partnering with Nike to integrate the new music format directly into the Nike+ app this summer, while RunKeeper will adopt the format later…

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Meet Bowser, Nintendo’s new US Vice President of Sales

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by on May 20, 2015 at 3:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Bowser, Doug Bowser, Insider, mario, Nintendo

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Someone in Nintendo America’s HR department is delighted today. The company’s new Vice President of Sales is Bowser. Alright, it’s not actually the fire-breathing lizard who’s been hassling Princess Peach and being beaten by Mario for decades. It’s a white guy in a suit called Doug Bowser. Doug Bowser: not suspected of princess kidnapping Poor Doug used to work at Electronic Arts where his name was less chucklesome to colleagues. Now, even corporate is joking about in the press release about his new job: Doug Bowser Brings Decades of Experience, Not Fire Breath, to New Role… …effective today, Doug Bowser (no…

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Spotify now features video content

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by on May 20, 2015 at 3:32 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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At its event in New York today, Spotify announced it will get into the video business. Spotify is partnering with some content creators, including Vice News, Nerdist and Comedy Central, to incorporate video directly into its new app design. The video content is viewable in the same space as your music, as well as the newly announced support for podcasts. Spotify’s streaming partners Spotify says it will introduce more content in the coming months, including video exclusive to the platform. The company says video will still be primarily aimed at music-related content, however. Developing…

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Get 74% off a lifetime subscription to Blur’s Premium privacy protection

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by on May 20, 2015 at 2:55 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers, TNWDeals

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With so many sites asking for personal details, it can be hard to keep control of your privacy. Blur’s Premium service is designed to protect against fraud, spam, and identity theft by providing masked details. Instead of entering your real details, Blur lets you use disposable email addresses, phone numbers and credit card numbers. Using these masked details, you can still receive messages and calls, and pay for things with a virtual credit card. But if they fall into the wrong hands, they can easily be deleted. It means you can avoid nuisance calls and spam, while the credit card…

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Invite-only social reading service ‘This’ now has an iPhone app

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by on May 20, 2015 at 2:37 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Social Media

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This, the invite only social network for sharing a single link a day, now has a mobile app for the first time. The new iOS app makes it easy to read articles shared by members on the service from your phone, post your own, follow others and share interesting links directly to social media. In a Medium post announcing the app, the company focuses on it being a great companion for the end of the day, when you want to catch up on what you missed in the news. The social network is still invitation only which means those that don’t already have access…

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