India finally has its answer to Spotify after Reliance Jio merged its music service with Saavn, the startup it acquired earlier this year. The deal itself isn’t new — it was announced back in March — but it has reached its logical conclusion after two apps were merged to create a single entity, JioSaavn, which is […]
View More JioSaavn becomes India’s answer to Spotify and Apple MusicCategory: digital audio
Metacert’ Cryptonite can catch phishing links in your email
Metacert, founded by Paul Walsh, originally began as a way to watch chat rooms for fake Ethereum scams. Walsh, who was an early experimenter in cryptocurrencies, grew frustrated when he saw hackers dumping fake links into chat rooms, resulting in users regularly losing cash to scammers. Now Walsh has expanded his software to email. A […]
View More Metacert’ Cryptonite can catch phishing links in your emailVCs like what they are hearing out of the podcasting sector
Podcasts are television for the earbud generation. And although many podcasters make money, typically through sponsorships, the podcasting industry (such as it is) hasn’t received much in the way of venture funding — until quite recently.
View More VCs like what they are hearing out of the podcasting sectorMobile guru Amol Sarva talks about the future of work
Amol Sarva has done some amazing stuff. The founder of Virgin Mobile, Sarva went on to create the Peek email device created back when cheap, ubiquitous mobile devices were nowhere to be found. Now he runs Knotel, a unique workspace aimed at up and coming startups. In this episode of Technotopia I asked Sarva about […]
View More Mobile guru Amol Sarva talks about the future of workAdobe brings more of its AI smarts to its video tools
Right in time for NAB, Adobe today announced the latest updates to its Premiere CC and After Effects CC video editing and motion graphics tools. The general theme of this release is the introduction of two new AI-powered tools that will make the life of editors easier, as well as a variety of small updates […]
View More Adobe brings more of its AI smarts to its video toolsWondery wants to become Hollywood’s podcast dream factory
When Hernan Lopez, the former chief executive of Fox International, started the podcast network Wondery roughly two years ago with a seed investment from his former bosses at Fox Networks Group, podcasting was still emerging as a media platform. Now, with voice ascendant, and podcasting proving to be a breeding ground for new narratives that […]
View More Wondery wants to become Hollywood’s podcast dream factoryRoboticist Gil Weinberg talks about our weird android future
Georgia Tech’s Gil Weinberg has a thing or two to say about interacting with robots. A musician and roboticist, Weinberg has created some of the coolest robots I’ve seen including Shimon, a robot that can play the marimba alongside human musicians. Weinberg learned early on that musicians need visual cues from their bandmates and so […]
View More Roboticist Gil Weinberg talks about our weird android futureSpotify launches ‘Spotlight,’ a new podcast format with visual elements
Spotify has been working on building out its podcast business, and now offers a large catalog of shows (including our own Original Content, which you should definitely check out). Today, it’s debuting a new “multimedia format” that adds visual elements to podcasts (as well as audiobooks, news bites, and other audio, but for the same of simplicity, let’s just call all… Read More
Digital ethicist James Williams talks about the rise of bad social media
James Williams is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. He studies the ethics of attention and persuasion in technology design and spoke with us about the rise of attention-grabbing advertising and media and how we can fight back…
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