Apple Podcasts gets upgraded search functionality

June 20, 2023

Apple announced Tuesday that it updated the search tab of its Podcasts app by launching nine subcategories to make it easier for users to discover new shows across different topics, including “Mental Health,” “Relationships,” “Self-Improvement,” “Personal Journals,” “Entrepreneurship,” “Documentary,” “Books,” “Parenting” and “Language Learning.” The new subcategories rolled out today across iPhone, iPad, Mac and […]

Apple Podcasts gets upgraded search functionality by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

Twitch will require new labels for streams with sexual themes, gambling and M-rated games

June 20, 2023

Twitch is rethinking the way it flags mature content, swapping its existing toggle for a more granular set of topic-specific labels. The company announced Tuesday that it would introduce a new set of content labels that require streamers to signal when their channels will contain sexual themes, graphic violence, “drugs, intoxication, or excessive tobacco use,” […]

Twitch will require new labels for streams with sexual themes, gambling and M-rated games by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

A whistleblower raised safety concerns about OceanGate’s submersible in 2018. Then he was fired.

June 20, 2023

The director of marine operations at OceanGate, the company whose submersible went missing Sunday on an expedition to the Titanic in the North Atlantic, was fired after raising concerns about its first-of-a-kind carbon fiber hull and other systems before its maiden voyage, according to a filing in a 2018 lawsuit first reported by Insider and […]

A whistleblower raised safety concerns about OceanGate’s submersible in 2018. Then he was fired. by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch