Sources: Spotify is trying to entice video-oriented creators to distribute shows on the platform in addition to YouTube, sometimes offering them seven figures
what you need to know Bluesky: @austinfound.bsky.social : Signs your music streaming/podcasting business is going well [embedded post] Fryda Wolff / @frydawolff.bsky.social : Offering a buyout because...
Quora-owned AI chatbot platform Poe is providing users with downloadable HTML files of paywalled articles from outlets including NYT, Forbes, and The Atlantic
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Sources: Apple made generative AI a tent-pole project after Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea spent weeks testing ChatGPT and found Siri to be antiquated
here's the key upgrades Adam Davidson / Pocket-lint : Siri is outdated, but a better version might be coming The Economic Times : iOS 18: Your iPhone may soon have ChatGPT Griffin Eckstein / Salon : A...
Hands-on with LinkedIn's new games Pinpoint, Crossclimb, and Queens: shamelessly following the NYT's formula, all three take ~10 minutes, and they are very fun
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Sources: Google tests an AI tool to produce news stories, pitching the service to the NYT, WaPo, News Corp, and other outlets as a helpmate for journalists
The product, pitched as a helpmate for journalists, has been demonstrated for executives at The New York Times, The Washington Post and News Corp …
How UK theater companies are using AR and VR to broadcast productions to viewers at home, as the pandemic pushes companies to experiment with new art forms
The Interactive Storytelling Studio at the National Theater in London is using technology to bring a miniature musical to viewers' homes. Tweets: @cryptochiglobal , @mattandersonnyt , @hesherman , and...
The Markup announces The Citizen Browser Project, an initiative with The NYT to analyze how the algorithms of Facebook and YouTube serve content to users
The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how the world's most powerful institutions use technology to reshape society …
River, which offers a customized stream of bite-sized, shareable news stories from sources like NPR, Twitter, and NYT, raises $10.4M and launches on iOS
River today launched its eponymous social media app, which is designed to organize conversations into streams of shareable stories.
Q&A with NYT's SVP of ad innovation Allison Murphy about the paper's plans to stop using third-party cookies, its contextual ad targeting strategy, and more
When The New York Times pivoted to prioritizing its subscriptions a few years ago, eventually growing to 6.5 million paid subscribers …
Leaked images from 2019 show Google considered a feature that let users tip money to websites like Wired or NYT as part of its Contributor program
Leaked images obtained by TechCrunch reveal that Google considered and designed a feature that would let people donate money to websites …