Daily Crunch: Free Spotify comes to Alexa
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1. Spotify’s free music service will now stream on Alexa devices, plus Bose and Sonos smart speakers
Spotifyhas worked with Amazon Echo since 2016, but only for premium subscribers. Today, that changes.
The Alexa support — which includes playing Spotify’sTop Hits playlist, Discover Weekly and more — will be available for users in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. Support for Sonosand Bose is more broadly available to users around the world.
2. Facebook’s latest experiment is a meme-creation app, Whale
Currently, the app allows users to decorate photos with text and stickers in order to create memes that can be shared to social media or texted to friends.
3. Vayyar nabs $109M for its “4D” radar tech, which detects and tracks images while preserving privacy
Vayyar is an Israeli s
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