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Spotify’s new track mixing tool adds DJ features to your playlists

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-16 21:32:00

Spotify is testing a new audio mixing feature that allows you to customize track transitions for your playlists. Now rolling out in beta for “eligible Premium users,” the Mix feature provides an option to automatically blend transitions between tracks, or manually adjust aspects like volume, EQ, and effect curves while looking at waveform and beat data to create unique transitions. This allows users to make songs flow into each other instead of just letting one track abruptly finish and another

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TikTok’s latest feature lets college students find and connect with classmates

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-16 21:00:00

In a move reminiscent of Facebook’s early days, TikTok is launching a new feature that allows college students to find and connect with others on their campus. The feature, called Campus Verification, lets users add their college campus to their TikTok profile and browse through a list of students at their school. To access the feature, users need to navigate to their profile and tap the “Add school” button. From there, they need to enter their school name and then select their graduation year.

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OpenAI's ChatGPT Go plan arrives in India only for under $5 per month

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-17 02:00:53

OpenAI has debuted its cheapest subscription yet for India only, product head Nick Turley announced on X. Called ChatGPT Go, the 390 rupee ($4.60) GPT-5 plan will offers users 10 times more message limits, image generation and file uploads than the free offering. "Making ChatGPT more affordable has been a key ask from users," Turley wrote. "We're rolling out Go in India first and will learn from feedback before expanding to other countries." The new plan was leaked earlier and OpenAI recently i

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Nvidia said to be developing new, more powerful AI chip for sale in China

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-11-17 02:58:28

The world’s most valuable chipmaker is far from giving up its desire to retain China as a key growth market. Nvidia is apparently putting together a new AI chip meant for sale in China that’s half as powerful as its flagship B300 Blackwell GPU, Reuters reported, citing anonymous sources. This new chip, codenamed B30A, would be more powerful than the H20 GPUs the company is currently allowed to sell to China, the report said, though its design will be single-die in nature, unlike the dual-die de

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Substack lets you subscribe as an in-app purchase – but you shouldn’t

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-17 12:26:37

Indie content platform Substack now lets you subscribe to newsletters, podcasts, and video channels via an in-app purchase. However, while this removes friction from the subscription sign-up process, you definitely shouldn’t use it, for two reasons … The last few years have seen growth in subscriber-funded independent newsletters, with Ben Thompson’s Stratechery one of the earlier successful examples. Substack was created to handle the business aspects of this, leaving independent creators fr

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OpenAI launches a sub-$5 ChatGPT plan in India

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-11-17 03:57:15

OpenAI today launched a new, cheaper ChatGPT paid subscription plan in India called ChatGPT GO, priced at ₹399 per month ($4.60), which is more affordable than the ₹1,999 (about $23) per month Plus Plan. The company had turned on local currency pricing for all its plans a few days ago, and with this launch, it will also allow users to pay through UPI (Unified Payment Interface), India’s payment framework. Nick Turley, VP at OpenAI and head of ChatGPT, said that this plan will increase the mess

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OpenAI launches a sub $5 ChatGPT plan in India

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-11-17 09:57:15

OpenAI today launched a new, cheaper ChatGPT paid subscription plan in India called ChatGPT GO, priced at ₹399 per month ($4.60), which is more affordable than the ₹1,999 (about $23) per month Plus Plan. The company had turned on local currency pricing for all its plans a few days ago, and with this launch, it will also allow users to pay through UPI (Unified Payment Interface), India’s payment framework. Nick Turley, VP at OpenAI and head of ChatGPT, said that this plan will increase the mess

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Apple won’t have to build an iCloud backdoor for UK access to American data

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-17 15:47:42

The UK has retreated from a controversial order that would have forced Apple to provide a backdoor to American users’ data, according to a statement from US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Here are the details. In a post on X, Gabbard said the decision came after months of work with President Trump and Vice President Vance “to ensure Americans’ private data remains private.” She said that, as a result, the UK has agreed to drop the mandate. Over the past few months, I’ve been

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Mysterious Object Hurtling Toward Us From Beyond Solar System Appears to Be Emitting Its Own Light, Scientists Find

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-17 11:15:48

Last month, astronomers made an exciting discovery, observing an interstellar object — only the third ever observed — hurtling toward the center of the solar system. The object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, has caught the attention of Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who has a long track record of making controversial predictions about previous interstellar objects being relics from an extraterrestrial civilization. While there's been a growing consensus among astronomers that the latest object is a comet, Lo

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Nobody Likes Zuckerberg’s Glitchy AI App

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-17 21:16:26

Clearly, throwing billions of dollars at a problem can’t solve everything. Nearly six months after its debut, Meta’s consumer-facing AI app still struggles with inconsistencies and persistent shortcomings, casting doubt on the company’s lofty ambitions for artificial intelligence. It has been a rough learning curve for Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to join the AI race after lagging behind an already-crowded field and spending tens of billions of dollars on catching up. So far, the most Meta has to

