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Spotify's Audiobooks+ add-on is now available to some Premium subscribers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-21 15:50:30

It’s likely that you predominantly associate Spotify with music and podcasts, but if you’re a Premium member, you also get 15 hours of audiobook access per month. For some members, though, that clearly isn’t enough, as Spotify has introduced a new add-on subscription that doubles that listening time. Audiobooks+ was first trialled in Ireland and Canada, and is launching initially for Premium Individual and Plan members in a number of countries in Europe, as well as Australia and New Zealand. On

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Spotify expands audiobook access to family plan members for the first time

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-07-21 23:35:07

Spotify on Thursday announced an expansion of its premium audiobooks service, with two new plans that offer additional listening hours to subscribers, and allow other family members to access the service. The options are currently only available for Spotify Premium users in the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, following initial tests in Ireland and Canada. U.S. users could already purchase 15 hours of

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What's happening to reading?

news.ycombinator.com Joshua Rothman 2025-07-20 17:16:48

What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an unremarkable activity, essentially unchanged since the advent of the modern publishing industry, in the nineteenth century. In a 2017 Shouts & Murmurs titled “Before the Internet,” the writer Emma Rathbone captured the spirit of reading as it used to be: “Before the Internet, you could laze around on a park bench in Chicago reading some Dean Koontz, and that would be a legit thing to do and no one would

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What's Happening to Reading?

news.ycombinator.com Joshua Rothman 2025-07-20 22:16:48

What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an unremarkable activity, essentially unchanged since the advent of the modern publishing industry, in the nineteenth century. In a 2017 Shouts & Murmurs titled “Before the Internet,” the writer Emma Rathbone captured the spirit of reading as it used to be: “Before the Internet, you could laze around on a park bench in Chicago reading some Dean Koontz, and that would be a legit thing to do and no one would

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Our biggest questions about ChromeOS and Android merging

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2025-07-26 03:43:48

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. What is the point of merging ChromeOS and Android? Android has an enormous app ecosystem, but many of those apps still struggle on larger screens, like tablets. And Android doesn’t have great multitasking or window management, which are both important on large displays. ChromeOS, on the other hand, does browser stuff and window managem

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NotebookLM now lets you chat with expert guides from top publishers, and Shakespeare - here's how

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-07-26 07:28:09

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Google announced Monday that it is expanding the repertoire of NotebookLM, its AI-powered note-taking and research platform, to include the works of some prominent publishing names. Also: NotebookLM now lets you share your notebooks with anyone with a single link. Here's how The company is collaborating with a cohort of scientists, nonprofits, authors, and news publishers to deliver a series of featured notebooks for NotebookLM users. These notebooks cove

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I hope Google doesn’t screw up these things when it merges Chrome OS into Android

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-27 08:00:38

Ryan Haines / Android Authority A Google executive confirmed in an interview that the company is combining Chrome OS and Android. This comes a while after we exclusively reported that Chrome OS will effectively be absorbed into Android. It also comes after Google said it would develop Chrome OS on “large portions of the Android stack.” This all sounds very interesting on paper, but I have some reservations about such a merger. Here are the things Google can’t afford to screw up when it combine

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NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, and others

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-07-27 15:26:38

Google is transforming its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant, NotebookLM, into more of a destination. The company announced Monday it would add a series of featured notebooks from various authors, publications, researchers, and nonprofits that allow NotebookLM users to explore a wide array of topics from health and life advice to travel tips and financial analysis, and more. The initial collection, which includes notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, as well as profess

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Google’s curated AI ‘notebooks’ talk you through topics from parenting to Shakespeare

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-07-28 07:02:59

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. Google is partnering with authors, researchers, and publications to launch “featured” notebooks within its AI notetaking app, NotebookLM. These notebooks come pre-filled with research, and let you interact with the app’s tools, including its AI podcast maker, to learn more about each topic. Google has released eight featured notebooks to start, inc

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Google’s underrated AI tool just got a major upgrade with featured notebooks

