Tootfinder

Belauschen als Feature: Meta kauft KI-Wearables-Unternehmen
Limitless bietet Wearables an, die Gespräche aufzeichnen, um sie durchsuchbar zu machen. Meta übernimmt und stellt Verkauf ein.
https://www.

Google announces system "autospatialization" for Android XR, an AI feature to turn 2D content, including games streamed from a PC, into 3D, arriving in 2026 (David Heaney/UploadVR)
https://www.uploadvr.com/android-xr-getting-system-autospa…

Android XR Getting AI System Feature To Turn Any 2D Window 3D
Google's Android XR is getting an AI feature that can turn any 2D content, including games streamed from your PC, into 3D.

dbtropes_feature: Artistic works and their tropes
A bipartite network of artistic works (movies, novels, etc.) and their tropes (stylistic conventions or devices), as extracted from tvtropes.org. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 152093 nodes and 3232134 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
https…

World Cup 'Pride Match' at Seattle To Feature Teams From Two Countries That Outlaw Homosexuality (Perry Chiaramonte/New York Sun)
https://www.nysun.com/article/world-cup-pride-match-at-seattle-to-feature-teams-from-two-countries-that-outlaw-homosexuality
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p88#a251208p88

from my link log —
Mobile carriers can get your GPS location.
https://an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.html
saved 2026-02-04 https://dotat.at/:/PXPC3.html…

So sick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VTPNV4GZ_s&feature=youtu.be

John Oliver 'funny' simply doesn't stand a chance against the power of Cookie Monster 'funny'. 🤣
▶️ John Oliver & Cookie Monster Out-Takes
https://youtube.com/watch?v=H916EVndP_A&feature=shared

Spotify rolls out About the Song, swipeable stories in English, summarized from third-party sources to highlight song details, in beta for Premium users (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/spotifys-n…

Spotify's new feature lets you explore the story behind the song you're listening to | TechCrunch
The feature displays short story cards that users can swipe through and rate with a thumbs up or down.

When Elon Musk’s social media platform X launched a contest to promote its “Articles” feature,
the guidelines were explicit: Submissions “must not contain political, or religious statements.”
But when the company announced the winners on Tuesday, the results appeared to contradict those rules.
While the stated criteria emphasized high-quality writing and nonpolitical content,
more than $2 million in prize money largely flowed to users ranging from popular right-wing …

X awards $1 million prize to creator with history of racist posts
X said it would give $1 million to a user who had previously shared racist posts, including one supporting Hitler.

OK, so, hear me out:
Stranger Things always features songs that were popular at the time the story is taking place
and it starts in 1983, but the story has reached 1987
and it’s the final season
and they’ll have to feature one extra-notable contemporaneous song in the end credits of the final episode…
…and so…what if Stranger Things — •the entire series• — is a giant Rickroll??

If you haven’t yet heard Minister for Communications Patrick O’Donovan explain why X dot come should not be held responsible for its paid feature of generating child sex abuse material, you might want to sit down before pressing play.

Almost missed the warning banner, kinda surprised to see a feature documented before it being available, but turns out it was 3 years ago 🫠🫠🫠

Amazon Fire TV adds an Alexa feature enabling Prime Video users to skip to movie scenes using natural language descriptions, character names, or famous quotes (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/amazon-fire-tv-prime-video-alexa-plus-a…

Amazon Fire TV's New Alexa+ Feature Will Let Prime Video Users Skip to Their Favorite Movie Scenes
The new AI-powered Alexa+ feature will expand to TV shows on the streamer at a later date

The universe does not simply exist in time -- time is something the universe continuously writes into itself https://theconversation.com/is-time-a-fundamental-part-of-reality-a-quiet-revolution-in-physics-suggests-not-273841

Is time a fundamental part of reality? A quiet revolution in physics suggests not
Physicists long believed time was a basic feature of the universe. But it may just emerge from cosmic information.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@annaecook/116026050478540983
Me looking at every ‘cool’ new CSS trick by some CSS influencer (typically funded by a major browser vendor or astroturfing another ill-advised CSSWG feature).

