2025-03-13
‘Podcasting shouldn’t be locked behind walled gardens’: Pocket Casts slams Spotify and makes its web player free to all
Podcast service Pocket Casts has lifted the requirement for a subscription in the web version of its platform. Now you stream all of your favorite podcasts free of charge. [...]
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2025-03-11
Pocket Casts makes its web player and desktop apps usable without a subscription
In a rare recent example of a product becoming more affordable (rather than moving full-speed in the opposite direction), the popular podcast service Pocket Casts no longer requires a subscription to [...]
2025-11-24
Pocket Casts rolls out playlists, so users can sequence episodes of their favorite shows
There are millions upon millions of podcast episodes out there and it can be tough to figure out what to listen to and when. The popular podcast service Pocket Casts is rolling out a playlists feature [...]
2025-09-10
Spotify lossless streaming is finally here and it's included with a Premium plan
Stop me if you've heard this one before: over a half-decade of rumors, infrequent teases and affirmations that something is on the way, only for fans to impatiently bide their time and the thing [...]
2025-06-04
Indie hit 'The Gardens Between' has been reworked for virtual reality
The Voxel Agents has significantly expanded its indie hit game, The Gardens Between, and has remade it for virtual reality. It has debuted the new version of the time-bending puzzler at the Shacknews [...]
2025-05-15
How Walled Gardens in Public Safety Are Exposing America’s Data Privacy Crisis
The Expanding Frontier of AI and the Data It Demands Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how we live, work and govern. In public health and public services, AI tools promise more efficiency a [...]
2025-10-16
Google vs. OpenAI vs. Visa: competing agent protocols threaten the future of AI commerce
When Walmart and OpenAI announced that the retailer would integrate with ChatGPT, the question became how quickly OpenAI could deliver on the promise of agents buying things for people. In the battle [...]