Kaya Yurieff / The Information:
Twitter confirms it shut down its Ticketed Spaces test indefinitely before Elon Musk’s takeover of the company — Before Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, the company paused paid tickets to its live audio feature Spaces, the social network confirmed. “We’ve paused the Ticketed Spaces test indefinitely …
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Twitter seems to have disabled Spaces, its live audio service, after Musk joined and then abruptly left a group conversation that included suspended journalists — Twitter has apparently pulled its Spaces group audio feature, at least temporarily, after Elon Musk joined a group conversation …
Kaya Yurieff / The Information:
Pinterest says it is ending the creator rewards program that it launched in 2021, which offered cash bonuses when creators completed certain goals — Pinterest is ending its creator rewards program, which offered cash bonuses when creators completed goals such as hitting certain engagement metrics, The Information is first to report.
Kaya Yurieff / The Information:
OnlyFans says revenue for the year ending November 2021 rose 160% YoY to $932M and number of creators rose 34% to 2.1M, earning ~$4B, with fans up 128% to 188M — OnlyFans, the adult content site best known for explicit content, reported revenue soared 160% to $932 million year-over-year …
Pranob Mehrotra / XDA Developers:
Qualcomm announces the Qualcomm S3 Gen 2 and Qualcomm S5 Gen 2 for wireless audio gear with support for spatial audio, improved ANC, lossless music, and more — The new SoCs are optimized for Bluetooth LE Audio and unlock several premium audio experiences
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
Meta AI researchers unveil Encodec, a neural network trained to compress audio at a ~10x rate compared with the MP3 format at 64Kbps, without a loss in quality — Technique could allow high-quality calls and music on low-quality connections. — Last week, Meta announced …
David Pan / Bloomberg:
Ethermine, the largest Ethereum mining firm, will shut down its servers for miners after Ethereum’s Merge, switching its mining pool to withdraw-only mode — Ethermine, the largest Ethereum mining services provider by computing power, will shut down its servers for miners after the blockchain completes its historic technical upgrade.
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