Einen gesegneten 2. Advent euch allen und Kopf hoch (Wochenspruch).
Heute ist bei uns #ErprobungsZeit mit dem nagelneuen Erprobungsliederbuch. Sei live dabei oder schau dir das später an unter https://youtube.com/liv…

dbtropes_feature: Artistic works and their tropes
A bipartite network of artistic works (movies, novels, etc.) and their tropes (stylistic conventions or devices), as extracted from tvtropes.org. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 152093 nodes and 3232134 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
https…

It is silly and ludicrous to lump privacy-preserving webpage translation with GenAI and chatbots and LLMs. While I don't _regularly_ use the translation feature, I absolutely appreciate that the alternative would be something like Google Translate, a materially worse outcome. And, as others have pointed out, bundling a translation tool into the browser makes the web more accessible for people who do not know English. That is a good thing!

@… I'm using groups.io for the first time. (I know! Sorry, I usually avoid mailing lists.) It's very good, thank you for running this valuable service.
I found the locked topics feature very interesting. It never occurred to me to have that in a mailing list, since the underlying tech doesn't allow it. Does it work well in practice? Do people use it? The group I'm on uses it extensively.

@… on Linux as well as BSD? Which version of Firefox?
I'll not use the feature with my main profile – I pile things other than traditional menus into the traditional menu bar, but I'm curious …
(Here: Kubuntu 25.10, Wayland, Firefox 145.0.2 (64-bit).)

A very tedious but fruitful activity for investing/trading: going back in time for a company of your choice and following stock price with replay feature in parallel with reading SEC filings and using google search tools to go back in time for the ticker and see what hits come up. 1/n

Flyover-Touren: Apple streicht Feature in Maps
Mit einer besonderen Funktion konnte man sich seit 2014 in Apples Karten-App Städte zeigen lassen. Das Feature wurde mit iOS 26 kommentarlos gestrichen.
https://www.

Today’s moon.
Thanks to @… for telling me about the video stacking feature.
#silentsunday

A lot of eBay listing descriptions since they added the "generate with AI" feature have been completely useless.
I'm sure newer "AI" models will feed on these wrong descriptions and make things even wrongerer in the future!
I'm so happy for us.

How the Raiders Are Still Struggling to Feature Brock Bowers https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-are-still-struggling-feature-brock-bowers

“This is not 'spicy'. This is illegal. This is appalling. This is disgusting.“
"The European Commission has announced it is looking into cases of sexually suggestive and explicit images of young girls generated by Grok, the AI chatbot integrated into social media platform X, following the introduction of a paid feature known as “Spicy Mode” last summer."

Roblox launches a 4D creation feature in open beta, allowing creators to generate interactive objects with individual moving parts rather than static 3D models (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/04/robloxs-4d-creation-fea…

Roblox's 4D creation feature is now available in open beta | TechCrunch
Roblox's highly anticipated 4D creation feature has officially arrived in open beta.

Today's launch of OmniOutliner 6 made the front page of the Mac App Store! Thank you, Apple!
https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1462144368

After having switched to Zen Browser with its "Glances" feature (it kinda opens a link in a small overlay window on top of where you are now and you can turn that window into a new tab or split view if you want) Firefox's "we have an AI that generates a wrong preview for a link you click before going there" feature looks even dumber.
Like: Having a way to preview links is really useful. But only if it gives you an actual idea what's going on there

@… könnte man mal nebenan bei Bluesky schauen, wie die Erfahrungen damit* sind. Ich bin da so gut wie nicht, hatte das Feature nur kurz nach Einführung mal getestet und mein Eindruck war, dass die Listen dort auch stark zum Overblocking neigten
* ist nicht ganz das gleiche, da's dort auf Userebene und nicht auf Instanzebene passiert. Evtl. ist das…

I love the new iOS song mixing feature.

oversaw the launch of a feature called Actually Smart Summon

How well do you remember these title-winning teams? See how you stack up https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/47541913/super-bowl-quiz-patriots-cowboys-49ers-seahawks

TikTok announces Shared Collection, to organize and share saved videos, and plans to launch Shared Feed, a daily curated selection of 15 videos, globally (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/apps/tiktok-announces-shared-feed-and…

TikTok announces shared feed and collections features
TikTok just announced new social elements for the app. There's now a shared feed and a collections feature.

