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Anthropic says Claude's memory feature, initially available for Team and Enterprise users, is rolling out to Pro and Max subscribers (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/one-of-chatgpts-most-helpful-features-is-com…

One of ChatGPT's most helpful features is coming to Claude - here's who gets it
Anthropic's Memory feature aims to create a more personalized experience while prioritizing user control.

lol https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-11-23/apple-ios-27-snow-leopard-like-quality-focus-ai-features-tim-cook-retirement-mibq7jv8

"How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom"
#Batteries #Energy
https://e360.yale.edu/featur…

How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom
Tech companies are turning to natural gas to help power the growing number of A.I. data centers in the U.S. Jigar Shah, a former Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can help balance the grid, lower electricity bills, and support renewable energy.

Apple is nearing a deal with Google that would see the iPhone maker pay the tech giant roughly
$1 billion a year for a custom version of Google’s Gemini AI model
to power its overhaul of Siri.
The move is a big one for Apple,
which has traditionally relied on its own technology
but plans to use Google’s model as a temporary solution until its own AI becomes powerful enough,
including to power a slate of upcoming features for the voice assistant.
The…

Apple nears deal to pay Google $1B annually to power new Siri, report says | TechCrunch
Apple is turning to Google's technology to help revamp Siri and power a slate of upcoming features for the voice assistant.

How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into "America's Semiconductor HQ", attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years (Justine Calma/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/features/825207/semiconduct…

The new silicon valley (literally)
The US wants to make its own chips again. Will it bring back manufacturing jobs? Or guzzle up too much water in the desert? Can the semiconductor industry avoid repeating the same mistakes it made in Silicon Valley?  

Help Stop the Killing of Rabbits, Cows, Goats, and Other Animals for Fashion #AnimalRights

Distant ICE Detention Centers Bring Money--and Anger--to an Alaska Native Community (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-23/ice-detention-centers-bring-money-anger-to-alaska-native-community?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MTI1MzU4MCwiZXhwIjoxNzYxODU4MzgwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNExST0RHUEw0NEgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGNzM0QTk2NzVFRDg0REJEQjc3RUJGN0UxMkE4NjZCRiJ9.RJTfepB80WpN3_HCCntSQuzheX5ootiq_Y1MS05BHFY&leadSource=uverify wall
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p133#a251023p133

Greg Peters says Netflix plans to bring new content types like video podcasts to its vertical video feed, and plans to roll out a new mobile UI later in 2026 (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Netflix Is Testing Vertical Video Features For Mobile
The streamer plans to add video podcasts into its mobile feed and upgrade its mobile user interface.

Exploiting ID-Text Complementarity via Ensembling for Sequential Recommendation
Liam Collins, Bhuvesh Kumar, Clark Mingxuan Ju, Tong Zhao, Donald Loveland, Leonardo Neves, Neil Shah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17820 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17820 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17820
arXiv:2512.17820v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Modern Sequential Recommendation (SR) models commonly utilize modality features to represent items, motivated in large part by recent advancements in language and vision modeling. To do so, several works completely replace ID embeddings with modality embeddings, claiming that modality embeddings render ID embeddings unnecessary because they can match or even exceed ID embedding performance. On the other hand, many works jointly utilize ID and modality features, but posit that complex fusion strategies, such as multi-stage training and/or intricate alignment architectures, are necessary for this joint utilization. However, underlying both these lines of work is a lack of understanding of the complementarity of ID and modality features. In this work, we address this gap by studying the complementarity of ID- and text-based SR models. We show that these models do learn complementary signals, meaning that either should provide performance gain when used properly alongside the other. Motivated by this, we propose a new SR method that preserves ID-text complementarity through independent model training, then harnesses it through a simple ensembling strategy. Despite this method's simplicity, we show it outperforms several competitive SR baselines, implying that both ID and text features are necessary to achieve state-of-the-art SR performance but complex fusion architectures are not.
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ChatGPT Atlas hands-on: generally able to interpret instructions and navigate simple menus, but "technical constraints on session length" are a limiting factor (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/

We let OpenAI’s “Agent Mode” surf the web for us—here’s what happened
From scanning emails to building fansites, Atlas can ably automate some web-based tasks.

