TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

If meme stocks can be a thing, what’s to stop audio meme sharing from going viral!? It’s not hard to predict where this idea goes: Straight to gross out fart sfx and pwning troll clips — which are indeed plentiful on this fledgling platform for user-generated (or, well, sampled) audio. Dank audio memes anyone?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

You’ll need to prick up your ears for this slice of deepfakery emerging from the wacky world of synthesized media: A digital version of Albert Einstein — with a synthesized voice that’s been (re)created using AI voice cloning technology drawing on audio recordings of the famous scientist’s actual voice.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Squint has created software that makes it easy to train manufacturing workers on hardware and techniques used in a plant, capturing documentation from video of experienced practitioners demonstrating those skills on real hardware. In April 2024, it unveiled Squint 2.0, Customers include Ford, Michelin, and Colgate-Palmolive.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Houseparty, the social video chat app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games for a reported $35 million back in 2019, is shutting down. Related to this move, Epic Games’ “ Fortnite Mode” feature , which leveraged Houseparty to bring video chat to Fortnite gamers, will also be discontinued.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

Clubhouse has hired Justin Uberti, creator of the WebRTC standard and the Google Duo video chat app. He leaves Google after nearly 15 years at the company, where he was most recently the engineering lead for Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service and led the team that made the Stadia iOS web app. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 VR headset has leaked in full via a pair of promotional videos uploaded to a marketing hub run by parent company Facebook, The videos outline the specs of the standalone headset, which is a successor to 2019’s Oculus Quest. Image: Facebook Blueprint. Image: Facebook Blueprint. Image: Facebook Blueprint.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Engadget

APRIL 8, 2025

The company also reaffirmed that the upcoming console will be backwards compatible with Switch games. They have larger SL and SR buttons (the ones hidden when the Joy-Con are attached) to make playing multiplayer games on individual Joy-Cons more feasible. Looking to catch up on everything we know about the Switch 2?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. An online database of third-party social media apps and software, there are thousands of free tools listed in categories ranging from photos and videos to music and games.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Instead of swiping through profiles, SwoonMe’s idea is to use a combination of avatars and audio to encourage users to connect based on someone’s personality, not their appearance. “Platforms like Clubhouse have shown that taking video and looks out of the equation allow people to lean into actual topics,” Gupta says.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

At launch, it’s a very hit or miss experience Late on Monday night, Apple flipped the switch on two new features for its Apple Music subscription service : immersive Dolby Atmos spatial audio and lossless-quality streaming. It feels like the company is really only excited about one of them, though, and it’s not the latter. Too reverb-y?

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The Verge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Clubhouse began rolling out a iOS app update on Sunday that enables spatial audio support. Clubhouse tweeted out a video allowing you to hear for yourself how it sounds. Hear ye, hear ye spAAaAaAatial audio on Clubhouse! Spatial audio is having a moment in 2021 after Apple embraced it across the company’s product lines.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

inches) wide, making it the single biggest game console you’ve probably ever heard of. I’m pretty sure you’d need to go back to the days of game machines with built-in CRT televisions, or computers like the Commodore 64 , to get much bigger. PS5 Game Disc. USB connection (HID, Audio). Bigger than the Phat. DVD ~3.2xCLV.

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TechSpot

APRIL 27, 2023

In the race for being the most inclusive video game maker in history, Turn 10 Studios has gone where no racing sim developer has gone before. On Thursday, Xbox dropped a video showing how "blind driving assists" help the visually impaired play Forza Motorsport (below). Read Entire Article

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The Verge

JULY 25, 2020

Starting this weekend, the network will not only be piping in fake fan audio, but it’ll also be filling the stands with digitally rendered fans for its MLB broadcasts, starting with this Saturday’s Yankees-Nationals game. “We Thousands of virtual fans will attend FOX’s MLB games this Saturday. Not on FOX Sports.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

With a virtual format, you have the advantage of offering more variety since you can easily change the video source and even use pre-recorded video content. Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. 14) Gaming tournaments. 9) Movie screenings.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Daily , the makers of a developer platform for real-time audio and video, has been booming in recent months — in part, due to the pandemic’s impact on remote work, virtual events, telehealth and more. “We believed back then and have believed for a while that video would be everywhere. Teamflow lands $3.9

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

It’s great for Apple Arcade games that support controllers. And, for popular games like COD: Mobile that don’t have controller support switched on from the start, Backbone curates visual tutorials that appear before it launches to walk you through the steps to turn it on in the game’s settings.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Clarity refers to the nonprofit’s ability to concisely and effectively integrate the four storytelling framework elements referred to above (problem – solution – impact – ask), preferably in multiple formats such as audio, video, images, and text. 2) Information Hub.

