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Spotify to cut nearly 20% of its workforce despite turning £55m profit in latest report | Science & Tech News
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Popular music-streaming app Spotify will cut almost a fifth of its workforce despite turning a profit of €65m (£55.7m), according to its latest figures. The firm’s latest round of job cuts will affect around 1,500 people – which is 17% of its current total of 9,300 employees. It’s the third round of job losses at…
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Spotify testing AI-powered feature to translate podcasts into different languages | Science & Tech News
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Spotify Technology is testing an artificial intelligence (AI) powered feature that will translate podcasts into other languages. Powered by Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s newly released voice generation technology, translated versions of podcasts will mimic the original speaker’s style and will be more natural than traditional dubbing, Spotify said. Podcasts such as Armchair Expert from actor Dax Shepard,…
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Spotify boss denies claim 30-second repeat play trick can make you rich | Science & Tech News
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Repeatedly listening to your own 30-second track on Spotify won’t make you around £960 ($1,200) a month, the streaming giant’s chief executive has said. It comes after an analysis by JP Morgan, reported by the Financial Times, suggested the Swedish music firm’s royalty structure could be manipulated by artists, or even regular users. The newspaper…
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Heardle: Spotify announces it’s shutting down the popular name-that-tune game | UK News
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Spotify has announced it is dropping Heardle – the name-that-tune game inspired by Wordle. The streaming giant had acquired the game last July, five months after it took the world by storm. Heardle played small snippets of music and challenged gamers to guess the song as quickly as possible. But in a new statement, Spotify…
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Spotify users report huge spike in outages as Taylor Swift’s new album Midnight drops | Science & Tech News
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Spotify users reported a huge spike in outages as Taylor Swift’s new album landed on the platform this morning. Midnights released at 5am UK time, and coincided exactly with a sizeable jump in issues on the streaming service, according to Downdetector. Almost 8,000 users logged problems with the app in the moments around the album’s…