Month: April 2025
The Xbox Spring Sale is live
Xbox’s Spring Sale is live, with big discounts on old and new classics and plenty of forgotten gems. But the deals aren’t limited to Xbox console games; there’s plenty on tap for PC, too. (You can filter by platform under the “Play with” option in the sidebar.) Some of the…
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Tiny startup could challenge Wasabi, iDrive, and BackBlaze with sovereign EU cloud storage solution at rock-bottom prices
At just €6 per terabyte, Storadera undercuts US cloud giants It skipped SSDs for HDDs to slash costs while maintaining solid speeds Storadera plans to expand into Germany, the UK, and beyond Storadera, a Tallinn-based cloud startup, is offering some of the best cloud storage for photos with S3-compatible storage…
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Donald Trump’s crusade against offshore wind just got more serious
The Trump administration dealt a major blow to the fledgling US offshore wind industry yesterday by ordering a major wind project off the coast of New York to stop construction. Secretary the US Department of the Interior Doug Burgum announced the move on X yesterday, pausing the Empire Wind Project…
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I fed NotebookLM a 218-page research paper on string theory and the podcast results were mind-blowing
My latest NotebookLM podcast creation is deeper and more fascinating than anything I’ve ever created, and I bet it’ll shock you, too. I don’t understand string theory. In fact, I bet there’s fewer than 1% of the world that can speak cogently on the subject, but I am fascinated by…
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Facebook considered offering an ad-free subscription after the Cambridge Analytica scandal
After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal broke in 2018, things got bad enough for Meta (then Facebook) that Mark Zuckerberg had to face Congress to try to explain what had happened. The focus on how much data Facebook had on everyone, including “shadow profiles” for non-Facebook users, was enough to…
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What Strava buying Runna means for users of both fitness apps – according to their CEOs
This morning, news broke that two of the services on our best fitness apps list were joining forces: Strava is buying Runna. Strava, which we rated an excellent service at both free and premium tiers with a terrific social media platform and run-tracking integrations, doesn’t really have much in the…
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