Yesterday, Spotify confirmed the acquisition of the podcast hosting company Megaphone Spotify’s currently uses for podcasts hosting. “we will soon make Streaming Ad Insertion available to podcast publishers on Megaphone, the first time this technology will be made available to third-parties. That means that podcast publishers will be able to offer […]
Author: Daniel Payne
I'm Daniel Payne. I've been a freelance writer, video, and web guy since 1988. My passion is technology, from the latest cameras to cutting edge ways the internet is used to improve medicine. I write for Internet News Flash and am helping with the online resurrection of Digital Content Creators Magazine
Twitter Launches ‘Pre-Bunks’ What Could go Wrong?
Today Twitter announced they will start pinning notices to the top of all U.S. users’ feeds sharing a warning that results in next week’s election may be delayed, and that they may encounter misinformation on mail-in voting. Twitter is calling the messages a “pre-bunk,”. A way of debunking misinformation before […]
YouTube’s Testing An Option to Reserve Ad Space Six Months in Advance
YouTube is reportedly testing letting advertisers reserve ad space up to six months in advance. This is likely most beneficial for organizations planning to tie into major events, like sporting championships, or elections. The new option surprisingly does not require a minimum ad buy. A report by the Wall Street Journal, says […]
Photographer Robert Frank Is Dead At 94, His Work Will Live On
Robert Frank, was one of the most influential photographers of the last century. His raw style held a personality, a character that is often seen in paintings, but not always photographs. A man who left is finger prints on not only photography, and art, but on the way the world […]
YouTube Pays $170M Over Accusations It Broke Children’s Privacy Law
Google will pay $170 million to the FTC and the New York Attorney General to settle allegations YouTube unlawfully collected data of children under 13. It’s YouTube kids, not a college dorm party after all. In the announcement of this settlement, the FTC call this the largest penalty of its kind […]
Intel Debuts A Chip For Machine Learning Workloads
AI is everywhere, it seems, if you’ve used a search engine or social network in the last 8 years, you have had something experience with machine learning. Earlier this week Intel announced its first processor dedicated to AI (artificial intelligence) at an event in Haifa, Israel. Developed at Intel’s labs […]
Apple’s Next iPhones My Sport Triple-lens AI Cameras
Bloomberg reported today that Apple is preparing to introduce three new iPhones, three upgraded iPad models, a supersized MacBook Pro, and other goodies. Apple hasn’t provided a date for its autumn smartphone launch dog and pony show. But for seven consecutive years, the company has introduced new devices either on Labor Day week […]
Intel Announces 8 New CPUs in Comet Lake series
Today Intel added eight new chips to its portfolio with the introduction of Comet Lake, a CPU family for energy-efficient lightweight notebooks. Based on the 14-nanometer Skylake architecture Intel launched back in 2015, the Comet Lake series is making its debut just a few weeks after the chipmaker unveiled Ice Lake, another CPU […]
YouTube Changes Copyright Monetization Policy
YouTube is changing its copyright enforcement policies around music to help create a healthier ecosystem for YouTube creators and rights holders. Copyright owners will no longer be able to monetize creator videos with very short or unintentional uses of music via YouTube’s “Manual Claiming” tool. Instead, they may stop monetizing […]