TechSpot

APRIL 30, 2021

The AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) codec may not be widely used across the industry, but Apple devices have been employing it for quite some time. All Apple Bluetooth earphones support AAC, but due to the lack of adoption of the codec by other developers, users are somewhat bound to use.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Medium announced today its third and final acquisition of the year: Knowable , an audio-based learning platform featuring podcast-like courses from experts like Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and food journalist Mark Bittman. ” Image Credits: Knowable.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Spotify laid off 17% of the company – its third round of layoffs this year – and canceled two highly acclaimed shows, including a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting. It seems like the writing is on the soundproofed wall: The podcast boom is over, and this week’s news is evidence. But as […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

Every piece of content you put out there should deliver value: Focus on educating people, sharing your perspective of whats happening in your industry, or having people feel seen. There are of course many reasons to hire a professional video crewwhere the audio and video quality are high and you can leave the tech up to someone else.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Interactive voice advertising startup Instreamatic , which can insert interactive voice ads into an audio stream, has raised $6.1 So instead of an audio ad playing in a one-way experience (as all adverts currently do), the listener can talk to, and interact with, the ad. The company says that a recent campaign by Infiniti saw 5.5%

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

By efficiently processing tokens, AI factories are manufacturing intelligence the most valuable asset in the new industrial revolution powered by AI. Whether a transformer AI model is processing text, images, audio clips, videos or another modality, it will translate the data into tokens. What Is Tokenization?

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Bose and Sony are both top names when it comes to any type of audio, but especially when it comes to noise cancellation. Both brands feature industry-leading ANC on top of superb sound quality. What are the best noise-cancelling headphones?

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

This release adds a second audio track when streaming to Twitch which will be saved to the VOD instead of the stream audio. You can enable this feature in Output settings when streaming to Twitch. Special thanks to @Twitch for assisting during the development of this feature!

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

AI is making inroads across the entire healthcare industry from genomic research to drug discovery, clinical trial workflows and patient care. Healthcare has a more severe labor shortage than any other field the industry is expected to be short 10 million workers by the end of the decade, according to the World Health Organization.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Podimo , the Copenhagen-founded subscription service for short form audio stories and podcasts, has raised an additional €11.2 Founded in 2019, Podimo is a podcast and short-form audio platform which offers personalized recommendations to listeners, while offering creators a share of revenue via premium subscriptions.

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 4, 2023

The Pet Advocacy Network meets members at industry events to solicit feedback and share what Pet Advocacy is doing to showcase the industry and its issues. Vince Talucci of the International Association of Chiefs of Police went on a listening tour to solicit deep member feedback. Then, they act.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This story originally ran in Hot Pod, The Verge’s preeminent audio industry newsletter. As for its plans, Spotify says it’ll bring Podsights’ tech to its “audio ads within music, video ads, and display ads.” The move to sync audio and video together on one app is already happening, and it’s on Spotify, not YouTube.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Anyway, in between mashed potato servings, I did my best to “log off” and not think about audio — no offense — so instead, I binged the entire new season of Selling Sunset and played many crosswords. EXCLUSIVE: Hinge makes viral audio happen, despite many other apps trying. I’m back for you now, though, and we have a big issue ahead.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Facebook launched its Live Audio Rooms feature (above) to rival once-buzzy app Clubhouse. A report from The Information details how some of this money is being spent, with Meta-owned Facebook paying creators up to $50,000 to use the platform’s Live Audio Rooms feature — a rival to the once-buzzy live audio app Clubhouse.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

introduced novel multi-modal AI chips for edge computing; they can analyze inputs from text, computer-vision images, and audio for use in self-driving vehicles, robotics, smart retail, healthcare, and other applications. In a May publication in Science Advances , researchers from Quantinuum, the U.S.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 25, 2025

NVIDIA NIM microservices help solve this issue by providing prepackaged, optimized, easily downloadable AI models that connect to industry-standard APIs. 8B-instruct Image Generation: Flux.dev Audio: Riva Parakeet-ctc-0.6B-asr The PDF to podcast AI Blueprint will transform documents into audio content so users can learn on the go.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

VZR, a new audio company formed by industry veterans, revealed its new Model One headphones, which take advantage of 3D audio.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The AI industry hit a significant bend in the road toward artificial general intelligence in 2024. Google DeepMind broke through with a family of natively multi-modal models called Gemini that understand imagery and audio as well as they do language. The rest of the industry has followed its lead. Gemini 2.0

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Quips about putting radio on the internet aside, the persistent popularity of podcasting and the cockamamie climb of Clubhouse shows that audio-based platforms will continue to echo around the upper echelons of the ecosystem for a while yet. “When it came down to the dating apps, it was never something I could get into.

