Next, the company wants to utilize its cryptocurrency, ranked 32nd among 1,358 currencies followed by CoinMarketCap, to help publishers determine how to make the digital arena profitable for both the companies and the writers. With the introduction of Smart Media Tokens, similar to Steem Dollars and
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Alphabet's (GOOGL) Google is expected to begin rolling out the ad filter built into its Chrome browser in February, according to VentureBeat. Google earlier this year said that it would integrate an ad blocker into Chrome as part of its efforts to improve online ad experience. Google would base its decision
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Best of late-night TV. With most shows on hiatus, our recaps will return next week. • Quotation of the day. “Amadeo García, he wants Taushiro to come back. He wants it, he dreams of it, he longs for it, and he suffers to know that he's the last speaker.” — Agustín Panizo, a linguist trying to document the
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In my year-end prediction for 2016, I wrote about the continuing pressure that Facebook was exerting on the media industry, both from a financial perspective and a cultural one, and how this was forcing many publishers into a kind of devil's bargain: Benefit from Facebook's reach, but only at the cost of
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Every week on Wednesday, there are hundreds of comics released from dozens of publishers, and we've got the list of releases from the industry's biggest … So check out the list for all the new comic books and graphic novels the industry's biggest publishers are releasing this week, and then let us know
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Trends to watch include the rise of AI in the publishing industry (see also my review of the book The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces that will Shape our Future by Kevin Kelley). For example, audio books can leverage AI by having authors read out only one page of their book as a
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Dr. Kevin Glucina founded the company in 2009 and to this day believes using the best quality, super-nutrient wholefoods is the key to great health. “Matakana SuperFoods is New … The Acai Bowl and Supergreens are the most popular products among these top-sellers. For more information on
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“I think [the program] spoke to a lot of students that have challenges academically or challenges at home,” she said. “[It] was especially powerful for a lot of those students because it was different and because it gave all of them a lot of freedom while also giving them a lot of tools to be a successful writer.”.
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The Nintendo Switch has been a massive success for Nintendo, with the console matching the sales of its rivals. It isn't all bells and whistles for the platform, however, as Nintendo has delayed its 64GB cartridges for outside publishers until 2019. Switching back to cartridges hasn't just left a mark on the
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French screen icon Brigitte Bardot will next month publish a book on her decades-long campaign for animal rights, she told AFP on 27 December, taking a swipe at President Emmanuel Macron on the issue. The 83-year-old star of And God Created Woman said the book, titled Larmes de Combat (Tears
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