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This is not the first time that Spotify has acted as a tickers seller. The company already collaborates with Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, and See Tickets to sell concert tickets through its Live Events Feed. However, Spotify is now directly selling tickets to the fans and charging customers a booking fee. Also, it’s not responsible for determining the ticket price. As per what Spotify says on its legal page, it is selling tickets “on behalf of third parties which can include venues, event promoters, fan clubs and artists as their disclosed ticketing agent....

Speaking at the Code Conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Pichai addressed the company’s challenges in facing the possible economic crisis. Hiring fewer people and laying off some of the current employees are some strategies for Google to face the challenges that might hit the company. The first goal Sundar Pichai has outlined for Google is that the company should be 20% more efficient. Pichai later mentioned the Google Play Music app transition to YouTube Music as an example of becoming more efficient....

AI call screening is hitting Pixel phones in the UK AI call screening is hitting Pixel phones in the UK Back during the Pixel 5 launch event, Google announced that the UK was getting AI call screening for its Pixel devices. While Google announced this back then, folks in the UK were wondering when it was going to finally roll out. Now, a full 12 months after the announcement, it’s finally coming to the region....

The US Senate votes to ban TikTok on government-owned devices The US Senate votes to ban TikTok on government-owned devices The US Senate passed by voice vote a bill to bar federal employees from using TikTok. Just for context’s sake, TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company. The US has had reservations regarding TikTok and its data practices for quite some time now. It claims this is due to national security reasons....

The Essential Home prototype that we see today, which has been put up for sale on eBay (via), features the same circular form factor with a sloped top that the company showcased in concept images back in 2017. It sports a large circular display up top. This is a device that “you’ll actually be proud to display in your home,” Essential had said about its design. “No boxes, tubes, or strange lights....