radio
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This Is Why Most Radio Ads Are So Freaking Annoying
Video: I’m a sucker for good radio ads, but most of them are sadly hideous. They all share the same cliché background music, terrible scripts, exasperating sound effects and awful voiceovers. These hilarious videos — promoting the 2015 Radio Mercury Awards — list all the things that make a radio ad suck.
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This Beautiful Vintage Radio Is Actually A Custom Gaming PC
In the 1940s, people tuned into regal radios that were as much a piece of furniture as they were a gadget. So when computer designer Jeffrey Stephenson decided to build a small, high-end gaming PC, he took design cues from a popular Canadian radio model, The Addison. Stephenson crafted an intricate paean to old-fashioned radio…
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1922: Radio Will Kill The Newspaper Star
Each generation seems to think that it’s the first to imagine radical change in the newspaper industry. The predictions of futuristic robot editors? They date back to at least 1968. Tablet news? At least 1994. Printing the news by radio right in your home? 1934.
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Report: Apple Is Buying Talk-Radio App Swell For $US30 Million
A report by Re/Code suggests that Apple is buying — and swallowing whole — the talk-radio app Swell for $US30 million. The report suggests that according to “multiple sources” Apple will take control of the startup, currently funded in part by Google Ventures, very soon.