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-28 11:38:31

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Google is adding expert-curated featured notebooks to NotebookLM, expanding its role beyond personal research and note-taking. Topics include the complete works of Shakespeare, Yellowstone travel tips, and predictions from The Economist. The new feature is desktop-only for now and follows the recent rollout of public notebook sharing. NotebookLM was already doing a good job as anything from a personal research assistant to an advisor on your car maintena

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NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic and others

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-07-28 11:26:38

Google is transforming its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant, NotebookLM, into more of a destination. The company announced Monday it would add a series of featured notebooks from various authors, publications, researchers, and nonprofits that allow NotebookLM users to explore a wide array of topics from health and life advice to travel tips and financial analysis, and more. The initial collection, which includes notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, as well as profess

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The Kindle Scribe is a reader and note taker's dream device

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-07-28 19:31:27

ZDNET's key takeaways The Amazon Kindle Scribe is on sale for $259 for the 16GB version, or $299 when bundled with the folio case and adapter. It combines the familiar features of the Kindle e-reader with a bright display and a suite of premium note-taking features. The aforementioned features have a bit of a learning curve to fully take advantage of. $399.99 at Amazon $399.99 at Target $399.99 at Best Buy more buying choices Amazon's latest Kindle Scribe can be considered a 2-in-1, as it's b

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Hungary's oldest library fighting to save 100k books from a beetle infestation

news.ycombinator.com Https 2025-07-29 09:24:53

PANNONHALMA, Hungary — Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could wipe out centuries of history. The 1,000-year-old Pannonhalma Archabbey is a sprawling Benedictine monastery that is one of Hungary's oldest centers of learning and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Restoration workers are removing about 100,000 handbound books from their shelves and carefully placing them in

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Google’s working on a Gemini tool for generating illustrated Storybooks (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-02 23:00:43

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini on Android has been working to implement new Storybooks, Timeline, and Mindmap options. While Timeline and Mindmap come from NotebookLM on the web, Storybooks could be a new Gem for creating illustrated books. Storybooks is not yet functional in Gemini, but we have been able to uncover an animation associated with it. For as powerful as generative AI systems are, their open-ended flexibility can also be a bit of a curse, especially if we’re ha

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The Kindle Scribe is a reader and note taker's dream (and it's $200 off for Prime Day)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-03 07:20:43

ZDNET's key takeaways The Amazon Kindle Scribe is on sale for $259 for the 16GB version, or $299 when bundled with the folio case and adapter. It combines the familiar features of the Kindle e-reader with a bright display and a suite of premium note-taking features. The aforementioned features have a bit of a learning curve to fully take advantage of. $399.99 at Amazon $399.99 at Target $399.99 at Best Buy more buying choices Amazon is currently offering the 16GB Kindle Scribe at 35% off, a $

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Bookshop.org mocks Jeff Bezos wedding invite in anti-Prime Day promo

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-08-06 19:40:48

The independent online bookseller Bookshop.org took a swipe at Amazon to celebrate the start of Prime Day, Amazon’s annual sale (which, despite its name, is actually four days this year). Like many other retailers, Bookshop.org holds a sale to coincide with Amazon’s big event — it’s a way to lure away consumers who may be tempted by Amazon’s deals, but could be convinced to spend a few extra dollars to support an independent business. These anti-Prime sales probably don’t make a huge dent in Am

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The Kindle Scribe is the e-reader for note takers I recommend (and on sale for Prime Day)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-06 23:33:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Amazon Kindle Scribe is on sale for $259 for the 16GB version, or $299 when bundled with the folio case and adapter. It combines the familiar features of the Kindle e-reader with a bright display and a suite of premium note-taking features. The aforementioned features have a bit of a learning curve to fully take advantage of. $399.99 at Amazon $399.99 at Target $399.99 at Best Buy more buying choices Amazon is currently offering the 16GB Kindle Scribe at 35% off, a $

