Neil Young asked his management team and record label to remove his songs from Spotify because they were spreading fake information about vaccines. According to The Daily Beast, the content of the letter was confirmed by Young's manager. It's probably not an empty threat, as Young previously removed his music from Spotify due to low audio quality.
Some of his guests have been controversial, and The Joe Rogan Experience picks up around 11 million listens on average. Rogan hosted a doctor who made baseless claims about the effectiveness of the vaccines. A group of over 1,000 doctors, nurses, scientists and educators sent an open letter to Spotify demanding that it create a misinformation policy.
Rogan claimed that a rare heart condition had been linked to vaccines when it was actually linked to those who had contracted COVID-19. You can watch the awkwardness here. Daniel Ek said he doesn't believe the platform has editorial responsibility for podcasts. The company has yet to respond to Young's letter.
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Three more Star Wars games are on the way from Respawn Entertainment. It's not clear if the upcoming game is a direct sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, but the studio is best known for its games, such as Titanfall. A strategy game and a first-person shooter will be overseen by a former producer of Star Wars Battlefront, as well as a studio headed up by a man who worked on the XCOM series. For everyone, some Star Wars.
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The first all-in-one fingerprint security chip for payment cards has been announced. It can read fingerprints, store andauthenticate data, and analyze it with a secure processor by using a fingerprint sensor. The company said that it could also be used for student identification, employee identification, membership or building access.
Thanks to our phones, we might have enough payment options, but that doesn't mean we won't. It announced last year that it was collaborating with Mastercard on a payment card with a built-in fingerprint reader.
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The Sony soundbar is called the HT-S400. The price is $300 and it has a few tricks. Virtual surround sound is available for movies and shows to give you a more realistic audio experience. It is a fairly powerful system for the class, with a large 130W wireless sub contributing to a total of 330W output. The soundbar will be launched in April 2022.
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According to a report, the $40 billion purchase of ARM by NVIDIA is in trouble and the company is preparing to abandon the deal. SoftBank is said to be planning to take ARM public as an alternative to the acquisition. There was a backlash after the announcement.
The UK launched an antitrust investigation into the acquisition in January 2021, while the US FTC sued to block the purchase due to concerns about competition in industries like data centers and car manufacturing.
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With the demise of third-party cookies on the horizon, everyone is scrambling to come up with better ways to get ads in front of our eyes. FLoC was announced last year. The company's Privacy Sandbox faced regulatory scrutiny after it was delayed. The company is testing out a new approach called Topics API.
The TopicsAPI uses the chrome browser to determine the top five topics. It will figure out what the topics are by comparing known websites with a list of about 350 topics drawn from the Interactive Advertising Bureau. When partner publishers need to know what topics you are into, they can use the TopicsAPI to ping the browser for that data and serve you relevant ads.
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