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Amazon’s Alexa is Going to College (CNET)

A U.S. college is bringing Amazon's Alexa onto its campus and in force. Saint Louis University will put 2,300 Amazon Echo Dots in dorm rooms by the start of classes later this mont... More

Spotify Now Displays Songwriter, Producer Credits for iOS Users (The Verge)

Spotify first added the option to check out a track’s songwriter and producer credits back in February — and now, the feature is being rolled out onto iOS. On the desktop appli... More

Walmart Eyes Virtual Reality Shopping System (AdAge)

Trekking through a crowded, cavernous Walmart supercenter isn't much fun. But what if you could do it from the comfort of your own home through virtual reality? The world's biggest... More

Google Might Launch its Own Smart Display This Holiday Season (Engadget)

Google is expanding its line of Assistant-powered devices with its own smart display, at least according to Nikkei. The tech giant has reportedly told its Taiwanese manufacturing p... More

Apple Removed Illegal Apps from China Store Following Pressure from State Media (VentureBeat)

Apple says it has pulled illegal lottery apps from its App Store in China amid tightening regulation and a barrage of criticism from state media. According to state media, the comp... More

Netflix Has Deleted All User Reviews From Its Website (Variety)

It’s the end of another era for Netflix: As of Friday, the company has removed all customer-submitted reviews of TV shows, movies and other programming from the website. Netflix ... More

Pandora’s Podcast Genome Project Could Launch by the End of the Year (The Verge)

Breaking down music into its component parts helped Pandora build personalized music playlists years before services like Spotify even existed. Could taking a similar approach with... More

3 Big Questions About Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Billion-Dollar Gamble on Premium Mobile TV (Variety)

Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman will build it. Will the world’s smartphone-carrying masses come? The plan is to create a mobile-specific subscription entertainment service, st... More

Avid Taps ‘Inside The Edit’ for Professional Editing Training (TVB Europe)

Avid is collaborating with leading creative editing course, Inside The Edit. The highly specialised online e-learning training program focuses on the art of professional editing. T... More

Sony Hits 500 Million PlayStation Milestone (THR)

Sales of 81 million for the PlayStation 4 (PS4) have helped push total hardware sales of all generations of the console past the half-billion mark. To commemorate this, Sony is rel... More

Spotify Tests Letting Listeners Skip Any Ads They Want, as Much as They Want (AdAge)

Spotify is hoping to deliver another blow at rival Pandora, all in an effort to dominate the fast growing, $1.6 billion market that is digital audio advertising. The company says i... More

Facebook, Apple are Serious About Augmented Reality (Forbes)

When Facebook and Apple make extraordinary investments in new technology like they are with augmented reality, you know it's something to pay attention to. Both companies have made... More

How Phish Became the Unlikely Heroes of Digital Music Streaming (Mashable)

Phish is hardly the only jam band to have a fan-friendly taping policy. The Grateful Dead developed theirs years before Phish even formed, and plenty of other artists, from Umphrey... More

Nickelodeon Announces Its First TV Show Created With a Game Engine (Variety)

Nickelodeon is embracing real-time production technologies with a new TV show that is being created with a game engine. “Meet the Voxels,” as the show is working-titled, is bas... More

Will We Someday be Able to Do Everything Through Online Platforms? (ReadWrite)

Online platforms continue to change the way the world works, yet people continue to doubt the extent of these platforms’ power to disrupt. By now, the question should not be whet... More

Google Plans China-Friendly Censored Search Engine (IT Pro Portal)

Chinese Internet users could soon be using Google to search the web according to reports that suggest the search giant is currently developing a version of its popular search engin... More

The Rise of the Computer-Generated Celebrity (Wired)

A new generation of celebrities is selling out concerts, starring in commercials, and amassing huge Instagram followings. But none of them exist—corporeally, anyway. In recent ye... More

How Instagram Became the Art World’s Obsession (WSJ)

Over the past eight years, Instagram has become an indispensable, all-purpose tool for everything art related. Dealers increasingly report making sales to collectors whose interest... More

The Future of Hulu May be in VR (Daily Dot)

Hulu is the perfect streaming service for beginner cord-cutters thanks to its diverse range of price options and the variety of streaming devices it supports. But there’s one asp... More

Google Search Will Now Recommend Events Based on Your Interests (The Verge)

Google has updated the way you discover events in Search, adding new features that both personalize results and provide more key information about events right in search results. N... More

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