Month: November 2024
Sonos revenue falls in the aftermath of company’s messy app debacle
Sonos is still trying to climb out from the hole it dug itself earlier this year by recklessly shipping an overhauled mobile app well before the software was actually ready. Today, just a couple weeks after the release of its latest hardware products — the Arc Ultra and Sub 4…
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17 Walmart Deals That Meet or Beat Black Friday Prices
You don’t have to wait for the official sales to begin in order to score Black Friday deals now. Source
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Pixel phones will be able to detect and report malicious apps in real time
Android’s Google Play Protect service is getting an update called live threat detection which seeks out potentially harmful apps on your phone by analyzing app behavior and alerts you in realtime if something looks fishy. The update was first announced at Google I/O earlier this year and is available now…
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The Wall Street Journal is testing AI article summaries
The Wall Street Journal is experimenting with AI-generated article summaries that appear at the top of its news stories. The summaries appear as a “Key Points” box with bullets summarizing the piece. The Verge spotted the test on a story about Trump’s plans for the Department of Education, and the…
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Mark Zuckerberg just dropped a single with T-Pain
If you want to preserve the existing version of Lil Jon’s “Get Low” in your brain, maybe don’t listen to this cover T-Pain made with Mark Zuckerberg — excuse me, Z-Pain. Their version transforms the “Get Low” I got down to at all my school dances into a song with…
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GOG’s new preservation program intends to keep classic games playable ‘forever’
PC game platform GOG has launched a new preservation program dedicated to keeping beloved older games playable, “now and in the future.” “If a game is part of the Preservation Program, it means that we commit our own resources to maintaining its compatibility with modern and future systems,” the announcement…
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