Neil Young returns to Spotify after two-year protest

[The Morning After]( It's Wednesday, March 13, 2024. Neil Young is back on Spotify after [boycotting]( the platform over two years ago, he said in a new blog post. The Canadian singer ditched the platform over vaccine misinformation on the Joe Rogan podcast. He’s returned because Rogan’s podcast is no longer exclusive on Spotify. “My decision comes as music services Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation podcast features I had opposed at Spotify,” he said – which isn’t really the stance he thinks it is. When Young dropped his catalog from Spotify, he added he was fed up with Spotify’s “shitty” sound quality. Nothing has particularly changed there. — Mat Smith The biggest stories you might have missed [How Amazon Prime has satisfied our need for speed]( [The best mobile microphones for 2024]( [The US Government says IP infringement is all over NFT marketplaces]( ​​You can get these reports delivered daily direct to your inbox. [Subscribe right here!]( [In the EU, Apple will allow iOS apps to be distributed on websites]( Instead of its App Store. Days after Apple started allowing iOS users in the EU to use third-party app stores, the company has announced more changes to how developers can distribute their apps. Most significantly, those who meet certain criteria can let users download apps from their websites. The Web Distribution option, available this spring, will effectively let developers bypass the app ecosystem entirely for their own apps. To be eligible, devs must opt in to new App Store rules and pay a fee for each user install after a certain threshold. [Continue reading.]( [Ray-Ban’s Meta sunglasses can now identify and describe landmarks]( It’s one of the more useful AI-powered features. [[TMA] Engadget]( AI-powered visual search features arrived to Ray-Ban’s Meta sunglasses last year with some impressive (and[divisive]( tricks — but a new one in the latest beta looks quite useful. It identifies landmarks and tells you more about them — a sort of tour guide for travelers. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth explained in a (Meta-owned) Threads post with a couple of sample images explaining why the Golden Gate Bridge is orange (easier to see in fog), a history of the painted ladies houses in San Francisco and more. [Continue reading.]( [X rival Bluesky will let users run their own moderation services]( Users can subscribe to third-party labeling services too. Bluesky, the open-source Twitter alternative, is about to start testing one of its more ambitious ideas: allowing its users to run their own moderation services. The change will bring Bluesky users and developers together to work on custom labeling tools for the budding social media platform. Bluesky is seeing a surge in growth after it removed its waitlist and opened to all users in February. The service has added about 2 million new users, bringing its total community to just over 5 million. It might need the extra moderation. [Continue reading.]( The Morning After is a daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't [subscribe](. Craving even more? [Like us on Facebook]( or [follow us on Twitter](. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? [Send us a note.]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Youtube]( [Instagram]( You are receiving this email because you opted in at [engadget.com](. Not interested anymore? [Unsubscribe from this newsletter.]( Copyright © 2024 Yahoo. All rights reserved.