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Podcastle hops on the video podcast trend with its latest update

As video-led podcasts become highly favored by listeners, Podcastle, which was primarily an audio recording and editing studio, is introducing a new feature that enables podcasters to conduct high-re

RIP iPod, you walked so smartphones could run

A long, long time ago, before the iPod, MP3 players were badly designed devices with insufficient storage. The market was ripe for a change, and Steve Jobs, who had returned to Apple four years prior,

Podcasters, get ready to find out how many followers you have on Apple Podcasts

Apple Podcasts is rolling out new features to incentivize podcasters to offer paid subscriptions to listeners on the app. One of those features will — for better or for worse — reveal to p

New modes of ownership: From torrents to music NFTs

Let’s take a breath and give creators room to explore this new space. And if IP law helps protect the new things that are being built, let’s applaud that.

Apple Music brings its spatial audio and lossless streaming to Android

It takes a really specific consumer to buy an Android phone, yet use Apple Music. But the small overlap in that Venn diagram may be getting bigger. Last month at WWDC, Apple unveiled a free update for

How the Apple Watch changed the world

In 2015 Switzerland was fucked. This blunt belief, grunted out by Apple’s Jony Ive and repeated by the media as a death knell for the watch industry, seemed to define a sad truth: that the Swiss

Mobile guru Amol Sarva talks about the future of work

Amol Sarva has done some amazing stuff. The founder of Virgin Mobile, Sarva went on to create the Peek email device created back when cheap, ubiquitous mobile devices were nowhere to be found. Now he

Roboticist Gil Weinberg talks about our weird android future

Georgia Tech’s Gil Weinberg has a thing or two to say about interacting with robots. A musician and roboticist, Weinberg has created some of the coolest robots I’ve seen including Shimon,

Tinkerer Jonathan Zufi talks about design and Escape From New York

This week on Technotopia I talked to Jonathan Zufi, creator of the LifeClock One, a replica of the watch worn by Snake Pliskin in Escape From New York. Zufi loves design and his insight on what makes

Why investor Jalak Jobanputra is betting big on crypto

When investor and entrepreneur Jalak Jobanputra first visited a blockchain conference five years ago she got goosebumps. The experienced investor had heard of cryptocurrencies but now that they had tr

This Week On The TechCrunch Bitcoin Podcast: An Interview With Luis Buenaventura Of Rebit

Welcome back to TCBTC, TechCrunch’s weekly podcast on the cryptocurrency bitcoin. This week Alex is on vacation so I recorded a short interview with Luis Buenaventura Of Rebit, a major Bitcoin r

After 15 Years Of Whipping The Llama’s Ass, Winamp Shuts Down

If you had a PC and you listened to MP3s in the late 90s, chances are you managed your playlists with <a target="_blank" href="http://winamp.com">Winamp</a>. Since then, Nullsoft sold Winamp to AOL (t

How AOL Squandered WinAmp

It's always nice to plop down to a big bowl of hot dog food and read about how the company you work for (ostensibly and/or on paper) squandered one of the most recognizable brands in PC history. As yo

Will Apple Kill The MP3 Tomorrow?

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/adiosmp3.jpg" /><a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/apple/">Apple</a> has posted a cryptic message on its Web site, <a HREF="http://ww

Baby Bidou mp3 player. You know, for kids

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/179_large5.jpg" />I always say that you're never too young to start with your first gadget. This is an example of that theory, taken mayb

Sunglasses with built-in camcorder and MP3 player

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/otas_glasses.png" /> Tokyo-based gadget maker OTAS is selling <a href="http://www.otaskk.jp/shopdetail/002001000003/order/">sunglasses</

Enhance your MP3s all you want with iDFX Audio Enhancer. They still suck.

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/itunes-logo.png">iDFX Audio Enhancer is an add-on to iTunes that serves to, "re-encode your current MP3 and AAC files using a patent-pend

Collapsible cooler features AM/FM radio, MP3 input for $25

<img src="http://crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/L12124233.jpg" alt="cooler" />Summer is slowly, slowly wasting away. Perhaps you should go to a beach, just to see what all the fuss is about

Retro wooden speaker uses memory cards, features rechargeable battery

<img src="http://crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/usbwoodenspeakermp3player4.jpg" alt="speaker" />Truth be told, I actually like the looks of this old-timey speaker very much. And it'd go per

Weezer classics now in chiptune form

<img src="http://crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/weezer8bit.jpg" alt="weezer" />If you're like me, you grew up with a Nintendo Entertainment System and then spent your formative years listen
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