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The Android wordmark is getting a big change, too.

Nothing has teased a new “Glyph Composer” for its upcoming Phone 2 (and existing Phone 1) that lets you create custom ringtones and flashing light patterns based on synth-y sounds from Swedish House Mafia. As someone who once spent hours creating a custom ringtone for my Nokia 3310 based on the theme tune to Metal Gear Solid...

You might boot laptops straight into a cloud OS in the future

You might boot laptops straight into a cloud OS in the future

We asked professionals if they wanted Apple’s desktop, and they all said no.

A Friday blog post details the Bluesky team's moderation proposals for “a shared public commons,” using things like lists, hashtags, and even “per-thread” tools that would give moderation power to each poster. The latter treats threads like a mini-forum: if you don’t like a reply, you can yeet that skeet (or just hide...

Many still seem unhappy with the company’s plan.

Airlines are confident the delays will be minimal.

Clear skies for Pixel-owning weather app lovers

ThisDoesNotCompute has a fun video on running Mac OS System 7 on a PocketChip, a handheld computer from 2016 that was powered by a board similar to a Raspberry Pi. Bonus: the video includes a bit of history about the PocketChip and the board inside of it, including the downfall of the company that made it.

NFC might soon take the ‘tap’ out of tap-to-pay.

Don’t leave yourself exposed with connections you don’t need.

“Alexa, what’s the weather?” now comes with a video response.

The next version of the prompt-based AI image generator, Stable Diffusion, will produce more photorealistic images and be better at making hands.

It’s one of the built-in apps with visionOS. Looking at this image, apparently you’ll be able to print things from the Vision Pro, too! Perfect gadget!

Plus Kinect-style gaming.

Spotify has updated the desktop app with plenty of visual improvements and new features, like a “now playing” view that gives you immediate access to merchandise and tour dates.

The Pixel Tablet is a competent smart display that is also a tablet always charged and ready when you need it.

Earlier this month, Amazon locked a man out of his account, disrupting his extensive smart home system. The suspension was driven by a delivery driver who claimed the man used a racial slur through his automated doorbell system. The only problem is that the man captured the entire interaction on his security system — the...

Meta announced a new AI model called Voicebox yesterday, one it says is the most versatile yet for speech generation, but it’s not releasing it yet: The model is still only a research project, but Meta says can generate speech in six languages from samples as short as two seconds and could be used for “natural, authentic”...

One of Spez's answers in the infamous Reddit AMA struck me...