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Storiaverse launches a short-form storytelling app that combines video and written content

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Agnes Kozera and David Kierzkowski, the co-founders of podcast sponsorship marketplace Podcorn, today launched their newest app—Storiaverse, a short-form entertainment platform that offers a multi-format reading experience, combining animated video and written content. Available on iOS and Android devices, Storiaverse caters to graphic novel readers and adult animation fans who want to discover original stories … Read more

Arc Search combines browser, search engine, and AI into something new and different

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Arc Search browses the web for you, and then builds you the webpage you wanted. That’s the idea, anyway. | Image: The Browser Company / David Pierce A few minutes ago, I opened the new Arc Search app and typed, “What happened in the Chiefs game.” That game, the AFC Championship, had just wrapped up. … Read more

Withings’ new ‘multiscope’ combines four health gadgets into one

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Withings always shows up to CES with a futuristic health tech device in tow, and this year is no different. The company’s latest gadget is the $249.95 BeamO, a so-called multiscope that measures your temperature, takes electrocardiograms, reads blood oxygen levels, and works as a stethoscope to monitor heart and lung health. The device itself … Read more

‘In the Know’ trailer: Mike Judge’s latest cartoon combines stop-motion and real stars

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Want a bit more stop-motion goodness in your life? Then check out the trailer for Peacock’s In the Know, the streamer’s first adult animated comedy. In the Know introduces us to NPR’s third most popular radio host, Lauren Caspian (voiced by Zach Woods, who co-created the series with Silicon Valley’s Brandon Gardner and King of … Read more

‘Rhymer’ Combines Scottish Ballads With Alien Elves

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Gregory Frost’s fantasy novel Rhymer places a contemporary spin on Thomas the Rhymer, a personality from Scottish folklore whose poems had been reputed to foretell the longer term. “It’s the origin story of Thomas the Rhymer as a sort of Michael Moorcock Everlasting Champion battling in opposition to aliens—successfully, these elves that are passing into … Read more