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4 votes
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Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone contact tracing
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What has your experience been like buying digital music?
I've been wanting to buy some music recently from some artists that are only available through places like Amazon, iTunes, Google Play... However, I have specifically stayed away from most of...
I've been wanting to buy some music recently from some artists that are only available through places like Amazon, iTunes, Google Play... However, I have specifically stayed away from most of these platforms for various reasons, the primary one being that I prefer Bandcamp over all of them (and up to now I never had the need to go anywhere else anyway).
So my question is, have you bought any music from these types of platforms online and what was the experience like?
Some specifics for what I'm personally looking to get out of this topic (you don't have to answer these if you don't want to, general experiences are fine too):
- Can I buy music through my browser alone? This one's primarily aimed at iTunes, because when I go to Apple Music and click on the "Also available in the iTunes Store" button for a particular song or album, nothing happens. So I'm assuming it's trying to launch iTunes which I don't have installed.
- Is the music available in multiple audio formats and can I pick whichever one I want after purchase? This is what I like a lot about Bandcamp, you buy the music once and it gives you a bunch of different audio formats to choose from.
- Did the audio files come with metadata and cover art attached (and were they accurate)? This one's not a big deal overall since stuff like Picard exists, but it's just a nice thing to not need to worry about.
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Fruit trenches: Cultivating subtropical plants in freezing temperatures
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Showdown looms between Silicon Valley, US states over contact tracing apps
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CRISPR gene editing may help scale up coronavirus testing
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Google's data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows
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Quantum steampunk: 19th-century science meets technology of today
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Biotechs are battling to make the first good blood test for Covid-19
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How do/did all of you feel about posting your age on the internet?
(Semi-throwaway account because of personal details) This is prompted by /u/Adys comment to /u/Kuromantis. I'm currently 14, and online I've refrained posting my age on my main account (on this...
(Semi-throwaway account because of personal details)
This is prompted by /u/Adys comment to /u/Kuromantis.
I'm currently 14, and online I've refrained posting my age on my main account (on this site and others) to avoid it becoming a point in discussions (most prominently with politics, but any topic).- How do/did you feel about posting your age on the internet (in regards to being younger)?
- Do/did you feel like your decision made an impact on discussions?
26 votes -
Control your Faroe Islands tour guide – the country is attaching cameras to tour guides and letting the internet control where they go
8 votes -
The coronavirus pandemic turned Folding@Home into an exaFLOP supercomputer
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For global diplomats, Zoom is not like being in the room
6 votes -
Virtual sex parties offer escape from isolation — if organizers can find a home
6 votes -
We’re on the brink of cyberpunk
8 votes -
Answers to questions about Apple and Google’s new coronavirus tracking project
8 votes -
Norway's largest mobile operator, Telenor, is collaborating with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health to help them track the spread of the coronavirus
6 votes -
Corona-AI project asks DreamLab app users to help create ‘virtual supercomputer’ to assist in COVID-19 research efforts
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The rise and fall of a bitcoin mining scheme that was "too big to fail"
7 votes -
The erosion of deep literacy
21 votes -
Folding@Home is prioritizing users towards their Coronavirus projects
@foldingathome: Do you want to help us fight #COVIDー19 ? Download our client from https://t.co/55uKn0rJem -> Install -> Set category to "ANY" #COVID19 is prioritized. GPU and CPU projects are up. Connect with us if you want to do corp collab or donate your time.
23 votes -
Internet 'is not working for women and girls', says Tim Berners-Lee
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Capitalism’s addiction problem
6 votes -
The history of a Cold War mastermind: Gus Weiss, a shrewd intelligence insider, pulled off an audacious tech hack against the Soviets in the last century. Or did he?
4 votes -
Dressing for the surveillance age: Is there anything fashion can do to counter the erosion of public anonymity?
6 votes -
Blued, one of the biggest gay dating apps in the world, has succeeded because it plays by the ever-shifting rules for LGBTQ in China - bringing together a minority community without activism
12 votes -
Baseball card apps bring a classic hobby into the digital age
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Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
21 votes -
Suckers list: How Allstate’s secret auto insurance algorithm squeezes big spenders in the US
7 votes -
The 5th-generation Waymo Driver
7 votes -
Alphabet launches Tidal, a moonshot to save the world's oceans
15 votes -
Netflix will now let you disable its awful autoplaying feature
45 votes -
Radical hydrogen-boron reactor could leapfrog current nuclear fusion tech
11 votes -
Hacking diabetes - A network of amateur programmers is transforming the illness with a DIY app
6 votes -
Giant phages have been found in French lakes, baboons from Kenya, and the human mouth
10 votes -
Machine learning for antibiotics
4 votes -
It’s okay to leave your headphones at home
23 votes -
An overview of the technology behind self-driving cars and some of the issues and concerns that are slowing down their development
6 votes -
The golden quarter—Some of our greatest cultural and technological achievements took place between 1945 and 1971. Why has progress stalled?
12 votes -
The downside of diagnosis by smartphone
6 votes -
Varo Money receives FDIC approval, enabling it to become America's first standalone national digital bank
5 votes -
POTS: protective optimization technologies
5 votes -
The dot-com bubble - Five minute history lesson
8 votes -
Wind turbine blades can’t be recycled, so they’re piling up in landfills - Companies are searching for ways to deal with the tens of thousands of blades that have reached the end of their lives
26 votes -
Requesting an export of personal data from Amazon shows how extensively they track your reading habits
11 votes -
How technology (yes, technology!) can help you de-stress | No Sweat Tech
16 votes -
How sustainable is a solar powered website?
10 votes -
Match on dating app Tinder helps rescue camper trapped in ice in northern Norway
7 votes -
For years, Microsoft has moved billions in profits to Puerto Rico to avoid taxes. When the IRS pushed it to pay, Microsoft aggressively fought back in court, lobbied Congress and changed the law.
21 votes -
The case for making low-tech 'dumb' cities instead of 'smart' ones
15 votes