Spotify is asking its Family Plan users in the US for GPS data to prove that the family members all live together. But as Internet users were quick to point out, family members don’t necessarily live under the same roof.

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A fund for NYC drivers could serve as the blueprint for a similar gig economy version - solving a number of driver issues in the process.

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In an effort to combat screen addiction, Apple’s iOS 12 introduced a “Screen Time” feature that was supposed to limit screen time for children. But in a popular Reddit thread, parents revealed that their children could come up with very creative ways of working around the feature. Do parental controls like “Screen Time” actually work?

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Many games already let those using PC, Nintendo Switch or Xbox One play together online, but Sony had refused to take part - until now.

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A patient in anesthesia from Norway’s Østfold hospital had the worst luck ever recently as the only machine handling the anesthetic procedure went on a forced Windows 10 update. Thankfully everything went back to normal after an hour and has forced the hospital to rethink their IT strategy and do updates manually.

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Do traffic lights help or hurt with traffic congestion? A Carnegie Mellon University is looking at the possibility of vehicle to vehicle communication to help eliminate traffic lights and shorten your commute time. But should we just ditch traffic lights and go back to roundabouts?

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Legendary rock band Led Zeppelin may be working on their own streaming service… and it actually sounds like a great idea! As far as unorthodox news is concerned, this one ranks pretty high.

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For artificial intelligence, learning requires an absurd amount of data to learn from. In the medical world, data on medical conditions or rare diseases are lacking. But it turns out that generative adversarial networks (GANs) - the technology behind deepfakes - may be the key to training medical AIs

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China is now the world’s biggest cashless marketplace. The mobile payment market is dominated by two apps, WeChat and AliPay - which have hundreds of millions of active users. But what might be some of the reasons that they’ve become cashless so rapidly?

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For the upcoming US midterm election, Snapchat is letting users register to vote on the app itself. Especially in light of the recent announcement that the Malaysian voting age might be lowered to 18 from 21, we ask if app-based voter registration could work here in Malaysia

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