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 19, #534

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-17 20:58:00

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a tough one. There are only four answers, but they are all quite long and quite complicated -- and some of them just aren't used that much. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If yo

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 19, #800

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-17 21:00:00

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle has another very tricky purple category. Look at some of the words and see if the beginning of four of them all have something in common. And think speedy. Need help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Con

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Allianz Life data breach affects 1.1 million customers

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-11-17 21:26:54

The July data breach at U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life allowed hackers to steal the personal information of 1.1 million customers, according to data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned. Allianz Life disclosed the data breach in late July, confirming that hackers stole the personal information of the “majority” of its 1.4 million customers and its employees from a cloud-stored customer relationship database. Allianz has so far refused to confirm exactly how many people are affected by

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iMessage gets a new Drafts folder in iOS 26

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-11-18 02:47:22

The iPhone Messages app on iOS 26 gets a bunch of new filtering features, primarily targeted around dealing with spam and junk texts. But it also gets some filters that are generally useful too. For the first time, iMessage has a dedicated Drafts folder. This filters the conversation list to show only threads where you have a partly-written message. These new capabilities are exposed through a new filter button found at the top-right of the screen. This menu includes common sections like Messa

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Roblox is locking down sexual content and access to ‘adult’ locations after lawsuits

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-17 21:56:59

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Roblox is updating its policies prohibiting romantic or sexual content to also forbid “content, settings, or behavior that implies sexual activity,” according to a Friday post from chief safety officer Matt Kaufman (emphasis Kaufman’s). The changes follow recent lawsuits against the compa

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Mysterious Object Hurtling Toward Us From Beyond Solar System Appears to Be Emitting Its Own Light, Scientists Say

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-18 05:15:48

Last month, astronomers made an exciting discovery, observing an interstellar object — only the third ever observed — hurtling toward the center of the solar system. The object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, has caught the attention of Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who has a long track record of making controversial predictions about previous interstellar objects being relics from an extraterrestrial civilization. While there's been a growing consensus among astronomers that the latest object is a comet, Lo

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What Seemed Like a Pregnancy Was Actually Something Far More Dangerous

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-18 06:10:04

A woman’s supposed pregnancy turned out to be something much stranger. In a recent report from her doctors, they detail how the woman had developed an incredibly rare form of ovarian cancer that mimicked the symptoms of pregnancy, even causing a positive pregnancy test. Doctors in India described the case of mistaken identity earlier this July in the journal Oncoscience. After first suspecting the woman had an ectopic pregnancy, the doctors instead discovered a large and rare type of tumor in h

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 19, #330

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-18 06:00:07

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. My favorite NFL team is the Minnesota Vikings (I know, I know) and so the blue group in today's Connections: Sports Edition was kind of fun for me. Adam Sandler fans might enjoy the purple category. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its

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Macintosh Drawing Software Compared

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 09:09:17

Below is a list of various drawing applications that are available to use with System 7 (68K). I’m mostly interested in apps that can do both pixel and vector, and that support layers and transparency. The table below might be useful for at-a-glance comparisons. Apps run in both mono or colour, unless stated otherwise. Deneba artWORKS can do both pixel and vector, has layers and partial transparency. The bottom layer is opaque and all layers on top are transparent. Collections of pixels are ma

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Claude AI will end ‘persistently harmful or abusive user interactions’

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-18 11:13:37

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot can now end conversations deemed “persistently harmful or abusive,” as spotted earlier by TechCrunch. The capability is now available in Opus 4 and 4.1 models, and will allow the chatbot to end conversations as a “last resort” after

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Texas attorney general accuses Meta, Character.AI of misleading kids with mental health claims

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-11-18 15:59:29

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into both Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for “potentially engaging in deceptive trade practices and misleadingly marketing themselves as mental health tools,” according to a press release issued Monday. “In today’s digital age, we must continue to fight to protect Texas kids from deceptive and exploitative technology,” Paxton is quoted as saying. “By posing as sources of emotional support, AI platforms can mislead vulnerable users

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Substack turns on iOS in-app payment option for all paid newsletters

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-18 21:22:37

Substack now lets users subscribe to any paid publication via an in-app purchase from the official iOS app. The news comes after the company tested the feature with 30,000 creators. This makes subscribing to something a much speedier affair, with the entire process taking just a few taps on the old smartphone screen. Prior to this, it wasn't always possible to upgrade to a paid subscription directly in the app. Showing off that it's more expensive to use iOS. (Substack) However, there's a fai

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Over 800 N-able servers left unpatched against critical flaws

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-19 02:06:24

Over 800 N-able N-central servers remain unpatched against a pair of critical security vulnerabilities tagged as actively exploited last week. N-central is a popular platform used by many managed services providers (MSPs) and IT departments to monitor and manage networks and devices from a centralized web-based console. Tracked as CVE-2025-8875 and CVE-2025-8876, the two flaws can let authenticated attackers to inject commands due to improper sanitization of user input and execute commands on