This is what happened to the web when the software industry never spent a moment thinking about long term stability. About users. About usability. About anything other than features and a fast buck.
Among many other failings.
Would be nice to some professionalism in future. One can hope, but I despair.
https://jimsbutchery.com.au

My bet is that this will turn into a fairly substantial copyright and contract case.
"Kristen Bell Is the Star of a New Fox Jesus Podcast. No One Told Her"
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/kristen-bel…

Kristen Bell Is the Star of a New Fox Jesus Podcast. No One Told Her
Fox's new Jesus podcast features Kristen Bell as the voice of Mary Magdalene. Bell, however, recorded the audio 15 years ago for a different project.

Me every time I look at features another product team shipped

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012)
Data on tweets related to the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle with the features of the Higgs boson on 4th July 2012. Data covers 1-7 July 2012, and includes four types of networks: followers, retweets, replies, and mentions.
This network has 38918 nodes and 32523 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

🎶 When I find metal three features are blurring
'plied Materials comes to me
Flatten out my wafer
CMP
And in my hour of darkness
Ceria flows out onto the pad
Flatten out my wafer
CMP
CMP, CMP
CMP, CMP
Flatten out my wafer
CMP

I freelanced for @… for 10 years, writing 37 articles/features
They were an amazing team, interested in global #justice, #labor, &

As Equal Times closes, the work continues
This is it. Our final article. Equal Times, the global labour news platform, will cease to publish as of December 2025. The website – which was, for more than a decade, an invaluable resource on the realities of work, society, fundamental rights, and more: the victories secured, the innovations introduced, but also the many indignities, injustices and stubborn anachronisms endured – will remain online, but no new content will be added. We launched back in autumn 2012 with a simple mission …

One of our favorite year-end features is the #UniversityOfGeorgia photographers' round-up of their favorite photos of the past year. Even when our museum isn't in it, it's fun to see their great work and to read their thoughts on the combination of art and luck that makes for a great photo.

Als Technik Nerd konnte ich dem Angebot für einen 21% reduzierten Full Array LED Fernseher von Sony einfach nicht widerstehen!
Am Black Friday gibt es die besten Rabatte auf die LED Fernseher. Dadurch würde ein OLED oder MicroLED dann doppelt so viel kosten, und das finde ich nicht gerechtfertigt.
Die LED XR Fernseher von Sony ja auch alles, was man sich wünschen kann.
Habt ihr euch auch schon für einen OLED Fernseher entschieden oder seid ihr wie ich noch bei LED?

I just released version 1.2 of mmdb-server.
mmdb-server is an open source fast API server to lookup IP addresses for their geographic location.
Some minor changes in this release including in the API.
🔗 Release notes https://github.com/adulau/mmdb-server/releases/tag/v1…

Release mmdb-server v1.2 released · adulau/mmdb-server
Release Notes - v1.2 (2025-12-22) This release introduces containerization support, modernizes dependency management, and includes several data and stability improvements. 🚀 New Features Docker Su...

@hereswhykevin on Threads:
For the past 8 hours, the White House has been live-streaming this really weird lo-fi music video on YouTube that features a cartoon Donald Trump sitting by a Christmas tree, reading a book while his ‘accomplishments’ scroll on the left side of the screen. Your tax dollars paid for this.
https://www.threads.com/@hereswhykevin/post/DSjlPqtjgAM?xmt=AQF0yEB4y13kd6nd9uk1CYXhBaFYzwq0fF7NDbgv9dcJ1AE

Transferred my #OneNote notes to #joplin.
Another service I don't use any more. Joplin doesn't have all the features as oneNote - but it looks like it has everything I need.
Now it's time to test it in real life.
This

"London Sees Luxury Car Sales Slump as Tax Hikes Hit Rich"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-21/rolls-royce-ferrari-aston-martin-see-uk-sales-slump-as-tax-hikes-hit-rich
Showi…

'mtr' is a TUI traceroute with a bunch of extra features (which I occasionally find more of) - in it's default mode it shows all the network hops between you and your destination - and shows packet loss on each link, which is great for finding who is to blame for a *partially* dodgy connection. Hitting 'Z' shows you the ASN for each hop, which lets you find who owns it; Hitting D gets a scrolling display so you can see where momentary blips happen.