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The Verge

JANUARY 2, 2022

The new “Samsung Gaming Hub” | Image: Samsung. The Samsung Gaming Hub isn’t just for cloud gaming, either. Intriguingly, the company says that your HDMI-connected video game consoles will be part of it as well — complete with passthrough controller inputs. okay, sure.

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VentureBeat

MARCH 31, 2025

Yoko Shimomura, known for composing many iconic video game music scores, will be honored with a BAFTA Fellowship. Read More

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s starting with a library of 50 games and support for Mac, PC, Fire TV, and, in a first for a major streaming service, iOS devices — because Amazon has a web app that circumvents Apple’s controversial App Store rules. We’ve spent a couple of hours streaming games with Luna. Luna starts at $5.99 Luna’s iOS web app. Performance.

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2021

Playing games from this expandable storage may not have the “exact same performance” provided by the PS5’s internal drive, even if read speeds exceed 5,500MB/s. 2 SSD support, this latest PS5 beta software also includes 3D audio support for built-in TV speakers. Aside from M.2 Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge.

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The Verge

MARCH 22, 2021

Did you know that you could mute all system audio by simply holding the mute button on the DualSense for about one second? I’ve had a PS5 for months, yet I only now realized this hidden feature exists after watching a YouTube video that the algorithm served me. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Branding themselves as the “Play” button for the Web, Wibbitz automatically converts text-based posts and articles into engaging, interactive videos so your supporters “never have to read again.” Vine is Twitter’s mobile app that can be used to create and share 6-second videos on Twitter. Vine :: vine.co.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Bubbles , a startup that pitches its platform as the “anti-Zoom” for video messaging, today announced that it closed an $8.5 Bubbles adds threaded video, audio and text comments to workers’ desktops — an idea that Medema said came to him when he was the CTO at Bloomon, a flower delivery service in the Netherlands.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

On average , it can take an hour of recording studio time for five minutes of narration; one calculator pegs the price at $75 per minute for even a simple video. CEO Jesse Shemen estimates that more than 300 million people have watched videos translated by Papercup over the past 12 months. But there might be downsides.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

Facebook is adding official music videos to its service in the US after partnering with major music companies including Sony Music, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group, the company announced today. The videos can be found through Facebook Watch and via individual artists’ pages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. Bravo enables brands to capture user-generated videos directly from the Web. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. Animoto :: animoto.com.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

We are proud that Flash had a crucial role in evolving web content across animation, interactivity, audio, and video. But it threatened the survival of countless old games and animations — a problem for web preservationists and anyone who fondly remembers platforms like Newgrounds.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 16, 2020

A ridiculous, glorious revival of a not-quite-classic system The Game Gear Micro is portable console as performance art. Coming off the back of the excellent Genesis Mini , Sega had two choices when it came to reviving the Game Gear, its contemporaneous 8-bit handheld system. Or it could do something else. But it does do the job well.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Deep Render , a startup developing AI-powered tech to compress videos on the web, today announced that it raised $9 million in a Series A funding round led by IP Group and Pentech Ventures. Deep Render isn’t the only venture applying AI to the problem of video compression, nor is its AI a silver bullet necessarily.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Tesla’s new holiday update will finally give people the ability to use a new Boombox mode, which can broadcast custom audio on the outside of the car (hence the name). For example, now a Tesla can emit the same sound as an ice cream truck, based on the video above. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

Sony says that this event will offer “a first look at the games you’ll be playing after PlayStation 5 launches this holiday.” Sony’s Sid Shuman recommends wearing headphones during the event, as “there’s some cool audio work in the show, and it might be harder to appreciate if it’s pumped through your phone or laptop speakers.”.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

With just a week to go until the PlayStation 5’s launch, Sony has shared three new videos to help people set up their new consoles on launch day. The videos not only give us a better look at the console’s new UI, but also reveal a few handy features in the PS5’s settings. A third video shows how to transfer data from a PS4 to a PS5.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Clear off some room on your bookshelf because Target and Amazon are having a “buy two, get one free” sale on video games. While we’re definitely here for the video games, it’s worth mentioning that this deal includes tons of classic and contemporary board games as well, like Exploding Kittens , Animal Crossing Monopoly, and Sushi Go!

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The Verge

JANUARY 4, 2021

Curved screens can offer a more immersive experience while gaming. LG Display’s latest prototype is a 48-inch flexible OLED panel that can be bent for gaming or flattened for watching TV. You can briefly see the panel in action at the 19 second mark in LG Display’s video below. Image; LG Display. milliseconds.

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