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Here’s how to get Spotify Premium in India ahead of its official launch

Feb26
by on February 26, 2019 at 2:18 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, India, Insider


People in India have eagerly waited for Spotify to launch in the country. Well, that date might arrive real soon, as the company has silently rolled out premium plans at Rs. 119 ($1.67) per month. The option to sign up for the premium service seems to be working for only existing customers. Here’s how you can try and get it. Go to the Spotify site on the desktop and login to your account. Click on your profile, and then on the Account option. Go to Edit Profile, and change your country to India. Once you’ve done that, head to the trial…

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Facebook’s global content moderation fails to account for regional sensibilities

Feb26
by on February 26, 2019 at 1:58 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media


Over the past year, Facebook’s biggest challenge has been moderating billions of posts every day in more than a hundred languages. It’s proven almost impossible to maintain a balance between what is deemed as “hate speech” and “free speech” since social media is global, but our perception of “free speech” is determined by region. During the TechChill conference in Riga last week, David Ryan Polgar, a Tech Ethicist and founder at All Tech is Human, explained the challenges platforms like Facebook and Twitter face when it comes to moderating what they believe to be “hate speech.” For hundreds of years, it was…

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Facebook’s global content moderation fails to account for regional sensibilities

Feb26
by on February 26, 2019 at 1:58 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media


Over the past year, Facebook’s biggest challenge has been moderating billions of posts every day in more than a hundred languages. It’s proven almost impossible to maintain a balance between what is deemed as “hate speech” and “free speech” since social media is global, but our perception of “free speech” is determined by region. During the TechChill conference in Riga last week, David Ryan Polgar, a Tech Ethicist and founder at All Tech is Human, explained the challenges platforms like Facebook and Twitter face when it comes to moderating what they believe to be “hate speech.” For hundreds of years, it was…

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A $20 phone for Africa is MWC’s unlikeliest hero

Feb26
by on February 26, 2019 at 1:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Foldable displays and 5G are the buzzwords that dominated this year’s Mobile World Congress. That said, the phone that most impressed me was a budget handset aimed at bridging the vast digital chasm between the developed world and the developing world. Meet the $20 Sanza, from French telecommunications giant Orange. “This isn’t a feature phone, and it isn’t a smartphone. It’s somewhere in-between,” an Orange representative told me. And he was right. The Sanza defies the existing mobile definitions and exists in an undefined no-mans-land that makes it hard to accurately describe. Let’s start with the basics. No, it doesn’t…

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A $20 phone for Africa is MWC’s unlikeliest hero

Feb26
by on February 26, 2019 at 1:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Foldable displays and 5G are the buzzwords that dominated this year’s Mobile World Congress. That said, the phone that most impressed me was a budget handset aimed at bridging the vast digital chasm between the developed world and the developing world. Meet the $20 Sanza, from French telecommunications giant Orange. “This isn’t a feature phone, and it isn’t a smartphone. It’s somewhere in-between,” an Orange representative told me. And he was right. The Sanza defies the existing mobile definitions and exists in an undefined no-mans-land that makes it hard to accurately describe. Let’s start with the basics. No, it doesn’t…

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