Galaxy S26 Ultra: Samsung bestätigt neues Privacy-Feature
Samsung hat ein erstes Highlight-Feature für das Galaxy S26 gezeigt. Es soll den Bildschirminhalt vor fremden Blicken schützen.
https://www.

The Front-Runner ... G, avin newsom has a 30-page file of reasons the Democrats lost the 2024 presidential election. (Helen Lewis/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/gavin-newsom-feature/685410/?gift=6kW-3kpyH7tV4NcHqyTUk3BPAaTCFSpGNyaGHEgyKs8
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p97#a260106p97

I like it more transparent.
Just saying.
#gatherPress ,

Added RSVP column and made other adjustments to event columns. by mauteri · Pull Request #1237 · GatherPress/gatherpress
Description of the Change Closes #1063 How to test the Change Changelog Entry Added - New feature Changed - Existing functionality Deprecated - Soon-to-be removed feature Removed - Feature Fix...

I really underutilize the intersection feature in OpenSCAD. I should stop doing that.

amazon_copurchases: Amazon co-purchasing network (2003)
Network of items for sale on amazon.com in 2003 and the items they "recommend" (via the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" feature). If one item is frequently co-purchased with another, then the first item recommends the second.
This network has 410236 nodes and 3356824 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Unweighted

1 Apple
https://www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-get-into-wapo-reporters-iphone-because-it-had-lockdown-mode-enabled

FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking someone's device. At least for now.

"This single task of managing memory has proven to be one of the most difficult, let alone to grasp and understand, but most importantly, to get right.
Because not getting this right meant crashes, security issues, resource shortages, unhappy customers, and lots of white hair. To make things worse, pretty much every programming language comes these days with their own ideas of how to keep track of things on the heap."

Souvenir
On Monday, June 6th, 2011, after Steve Jobs' last public appearance as a keynote speaker, took place the "Developer Tools Kickoff" session at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference, also known as WWDC. That day, Chris Lattner, creator of the LLVM compiler infrastructure and the Swift programming language, introduced a new feature of the Objective-C language to thunderous applause. This feature, still present in Swift, is known as "Automatic Reference Counting", or ARC.

Almost freaked out when I saw this, thought it could be a new VSCode feature.
Turns out, it's a special ligature feature of the Maple Mono font https://font.subf.dev/

Added a Search feature to my #indiekit / #Eleventy powered blog/site https://rmendes.net/search/ itself powered by pagefind…

Search
Search Search across all posts, articles, notes, and pages. window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", () => { const ui = new PagefindUI({ element: "#search", showSubResults: true, showImages: false,...

The #Cult of #CleanCode
https://dev.to/adamthedeveloper/the-cult-of-clean-code-5a7f

OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Health, which lets users import medical records and other data from health apps into ChatGPT, initially available to a small group (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/07/chatgpt-health-tab-apple-fitness-apps

OpenAI adds ChatGPT Health for medical questions
OpenAI's new feature brings in medical records and data from Apple Health and MyFitnessPal.

Ran across this today.
Does Superfast Matt work at Discord?
(Context in image; I realize this might be one leap of logic too far for the joke, but *I* found it funny.)
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxUSjXwB44F-IJOEe5uXv7LRZLBF-9miUL?si=BeDGAaW9vPLzxG…

I was unreasonably giddy when I stumbled across the real-time discussion of implementation of a feature I use regularly in Shotcut — the proposal, the math, the initial implementation, and then how it evolved into the feature I use.
There's something so cool about seeing people nerd out about stuff and seeing development happen in the open.

