Unlock friendship: Spotify's 'request to jam' and listening activity are here for users

Android Central
Spotify's Messages gets a new year patch, as it prepares two key features for music-lovers on Android.

Anna's Archive backed up 99% of Spotify listens in the name of 'preservation' — but is it really just piracy?

Android Central
Anna's Archive, billed as the largest truly-open library in human history, now includes roughly 300TB of Spotify tracks and metadata.

I learned too much about myself from all the year-end 'wrapped' recaps

Tech Insider : Business
Partiful Afterparty, LinkedIn Year in Review, and YouTube Recap are pictured.
My Partiful, LinkedIn, and YouTube recaps.

Screenshots via Partiful, LinkedIn, YouTube

LinkedIn is giving us its own version of Spotify Wrapped. Are you ready?

Tech Insider : Business
LinkedIn Year in Review

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  • LinkedIn is hopping on the Spotify Wrapped bandwagon.
  • The professional networking platform released a "Year in Review" feature that recaps user data.
  • I spent 281 days on LinkedIn this year, and a lot of my connections scored AI jobs.

Curious just how much time you're spending on LinkedIn?

'SNL' spoofed Uber Eats Wrapped. Then Uber actually did it for real.

Tech Insider : Business, Style
Episode 1892 -- Pictured: Sarah Sherman during the
Uber launched YOUBER, a Spotify-style, year-in-review feature for Uber and Uber Eats users, shortly after a satirical "SNL" skit imagining a similar feature.

: Nora Rockwell/NBC via Getty Images

Spotify's recent outage leaves users locked out — but now it's back up and running

Android Central
Spotify users faced disruptions this morning, as widespread login issues and playlist disappearances left many in musical limbo, prompting the platform to acknowledge the outages publicly.

Spotify’s ‘Prompted Playlists’ lets you take more control of its algorithm

Android Central
Spotify announced "Prompted Playlists," a feature in beta that places the user in control of its musical algorithm.

A Spotify Beta Feature Lets Users Make Custom Playlists by Writing AI Prompts

Gizmodo
The Spotify Prompted Playlist feature on a smartphone

Why the music industry is changing its tune on AI

Tech Insider : Business, Economy, Style
A robot hand tuning a guitar

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The pump-up songs CEOs and business leaders rely on to get them through the day, from Beyoncé to Eminem

Tech Insider : Business
Photo collage featuring Beyoncé performing onstage during the
CEOs and business leaders love songs by Beyoncé, Fleetwood Mac, and Sombr, among others.

Roy Rochlin/Getty Images; Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Parkwood; Alyssa Powell/BI

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