Mark Cuban-backed streaming app Fireside acquires Stremium to bring live, interactive shows to your TV

November 23, 2022

Mark Cuban-backed streaming app Fireside, which today offers podcasters and other creators a way to host interactive, live shows with audience engagement, will soon expand to the TV’s big screen. Variety reported, and Fireside confirmed, it’s acquired the open streaming TV platform Stremium, which will allow Fireside’s shows to become available to a range of […]

Mark Cuban-backed streaming app Fireside acquires Stremium to bring live, interactive shows to your TV by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Shadow launches cloud storage service Shadow Drive

November 23, 2022

Shadow is now officially a tech company with two different products. In addition to its cloud computing service that works particularly well for games, the company is launching Shadow Drive, a cloud storage service based on Nextcloud. “It’s now been a year and a half since Octave Klaba acquired Blade with a vision: take down […]

Shadow launches cloud storage service Shadow Drive by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

YouTube starts testing a quiz feature for community posts

November 23, 2022

YouTube is experimenting with a new feature that allows creators to add quizzes to their community posts — the social media-style posts for channels that have at least 500 subscribers. The quiz beta is only available to a small number of creators. The details were first published in a new video on YouTube’s Creator Insider […]

YouTube starts testing a quiz feature for community posts by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

How Blockchain Will Transform Traditional Finance As We Know It

November 23, 2022
Traditional finance has grown to become a multi-trillion dollar industry, predominately by acting as an inefficient intermediary by today’s standards. The advent of blockchain technology presents an alternative to traditional finance that can create a more equitable financial ecosystem.

The Download: Meta’s diplomatic AI, and China’s online comment censorship

November 23, 2022
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meta’s game-playing AI can make and break alliances like a human Meta has created an AI that can beat humans at an online version of Diplomacy, a popular strategy game in which seven…

Hearing aids may be the surprise holiday gift category nobody saw coming

November 23, 2022

Back in August, the FDA announced it was making a big change in the world of hearing aids: From October onwards, hearing aids would be available without a prescription, over the counter. In a world where getting fitted for a hearing aid could be very expensive, and the hearing aids themselves were wrapped up in […]

Hearing aids may be the surprise holiday gift category nobody saw coming by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch