At this point over 30,000 people have read the article about Spring Free EV breaching a contract with Push ROI. This video is to add more context to Spring Free EV’s behavior, and to explain Push ROI’s offers over time. Push ROI entered into a contract with Spring Free EV, a fintech […]
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Moderator For TikTok Sues The Company For Mental Trauma
Content moderation is nearly impossible at scale, and social media companies rely on people to review content, when AI cannot succeed. Facebook moderators, have already gotten a fair amount of media attention for being traumatized by the images of hate and violence they see in their jobs. Now, Candie Frazier, […]
YouTube Doesn’t Radicalize People and Video Games Don’t Create Murderers
The idea that the YouTube algorithm “radicalizes” people always sounded a bit off, but data keeps showing the idea is probably bullshit. A study published in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), one of the three most prestigious general-science journals, says little to […]
‘Metaverse’ The Modern-day ‘Utopia’
Yesterday, Facebook’s announcement of a restructure and new parent company, ‘Meta’, caused no shortage of headlines and stupid predictions; Often made by people with the singular goal of gaining fleeting attention. Those people were and are mirroring the purpose of Facebook’s announcement. Facebook announced the name change following some of […]
Virtual Experiences The New Reality
The last two years have been a whirlwind for everyone. I’m deeply empathetic to those who have lost someone, like me, been ill, or suffered economically. The last couple of years showed a massive cultural shift towards everything but the essentials taking place online. The new reality is virtual. Restaurants […]
DaVinci Resolve 17.1 Will Run On Apple Chips
The DaVinci Resolve video editor will support Apple Silicon even before the first M1-powered Macs are shipped to customers next week. Blackmagic Design has pushed out an updated version of Resolve adding universal app support for Macs running Apple M1 processors. Resolve has long been known as a film industry-standard for […]
Spotify Acquiring Podcast Hosting Company Megaphone To Grow An Empire
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 […]
Vimeo Raises $150 Million In New Equity Funding
Vimeo announced the raise of $150 million in new equity funding with Thrive Capital and GIC leading the funding round at a valuation of $2.75 billion. The announcement came in conjunction with the third quarter earnings of Vimeo’s parent company IAC. According to the earnings report, Vimeo grew revenue by […]
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 […]
That Thing You Do – Welcoming Ken McGorry
Hello. I’m the guy from Post Magazine. You know, the monthly with all the coverage of effects for high-end feature films and commercials. One thing I’ve noticed over the years-and found increasingly exciting and challenging to write about is the migration to desktop post-production systems. But wait, the term “desktop” […]