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1) The CEO of YouTube mentioned the word "creators" 52 times in her annual letter, which also cited research from Oxford Economics that the "YouTube economy" supported 394,000 jobs in the US.
2) How has the popularity of each movie genre changed in the last century? Some great work by Bo McCready. RIP Westerns.
3) Rise of the machines: fantastic chart and story from FiveThirtyEight showing how computers caught up to, matched and then rapidly outpaced the best human chess players in the world. Related viewing: "AlphaGo - The Movie", the story of how AI took on the ancient Chinese game of Go.
4) Microsoft made more than $6 billion a month in its latest quarter, with revenue up 20% on the year before.
5) Adele was the only artist last year to sell more than 1 million copies of an album last year, underlining how much the industry has changed since the advent of streaming.
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