Microsoft updates Copilot to add Copilot Groups, enabling up to 32 people to collaborate in a session, and a "real talk" mode to add more personality to Copilot (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/804122/microsoft-copilot-…

Copilot is getting more personality with a ‘real talk’ mode and group chats
Microsoft is adding new features to its Copilot AI assistant. A new “real talk” mode adds more personality, and a groups feature aims to make AI more social.

Apple might be in a better position than others to launch this successfully because it can build it on an established base (all iPhones out there). Still don‘t see the use cases though. And don‘t even mention privacy issues 🙄
Apple Developing AI Wearable Pin - https://apple.slashdot.org/s…

I rarely make electronic shopping lists, so I only discovered today that the Notes app has a handy feature that converts kilograms into tons. Even when using the comma as decimal separator! It doesn’t recognize “dl” (customary in Switzerland), though, and come to think of it, it has none of the features demoed by Doug Engelbart in 1968.

I rarely make electronic shopping lists, so I only discovered today that the Notes app has a handy feature that converts kilograms into tons. Even when using the comma as decimal separator! It doesn’t recognize “dl” (customary in Switzerland), though, and come to think of it, it has none of the features demoed by Doug Engelbart in 1968.

I rarely make electronic shopping lists, so I only discovered today that the Notes app has a handy feature that converts kilograms into tons. Even when using the comma as decimal separator! It doesn’t recognize “dl” (customary in Switzerland), though, and come to think of it, it has none of the features demoed by Doug Engelbart in 1968.

AI Chatbots Are Poisoning Research Archives With Fake Citations https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don’t Exist — And They’re Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

Elton John - "Tumbleweed Connection" (1970)
Always amazed by the sonic brilliance of this crackly original UA pressing. Just astounding.
#NowPlaying #EltonJohn #vinyl

Trillions of dollars are being invested in AI, while end users and consumers scramble looking for articles such as "How to turn off AI tools like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and more" https://www.consumerreports.org/…

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

If it’s not already clear, I’m #ActuallyAutistic and proudly trans, who uses they/them pronouns and identifies as Non-Binary/Gender-Fluid, and bisexual.
I get really scared around other trans people because I worry I might accidentally say something transphobic or homophobic, and I deeply believe, with all my heart, that trans people deserve to live.
:transgender_flag:

Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
ARLEN: I won it in a lottery. What do you care?
BLAKE: I don't, so long as it wasn't issued to you.
ARLEN: It's Federation.
BLAKE: That's what I mean.
ARLEN: Do I look like one of theirs?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/413/40…

Alexa : Neue Features sollen zum Shoppen anregen
Amazon ergänzt seine Sprachassistentin Alexa in den USA um neue Features, die zum Geldausgeben anregen sollen. Dazu gehören auch Geschenkempfehlungen.
https://www.

So... in the end, I switched to the iPhone as my primary device after already having to use it as a secondary device alongside my Pixel 9 with GrapheneOS.
Before you stone me, let me say first and foremost that I love GrapheneOS and its almost perfect privacy features! But certain circumstances made a switch more or less necessary.
On the one hand, I don't want to constantly carry around two smartphones – especially when I don't want to lug around an extra backpack, walle…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#NewMusicShow
- Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: Explore Ensemble and ONCEIM
Kate Molleson presents live from the opening weekend of this year's event and features new music by Bryn Harrison and Christian Marclay.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mc18

I've set up a #TriliumNotes server to test it as a replacement for my job-related Trello. Phew... I've rarely seen an app that looks so daunting when you first start it up. Dozens of buttons, menus, features... and on first start it wants a password but you can't use it with multiple users. You need multiple servers for that or encrypt a set of private notes.
Trilium integra…