Audio Alignment Implementation
This is not a suggestion of some feature. I plan to implement a functionality that is already on the Road Map. But I would like to discuss, document and, if possible, get support from volunteers. I am not really familiar with MLT and Shotcut terminologies. Feel free to correct things (this post is a wiki). The “MLT only” part has been accomplished. All we need now is to integrate it in Shotcut. I (André) plan to wait until the next release because people are busy with beta tests, right n…

As Bitcoin prices continue to plummet and electricity costs climb,
it’s become tough out there for a crypto miner.
The hash price index, which is used to determine how much revenue miners can make by mining crypto,
reached its lowest point on record this week, according to mining services company Luxor Technology.
According to Coindesk, the average cost to mine one Bitcoin is currently around $87,000
— far higher than its current going rate,
making it an e…

Miners are being squeezed as bitcoin’s $70,000 price fails to cover $87,000 production costs
Bitcoin is now approximately 20% below its estimated average production cost, historically a feature of a bear market.

New Apple feature will block cell networks from capturing precise location data https://therecord.media/new-apple-feature-block-location-data-cell-networks

Amazon Fire TV adds an Alexa feature enabling Prime Video users to skip to movie scenes using natural language descriptions, character names, or famous quotes (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/amazon-fire-tv-prime-video-alexa-plus-a…

Amazon Fire TV's New Alexa+ Feature Will Let Prime Video Users Skip to Their Favorite Movie Scenes
The new AI-powered Alexa+ feature will expand to TV shows on the streamer at a later date

Hierarchies 😩... One of the biggest recurring time-consuming issues I sometimes encounter is making decisions about _where_ to put some (new or exisiting) code/feature, i.e. in which package, new or existing, considering: functional fit (topic), structural fit (pre-existing data format conventions with the rest of a package), and if possible, not introducing new dependencies as a result of new feature... Sometimes these three aspects are mutually blocking each other and it's so time cons…

So where’s actually the correct place to send a feature request to #KDE Plasma Addons?
Its GitLab readme says that I should “report bugs and feature requests in KDE's bugtracker under the plasmashell category”, but that requires me to choose a Component and there’s no “Plasma Addons” component or anything like that.
The bugs.kde page also says that I should, if I’m “not sure this is actually a bug, instead post about it at https://discuss.kde.org”.
So if each place tells me to post it somewhere different, where should I post it?

#Plushtodon just arrived
#mastodon

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
PAR: Don't worry about them. Space Command runs the Federation.
LYE: Reckon so?
PAR: Know so. And we look after ourselves.
LYE: Tell that to the prisoner.
PAR: Broke the rules, didn't he?
LYE: Whose rules?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/206/15

#askfedi
Does someone here know if it possible to create an emergency bypass feature in #android? It should work in a way that certain contacts always ring, no matter what.
The discussions we just had at home reveal that "Do not disturb" mode is not the same:
- The phone still has t…

And I won’t be back for 10 minutes! http://youtube.com/watch?v=AcKNmUW--gI&feature=youtu.be https://

Brain-aligning of semantic vectors improves neural decoding of visual stimuli #BCI

Whoever thought it would be a good idea to rely on a handful of companies from a single country to maintain the UK’s digital infrastructure?
Well, the government for one.
https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/2026/why-cloud-first-has-…

Why cloud-first has meant sovereignty last – and how to fix it
Whoever thought it would be a good idea to rely on a handful of companies from a single country to maintain the UK’s digital infrastructure?

Samsung's Galaxy XR gets beta support for Google's realistic avatar system for video calls, a Travel Mode, and a built-in PC remote desktop feature (David Heaney/UploadVR)
https://www.uploadvr.com/samsung-galaxy-xr-android-xr-likeness-beta-travel-mode…

Samsung Galaxy XR Gets Realistic Face-Tracked 'Likeness' Avatars
Samsung Galaxy XR's Android XR now has a Persona-like realistic avatar system for video calls, called Likeness, as well as a Travel Mode and a built-in remote desktop app.

