Spotify will launch its own podcast subscription and will not keep a percentage like Apple, advances the WSJ

This week we had an Apple event and one of the novelties is the podcast subscription service. The idea is to offer creators the ability to monetize their listeners, who can set whatever price they want. Of course, Apple will get a slice, since keep 30% of paid subscriptions for the first year, a percentage that will be reduced to 15% from the following year.

After this announcement, Spotify, which has been betting heavily on podcasts for some time, does not seem to want to be left behind. And it is that according to the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter (who remain anonymous), Spotify is going to announce its own subscription service next week and, unlike Apple’s model, will not keep anything.

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How to avoid being scammed by fake accounts when you enter an Instagram contest

We are going to explain to you how to avoid being scammed by fake accounts when you enter an Instagram contest, something you are going to be exposed to often. It is quite common for some official accounts of companies or services to run raffles from time to time to reward their users and gain new followers, and since cybercriminals are always on the lookout, they often take advantage of them to deceive people with phishing campaigns.

Normally, these types of campaigns are carried out using accounts that try to impersonate the identity of the one who is doing the contest, with similar names and the same profile image, although putting in their descriptions that they are the accounts in charge of delivering the raffle prizes. We are going to give you a few tips to try to avoid falling for these deceptions and end up giving your data or your money to strangers.

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Realme Q3, Q3i and Q3 Pro: 5G and high refresh rates starting at 130 euros

If you blink, you may miss a new launch in the mobile market, and it will surely be Realme or Xiaomi. Yesterday the first released the Realme 8 5G and today its mid-range with said connectivity is expanded with the new Realme Q3, Q3i and Q3 Pro, which offer different options for those who seek not to spend too much without giving up the latest in networks.

On the outside they are not very different from each other, in fact we see that they have taken the design of the Realme 8 as the one we mentioned and at first it would be difficult to differentiate them. But inside we see that they offer different processors and the option of AMOLED and screen reader in the case of the Pro.

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How to listen to WhatsApp audios at different speeds

We are going to explain to you how to listen to WhatsApp audios at different speeds, a new feature that is slowly beginning to reach users. It is a function that is not going to arrive at all at once, so you have to be patient because it may take a few days to arrive. However, by the time it does, this will be how it works.

It is a function that you will not need to activate in the configuration. Simply, when it reaches you, you can click on a specific part of the audio that has reached you to speed it up. Used to speed up the speed of the audio message in WhatsApp, so that it takes less time to listen to everything, although making it still understandable.

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