Week 17 odds: Jaguars big favorites at Colts, 49ers favored over Bears https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/47387542/2025-nfl-week-17-schedule-betting-odds-lines-point-spreads-preview

City Random Manners ✴️
城市随机行为 ✴️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

MonochromeEvolutionaryBioDigitalCellularAutomataSimulation
Unlike the recently shared[1] multi-cellular struggles, these here are some selected research stills (handpicked from tens of thousands) of only single CA configurations (aka mono-cultures) which I found interesting/promising and which were then used as raw ingredients/candidates for my infinitely evolving C-SCAPE project[2]...
Each of these cellular automata is 1.5D, meaning each pixel row is one generation, but I allowe…

Siri mit Googles Gemini: Diese Features sind geplant
Apple hat sich entschieden: Der Konzern holt sich für Siri Technik von außen. Einem Bericht zufolge gibt es erste Infos, was mit Google-Hilfe kommt.
https://www.

Best Sports Betting Apps 2025: Top Betting Sites Reviewed https://www.foxsports.com/stories/betting/best-betting-apps

"After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up"
#Iran #Climate #ClimateChange

After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up
Iran is looking to relocate the nation’s capital because of severe water shortages that make Tehran unsustainable. Experts say the crisis was caused by years of ill-conceived dam projects and overpumping that destroyed a centuries-old system for tapping underground reserves. 

Just finished reading “Automatic Noodle”, a fun novella from @… It was a thoroughly enjoyable read that left me wanting more stories of this group of robots. It was also an ultimately hopeful and kind book… which was a good mental break from all that is happening in our world right now. Well done!

Folks using #PhanpySocialDev , there are 2 new features that need a bit of testing:
1. QR code for profiles and shortcuts settings - includes scanner (camera) too
2. Import/export accounts - the export *excludes* access tokens, so need to login again after import
They’re quite hidden, so just a heads-up 🙇‍♂️

Best Sports Betting Apps 2025: Top Betting Sites Reviewed https://www.foxsports.com/stories/betting/best-betting-apps

Regularized Random Fourier Features and Finite Element Reconstruction for Operator Learning in Sobolev Space
Xinyue Yu, Hayden Schaeffer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17884 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17884 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17884
arXiv:2512.17884v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Operator learning is a data-driven approximation of mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces, such as the solution operators of partial differential equations. Kernel-based operator learning can offer accurate, theoretically justified approximations that require less training than standard methods. However, they can become computationally prohibitive for large training sets and can be sensitive to noise. We propose a regularized random Fourier feature (RRFF) approach, coupled with a finite element reconstruction map (RRFF-FEM), for learning operators from noisy data. The method uses random features drawn from multivariate Student's $t$ distributions, together with frequency-weighted Tikhonov regularization that suppresses high-frequency noise. We establish high-probability bounds on the extreme singular values of the associated random feature matrix and show that when the number of features $N$ scales like $m \log m$ with the number of training samples $m$, the system is well-conditioned, which yields estimation and generalization guarantees. Detailed numerical experiments on benchmark PDE problems, including advection, Burgers', Darcy flow, Helmholtz, Navier-Stokes, and structural mechanics, demonstrate that RRFF and RRFF-FEM are robust to noise and achieve improved performance with reduced training time compared to the unregularized random feature model, while maintaining competitive accuracy relative to kernel and neural operator tests.
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Navigating 10-foot flames,
he arrived at the crashed
cyber truck.
But the bulletproof door,
opened electronically by a hidden push button,
wouldn’t budge.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/cyb…

How the Cybertruck's design may have trapped crash survivors in flames
In at least a dozen cases since 2019, people have struggled to access or exit Teslas during life-threatening emergencies, fueling lawsuits alleging the company’s futuristic features have caused injuries and deaths.

i found these two gems at the record store up the street and, at twelve bucks each, couldn't resist. i listened to these LPs (and dream weaver and forest flower) a ton in high school.
#jazz #vinyl #vinylrecords

Sources: iOS 27 will be a Snow Leopard-style update focused on bug fixes and performance, plus new AI features; FT's retirement report on Tim Cook was premature (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters…

Spotify expands Song Credits to include all contributors to a track, like engineers and mixers, and launches SongDNA, a map showing connections between songs (Steven J. Horowitz/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/spotify-expands-…

Spotify Expands Song Credits, Introduces New Audio Features
Spotify announced plans to expand song credits and introduce new features for a deeper listening experience.

