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Spotify ad draws criticism over how it (under)pays musicians

Apr04
by on April 4, 2019 at 7:50 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Music


Spotify tweeted an ad for its new partnership with Hulu, along with a comment about “budgets.” Several people, including one particularly savage songwriter, pointed out the company shouldn’t be the one to talk about money when it offers such a paltry sum to the artists whose music it hosts. The ad itself isn’t anything terribly insensitive. Spotify announced its new bundle a few weeks ago — which gives Premium users a free Hulu subscription — and the ad was promoting this. It shows two different shows and songs for “Payday” and “Rent’s Due,” and then says “Feel more of what you’re feeling.”…

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CHEAP: Xiaomi’s Pocophone F1 is even better value with £100 off

Apr04
by on April 4, 2019 at 4:17 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Xiaomi’s arrival to the UK market wasn’t the slickly-executed affair you’d expect from a company of its stature, but a few months on, that doesn’t really matter. Brits can now get Xiaomi’s awesome tech at its rival-beating prices. And now its phones and gadgets are improbably even cheaper, thanks to Xiaomi’s Mi Fan Festival. Headlining this festival is the Pocophone F1. Almost universally liked by reviewers (including our very own Abhimanyu Ghoshal), this handset packs exceptional specs for its price, and is arguably the best value handset money can buy right now. Under the hood is a Snapdragon 845 platform…

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Belgian watchdog adds 7 new scams to its cryptocurrency blacklist

Apr04
by on April 4, 2019 at 3:59 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


The Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) is continuing to warn citizens about the associated risks of dealing with cryptocurrencies after identifying seven new scam websites. In today’s warning, FSMA says it has “continued to receive new complaints of consumers who have invested in cryptocurrencies through these trading platforms.” The newly identified websites are as follows: www.bearsmarkets.com www.btckingdom.com www.directco-invest.com www.maisonducoins.net www.novoplacement.com www.ripae-homine.com www.tribelylimited.com The regulator explains the modus operandi of many of these scams, noting how they typically offer prospective customers the opportunity to make “secure, easy, and very lucrative” investments. “They [the scam operators] try to inspire confidence…

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5 tips on how to work full-time and not go crazy

Apr04
by on April 4, 2019 at 3:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Growth


There’s one important life skill they don’t teach you at uni. When I was a student, fitting sleep, social life, and working out into my five-classes-a-week schedule was a breeze. Fast-forward a couple of years and here I am working full-time and barely squeezing a shower into my work week routine. University prepared me for a work environment where I have total freedom to plan my day as I please. Nine-to-five office life, on the other hand? Not so much. Feeling overwhelmed, I decided to turn to TQ community for help and ask some of the entrepreneurs who work from…

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A cryptocurrency debunker’s quixotic quest to save endangered marmots with an emoji

Apr04
by on April 4, 2019 at 2:07 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Marmots. If you’re unfamiliar with this creature, marmots are kinda like squirrels, but the size of a house-cat. In Canada, they’re heavily endangered, and one cryptocurrency anti-influencer is hellbent on raising awareness with an official marmot emoji. Preston Byrne is a lawyer and self-professed blockchain nerd. On Twitter, you’ll often find him subverting influencer-centric cryptocurrency discussion with talk of marmots. If it helps, the groundhog (from Groundhog Day) is technically a marmot. There’s also an (imaginary) marmot-associated cryptocorrency, Marmotcoin. Its (sadly theoretical) supply-limit is pegged to the population of marmots (unlike Bitcoin‘s fixed 21-million supply), and one marmot is always equivalent to one Marmotcoin. This…

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