Media Industry From Walkman to podcast: Sony Music moves into the podcast business, setting the stage for other music companiesNieman Lab - Nicholas QuahPlus: Running from zombies for profit, Comic Sans rises again, and Spotify has a “Car Thing.” Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 210, published May 21, 2019. Joint adventures.
Playdate. A New Handheld Gaming Systemplay.date It’s yellow. It fits in your pocket. It’s got a beautiful black and white screen. It’s not super cheap, but not super expensive. It includes brand …
Business Streaming's cancel culture problemAxios - Sara Fischer HBO's "Game of Thrones" may be over, but for lots of streaming media companies, winter is coming. The big picture: Data shows that consumers across …
Play buttonJoe Rogan This AI-generated Joe Rogan fake has to be heard to be believedThe Verge - James VincentArtificial intelligence isn’t creating fake photos and videos — it can do fake voices, too. Up until now, these voices have been noticeably stilted and robotic, but researchers from AI startup Dessa have
Huawei Five questions about 5G, answeredThe Verge - Dieter BohnThere is a lot of 5G hype — too much, actually — and it’s much more complicated than the transition to 4G was. On top of complicated technological questions about millimeter waves and modems, there’s geopolitics,
How To Make Your Amazon Echo and Google Home as Private as PossibleWIRED - Lily Hay Newman If you use a smart speaker, you know all of the conveniences and delights that make it more than just a glorified paper weight. But, admit it, you've …
Amazon Prime The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership programVox - Jason Del ReyIt’s easy to forget now, but Amazon wasn’t always the king of online shopping. In the fall of 2004, Jeff Bezos’s company was still mostly selling just books and DVDs. That same year, Amazon was under from
Texas Longhorns A mysterious gut doctor is begging Americans to throw out “this vegetable” now. But, like, which?Vox - Kaitlyn TiffanyThere is a gut doctor, and he begs Americans: “Throw out this vegetable now.” This news is accompanied by a different image nearly every time. This morning, the plea appeared at the bottom of an article
Denver, CO LA’s Plan to Reboot Its Bus System—Using Cell Phone DataWIRED - Adam Rogers The gray buses that roll along Los Angeles' Orange Line don't look like other buses: They're 60 feet long, and their streamlined design means they …
Apple Watch authentication expanding beyond unlocking your Mac in macOS 10.159to5Mac - Guilherme RamboUsernames and passwords have been used for authentication since the dawn of computing. Apple has introduced many ways to facilitate the usage of strong passwords for authentication by including biometric
Design Why Edwin Van Ruymbeke Thinks the Drones of the Future Will Look Like Birds and Bugscore77.com - Kickstarter Design & Tech The first drone Edwin Van Ruymbeke ever flew made him nervous. He was afraid he'd crash and break it; he worried it might hit someone; and he didn't …
The Fragmentation of Truthdatasociety.net - danah boyd Good morning! I’m going to begin today with a little bit of a stretching exercise. Because I think it’s a moment to take the temperature of this room. …
YouTube's CEO Responds to Its Bad Content Problem, Exposes the Core of Its Platform ProblemGizmodo - Catie Keck Seemingly with each passing week, YouTube faces another content moderation problem. And despite the company’s own efforts at moderating its platform, …
Walt Disney Studios Disney and the Future of TVstratechery.com - Ben Thompson Yesterday started with a truly remarkable piece of TV broadcasting: Tiger Woods capped an incredible comeback from personal (self-inflicted) turmoil …
A Streaming Service for CinephilesThe Atlantic - David SimsAfter the death of FilmStruck, the Criterion Collection decided to finally launch a dedicated online hub for its impressive library of classic films. Upon opening the Criterion Channel app, the user is
Samsung Galaxy Fold My Samsung Galaxy Fold screen broke after just a dayThe Verge - Dieter BohnLook closely at the picture above, and you can see a small bulge right on the crease of my Galaxy Fold review unit. It’s just enough to slightly distort the screen, and I can feel it under my finger. something
Alexa Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell AlexaBloomberg - Matt Day, Giles Turner, Natalia Drozdiak Tens of millions of people use smart speakers and their voice software to play games, find music or trawl for trivia. Millions more are reluctant to …
Meteorology How 5G is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Riskhackaday.com - by: Dan Maloney If the great Samuel Clemens were alive today, he might modify the famous meteorological quip often attributed to him to read, “Everyone complains …
Exclusive: What to Expect From Sony's Next-Gen PlayStationWIRED - Peter Rubin Mark Cerny would like to get one thing out of the way right now: The videogame console that Sony has spent the past four years building is no mere …
Business Intelligence Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends, leaked documents showNBC News - Olivia SolonFacebook’s leaders seriously discussed selling access to user data — and privacy was an afterthought. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg oversaw plans to consolidate the social network’s power and control competitors
Opinion I Didn’t Write This Column. I Spoke It.The New York Times - By FARHAD MANJOOA few months ago, I stumbled onto a new way of writing. I don’t mean an unusual literary or textual style; I mean a new physical method for the painstaking task of chiseling the formless geologic schists
Where Would You Draw the Line?The New York Times The boundaries of privacy are evolving quickly. Show us where you would set them.
Jumbo is a powerful privacy assistant for iOS that cleans up your social profilesThe Verge - Casey NewtonSocial apps have long provided privacy settings to help you manage who can see your posts. Yet, time and again, we find ourselves surprised to learn that we’ve given away more than we intended — whether
Instagram ranked worst for young people’s mental healthrsph.org.uk - RSPH RSPH and the Young Health Movement (YHM) have published a new report, #StatusOfMind, examining the positive and negative effects of social media on …
Fortnite aims to evolve into much more than a game, says developer Epic9to5Mac - Ben LovejoyFortnite aims to grow into much more than a game, says the CEO of developer Epic Games … CEO Tim Sweeney shared his vision with Business Insider. He says that the game’s recently added Creative mode has
Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad ProblmThe Wall Street Journal. - Joanna SternNopee, I haveen’tt forrgotttteen how tto wrrittee. Norr did my eedittorr go on vacattion. You seeee, tto sharree tthee pain of using an Applee lapttop keeyboarrd tthatt’s faileed aftteerr fourr montths,
Apple Arcade has game developers excited, but questions remainThe Verge - Andrew WebsterYesterday, at its “show time” event in Cupertino, Apple unveiled perhaps its biggest gaming venture ever: Apple Arcade. It’s a subscription service that gets users access to a large library of games for
Business How Twitter's algorithm is amplifying extreme political rhetoricCNN - By Oliver Darcy, CNN BusinessNew York (CNN Business) — Imagine opening up the Twitter app on your phone and scrolling through your feed. Suddenly, you come across a hyper-partisan tweet calling Hillary Clinton the "godmother of ISIS."
