How to fix toxic masculinity - Vox
How Tinder changed everything
“You can just kind of go down a rabbit hole and stay there for hours.”
Spotify to buy podcast ad company Megaphone for $235 million
Spotify said it has agreed to acquire Megaphone, which offers technology for podcast publishers and advertisers seeking targeted slots on podcasts.
The New York Times launches a subscribers-only “Headlines” podcast in a new audio app
After a year-and-a-half-long beta, The New York Times launched a standalone app on Wednesday that it hopes will serve as its "audio front page." The app — for now, iOS only — is "currently an exclusive benefit for New York Times news subscribers." Here's some of what it…
John McAfee’s Folly Was Founder Worship at Its Most Extreme
Bloomberg Technology reports on the self-destruction of a Silicon Valley icon in the podcast Foundering: The John McAfee Story.
Apple Music Pays Artists More Than Double Spotify’s Payout
In a recent video, an independent music producer outlines the differences between Apple Music and Spotify for artists.
‘There’s endless choice, but you’re not listening’: fans quitting Spotify to save their love of music
Former streaming service subscribers on why they have ditched mod cons for MP3s, CDs and other DIY music formats
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s biggest bet
Land of the Giants ends its season looking ahead to Meta’s future, with exclusive audio from inside the company.
Gigaverse
The gig economy is an entire universe. What is it like working inside of it?
The Chinese phone giant that beat Apple to Africa
Transsion, a China-based smartphone manufacturer, is outpacing Apple and Samsung in Africa. It sells devices that take better selfies of dark skin and have features like a keyboard in Swahili.
How the TSA created two classes of travelers
The videos that don’t work on YouTube and the future of the creator business with Nebula CEO Dave Wiskus
Dave Wiskus is on a mission to empower creators.
How big companies kill ideas — and how to fight back, with Tony Fadell
An inside look at building the iPod, iPhone, and Nest
Spotify loses another top podcast exec
The company has lost three high-profile podcast leaders in the past month.
Government surveillance, Elon Musk, and free speech, with EFF executive director Cindy Cohn
Running headfirst into fights for users’ rights on the internet.
A former Foxconn executive tries to explain what went wrong in Wisconsin
How a Trump-endorsed plan overpromised and underdelivered
Twitter’s New Anti-Harassment Policy, Chris Cuomo’s Suspension, and Stacey Abrams is Running for Governor - Pivot
Kara and Scott discuss Twitter’s new anti-harassment policy, Chris Cuomo’s indefinite suspension from CNN, and Stacey Abrams running for Governor in Georgia. Also, UK’s Competition Watchdog tells Meta to sell off GIPHY. CEOs and insiders have sold off a record number of stocks in 2021. Plus, Scott gives us some predictions on SpaceX and Twitter. Send us your Listener Mail questions, via Yappa, at nymag.com/pivot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Audible: Don Katz : How I Built This with Guy Raz : NPR
Library Music
In the age of streaming, public libraries offer small-scale alternatives for local archiving.
The Nod hosts ditch Spotify to relaunch their original show
And they own everything about the show.
A podcast app is exposing subscribers-only shows
Plus, a pirated version of The Joe Rogan Experience.
The Pirate Bay – Darknet Diaries
The Pirate Bay is a website, a search engine, which has an index of torrent files. A lot of copyrighted material is listed on the site, but the site doesn't store any of the copyrighted material. I...
Apple Announces Apple Podcasts Subscriptions - MacStories
Longform Podcast #434: Jessica Lessin · Longform
Jessica Lessin is founder and editor-in-chief of The Information. “It's very, very hard to predict the winners. A lot of investors try to do this. And I think sometimes where the press gets in trouble is trying to make a call.… It's not always
What Went Wrong at Gimlet? Inside the ‘Reply All’ Reckoning
Beware the Jabberwock
Vergecast: driving the Mustang Mach-E, Apple Car rumors, and Tesla’s Model S redesign - The Verge
The Vergecast drives through all of the car new this week.
The Unreality of Now
Ahead of the election, we have stories about people trying to live in the unreality that defines this moment.
This American Life
A weekly public radio program and podcast. Each week we choose a theme and put together different kinds of stories on that theme.
Vergecast: this week’s Section 230 hearing and the season of weird gadgets - The Verge