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An Algorithm for a Better Bookshelf

news.ycombinator.com Erica Klarreich 2025-08-10 10:12:50

Drop in at a library, and you’ll likely notice that most shelves aren’t full—librarians leave some empty space on each shelf. That way, when they get new books, they can slot them into place without having to move too many other books. It’s a simple-enough idea, but one that arises in a host of settings in computer science that involve sorted data, such as an alphabetically ordered census repository, or a list of connections between members of a social network. In such situations, where the ent

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10 Best Chromebooks of 2025, Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-08-18 06:30:00

The price for Chromebooks can range wildly, from $150 up to $800, and therefore the specs can also vary. Processor: For the best experience, you should avoid older Chromebooks with Intel Celeron processors. The Chromebook Plus specifications offer a good baseline to guarantee speedy performance, and I’d recommend going with at least an Intel Core i3, Core i5, or AMD Ryzen 3 7000 processor. Just watch out for overspending on configurations with Intel Core i7 processors unless you need the extra

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Anthropic Shredded Millions of Physical Books to Train its AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-21 00:30:27

Today in schnozz-smashing on-the-nose metaphors for the AI industry's rapacious destruction of the arts: exactly how Anthropic gathered the data it needed to train its Claude AI model. As Ars Technica reports, the Google-backed startup didn't just crib from millions of copyrighted books, a practice that's ethically and legally fraught on its own. No — it cut the book pages out from their bindings, scanned them to make digital files, then threw away all those millions of pages of the original te

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Anthropic's AI Training on Books Is Fair Use, Judge Rules. Authors Are More Worried Than Ever

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-20 19:00:03

Claude maker Anthropic's use of copyright-protected books in its AI training process was "exceedingly transformative" and fair use, US senior district judge William Alsup ruled on Monday. It's the first time a judge has decided in favor of an AI company on the issue of fair use, in a significant win for generative AI companies and a blow for creators. Two days later, Meta won part of its fair use case. Fair use is a doctrine that's part of US copyright law. It's a four-part test that, when the

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Judge rejects Meta's claim that torrenting is “irrelevant” in AI copyright case

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-23 04:55:52

Now that Meta has largely beaten an AI training copyright lawsuit raised by 13 book authors—including comedian Sarah Silverman and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz—the only matter left to settle in that case is whether Meta violated copyright laws by torrenting books used to train Llama models. In an order that partly grants Meta's motion for summary judgment, judge Vince Chhabria confirmed that Meta and the authors would meet on July 11 to "discuss how to proceed on the plaintiffs’ sep

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Judge: Pirate libraries may have profited from Meta torrenting 80TB of books

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-23 18:46:52

Now that Meta has largely beaten an AI training copyright lawsuit raised by 13 book authors—including comedian Sarah Silverman and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz—the only matter left to settle in that case is whether Meta violated copyright laws by torrenting books used to train Llama models. In an order that partly grants Meta's motion for summary judgment, judge Vince Chhabria confirmed that Meta and the authors would meet on July 11 to "discuss how to proceed on the plaintiffs’ sep

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Judge rejects Meta’s claim that torrenting is “irrelevant” in AI copyright case

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-23 23:46:52

Now that Meta has largely beaten an AI training copyright lawsuit raised by 13 book authors—including comedian Sarah Silverman and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz—the only matter left to settle in that case is whether Meta violated copyright laws by torrenting books used to train Llama models. In an order that partly grants Meta's motion for summary judgment, judge Vince Chhabria confirmed that Meta and the authors would meet on July 11 to "discuss how to proceed on the plaintiffs’ sep

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Anthropic destroyed millions of physical books to train its AI, court documents reveal

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-08-24 19:51:00

WTF?! Generative AI has already faced sharp criticism for its well-known issues with reliability, its massive energy consumption, and the unauthorized use of copyrighted material. Now, a recent court case reveals that training these AI models has also involved the large-scale destruction of physical books. Buried in the details of a recent split ruling against Anthropic is a surprising revelation: the generative AI company destroyed millions of physical books by cutting off their bindings and d

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Got an old Kindle? How to resurrect it from the dead with fresh ebooks

