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Dennis Cooper's blog, which he started in 2002, was suddenly removed without warning from Google's blogging service Blogger and now he is considering suing the…
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Twelve months of Apple Music have brought the service 15 million paid subscribers and, for its architects, a sense of optimistic, if slightly cautious, calm.Read…