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This year’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales numbers are on track to be huge. Growing e-commerce and omnichannel has changed the shape of some of those sales, but by no means did the internet kill the brick-and-mortar star. Fool.com’s Dylan Lewis and Dan Kline look at some of the shifting trends in Black Friday sales, how…

Amazon Alexa can now play podcasts from Apple, making Amazon’s line of Echo devices the first third-party clients to support the Apple Podcasts service without using AirPlay. Before, this level of support was limited to Apple’s HomePod. According to Amazon, the addition brings to Alexa devices Apple’s library of more than 800,000 podcasts. It also…

Issued on: 04/12/2019 – 03:00Modified: 04/12/2019 – 02:54 Los Angeles (AFP) True-crime podcasts have become an obsession of armchair detectives around the world. Millions of wannabe sleuths “solve” real-life murders as they listen during morning commutes. But what toll do these hit shows take on the families and victims of crimes long considered closed by…

Starting today, Alexa users in the U.S. can listen to over 800,000 podcasts through Apple Podcasts. Whether you’re listening at home or on the go, you don’t need to worry about losing your spot. Link your account in the Alexa app using your Apple ID, and you can seamlessly pick up where you left off…

“Segregated Education,” a new episode of the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast series, explains the history of educational inequities in the U.S. The podcast’s fifth season – “What Do We Know about Inequality?” – showcases the newest thinking across academic disciplines about inequality. “Our education system owes everything to the Civil War-era freedoms gained by…

This year marked 400 years since the first ship of African slaves landed in America. 1619 was originally meant to be a one-off special issue of The New York Times, released in August, to examine the legacy of slavery in the US but such was the depth of research and interest it grew to become an expanded…

  Monday marked the five-year anniversary of the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s executive summary on the CIA’s torture program. The former top Senate Intelligence Committee investigator, Daniel Jones, and his team combed through 6.3 million pages of CIA records. Jones discusses the yearslong battle with the Bush and Obama administrations to make public…

The Scream 3 of Blade Movies Outside of detours to discuss Jawbreaker and last week’s 50th episode on The X Files: I Want To Believe,Trace and I have been on a homoerotic bender of late: a month ago, we tackled the homoerotic subtext of Interview With The Vampire, and the following week we discussed the homoerotic…

If you’re looking for an in-depth analysis of major sports leagues, the On the Rise podcast has got you covered. Since its beginnings back in mid-August, the audio show has quickly picked up traction, and drawn the attention of a local digital radio station, Midtown Radio, to be featured every Saturday at 10 a.m. “It’s…