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Spotify and Uber team up for in-car streaming music

This article is about customers of smartphone taxi app Uber will soon be able to stream music from Spotify during rides, after the two companies announced a partnership.

• Uber users who link their Spotify account to their Uber account can basically push a button and get a ride, and get into the car, and in the car their Spotify music, their Spotify station is playing
• The feature will be available in 10 cities: London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Nashville, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney and Toronto
• Spotify and Uber are holding launch parties on Friday 21 November in those cities, featuring artists including Andrew WK, Professor Green and Diplo.
• News of the partnership had leaked out over the weekend, after Uber sent invitations to journalists promising “a first-of-its-kind partnership”, complete with an illustration of musical notes.

I don't know if this is going to work as much as Uber and Spotify hope for because not everyone has spotify but Spotify is the leading company when it comes to streaming music .Youtube's new streaming music system comes out (Youtube Key), is this going to work? How would this make artists feel as people use stream to listen favourite songs instead of the radio as new artists produce new music and put on radio. 

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Uber executive apologises after suggesting the firm dig dirt on hostile journalists

This article was about the firm Uber, that was forced to apologise after a senior executive suggested the company hire a team of opposition researchers to dig up dirt on hostile journalists.

• Ian Osborne, the company’s head of business, Emil Michael, singled out Sarah Lacy, the editor of tech news site PandoDaily, as somebody who could be targeted by the researchers
• Michael has since released a statement saying that he believed the dinner was off the record
• While Lacy has long been a critic of Uber, she says that Michael’s comments demonstrate that “the company still has the ability to shock and horrify me”
• Lots of journalists and the public want Emil Michael fired.

I think that Uber should fire Emil Michael because people are not boycotting the app and at the end of the day Uber is a business that needs to make money.

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Spotify CEO speaks out on Taylor Swift albums removal: 'I'm really frustrated'

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/11/spotify-ceo-taylor-swift-albums-daniel-ek

This was about the CEO of Spotify making his first comment about the Taylor Swift situation.

• Spotify chief executive Daniel Ek has responded to Taylor Swift’s decision to remove her albums from the streaming service with a blog post tackling what he describes as the “myths” of streaming music.
• In his post, Ek announced that Spotify now has 50 million active users, with 12.5 million of them paying for a monthly subscription.
• He added that Spotify has now paid out more than $2bn in royalties to labels and publishers.
• Ek also defended Spotify’s “blend” of free and subscription music, with Swift having removed her albums because the company refused to only make them available to its paying subscribers.
• Ek also claimed that a top artist like Taylor Swift can expect to earn $6 a year from Spotify streams

I think what Taylor Swift and her label did was not clever.They were making a lot of money out of this online streaming system and if they don't like that - well they have too because thats were the music industry has gone to now. 

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Video games are not making us more violent, study shows

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/10/video-games-violent-study-finds

This article was is about Long-term research into homicide rates and depictions of violence in video games, movies and how they have no relationships with each other.

• The research mainly targeted 12-17 year olds.
• The research tool 20 years long
• The study concluded that playing video games coincided with a fall in violent crime perpetrated by those in the 12-17 age group.
• The research paper also questions the validity of previous studies into links between real-life and screened violence, which have largely relied on laboratory testing.

I think that article makes a lot of sense and this supports new technology which is quite rare in situation like this. 

Index

1. 16/09/2014 :Steve Jobs' office 
2.  23/09/2014: FIfa 15 review - not Flawless, but still the best football game.
3. 30/09/2017: Microsoft unveils Windows 10 not Windows 9
4. 21/10/2014: Taylor Swift Single out everywhere except UK
5. 4/11/2014: Oculus warns Sony to solve motion sickness before launch
6. 4/11/2014: Taylor Swift removes songs from Spotify
7. 11/11/2014: Video games are not making us more violent, study shows
8. 11/11/2014: Spotify CEO speaks out on Taylor Swift albums removal: "I'm really frustrated"
9. 18/11/2014: Uber executive apologises after suggesting the firm dig dirt on hostile journalists
10. 18/11/2014: Spotify and Uber team up for in-car streaming music

    
    

    
    

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Taylor Swift v Spotify: back catalogue removed from streaming services

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/03/taylor-swift-spotify-artists-discography-streaming-services

This article was about how Taylor Swift withheld her new album 1989 from music streaming services, and has now removed all her albums from Spotify.

• Swift and her label Big Machine Music have yet to comment
• Spotify broke the news in a blog post
•  Red’s tracks had been played more than 260m times on the service since the album was made available to stream in May 2013, eight months after it first went on sale
• Spotify have made it cleared that they want her back.

I think that this is very big news to anyone because she is so big in the music industry and nobody still knows why she took away her songs off Spotify, but this is all in the air right now because we haven't heard from Taylor Swift or her Label about this. 

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Oculus warns Sony to solve motion sickness before launching a VR headset

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/04/oculus-sony-motion-sickness-virtual-reality

This article was about the Facebook-owned Oculus Rift won't launch until it has solved motion-sickness problem and it warns Sony to solve it before the main headset it released.

• The chief executive of Facebook-owned virtual reality firm Oculus VR has warned rival Sony not to launch a VR headset until it has solved problems of motion sickness
• Oculus has grown from 50 people at the start of 2014 to more than 200 
• Iribe described VR as a “brand new industry… we’re just at the beginning
• Oculus boss said that since being bought for $2bn by Facebook earlier in the year, his company has focused on recruitment

I think that motion sickness is a problem that should be held before the headset is released to everyone. I think Sony have the money and resources to fix this problem as quick as possible because people have already seen popular gamers use it on YouTube.