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Music-streaming king Spotify sees a future in podcasts.

The company announced on Wednesday that it has made two huge acquisitions that firmly plant Spotify in the podcasting business. The music-streaming giant has bought Gimlet Media Inc., a popular podcast producer, and Anchor, a platform that helps creators produce and publish their podcasts.

According to Recode, Spotify is paying around $230 million for Gimlet. Recode first reported that Spotify and Gimlet were in talks last week. Читать дальше...

We're just months from Game of Thrones' final season, and HBO has released the first stills of Season 8 to get this hype train moving.

Receiving a stern letter from Congress is never going to be a pleasant experience, but for Tim Cook it might just turn into a nightmare. 

Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX is facing a tough time after its 30-year-old founder, Gerald Cotten, died unexpectedly from Crohn's disease while traveling in India in December 2018. His widow says that he took the only key with him, which would allow her to access their customers' $145 million worth of cryptocurrency. Read more...

For all of the various responses to Tuesday night's State of the Union address by President Trump — including responses from Stacey Abrams, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Sen. Kamala Harris  — perhaps the greatest was delivered by New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.

Smart displays are quickly becoming one of the top home essentials, with the Amazon Echo and Google Home being the main players duking it out to win a spot on your counter.

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This post is part of Hard Refresh, a soothing weekly column where we try to cleanse your brain of whatever terrible thing you just witnessed on Twitter.

Subscription boxes are great! You go online, find a very cool service and sign up, and then you'll magically receive a box full of goodies once a month. It's the easiest and most stress-free way to get the products you want on a consistent basis without ever thinking about it or going to a store. With a subscription box, every month is like Christmas or a birthday when you get a mystery box that's waiting for you at your doorstep and will make you happy and excited.

With only two-and-a-half months until April 15, it's time that you get your paperwork and receipts in order to file your taxes for the previous year. It was a long year, but we only have a short time to file.

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We all know that Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching, but arguably more importantly, Galentine’s Day is coming up. The Leslie Knope holiday celebrates the love you have for all of your gal pals. Use the day before V-Day to get together with your girls and enjoy one another’s company over some mimosas or wine.

WhatsApp is on the offensive.

In New Delhi on Wednesday, Facebook-owned WhatsApp held a press conference to share how it is tackling fake accounts and the spread of misinformation on its platform of 1.5 billion users. 

The conference was especially urgent because India will hold its elections in April — and India, site of WhatsApp's biggest user base, is also where WhatsApp has seen dangerous abuse that led to violence and death. 

SEE ALSO: WhatsApp hires grievance officer... Читать дальше...

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Some people possess an innate talent for thoughtful gift-giving. No matter the occasion or recipient, they somehow nail their gift selections year after year, cementing their status as favourite aunt/co-worker/second-cousin-twice-removed.

It's 2019 in the real world, and 2016 on Twitter.

Not a day has gone by since Clinton lost to Trump where folks on Twitter weren't re-litigating the 2016 Democratic primary election. One day, liberals will be accusing Bernie Sanders of being a knowing "chaos agent" in the 2016 election. Other days, Clinton voters are subjected to an onslaught of tweets about how they chose their candidate only because they thought she was electable — not because they actually, you know, liked her. 

It's a toxic... Читать дальше...

Feb. 14 is technically supposed to celebrate couples, but we all know the real star of this holiday for people who enjoy alcohol: Wine. 

The young adult novel The Sun Is Also a Star is getting the movie treatment and it looks like it has everything a good romance needs: one romantic individual, someone who doesn't think love is for them, and a whole lot of fate.

According to a Stanford-NYU study, quitting Facebook increased social interaction with family and peers. Read more...

The popular children’s show is ringing in their 50th anniversary with a yearlong celebration. Read more...

Traveling by plane can be a nightmare filled with delays, turbulence, and not-so-great seatmates. But every once in a while a flight so good comes along to restore your faith in air travel.

Experts say that over two-thirds of the Himalaya's glaciers could melt by 2100. Even if steps are made towards reducing global warming, one-third of the Himalayas will still be affected. The experts say the melting will have dire consequences for people who get their food and water from around the area. This would then lead to millions being displaced due to regions becoming uninhabitable. Read more...

Microsoft is taking cross-play to a new level. The company plans to expand Xbox Live, its online game service, to the Switch, iOS and Android. It would all be made possible by a new software development kit being developed by Microsoft. Read more...

Good morning!

The last thing you want to do is make your own cup of coffee first thing in the morning when you're confused and groggy. How are you expected to make coffee when it's the substance supposed to make you sharp and alert?

Ideally, you'd want to wake up to the smell of percolating coffee, and have it ready to drink as soon as you get out of bed. Since we don't have the luxury of living above a Starbucks, the next best thing is coffee made with this Cuisinart Burr Grind & Brew Thermal 12-cup automatic coffeemaker... Читать дальше...

In celebration of Sesame Street's 50th anniversary, the folks behind the upcoming Sesame Street movie have given us a little bit of information about the mysterious, long-in-the-works feature.