Welcome to the Tech Name Ride Home for Thursday, October 18, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Spotify Premium gets a spit shine, Facebook thinks it knows who is behind that big hack,

why everybody on their mother has a subscription box service these days,

and an Apple event in Brooklyn. Here's what you missed today in the world of

tech. If you're a Spotify premium subscriber you got a whole bunch of new stuff rolled into your iOS or

Android app today, including streamlined navigation, personalized search, and finally copying the one killer

differentiator Pandora had over it. Spotify now lets you make a radio

station based on any individual artist or even individual song.

Quoting from The Verge, it's essentially an endless playlist that's tailored to you

which can also be saved offline.

Spotify's new artist radio won't require the thumbs up, thumbs down interaction that helped

tailor its old radio offerings to your tastes.

Now you can hit play and expect as good a listening session as you'd get from any personalized playlist."

By the way, I only googled around for this briefly, but is there any way to reset your listening

history on Spotify?

Ever since having kids might discover weekly and various other recommended

playlists are completely hosed at this point.

Has anyone had success for covering the listing profile Spotify has on them other than simply opening a new

account from scratch.

Sarah Perez at Tech Crunch reports that Twitter is changing how it deals with deleted

tweets. The service will now differentiate between tweets that were deleted

voluntarily by the user who made them versus tweets that were marked for deletion by Twitter because they violated

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