👀 Unique tales: 59 Super Bowl rings, 59 stories https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/28360921/every-super-bowl-championship-ring

Spotify launches Listening Activity on iOS and Android, letting users view friends' real-time listening via the sidebar alongside chats, as an opt-in feature (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/857404/spotify-listening-activity-mobile

Spotify is finally bringing your friends’ Listening Activity to mobile
Spotify is adding Listening Activity and Request to Jam to its mobile app.

Feature Flagging with #OpenFeature
https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/feature-flagging-with-openfeature-lfs140/

I’m not on board with this.
Instead of an “are you over 18” question for a feature I don’t want, let me skip it and keep the feature off.
Also, didn’t Vispero get my contact details in order to take my money?
“Vispero Accounts: An Explanation, an Apology, and a Path Forward”
https://vispero.com…

TikTok announces Shared Collection, to organize and share saved videos, and plans to launch Shared Feed, a daily curated selection of 15 videos, globally (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/apps/tiktok-announces-shared-feed-and…

TikTok announces shared feed and collections features
TikTok just announced new social elements for the app. There's now a shared feed and a collections feature.

from my link log —
In-place construction for Rust.
https://y86-dev.github.io/blog/safe-pinned-initialization/in-place.html
saved 2022-10-06

amazon_copurchases: Amazon co-purchasing network (2003)
Network of items for sale on amazon.com in 2003 and the items they "recommend" (via the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" feature). If one item is frequently co-purchased with another, then the first item recommends the second.
This network has 410236 nodes and 3356824 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Unweighted

The mystery post, Mastodon’s (or Ivory’s?) best feature because I get to imagine the quoted post

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
PAR: Don't worry about them. Space Command runs the Federation.
LYE: Reckon so?
PAR: Know so. And we look after ourselves.
LYE: Tell that to the prisoner.
PAR: Broke the rules, didn't he?
LYE: Whose rules?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/206/15

FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled https://www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-get-into-wapo-reporters-iphone-because-it-had-lockdown-mode-enabled/

This summer, Mikhail Loshchinin set out for Russia on a motorcycle with German plates, reaching the border in Latvia on July 1.
At the Ubylinka checkpoint on the Russian side, he presented his Russian passport.
According to his mother, Olga, he didn’t use his Belgian passport because of the urgency of the trip and to avoid needing a visa.
Russian border guards examined Loshchinin’s phone and likely discovered his many contacts in Ukraine.
After holding him for several…

Belgian-Russian dual citizen charged with treason after trying to visit father in St. Petersburg following a heart attack
A 48-year-old man with dual Russian and Belgian citizenship has been charged with treason in Russia following an attempt to visit his father, who recently suffered a heart attack. Mikhail Loshchinin’s family is scattered across Europe. He has lived in Germany for the past several years, working as a database administrator in Luxembourg. His mother is in Poland, his father is in St. Petersburg, and his sister is a Ukrainian citizen. Mikhail also has many friends in Ukraine, i…

Netflix adds a real-time voting feature for its Star Search reboot, available on mobile, smart TVs, and streaming devices, but not on a browser (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/netflix-is-rolling-out-a-live-voting-feature/

Netflix is rolling out a live voting feature | TechCrunch
Netflix said it the feature will be available globally and it will tally votes in real-time

Largest federal employee union calls for Noem, Miller's resignations (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/minneapolis-ice-shooting-live-updates-doj-investigating-apparent/?id=129340693&entryId=129600588&userab=abcn_du_cat_topic_feature_holdout-474*variant_b_redesign-1939,abcn_popular_reads_exp-497*variant_c_3days_filter-2078,abcn_ad_cadence-481*control-a-1962,abcn_news_for_you_exp-496*variant_a_control-2074,otv_web_content_rec-445*variant_c_trending-1851&userab=abcn_du_cat_topic_feature_holdout-474*variant_b_redesign-1939,abcn_popular_reads_exp-497*variant_b_7days_filter-2077,abcn_ad_cadence-481*control-a-1962,abcn_news_for_you_exp-496*variant_a_control-2074,otv_web_content_rec-445*variant_b_less_popular_bias-1850
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p142#a260127p142