Fuck, no, Apple. I was forced to update to iOS 26 due to lack of security updates for 18 on devices that can run 26 (i.e., due to extortion) but you’re not infecting my Mac with Liquid Ass.
Notice the dark pattern of pestering you in hopes you will accidentally hit the “Restart” button even though you’ve specifically turned off auto updates. Microsoft-level disrespect for consent here.
(Not surprising from a company that gives golden awards to fascists.)

I bet if you were a power-user of it, you could back in day tell what new features Photoshop 5 had over Photoshop 4.
Try finding anyone who knows what new features are in Chrome 144 over Chrome 143.

When I switched to using a #ridgewallet (which I quite like and recommend), I ditched all of my loyalty and "lesser" ID cards in liu of #Stocard - a mobile app with digital copies. But now Stocard is #klarna (and we…

from my link log —
Exploring the fragmentation of Wayland: an xdotool adventure.
https://www.semicomplete.com/blog/xdotool-and-exploring-wayland-fragmentation/
saved 2025-11-21

Found in the archives - re-posting for no particular reason at all. . .
#Shitpooooost #Shipost #Shitposting

How Google, Huawei, Microsoft, and Nvidia, as well as startups and university research teams, spent millions of dollars to develop AI weather forecasting tools (Tim Fernholz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-22/how…

Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
VILA: A few hours ago. We've plenty of time to get to the combat grounds.
TARRANT: Zen. [Looks at Avon] Yes?
AVON: Why not?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/71 B7B5

A lot of people think #UXDesign is about features. It's not. The best #UX comes from finding the gaps *between* the features, and then filling those gaps with delicious sticky marmalade so that your users can't escape

Sources reveal inconsistencies in Megaspeed's chip inventory, as the US probes the Singapore AI startup over alleged Chinese ownership and Nvidia chip smuggling (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-…

Moody Urbanity - Past 📴
情绪化城市 - 过去 📴
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012)
Data on tweets related to the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle with the features of the Higgs boson on 4th July 2012. Data covers 1-7 July 2012, and includes four types of networks: followers, retweets, replies, and mentions.
This network has 116408 nodes and 150818 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1 bringt neue Funktionen für Pixel-Geräte
Google hat den Startschuss für die letzte Android-16-Version gegeben: Mit dem Update auf QPR3 Beta 1 ziehen neue Animationen und weitere kleine Features ein.

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
AVON: Cally. [Grasps her by the arms]
TARRANT: [Enters] Is this the time or the place? That thing has warped your reason, Avon. It's even warped your notorious instinct for looking after number one. We are in danger, can't you understand that?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/3…

iOS 26.3: Diese neuen Features hat Apple in der Pipeline
Die verbesserte Siri muss womöglich noch warten, dafür gibt es bessere Android-Transfers und andere Goodies. Ein Überblick zu iOS 26.3.
https://www.

Very cool, Ruby launched a redesigned website that prominently features DHH
🤦

Greg Peters says Netflix plans to bring new content types like video podcasts to its vertical video feed, and plans to roll out a new mobile UI later in 2026 (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Netflix Is Testing Vertical Video Features For Mobile
The streamer plans to add video podcasts into its mobile feed and upgrade its mobile user interface.

#VisitAthens, our local convention and visitors bureau, is taking a new approach to destination marketing: a podcast. Athens: Off the Record launched this month and shares the stories that define our town's creative culture. Episode 3 features our own Michael Lachowski, long-time PR coordinator at the museum, #Pylon

Right, #genAI will revolutionize science. As in, there’s nothing going to be left after the zone has been completed flooded with shit. There’s really no point in publishing anything anymore, as it’ll be drowned out by #AIslop.

