Spotify's New Private Listening Mode Hides Your Guiltiest Pleasure Songs [Spotify]

Spotify is awesome, but there are many of you who don't like the idea of your friends (and Facebook) having access to your darkest, most humiliating musical favorites. Spotify gets it. Now you can hide your shame from the world.

According to tweets from Swedish Super Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, the company's "Rolling out a new client as we speak where you can temporarily hide your guilty pleasures. It works like a browsers private mode." In other words, you can enjoy that giant Enya playlist without having to worry about your uptight, judgmental friends. The option is called "'private listening' and you can find it in the Spotify/File menu and toggle it on/off."

It doesn't look like Spotify's updated for me yet, but let us know if you see it. Or, just get over yourself and embrace how much you love Avril Lavigne, because she is indeed great. [Daniel Ek via Om]

Update: My Spotify client just refreshed with the update, as of a few minutes ago.

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NASA Will Give $1.6 Billion to Private Companies to Design a Shuttle Replacement [Space]

After announcing its new deep space rocket and Apollo program heir, NASA says that they will give $1.61 billion to private companies to design a full system and a spacecraft capable of ferrying cargo and astronauts to the ISS.

The money will fund the Integrated Design Contract and the Commercial Crew Development Round 2, which will take it where the shuttle left.

The process is open to different companies, like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX or Dream Chaser. In the first phase, companies will use part of that money to present their systems. On the second phase, the winner—or winners, if the budget allows—from phase one will finish their projects.

It will begin in July 2012 and end in April 2014. At the end of this long tunnel, there will be something that will take US astronauts to the ISS low-earth orbit. Until then, it's Soyuz all the way.

That will give the winning program six years of operation—the ISS is expected to be sunk in the ocean in 2020. Hopefully, the systems would be in place to go somewhere else by then. Perhaps one of Bigelow's space motels. [NASA, NASA and NASA]

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