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We Finally Know When Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Will Hit Theaters and Netflix

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-19 02:00:31

It takes a very special Netflix movie to get a theatrical release before hitting the streamer, and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is certainly that. Netflix just announced it’ll release the monster movie in select theaters on October 17 before debuting on the platform November 7. Now, there’s no word yet on just how “select” the “select theaters” will be. Is it two screens? Is it 2,000? If we look back at Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, another major film to get a similar t

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Think twice about using numbers supplied by Google’s AI Overviews

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-19 05:39:00

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s AI Overviews have been sharing the wrong customer support numbers in some of its summaries. This has resulted in certain users contacting scammers instead of the company they were searching for. Google is reportedly aware of the issue. Most AI tools have disclaimers that some of the information they provide might not be factual. But this hasn’t stopped companies from rolling out chatbots to more apps and search engines, leading to many instance

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Notion brings its AI-powered email app to the iPhone

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-19 06:47:49

Back in April, Notion launched its AI-centric email client on the Mac. Four months later, Notion Mail has arrived on iOS. Notion Mail joins Notion Calendar and Notion, the company’s main app, on iPhone. Only Notion’s AI workspace app has an iPad version for now. The company describes it as “the inbox that thinks like you”, designed to be smart, personalized, and visually polished. The app uses AI to help sort incoming messages automatically. Users can tell the system which types of emails mat

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These Chunks of Ice Move All By Themselves, Thanks to a Cool Engineering Trick

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-19 06:20:54

It looks like something straight out of a Ouija board horror movie, but frosty—researchers have figured out how to make ice move by itself. A video capturing the creepy dynamic features an ice disk melting on a metal surface etched with an asymmetrical herringbone pattern. The ice and its small puddle slowly start to move sideways before suddenly picking up speed and slingshotting across the metal plate. The researchers suggest that this sort of independent movement could one day generate power

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Patients trust AI's medical advice over doctors - even when it's wrong, study finds

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-11-19 11:33:00

TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Science Photo Library via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways People can't tell AI-generated from doctor responses. However, people trust AI responses more than those from doctors. Integrating AI into clinical practice must be a nuanced approach. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. There's a crisis due to a lack of doctors in the US. In the October issue of the prestigious New England J

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Logitech May Soon Prove if It Made the Best Mouse Even Better

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-11-19 11:24:50

Using Logitech’s MX Master mouse can feel like you’re slipping your hand into a cradle form-fitted to your palm. Even if the MX Master lineup has been consistently good, the MX Master 3 proved such a staple that some users continue to flit around on their 8-year-old mouse even as it disintegrates between their aging fingers. Logitech may finally have the update we’ve been waiting for with an MX Master 4. Logitech doesn’t have to change much for it to be one of the best productivity mice once aga

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You Could Be Streaming the Oscars on YouTube or Netflix by 2029

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 11:08:00

Will we be watching 2029's Academy Awards on YouTube? That's one possibility as streaming and broadcast giants position themselves to potentially take over as the streaming/broadcast home of the Oscars after ABC's contract ends in 2028. According to a Bloomberg newsletter, Google's YouTube is now in the running as a potential Oscars suitor, joining companies such as Netflix and NBCUniversal as a possible new home for the awards. Like Netflix, YouTube has been increasingly become interested in

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Latest Tech News

Spotify’s new track mixing tool adds DJ features to your playlists

TikTok’s latest feature lets college students find and connect with classmates

OpenAI's ChatGPT Go plan arrives in India only for under $5 per month

Nvidia said to be developing new, more powerful AI chip for sale in China

Substack lets you subscribe as an in-app purchase – but you shouldn’t

OpenAI launches a sub-$5 ChatGPT plan in India

OpenAI launches a sub $5 ChatGPT plan in India

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 19, #800

Allianz Life data breach affects 1.1 million customers

iMessage gets a new Drafts folder in iOS 26

Roblox is locking down sexual content and access to ‘adult’ locations after lawsuits

Mysterious Object Hurtling Toward Us From Beyond Solar System Appears to Be Emitting Its Own Light, Scientists Say

What Seemed Like a Pregnancy Was Actually Something Far More Dangerous

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 19, #330

Macintosh Drawing Software Compared

Claude AI will end ‘persistently harmful or abusive user interactions’

Texas attorney general accuses Meta, Character.AI of misleading kids with mental health claims

Substack turns on iOS in-app payment option for all paid newsletters

Over 800 N-able servers left unpatched against critical flaws

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Think twice about using numbers supplied by Google’s AI Overviews

Notion brings its AI-powered email app to the iPhone

These Chunks of Ice Move All By Themselves, Thanks to a Cool Engineering Trick

Patients trust AI's medical advice over doctors - even when it's wrong, study finds

Logitech May Soon Prove if It Made the Best Mouse Even Better

You Could Be Streaming the Oscars on YouTube or Netflix by 2029

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