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2021

I haven’t flown in the last two years — for reasons that are hopefully obvious — but the thing that grinds most of my past flying experience to a halt is dealing with the bizarre two-pronged audio jacks airplanes use for inflight audio. It finally offers one of the overall most requested passenger items: BLUETOOTH AUDIO.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

All e-books should have an audio capacity, using whatever smartphone or music playing device a person has in their pocket. For instance, about 40 per cent more eighth-grade students with disabilities are reading below the basic achievement level compared with peers without disabilities. Good design can and should be accessible design.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Resolve is one of the industry-standard apps for color grading, but it’s become far more than that in recent years. The app also includes a video editor, graphics tools, and an audio editor — plus, the majority of its features are available for free, so it’s an excellent app for creators who are just getting started.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

It is expected that LOVO will create additional synergies in the entertainment industry in the wake of the latest funding from a South Korean entertainment. Founding Partner at SkyDeck Fund Chon Tang said, “Audio is uniquely engaging as a form of information but also difficult to produce, especially at scale. Aflorithmic nabs $1.3M

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TechSpot

MAY 29, 2023

For a few years now, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been sending takedown requests to Google for the company to remove YouTube ripping sites, which allow, among other things, audio to be ripped from YouTube videos and saved as music files. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Bluetooth SIG, the industry group in charge of defining the standard, has released a new audio codec that promises to make wireless headphones more power-efficient while improving sound quality. Offering listenable audio at lower bitrates means headphones can use less power. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechImpact

MARCH 20, 2014

Audio and video presentations are more tactile than still text and images. Industry News Social Tech fundraising nonprofit nonprofit technology nonprofits npTech social media supporters' One day per week post on YouTube, Vine, or a video Instagram.

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2021

Facebook is going all in on audio. Most notably, Facebook is indeed launching a competitor to the buzzy social audio app Clubhouse with a feature called Live Audio Rooms, which will be available this summer. To get people to join, Facebook says it’s introducing an Audio Creator Fund to “support emerging audio creators.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Buzzy “social audio” app Clubhouse has raised a Series C funding round, reportedly valuing the company at $4 billion. Indeed, Vox reported that Facebook will announce a series of “social audio” products only today. But, unusually for such a late stage of funding, the company has not revealed the amount raised.

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TechNode

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Chinese audio-sharing platform Ximalaya has said a report on its plan to lay off 30% of its workforce, with product and operation employees hit the hardest, is baseless and completely untrue, according to local media outlet Jiemian. Jiemian, in Chinese ]

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

Gerardo helped Benetech dramatically increase our capacity to benefit larger populations by scaling our services, revamping our innovation process, and establishing a thriving network of industry partners and volunteers.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Here is our gift to you: over an hour of audio content exclusively dedicated to HDMI. is an updated HDMI standard that expands the bandwidth of HDMI up to 48Gbps, allowing the ability for multiple features like variable refresh rate (VRR), auto low latency mode (ALLM), and enhanced audio return channel (eARC). Alex Castro.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I can think of many reasons: Podcasts are a great way to educate members and keep them up to date about your profession or industry, through a channel that doesn’t require that they be sitting in front of their computers. Audio podcasts are more approachable in terms of cost and effort than video podcasts or video series.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I can think of many reasons: Podcasts are a great way to educate members and keep them up to date about your profession or industry, through a channel that doesn’t require that they be sitting in front of their computers. Audio podcasts are more approachable in terms of cost and effort than video podcasts or video series.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

Netflix’s team is introducing a number of features with the rollout to try to work with the creative community to ensure the quality of the content isn’t disrupted, including automatically correcting “the pitch in the audio at faster and slower speeds,” according to the company. Rosenblum, CEO of the National Association of the Deaf.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Listen to the audio versionread by Julian himselfin the Next Big Idea App. After all, many countries, including the USA, already spend billions subsidizing agriculture and other industries. Below, Julian shares five key insights from his new book, How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

The company launched its Frames sunglasses in January 2019 for $199, which played audio from the arms. At the same time, the broader AR industry has failed recently, too. Bose clearly couldn’t make AR work for its products, either, which doesn’t bode well for the broader AR industry.

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The Verge

AUGUST 2, 2021

Notably, Eddings and Luse retain total control over their show — they own the audio masters, the feed, and rights to derivative works — and they’ve landed on a revenue sharing agreement with Sirius. The industry still faces challenges around IP and ownership, even if it’s a top-of-mind issue.

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