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Spotify has announced a new feature called Offline Backup, designed to give Premium subscribers an additional way to listen to music offline without manually downloading playlists. Rolling out globally this week, the feature aims to address situations where users find themselves without an internet connection and haven't prepared their offline music library in advance.
Offline Backup works by automatically creating a personalized playlist using tracks that have been recently streamed or queued, leverag
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg offered employees $30,000 or six months of salary to leave the company if they didn’t agree with his battle against WP Engine. In an update on Thursday night, Mullenweg said 159 people, making up 8.4 percent of the company, took the offer. Automattic, which is in charge of WordPress.com and its commercial services, has been involved in a public dispute... Read more ›
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FromSoftware has announced a salary increase for its employees of "approximately" 11.8 percent. This increase will begin in April next year. Read more Read more ›
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Joaquin Phoenix and Lada Gaga star in the DC sequel from director Todd Phillips. Read more ›
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Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii has asked people not to "arbitrarily extract parts of comments for the purpose of reinforcing the legitimacy of your own opinion" after he was accused of blaming Western ratings board for having to put more modest clothing on characters in Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake. Read more Read more ›
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When you’re raising your first rounds of capital—especially at the pre-seed or seed stage—small investors, often called business angels, can be a game-changer. These individuals not only provide capital but also often bring valuable expertise, connections, and insights, collectively known as “smart money”. However, small investors need to diversify their portfolios to mitigate the high ... Read more ›
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Mike Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, and five others died after the Bayesian superyacht was caught in a sudden storm in August near Sicily. Read more ›
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Nikkei Asia that the company is "evaluating technologies like small modular nuclear reactors" to meet its energy needs. Read more ›
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A Chapter 11 bankruptcy has the potential to let Spirit Airlines restructure its debt following a failed merger with JetBlue. Read more ›
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The Rings of Power season 2 succeeded in all the ways that House of the Dragon's second season failed. Read more ›
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Diablo 4, which is developed by the Microsoft-owned Blizzard, will be getting the PS5 Pro Enhanced label on the release of Sony's console. Read more Read more ›
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Raising children while working was the most "daunting task" she's ever had to do, the mom to NFL stars, Jason Kelce and Travis Kelce said. Read more ›
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You will have to contact Samsung Support to recover your phone without a data wipe, or wipe the data yourself. Read more ›
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Cloudflare has emerged victorious in a patent infringement lawsuit against Sable Networks, securing a $225,000 settlement and forcing the patent holder to dedicate its entire portfolio to the public domain. The case, which began in March 2021 with Sable asserting nearly 100 claims across four patents, concluded after a Texas jury found Cloudflare not guilty of infringement in February 2024. Sable, described by Cloudflare as a "patent troll," had previously... Read more ›
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Image: Hasbro Epic is trying to turn Fortnite into an ecosystem of games and has enticed the likes of Lego to build experiences for the platform. Now, Hasbro is jumping in as well, with plans to create Fortnite adaptations of its most popular board games. The first is called Murder Mystery: Clue, and it’s available today. It’s not exactly a board game (see the screenshot above) but, rather, a reimagining... Read more ›
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A jury found Michele Fiore guilty of misusing over $70,000 meant for a statue honoring a slain cop, instead spending it on rent and plastic surgery, Read more ›
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Sean "Diddy" Combs' lavish parties over the years are being viewed from a new perspective after the indictment of the hip-hop mogul. Read more ›
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Electricity from renewable sources provided for a third of total demand in September, according to provisional data from grid operator EirGrid. The majority of renewable electricity generated last month came from wind farms, which accounted for just under 29% of all electricity used in Ireland. Total generation from wind energy amounted to 776 GWh (Gigawatt […] Read more ›
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Apple CEO Tim Cook will soon be $50 million richer after selling 223,986 shares of Apple Stock, earning him a total of $50,276,076, according to an SEC filing. Cook was originally granted the stock as part of performance-based award based on Apple's shareholder return relative to other S&P 500 companies, and he often sells stock in October. Earlier this week, Cook was granted an additional 219,502 shares of Apple stock.... Read more ›
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Verizon is currently experiencing a major outage that is affecting many customers across the U.S., including iPhone users. Affected users may be unable to send or receive phone calls, send or receive text messages, or use cellular data. As a result of the network being down, many affected iPhone users are seeing "SOS" displayed in their device's status bar. In a support document, Apple says that an iPhone displays "SOS"... Read more ›
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Two students at Harvard University modified a set of Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses to add AI-based facial recognition technology, and the result is a wearable that is able to identify people in real time, according to a report from 404 Media. The modified Meta Glasses are able to use the camera to scan a stranger's face to get their name, and there's also a function for pulling information like home... Read more ›
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Microsoft this week announced Office 2024, a new standalone version of its productivity suite for both Mac and PC users. Available now, Office 2024 offers an alternative for those who prefer a one-time purchase over the subscription-based Microsoft 365. The new release includes updated versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook. These applications come as "locked-in-time" versions, meaning they won't receive ongoing feature updates like their Microsoft 365 counterparts.... Read more ›
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Facebook parent company Meta last week added new AI features to its camera-equipped Ray-Ban Meta Glasses. You can use the camera feature on the glasses to get information about what's around you and to remember things like where you parked. There's also now support for video for AI purposes, for "continuous real-time help." With all of these new features that involve the camera continually viewing what's around the wearer, there... Read more ›
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Health Canada this week published approval of watchOS 11's sleep apnea detection feature on the Apple Watch Series 10, Apple Watch Series 9, and Apple Watch Ultra 2. The feature launched in the U.S. and over 150 other countries and regions earlier this month, and Apple is now permitted to make the feature available in Canada. It is unclear when Apple will expand the feature to Canada. Sleep apnea is... Read more ›
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In a social media post today, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple will be making a donation of an undisclosed amount to Hurricane Helene relief efforts. "We're thinking of all those facing the catastrophic aftermath of Hurricane Helene," said Cook. "Apple will be making a donation to help with relief efforts on the ground." Hurricane Helene made landfall at Florida's Big Bend on late Thursday, before carrying on through... Read more ›
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Over the past year and a half or so, some owners of the 24-inch iMac with the M1 chip have encountered horizontal lines abruptly appearing on the computer's screen. There are complaints about this issue across the Apple Support Community, MacRumors Forums, Reddit, iFixit Answers, and several other websites, but it is unclear how many customers are affected in total, or what the underlying cause of the problem is. Many... Read more ›
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While a Chinese regulatory filing showed that all iPhone 16 models are rated for up to 45W charging speeds, tests have since shown that the devices do not actually charge this fast. However, there are still improvements. ChargerLAB last week tested the iPhone 16 Pro Max with a variety of Apple and third-party chargers, and it found that the device achieved maximum sustained charging speeds of around 30W. In one... Read more ›
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Apple has reportedly exited negotiations to invest in OpenAI, the company behind the popular ChatGPT AI chatbot, according to The Wall Street Journal. Apple had been in discussions to participate in a funding round for OpenAI that is expected to raise approximately $6.5 billion. However, Apple recently dropped out of the talks for reasons that remain unclear. The funding round is set to close this week. The development comes just... Read more ›
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