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  • Spotify will let you edit your Taste Profile to control your recommendations

    When you edit your Taste Profile, you’ll impact your personalized playlists like Discover Weekly, recommendations, and Wrapped.

  • Good Morning, Moon

    Early morning sunlight illuminates the western wall of this unnamed crater, leaving deep shadows on the ground and in the interior. The image was taken on August 30, 2023, by LROC (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera).

  • The $32B acquisition that one VC is calling the ‘Deal of the Decade’

    According to Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah, cybersecurity startup Wiz sits “at the center of three tailwinds: AI, cloud, and security spend.” Those tailwinds powered what just became the largest venture-backed acquisition in history — Google&#821…

  • Apple drops commission rates in China without a fuss

    Apple dropped its App Store commission rates to 25% in China, and commissions on auto-renewed subscriptions down to 12%.

  • Artifacts From NASA’s Webb, Parker Solar Probe on View at Smithsonian

    A testing replica of the “backbone” of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and a full-scale model of the agency’s Parker Solar Probe are now on permanent display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. “From touching the Sun with Parker Solar Probe to creating humanity’s most powerful…