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Spotify backlash over Joe Rogan did little to boost its streaming rivals

The Joe Rogan controversy has been a PR headache for Spotify in recent days, but it doesn’t seem to have yet prompted a sizable exit to rival streaming apps, according to new app store data. Ove

Twitter Blue launches in the US and New Zealand with expanded feature set

Twitter’s premium subscription service, Twitter Blue, is launching today in the U.S. as well as New Zealand, offering an expanded slate of features meant to appeal to Twitter’s most engage

Clubhouse hires a head of news from NPR to build out publisher relationships

Clubhouse has hired a veteran editor from NPR to lead news publishing for the app. Nina Gregory will serve as Clubhouse’s head of News and Media Publishers, working as a liaison between news pub

McDonald’s to launch a McPlant vegetarian option

McDonald’s is developing what it calls a plant-based platform called the McPlant that will debut in markets around the world early next year, according to a report in USA Today. In an investor m

Microsoft launches a deepfake detector tool ahead of US election

Microsoft has added to the slowly growing pile of technologies aimed at spotting synthetic media (aka deepfakes) with the launch of a tool for analyzing videos and still photos to generate a manipulat

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Facebook adds option for US users to turn off political ads, launches voting info hub

Beginning today, Facebook users in the U.S. will have the option to “turn off” all political advertising on the platform. The company made the controversial decision not to fact-check or o

Daily Crunch: Apple unveils new iPad Pro and MacBook Air

Apple has new hardware coming, the U.S. government may use cell phone data to track the spread of COVID-19 and Fox acquires a streaming company. Here’s your Daily Crunch for March 18, 2020. 1. A

AWS’ new text-to-speech engine sounds like a newscaster

Thanks to modern machine learning techniques, text-to-speech engines have made massive strides over the last few years. It used to be incredibly easy to know that it was a computer that was reading a

News orgs sue FBI for details on San Bernardino iPhone exploit

The Associated Press, Vice Media and Gannett, the parent company of USA Today, sued the FBI today in an attempt to uncover information about how the law enforcement agency was able to unlock an iPhone

Junaio Brings Augmented Reality Superbowl Fun

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/steelers.jpg" />Some would argue that Augmented Reality has been a part of televised sporting events for some time. Indeed, we have come

USA Today Buys Consumer Electronics Review Network Reviewed.com

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/reviewed-com.jpg" class="shot2">The <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/">USA Today</a> just <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/usa

USA Today Launches Headline Aggregator Newsdeck

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/news-deck_-215x31.jpg" width="215" height="31" /> <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/">USA Today</a> has launched <a href="http://www.usatoday.

USA Today is unaware of Kindle 2.0

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/usatodaykindle-150x150.jpg">A USA Today advertisement in today's paper proves once and for all, the print media is slow to react and upda

Sirius XM ad in USA Today portends future channel line-up

Hi-res version here This scan from last Friday’s USA Today (yes, I know that’s “ancient” in Internet time, but that’s all we’ve got) sheds some light on just what Sirius XM