Foveated Rendering: Gratis-Tool bringt Eye-Tracking-Feature auf PC-VR-Headsets
Ein Gratis-Tool aktiviert Foveated Rendering auf zahlreichen PC-VR-Headsets und spart dadurch Rechenleistung bei aufwendigen VR-Spielen.
<…

Saints to host NFL game in Paris: 2026 schedule will feature NFL's first international game ever in France

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/saints-nfl-game-in-paris-2026-schedule/

amazon_copurchases: Amazon co-purchasing network (2003)
Network of items for sale on amazon.com in 2003 and the items they "recommend" (via the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" feature). If one item is frequently co-purchased with another, then the first item recommends the second.
This network has 400727 nodes and 3200440 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Unweighted

A profile of Byron Cook, a VP at Amazon who is leading the company's effort to reduce AI hallucinations with a feature called Automated Reasoning Checks (John Pavlus/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91446331/amazo

Amazon takes on AI's biggest nightmare: Hallucinations
Byron Cook, a distinguished scientist at Amazon, is is helping the company use an obscure type of AI to minimize AI's worst side effect.

Google says replacing some article headlines with AI-generated ones is now a feature in Discover, but they can be false or fail to highlight new, relevant info (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/865168/google-says-ai-news-he…

Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI
Google now says its AI news headlines are a feature, not an experiment — its ‘trending topics’ in Google Discover keep us from accurately marketing our journalism.

Nvidia unveils DLSS 4.5 with a new 6x Multi Frame Generation for the RTX 50 series, and a second-generation Super Resolution transformer model for all RTX GPUs (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/854610/nvidia-dlss-4-5-announ…

Nvidia announces DLSS 4.5 with 6x Frame Generation and improved image quality
Nvidia is launching DLSS 4.5 for all RTX owners. It’s also adding a 6x Multi Frame Gen feature for RTX 50-series GPUs.

Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s X rolled out a feature that had the immediate result of sowing maximum chaos.
The update, called
“About This Account,”
allows people to click on the profile of an X user and see such information as:
which country the account was created in, where its user is currently based,
and how many times the username has been changed.
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, said the feature was “an important first step to securing the integrity…

Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature

dbtropes_feature: Artistic works and their tropes
A bipartite network of artistic works (movies, novels, etc.) and their tropes (stylistic conventions or devices), as extracted from tvtropes.org. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 152093 nodes and 3232134 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
https…

A look at AI at McClatchy and the negotiations over AI use in union talks; so far McClatchy has refused to include a codified AI ethics policy in the contract (Lucy Schiller/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/fight-over-ai-mccla…

The fight over AI at McClatchy.
“Until we have solid language here, we’re not going to feel safe about the integrity of our jobs—or the language our readers read.”

Google Photos' latest generative AI-powered feature, "Me Meme", lets users create memes from their own images, launching first in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/google-photos-latest-feature-lets-you-meme-…

Google Photos' latest feature lets you meme yourself | TechCrunch
The new feature lets you insert yourself into a meme in Google Photos.

amazon_copurchases: Amazon co-purchasing network (2003)
Network of items for sale on amazon.com in 2003 and the items they "recommend" (via the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" feature). If one item is frequently co-purchased with another, then the first item recommends the second.
This network has 262111 nodes and 1234877 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Unweighted

Sources detail how Canadian media company Valnet gutted Military.com, including layoffs and a reduction of in-depth journalism, while facing new Pentagon rules (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/military-dot-c…

The vanquishing of Military.com.
Former staffers say a new owner dealt the respected publication a death blow when service members and veterans needed it most.

