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“People develop really close relationships with podcasts,” said Evelyn Douek, a senior research fellow at Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute. “It’s a parasocial medium. There’s something about voice that humans really relate to.” Marc Bernier, a talk radio host in Daytona Beach, Fla., whose show is available for download or streaming on iHeart’s and […]

After completing the main storyline in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, you can access a new facility called Ramanas Park. The Pokemon Company Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl launch for Nintendo Switch next week. While the pair stick very closely to the original Diamond and Pearl games in terms of content, one brand-new feature

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: In internal memo, Andrew Bosworth says he wants the metaverse to have “almost Disney levels of safety” but that moderation at scale “is practically impossible”  —  Internal memo from Andrew Bosworth lays out the scale of the challenge Source link

QAnon hasn’t gone away. Getty Images Donald Trump lost his bid for reelection as president to Joe Biden more than a year ago, but that hasn’t stopped QAnon, a pro-Trump conspiracy theory.  People following the far-right fringe movement gathered in Dallas on Nov. 2 for group’s latest outlandish claim: that John F. Kennedy Jr., who died

Katie Silver / BBC: Alibaba’s annual Singles Day event sees slowest ever sales growth of 8.5% YoY since it was launched in 2009, but customer spending still hit a record $84.5B  —  Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s Singles Day is known for being the world’s biggest online shopping extravaganza. Source link