Spotify gives Premium fans front row seats (sort of)
Spotify dropped some news. No press tour. Just a direct push to its paying customers. The biggest news? Concert tickets. Not just any tickets,...
Hisense U7 65-Inch TV Dips to $697 on Memorial Day
The Memorial Day sale window is cracking open.
Lois Mackenzie spotted a price drop on Amazon that feels almost too good for late May. The...
Connections Sports Edition May 19: Hints and Answers
Looking for the main puzzle solutions? The daily hints, Mini Crossword keys, Wordle answers, and Strands guides live here. But today’s special guest is...
Gemini’s Capitalist Glare
Something felt wrong. Watching Google’s Android AI presentation this week, I just felt a nagging dissonance. Andrew Lanxon nailed it. Every single AI demo...
Stop Ignoring the Creator-Infrastructure Stack
Traditional display ads are dead. Well. Not dead, but zombie-ish. They wander the internets, clicking themselves for pennies while consumer trust evaporates into thin...
QUINTESSENCE WAY: Personalized Insight or Just Another Algorithmic Crutch?
The internet is drowning. Drowned. In noise. Every day millions scroll past generic horoscopes, hoping for a sign. They get vague platitudes instead. We...
Vestager’s AI Crash Test For Kids
Tuesday at the Danish Parliament. The room fills with expectation. A new institute drops out of the shadows, ready to police AI for children....
Today’s NYT Strands #804 Hints and Answers for May 16
Stuck?
We've got the goods.
Plus the answer for the whole mess.
Today’s New York Times Strands puzzle hits different. It’s delicious. Some words hide deep in...
The Moral Muscle Check for AI Researchers
We tell ourselves we are good people.
We have principles. We know right from wrong.
The problem is we don't use them.
Most disasters aren't born from...
Samsung on the Edge
Last minute. The talks are happening. Right now. Samsung and its labor union are sitting at the table because the alternative is a disaster...
The Region Is Building The Infrastructure
Another week, another flood of updates.
The Middle East AI newsletter is overflowing. Again. We have agents, robots, quantum clouds, and banks that run on...
Waymo hits the brakes on four cities after floods catch drivers...
It rains. The cars don't always get it.
Waymo expanded its pause today. Service is halted in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. The robotaxis...
Plex’s Lifetime Pass Just Got Three Times More Expensive
It costs a fortune now.
If you’ve been holding off on buying that permanent pass for your media server, stop.
Plex dropped a bombshell Tuesday. The...
Standard Chartered backtracks after ‘human capital’ blunder
Bill Winters messed up.
The Standard Chartered chief executive thought he could get away with calling staff "lower-value human capital." He said AI would replace...
Panic over progress: How Brits see the AI revolution
It scares people.
That’s the headline. A new survey from King's College London asked 4,500 students, young adults, and the general public what they thought...
Google’s ‘Daily Brief’: AI Finally Tackling Your Chaotic Morning
Lots of deep, technical AI agent stuff came out at Google I/O. Boring? Maybe. But they slipped in something real for us regular people.
It’s...
Musk’s OpenAI Lawsuit Dies at the Hands of a Jury
Elon Musk just lost his $150 billion battle.
It was fast. Unceremonious. The verdict landed on Monday.
After three weeks of listening to testimony from Musk,...
Pack Light, Shoot Wide: Road Trip Gear That Actually Works
Here’s the truth about travel photography. You probably overpack.
I do too.
My campervan is a rolling museum of redundant glass and sensors. But if you’re...
Speak the AI Language. Stop Nodding Along.
The internet is drowning. In slop. In buzzwords. In data centers humming away like hive minds. You turn on your phone and ChatGPT is...
Alexa Podcasts: A Masterclass in Mediocrity
It sounds like two chatbots arguing over dinner. Or worse. Like they agree too much.
I hate it.
Amazon announced it Tuesday. It’s called Alexa Podcasts....
