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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: Spotify Wants to Let You Make Custom Remixes

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Plus: Instagram will automatically detect and blur nude photos in an effort to protect teens. And Amazon’s CEO calls generative AI one of the largest technological transformations in decades. Danny Lewis hosts. Listening on Google Podcasts? Here's our guide for switching to a different podcast player. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:21.2

Here's your TMB Tech Minute for Thursday, April 11th. I'm Danny

0:27.6

Lewis for the Wall Street Journal. We exclusively report that Spotify is

0:32.1

building tools to let users make their own remixes.

0:36.1

People familiar with discussions told the journal the music streamer is working on ways for subscribers

0:40.5

to speed up, mash up, and make other edits to songs.

0:44.3

Spotify hopes the tools will deepen engagement and appeal to younger users who

0:48.6

regularly edit songs for social media posts, while potentially generating new revenue for artists.

0:55.0

Instagram is planning to automatically detect and blur nude photos in younger users direct messages.

1:02.0

The social media company says users who receive nude images

1:05.9

will also get a pop-up message explaining how to block or report the sender, and encouraging

1:11.5

them not to feel pressured to respond.

1:14.0

Instagram's parent company, Meta platforms,

1:17.0

says the feature will be tested and rolled out in the coming months,

1:20.0

but not to its other messaging apps.

1:23.0

Teen users will have the feature turned on by default,

1:26.0

but can turn it off if they choose.

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