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2023

12 Strategies for Growing Your Podcast Audience

Here are 12 key strategies a podcaster can take to grow their audience. Growing a podcast audience requires a combination of strategies focused on creating quality content, engaging listeners, and promoting the podcast effectively: Define your niche: Choose a specific topic or area of interest you are passionate about and knowledgeable about. Having a clear focus will help you attract

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Couple with Disabilities Wonder if AI Tool Led to Daughter’s Removal

The Hackneys, a couple with developmental disabilities, wonder whether an AI tool used by the Allegheny County Department of Human Services to predict children's risk of harm led to removing their 8-month-old daughter from their home. The Hackneys' daughter had been hospitalized for dehydration, and child welfare officials took custody of her, accusing a couple of neglect. Over a year

Microsoft Announces Partnership With Cloud Gaming Provider Boosteroid

Microsoft posted news in its News Center titled: “Microsoft announces partnership with cloud gaming provider Boosteroid to bring more games to more players around the world”. From the News Center post: Microsoft Corp. and Boosteroid on Tuesday announced a 10-year agreement to bring Xbox PC games to Boosteroid’s cloud gaming platform. Boosteroid, which has its software development team in Ukraine,

Discord Restored Its Privacy Policies After Pushback

TechRadar posted an update from Discord in which the company backtracks about its previously announced changes. From the update: UPDATE: Discord has updated the Privacy Policy that will take effect on March 27, 2023, adding back the statements that were removed and adding the following statement: “We may build features that help users engage with voice and video content, like

California Court Affirms Right To Treat Uber And Lyft Drivers as Contractors

Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc. and other companies scored a victory with a California court ruling that preserves their independent contractor model in the state and could boost their efforts to maintain that model elsewhere, The Wall Street Journal reported. A state appeals court reversed a lower-court ruling that found a California ballot measure known as Proposition 22 illegal. Proposition

Discord Quietly Removed Privacy Policies – Then Added Bad Ones

Last week, Discord announced new AI features powered by Midjourney’s image generator and chatbot technology powered by OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT. The company’s existing chatbot, named Clyde, is now super-charged with artificially intelligent language parsing capabilities and there are other fun features. Those features appeared to come at a cost: in the fine print of the company’s privacy policy,

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Silicon Valley Bank get Full Bailout

So you have to wonder, after the federal government did a complete bailout of Silicon Valley Bank, will all banks in the future get this royal treatment,