reader comments 62 Spotify Premium subscriptions include up to 15 hours of audiobook listening. But starting in April, the company will charge an extra $1 to $2 per month for the feature, Bloomberg reported today, citing anonymous “people familiar with the matter.” The reported price hike would be the second that Spotify customers have faced ..
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Enlarge / A Dell XPS 14 laptop. The Copilot key is to the right of the right-Alt button. reader comments 126 In January, Microsoft introduced a new key to Windows PC keyboards for the first time in 30 years. The Copilot key, dedicated to launching Microsoft’s eponymous generative AI assistant, is already on some Windows ..
Aurich / Thinkstock reader comments 81 Google offers a VPN via its “Google One” monthly subscription plan, and while it debuted on phones, a desktop app has been available for Windows and Mac OS for over a year now. Since a lot of people pay for Google One for the cloud storage increase for their ..
reader comments 107 [embedded content] The Daily Show host Jon Stewart’s interview with FTC Chair Lina Khan. The conversation about Apple begins around 16:30 in the video. Before the cancellation of The Problem with Jon Stewart on Apple TV+, Apple forbade the inclusion of Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan as a guest and steered ..
reader comments 163 Discord had long been strongly opposed to ads, but starting this week, it’s giving video game makers the ability to advertise to its users. The introduction of so-called Sponsored Quests marks a notable change from the startup’s previous business model, but, at least for now, it seems much less intrusive than the ..
Enlarge / An Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center under construction in Stone Ridge, Virginia, in March 2024. Amazon will spend more than $150 billion on data centers in the next 15 years. Getty Images reader comments 114 Redis, a tremendously popular tool for storing data in-memory rather than in a database, recently switched its ..
Enlarge / A spooky Halloween display from Google’s Seattle campus. reader comments 56 RIP Google Podcasts. Google’s self-branded podcasting service shuts down tomorrow, April 2, and existing users have until July to export any subscriptions that are still on the service. Google originally announced the shutdown in September and has been plastering shutdown notices all ..
reader comments 57 Fits in nicely with old cassettes and floppy disks. The keyboard uses a top mount and has an aluminum top plate. The keyboard has knobs for toggling connectivity modes (left) and controlling the connected system’s volume (right). There’s a magnetic compartment for storing the optional wireless dongle. The Commodore 64 introduced a ..
Enlarge / The M2 iPad Pro. The updated version will come with refined designs and new accessories. reader comments 35 If you’ve been waiting for new iPads to come out, prepare to wait just a little longer: Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that redesigned iPad Pros with Apple’s M3 chip, plus refreshed iPad Air models with ..
Enlarge / The Google Gemini logo. reader comments 67 In early March, Google made the odd announcement that only one of its two latest smartphones, the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, would be able to run its latest AI model, called “Google Gemini.” Despite having very similar specs, the smaller Pixel 8 wouldn’t get ..