Samsung updates its TVs to add new AI features, including a Sound Controller feature to independently adjust the volume of dialogue, music, or sound effects (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-0…

A look at The Border Chronicle, a subscriber- and grant-supported publication that tells stories from the perspective of people living near the US-Mexico border (Lucy Schiller/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/the-border-chr

With the Border Chronicle, a group of veteran journalists cover “the backdrop for national politics and rhetoric.”
A group of veteran journalists cover “the backdrop for national politics and rhetoric.” 

Netflix adds a real-time voting feature for its Star Search reboot, available on mobile, smart TVs, and streaming devices, but not on a browser (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/netflix-is-rolling-out-a-live-voting-feature/

Netflix is rolling out a live voting feature | TechCrunch
Netflix said it the feature will be available globally and it will tally votes in real-time

X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not "censorship" of viewpoints (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/24/xs-new<…

X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety te…

dbtropes_feature: Artistic works and their tropes
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A look at iOS 26's call-screening feature, which some say is like having an assistant to filter out unwanted calls, as some complain it makes them miss calls (Andrew Zucker/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/style/iphone-call-scre

Google updates Gemini in Chrome with a new side panel, an auto browse feature that can navigate pages and take actions for AI Pro and AI Ultra users, and more (Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/google-chrome-auto-browse/

Your Google Chrome browser just got a useful autopilot feature - here's how it works
Google's new Auto Browse feature aims to handle your digital chores by taking actions on your behalf.

The Observer partners with Magicave to feature the game developer's Mindset Go puzzles every Sunday in the newspaper's print edition (Alex Forbes-Calvin/GamesIndustry.biz)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/developer-magicave-partners-with-uks-observe…

Developer Magicave partners with UK's Observer newspaper
The company's Mindset Go puzzles will be appearing in the publication every Sunday

Samsung says it will introduce a display feature for the Galaxy S26 series that improves "privacy at a pixel level" to protect users from "shoulder surfing" (Abhijeet Mishra/SamMobile)
https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-teases-gala…

Samsung confirms Galaxy S26’s insane ‘pixel level’ privacy feature
Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy S26 series will introduce a new display feature designed to improve privacy when using your phone in public. The company stopped short of directly calling it a “privacy display,” but its wording leaves little room for doubt. In a new press release, Samsung talks about “privacy at a pixel

X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not "censorship" of viewpoints (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/24/xs-new<…

X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety te…

X unveils Bluesky-like "Starterpacks" to help users find accounts that match their interests, curated by X and rolling out in the coming weeks (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/x-copies-blues…

X copies Bluesky with a 'Starterpacks' feature that helps you find who to follow | TechCrunch
X says the new feature, similar to Bluesky's Starter Packs, will arrive in the coming weeks.

Replit launches Mobile Apps on Replit, which enables vibe-coding of iOS apps with integrated Stripe monetization (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/15/ai-startup-replit-launches-feature-to-vibe-code-mobile-apps.html

AI startup Replit launches feature to vibe code mobile apps
Replit launched a feature that lets users create publishable mobile apps using just natural language prompts.

Spotify releases Wrapped 2025, adding features like Wrapped Party, its first live interactive experience, a Top Song Quiz, Listening Age, and Wrapped Clubs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/spotifys-2025-wrapped-becomes-a-mul…

Spotify Wrapped 2025 adds its first multiplayer feature with 'Wrapped Party' | TechCrunch
Spotify Wrapped returns to its data-driven roots with new interactive features, deeper insights, and social experiences designed to revive its fan-favorite feel.

On an earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su says Microsoft's next-gen Xbox "is progressing well to support a launch in 2027" and will feature an AMD semi-custom SoC (Tom Warren/The Verge)

AMD hints Microsoft could launch its next-gen Xbox in 2027
AMD says it’s ready to support Microsoft launching its next-gen Xbox in 2027. The pair have partnered to work on a custom chip for the next Xbox.

Microsoft warns that Copilot Actions in Windows, now in beta and off by default, can infect devices and pilfer data, prompting concern from security researchers (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/

Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data
Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?