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YouTube paid $6 billion to the music industry in 12 months
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Twitter: US datacenter melted down in Labor Day heat
Earlier this month extreme heat downed a Twitter datacenter in California over the Labor Day weekend, leaving the website and app working on bare-bones infrastructure.
The temperature in downtown Sacramento, California, that day – Labor Day in the US – reached a record high of 113°F or 45°C, and local temperature records were broken again within days.
YouTube paid $6 billion to the music industry in 12 months
In the 12 months between July 2021 and June 2022, YouTube paid over $6B to the music industry.
UGC drove over 30% of payouts for artists, songwriters and rights-holders, for the second year in a row.
Meta to launch Discord-like ‘Community Chats’ on Messenger
Community Chats can be started from both Messenger and Facebook Groups. Meta has already started adding some features to messenger that are reminiscent of Slack or Discord.
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