Mon. 04/26 – Listen To The Podcast On Facebook, I Guess?

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🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Facebook rolls out that Spotify integration. Roku accuses Google of making anticompetitive demands for YouTube TV. iOS 14.5 rolls out, and with it that App Tracking Transparency tool. Apple plans a big new campus in North Carolina. And DoNotPay’s latest service helps protect your selfies from the global panopticon. Sponsors: CalderaLab.com use code TECHMEME (all caps one word) at checkout Kiwico.com, Promocode ride for 30 percent off Links: Facebook introduces a new miniplayer that streams Spotify within the Facebook app(Tech Crunch) Zoom launches Immersive View to unify participants in the same virtual room (Venture Beat) Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands (Axios) OnlyFans feels the lockdown love as transactions hit £1.7bn (Financial Times) German groups file Apple antitrust complaint as it makes privacy changes (Financial Times) To Be Tracked or Not? Apple Is Now Giving Us the Choice. (New York Times) Apple will spend $1 billion to open 3,000-employee campus in North Carolina (CNBC) DoNotPay's new tool makes your photos undetectable to facial recognition software (Input) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Monday, April 26, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:08.8	Facebook rolls out that Spotify integration we were expecting.
0:12.0	Roku accuses Google of making
0:14.2	anti-competitive demands for YouTube TV. iOS 14.5 rolls out and with it that
0:20.6	app tracking transparency tool.
0:22.8	Apple plans a big new campus in North Carolina,
0:25.0	and do not pay's latest service helps protect your selfies
0:28.0	from the global panopicon.
0:30.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:40.4	As expected, Facebook is rolling out a mini player that will allow Facebook users to stream music and podcasts from Spotify through the Facebook app on iOS and Android.
0:47.0	Quoting Tech Crunch.
0:49.0	The mini player itself is an extension of the social sharing option already supported within Spotify's app.
0:55.3	Now when Spotify users are listening to content they want to share to Facebook, they'll
0:59.8	be able to tap the existing share menu, the three dot menu at the upper right of the screen and then
1:05.2	tap either Facebook or Facebook news feed. When a user posts an individual
1:10.1	track or podcast episode to Facebook through this sharing feature. The post will now
1:15.0	display in a new mini player that allows other people who come across their post
1:19.2	to also play the content as they continue to scroll or re-share it.
1:24.4	Q the MySpace vibes.
1:26.6	Spotify's paid subscribers will be able to access full playback.
1:31.1	The company says free users meanwhile will be able to hear the full shared track, not a clip. But afterwards, they'll continue to listen to add supported content on shuffle
1:43.0	on the
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