TL;DR Amazon shut down the Wondery podcast app and ended the Wondery+ subscription service. The Wondery podcast studio will continue to publish Wondery-branded podcasts. Audible Standard and Premium subscriptions include ad-free listening to Wondery podcasts. This spring, Amazon announced that…
What you need to know Google Maps may soon let you order food with Gemini, eliminating apps like Uber Eats and DoorDash. Code hidden in the latest Google Maps app points to an upcoming “Ask Maps to order food” feature,…
Over the past year, the uncomfortable secret of the openweight boom has been that many of the strongest Chinese releases were out of reach for a large portion of the companies most interested in them. Licensing terms that excluded the…
Last week, just before the United States began its recess for the July 4 holiday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) proposed a new rule that would change the way it regulates radiation exposure. The Trump administration has been pushing to…
Obsession He probably needed to make about $30 million to turn a profit. The independent horror film. It had a budget of about $750,000 and, after its premiere in Toronto International Film Festival Last year, Focus Features paid $14 million…
Consider this a belated public service announcement: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings allows the company to store more of your data, including media like “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” to improve its artificial intelligence models. In…
Almost ten years after its launch, the original Nintendo Switch will disappear from European stores next year. Blame the new EU battery rule, not the Switch 2. Nintendo will stop selling all versions of the original Switch in Europe starting…
Google is exploring a new verification method for reCAPTCHA called hand gesture verification (HGV), according to Google Cloud documentation. The system uses access to the user’s webcam to record a video of their hand. Ask users to wave or make…
If you spend any time on a forum about NAS or Homelab, you will come away with the impression that using ECC memory with ZFS It is a sacred commandment. This recommendation is repeated to the point that it starts…
I recently came across an interesting discussion about strange things happening in Google Photos: children in makeup like oil paintings or hand drawings, etc. People suggested that it was most likely an AI filter. No an AI-generated image, but that…