Moody Urbanity - ONE 1️⃣
情绪化城市 - 壹 1️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 13 - Terminal
ZEN: Confirmed.
[Teleport room. Dayna and Cally are playing a board game. Vila is kibitzing.]
VILA: That was it! Go on, you've got her! What are you waiting for?
DAYNA: Well, I'm not sure. It's risky.

ElevenLabs releases an album of AI songs with voices of Liza Minnelli, Art Garfunkel, and others to promote its AI music generator and Iconic Voice Marketplace (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/elevenlabs-…

ElevenLabs' Eleven Album Features AI Songs From Liza Minnelli, Art Garfunkel
ElevenLabs launched 'The Eleven Album,' a partnership with artists like Liza Minelli and Art Garfunkel to 'co-create' original music with its AI-based model.

Apple Creator Studio: Bekommen künftig nur Abonnenten alle neuen Features?
Nach der Vorstellung des Kreativsoftware-Abo-Pakets Apple Creator Studio gibt es weiterhin offene Fragen. Werden Abonnenten künftig gegenüber Käufern bevorzugt?

Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
AVON: And on living matter it never worked. Put a living creature into one end, take a dead creature out of the other, or nothing at all.
JENNA: So you think that is what all this is for? Matter transmission?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/103/142 B7B…

Filing: Strava voluntarily dismissed its patent lawsuit against Garmin, for allegedly infringing its heat map and segments features, just 21 days after filing (Ray Maker/DC Rainmaker)
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/10/strava-drops-voluntarily-lawsuit-again…

Strava Voluntarily Drops Lawsuit Against Garmin
 Strava’s multifaceted legal (and social media) attack on Garmin was short-lived. Just 21 days after filing the original patent infringement case, alongside a Reddit post from their executive team attacking Garmin, the company has decided to dismiss the case

Double Double 🛗
成双 🛗
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012)
Data on tweets related to the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle with the features of the Higgs boson on 4th July 2012. Data covers 1-7 July 2012, and includes four types of networks: followers, retweets, replies, and mentions.
This network has 256491 nodes and 328132 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

Snap updates its Family Center tool to let parents view daily screen time averages and a breakdown of time spent by specific app segment like Snap Map (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/snapchat-gives-parents-n…

Snapchat gives parents new insights into teens' screen time and friends | TechCrunch
With these new features, Snap is likely looking to appease regulators and parents over concerns about safety and screen time on its platform.

Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
LAUREN: There's no need. I can handle it, Dayna.
MELLANBY: All right, but don't take any chances.
LAUREN: I won't.
DAYNA: Keep your head down.
LAUREN: I always do.
[On the beach]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/377 B…

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube TV plans to launch "fully customizable" multiview for non-sports channels and channel packages focused on various topics (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/864566/youtube-tv-custom-multiview-chan…

YouTube TV will launch custom multiview and channel packages ‘soon’
YouTube TV is getting ready to launch customizable multiview, along with genre-specific channel packages. Both of these features are coming “soon,” according to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan.

A look at DeepSeek's rise in Africa, as China's lightweight, low-cost AI models make inroads into the continent via tech infrastructure built by Huawei and ZTE (Bloomberg)

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
AVON: Say goodbye to one bolt hole.
BLAKE: That's not funny, Avon.
AVON: It wasn't meant to be.
ZEN: Pursuit ships are turning.
BLAKE: You know what to do.
AVON: Zen, increase speed to Standard by Eight.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/581

Analysis: the Trump family has generated about $1.4B from crypto projects since Trump's inauguration a year ago, making up about one-fifth of their fortune (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-20/donal…

US CHILDREN 🧒
我們這些孩童 🧒
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
MARYATT: [Referring to Cephlon] Is there anything down there?
ENSOR: There was, once. Yes, once it was the trading and cultural centre for this entire star system. Very important, once.
MARYATT: Well, what happened?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/112/7…

