Tag: media platforms

• Your Favorite Stars, Now Playing in Your Ears

  September 16, 2019

  In fiction podcasts, screen and stage actors get to play parts Hollywood is too risk-averse to offer, with the added perk of no need to sit for makeup. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/arts/fiction-podcasts-gimlet-carrie-coon.html more ›

• Lifestyle website for Muslim teens is covertly funded by the Home Office

  September 15, 2019

  The revelation about funding of the project has led to a row between its owners, a former Muslim employee and its Muslim audience. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/sep/15/lifestyle-website-for-muslim-teens-is-covertly-funded-by-the-home-office more ›

• Cos’è il nuovo chip Apple U1 e perché è importante?

  September 14, 2019

  https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-new-Apple-U1-chip-and-why-is-it-important more ›

• Neuralink & Brain Interfaces, TikTok, FaceApp, iHeartRadio

  September 11, 2019

  By a16z Introducing our new podcast, 16 Minutes, a short news podcast where we cover the top headlines of the week, the a16z podcast way — why are these topics… more ›

• And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet

  September 9, 2019

  For years, Ev Williams was saddled with doubts. As a co-founder of Blogger and Twitter and, more recently, as the chief executive of the digital publishing platform Medium, Mr. Williams… more ›

• ‘We’re at War’: A Covert Social Media Campaign Boosts Military Rulers

  September 8, 2019

  CAIRO — Days after Sudanese soldiers massacred pro-democracy demonstrators in Khartoum in June, an obscure digital marketing company in Cairo began deploying keyboard warriors to a second front: a covert… more ›

• How TikTok Is Rewriting the World

  August 30, 2019

  TikTok will change the way your social media works — even if you’re avoiding it. Hello, person who is, statistically speaking, a human adult aged approximately “millennial” to “boomer. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/style/what-is-tik-tok.html more ›

• The illuminating absence of Donald Trump

  August 29, 2019

  Much has already been said, and much will continue to surface on our media feeds in the future about Dave Chappelle’s “Sticks & Stones” Netflix special. What has been said… more ›

• Why I Printed My Facebook

  August 24, 2019

  In my attic lies a big box of scrapbooks and diaries chronicling my preteen through early college years, from the mid-1990s to early 2000s, in minute and sometimes cringe-inducing detail.… more ›

• The hottest startups in Lisbon

  August 22, 2019

  A decommissioned power station, a 15th century convent and former bread and pasta factories are part of the 20-building complex in the east Lisbon neighbourhood of Beato that’s currently being… more ›