Instagram walks back full-screen home feed, Spotify’s new personalized playlist, every protein structure from DeepMind and more.

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News in this episode:

• The Verge: Instagram is walking back its changes for now — Adam Mosseri explains why
• TechCrunch: Social subscription Snapchat+ is already faring better than Twitter Blue
• TechCrunch: TikTok begins pilot testing HTML5 mini-games with a handful of partners
• The Verge: Instagram will start asking some users for their race or ethnicity
• TechCrunch: Smartphone sales drop sharply in China
• The Verge: EV tax credits are back — and bigger — in new Senate climate bill
• TechCrunch: Google announces new Play Store policies around intrusive ads, impersonation and more
• TechRadar: Wix has a new AI-powered website builder editor
• CNBC: Air conditioning is a climate disaster and Bill Gates is investing in this startup to fix it
• TechCrunch: Spotify forks out $295M for Findaway, Podsights, Chartable, and Sonantic, filing reveals
• TechCrunch: Retool raises $45M at a $3.2B valuation to make building custom software as easy as buying off the shelf
• The Verge: Can hydrogen fuel cells power Microsoft data centers?
• TechRadar: Peacock suffers another huge loss as subscribers stall, are more cancelations on the way?
• TechCrunch: Spotify’s new personalized playlist will recommend tracks based on what your friends are listening to
• Engadget: NASA plans to bring rock samples back from Mars with the help of two space helicopters
• TechCrunch: Jack Ma to give up control of fintech giant Ant Group: WSJ
• The Verge: DeepMind found the structure of nearly every protein known to science
• The Verge: The electricity demands of data centers are making it harder to build new homes in London
• The Verge: Snap’s first AR game is a spooky ‘found phone’ mystery
• The Verge: Twitter goes full circle with Status feature test