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-08-25 07:53:00

Amazon / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Early 2025 was a tough time for Kindle fans. Also: The best Kindles of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed On Feb. 26, 2025, Amazon disabled the ability to download Kindle book files to your computer. While Kindle books will no longer be available for your old devices after next week, you can upload EPUB (with a workaround) and mobi files. Here's how to do that. Of course, it all starts with a story As a tech professional, there are many things I know beca

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Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-26 07:00:03

On Monday, court documents revealed that AI company Anthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude, an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT. In the process, the company cut millions of print books from their bindings, scanned them into digital files, and threw away the originals solely for the purpose of training AI—details buried in a copyright ruling on fair use whose broader fair use implications we reported yesterday. The 32-page legal decision tells the stor

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Judge OKs Anthropic's Use of Copyrighted Books in AI Training. That's Bad News for Creators

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-28 18:36:22

Anthropic's use of copyright-protected books in its AI training process was "exceedingly transformative" and fair use, US senior district judge William Alsup ruled on Monday. It's the first time a judge has decided in favor of an AI company on the issue of fair use, in a significant win for generative AI companies and a blow for creators. Fair use is a doctrine that's part of US copyright law. It's a four-part test that, when the criteria is met, lets people and companies use protected content

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Netflix Games’ Squid Game: Unleashed announced for Chromebook

venturebeat.com Rachel Kaser 2025-09-01 03:00:00

Google announced today that it is bringing Squid Game: Unleashed, formerly exclusive to Netflix, to Chromebooks as well as large-screen Android devices. The 32-player multiplayer adaptation of the popular show, developed by Netflix Games studio Boss Fight Games, is set to launch on Chromebooks in the coming weeks. According to Google, it’ll launch with updated controls, keyboard and mouse support and graphics that take advantage of the Chromebook display. In an interview with GamesBeat, Marisol

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The cultural decline of literary fiction

news.ycombinator.com Owen Yingling 2025-09-01 07:00:09

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the “decline of the literary (straight) (white) male.” The marginal benefit provided by an additional take on this topic, some clever new angle walking the tightrope between edgy and politically correct, is rapidly approaching zero. The problem with these articles—and the discourse as a whole—is that none of them go far enough. There is an impassable chasm between the stardom of Mailer, Updike, McCarthy, DFW, Franzen, etc and whoever is getting fello

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Spotify's Audiobooks+ add-on is now available to some Premium subscribers

Spotify expands audiobook access to family plan members for the first time

What's happening to reading?

What's Happening to Reading?

Our biggest questions about ChromeOS and Android merging

NotebookLM now lets you chat with expert guides from top publishers, and Shakespeare - here's how

I hope Google doesn’t screw up these things when it merges Chrome OS into Android

NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, and others

Google’s curated AI ‘notebooks’ talk you through topics from parenting to Shakespeare

Google’s underrated AI tool just got a major upgrade with featured notebooks

NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic and others

The Kindle Scribe is a reader and note taker's dream device

Hungary's oldest library fighting to save 100k books from a beetle infestation

Google’s working on a Gemini tool for generating illustrated Storybooks (APK teardown)

The Kindle Scribe is a reader and note taker's dream (and it's $200 off for Prime Day)

Bookshop.org mocks Jeff Bezos wedding invite in anti-Prime Day promo

The Kindle Scribe is the e-reader for note takers I recommend (and on sale for Prime Day)

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Anthropic Shredded Millions of Physical Books to Train its AI

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Judge rejects Meta's claim that torrenting is “irrelevant” in AI copyright case

Judge: Pirate libraries may have profited from Meta torrenting 80TB of books

Judge rejects Meta’s claim that torrenting is “irrelevant” in AI copyright case

Anthropic destroyed millions of physical books to train its AI, court documents reveal

Got an old Kindle? How to resurrect it from the dead with fresh ebooks

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

Judge OKs Anthropic's Use of Copyrighted Books in AI Training. That's Bad News for Creators

Netflix Games’ Squid Game: Unleashed announced for Chromebook

The cultural decline of literary fiction

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