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But Google has also added fresh ways to customize phone screens with new wallpaper, app widgets and shortcuts.

A lot of artists have been really rightly worried about this kind of over-commodification of storytelling where it's not about a group of humans making a work of art together that also functions as a work of commerce, but instead it just becomes how do we make these stories as widgets as fast as possible, as cheap as possible for as many people as possible?

Synapses are the nervous-system widgets that allow electrical signals to cross the gaps between one cell and the next.

The FTC also accused Amazon of prioritizing its own private-label products in widgets on its digital storefront, or the boxes with labels like “expert recommendation.”

The team in charge of determining how customers search Amazon’s online store disagreed, but Amazon ultimately required those widgets to include Amazon-branded products when available, the FTC claims.