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Spotify just released its first earnings report as a public company, and it contains an updated look at how many people are using the music service. In all, Spotify has 170 million monthly active users and 75 million paid subscribers. That latter total is up from the 71 million marker where Spotify ended Q4. By contrast, Apple Music recently crossed 40 million subscribers. There are now 99 million people listening to Spotify through its ad-supporter free tier. Spotify’s revenue (€1.14 billion) was in line with expectations. Premium subscribers will jump up to somewhere between 79 and 83 million users by the end of the next quarter, according to Spotify’s earnings outlook. And the company’s prediction for how it’ll fare through the rest of 2018 remains unchanged from guidance it provided in March ahead of its IPO; it’s expecting to wind up with between 92 and 96 million subscribers. Last month, Spotify unveiled a revamped experience for free users that will give them on-demand a...

Sensor nets used for EEG at a center in England. According to the SCMP article, Chinese companies using sensors inside hats to monitor their employees. Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images This week, the South China Morning Post announced that Chinese organizations are "mining information specifically from specialists' brains" utilizing remote sensors in caps. The article is brimming with energizing statements about bosses utilizing innovation to screen their laborers' feelings, however actually these caps most likely don't work exceptionally well.  The report is low on points of interest, so the cases ought to be taken with a grain of salt. Supposedly, specialists wear security caps or uniform caps that have remote sensors inside. These sensors get cerebrum action to send to a calculation. The calculation at that point translates the information into different passionate states — for instance, misery, tension, and wrath — so administrators can utilize the ...