Deblock, an app that lets users manage fiat and digital assets in one place by linking a bank account with a self-owned crypto wallet, raised a €30M Series A (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/11/19/deblock-secures-eur30m-series…

Deblock secures €30M Series A to expand on-chain banking in Europe
French crypto-banking startup Deblock has secured €30 million in Series A funding led by Speedinvest, alongside CommerzVentures and Latitude. Existing investors 20VC, Headline, Chalfen Ventures, and Kraken Ventures also participated in the round. Deblock offers a fully on-chain banking solution in Europe that combines features of a traditional bank account with on-chain self-custody. By linking a euro current account with a personal, self-owned crypto wallet, the platform allows users t…

How the rise of AI has divided Hollywood, as some oppose the use of the technology while others say they are exploring ways to utilize AI tools (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-ai-hollywood/

Hollywood’s AI Experiments Are in Conflict With What Actors and Directors Want
The entertainment industry is torn between keeping up and keeping talent happy.

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
RASHEL: Perhaps that creature drove the people away.
COSER: I doubt it. Raw materials ran out more like.
RASHEL: Perhaps that was the only one.
COSER: Perhaps, perhaps! Just get on with it, will you?!
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How AI is pressuring Poland's economy, Europe's top location for global business services, as companies lay off staff in Krakow, the country's hub for BPO jobs (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-11-2…

A look at South Korea's Independent AI Foundation Model competition, which aims to find the best homegrown AI models, in a bid to compete with the US and China (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

xAI has faced a growing outcry from global regulators over Grok's generation of non-consensual explicit photos, but has faced little regulatory action in the US (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Adobe updates Acrobat to add new AI features, including presentation generation, file editing, and creating podcast summaries from docs stored in Adobe Spaces (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/adobe-acr…

Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries | TechCrunch
Adobe is adding AI tools to Acrobat, including the ability to generate podcast summaries of files, create presentations, and a way for users to edit files using prompts.

ElevenLabs launches an album of original tracks made by artists like Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel in "collaboration" with its Eleven Music AI model (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/elevenlabs…

ElevenLabs' Eleven Album Features AI Songs From Liza Minnelli, Art Garfunkel
ElevenLabs launched 'The Eleven Album,' a partnership with artists like Liza Minelli and Art Garfunkel to 'co-create' original music with its AI-based model.

a16z's Matt Bornstein and others talk adding $1.7B to its $1.25B AI infrastructure fund, focusing on early rounds; Ben Horowitz calls it "one of the best funds" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Threads adds new features for podcasters, as it tries to become the de facto place for people to talk about shows and engage with creators (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/11/threads-targets-…

Threads targets podcasters with new features, aiming to become the home for show discussions | TechCrunch
Threads is targeting podcasters with new features, including dedicated links in the bio and more visible links in the feed.

Google says Gemini will help power not only a more personalized version of Siri, but also future Apple Intelligence features (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/12/google-gemini-future-apple-intelligence-features/

Google Says Gemini Partnership With Apple Will Go Beyond Siri Revamp
Google today announced that its AI platform Gemini will help power not only a more personalized version of Siri, but a range of future Apple...

The UK launches a consultation on whether to ban under-16s from using social media, alongside restrictions on addictive app features like infinite scrolling (Kiran Stacey/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j

Google makes Help Me Write, AI email summaries, and Suggested Replies free to all Gmail users; the features required a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/01/08/gmail-ai-free-features/

Gmail making Help Me Write, AI summaries, & Suggested Replies free for all
Besides previewing the future of Gmail, Google is making a number of AI features that previously required a subscription free...

Samsung Galaxy XR review: matches some of the Vision Pro's hardware features at half the price, but has an uncomfortable headband and less precise hand tracking (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features: member tags that show user roles, text stickers generated from any word, and custom event reminders (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/07/whatsapp-rolls-out-new-group-chat-features-memb…

WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features, including member tags | TechCrunch
You can choose a tag that gives others in the group chat more context about who you are.