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The Code Conference is about to get started.
Day one kicks off with Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Roblox CEO David Baszucki, and Warner Music Group CEO Robert Kyncl.
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The Code Conference kicks off tonight.
The Verge’s editor-in-chief, Nilay Patel, is cohosting, and naturally we’ll be there to cover the big interviews.
The event starts later today, so tune in then for live coverage. The first interviews start a bit after 6PM ET.
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Who did it better, Netflix or MrBeast?
Netflix has a new teaser out for its game show version of Squid Game, which looks uncomfortably close to the actual dystopian series. (Minus, critically, all the death.)
The production quality looks just a bit nicer than MrBeast’s immensely popular knockoff. It’s out on November 22nd.
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Snapchat Plus hit 5 million subscribers.
Snap wanted to get 4 million people subscribed to its $3.99/month service by the end of 2022. Turns out, it probably happened about 6 months later. The last milestone Snap disclosed was hitting 3 million subscribers in April.
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Spotify says governments aren’t moving fast enough to crack down on Apple’s App Store restrictions.
“Apple’s artificial constraints are stifling and we know our users deserve better,” Dustee Jenkins, Spotify’s public affairs officer, wrote in a blog post today.
Jenkins sounds cautiously optimistic about the EU’s Digital Markets Act. But until similar rules are enacted elsewhere, she writes:
Apple denies consumers’ ability to choose for themselves, forcing them to pay more for apps, limiting their user experience and preventing them from hearing about cheaper options.
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