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How Energy-Generating Sidewalks Work

We walk here, we walk there, we walk everywhere. Maybe you’re headed to work or to lunch in a busy city. You’re expending energy, and the exercise is good for you. But what if, on top of that, we could recapture all that freely supplied energy and convert it to usable electricity? This is a real thing. Systems have been installed in dozens of countries. Check out this video. And why stop there? You could put them in discotheques and harness that fancy footwork to power the strobe lights. Or bui

Apple Music Now Lets You Transfer Playlists From Spotify. Why You May Want To

Apple Music app customers have a new feature, though not many know it exists. Apple Music subscribers can now grab songs or playlists from other music platforms, notably Spotify, and bring them to Apple. The ability to transfer music from other music services is buried in the Music App settings. Initially tested in Australia and New Zealand last year, this transfer option has now been rolled out to the US, UK, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany and several other countries. It's powered by the Song

Auk Mini Review: Start Your Own Seeds, Scandinavian Style

In my ongoing quest to put as many of the popular indoor hydroponic garden systems as I can through their paces, I have noticed something irritating. Many, if not most, of these systems require—or at minimum, strongly suggest—ordering proprietary seed pods, inserts, or capsules from the company itself. You can jury-rig, of course, but usually at your own hassle and failure risk. If you order through the companies, not only can the excess packaging be wasteful, the costs add up quickly (competit

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The Home Depot Deals During the 2025 Decor Days Sales Event

The end of summer is when our aspirations move indoors—where we will soon spend most of our time. It's when you notice the couch looks sad. And that you'll need a new lamp for the dark days to come. It's also when you can catch some killer sales on home decor—and I'm a sucker for a deal, too. Specifically, home improvement megalith The Home Depot is offering some of its biggest online deals of the year during its Decor Days savings event, September 18 to 21. This means offers up to half off on

macOS Tahoe just made hotspotting to your iPhone easier than ever

If you want a Mac with built-in cellular, Apple hopefully has a solution coming soon. In the meantime though, macOS Tahoe has an upgrade that makes connecting to your iPhone via hotspot easier than ever. Your Mac can now connect to hotspot automatically in macOS Tahoe Personal hotspot is one of those iPhone and Mac features that, when it works, can feel like magic. But when it doesn’t, it’s all the more frustrating. Fortunately, Apple has made hotspotting more reliable in recent years. And no

macOS Tahoe 26 now available, here’s what to test first

While iOS may have taken much of the spotlight during the beta season since WWDC25, macOS Tahoe 26 packs multiple welcome features in the update rolling out right now across the world. Here’s what’s new. Liquid Glass Yes, the system looks different, but not as dramatically different as iOS 26. You will notice that much of the Liquid Glass looks stuck to the Dock, app icons, the new Control Center, the App Switcher, and Desktop widgets while the rest of the system adopted a more muted, frostie

Apple MacOS Tahoe 26: Top New Features to Try Today

Photograph: Luke Larsen If you use a Mac every day like I do, though, a lot of the smaller changes are what give it its distinctly fresh feeling. The icons are what you'll notice first, which is right where the controversy begins. The iconic (heh) Finder icon has, indeed, been tampered with—though they haven't been flipped like in the original concept. The colors are slightly different, though, and there's a nice, modern border around it to match the other icons. The corner radius on nearly ev

Spotify's free tier just got a major upgrade - here's what's new

Anadolu/Contributor/Anadolu via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Spotify is upgrading its free tier with several new features. The features give you more control over how you listen to songs. Users will start to see the new options today. Less than a week after debuting long-awaited lossless audio and a few weeks after adding direct message capability, Spotify is rolling out some more good news. This time, it's for free users. In an announc

Spotify’s free users can finally play the songs they want

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Spotify has removed restrictions that prevented free users from listening to specific tracks. With Lossless audio now finally rolling out to paying subscribers, the music streaming service has announced that it’s also allowing non-paying listeners to search, play, and share any song they want, without having to upgrade to a Premium subscription. The update is being rolled out globally and addresses one of t

Spotify Free now lets you play a specific track on demand

Spotify Free comes with enough limitations that the company hopes it will persuade you to upgrade to a premium subscription. But one of the four limits is being removed from today … Unlike Apple Music, which offers paid subscriptions only (aside from a limited free trial), Spotify offers the choice of free and premium subscriptions. Spotify Free has so far had four major drawbacks: Interruptions from ads Lower audio quality Limited ability to skip unwanted tracks Shuffle-only playback on m

Free Spotify users can finally listen to any track immediately

There must be something in the water at Spotify HQ. Less than a week after delivering long-promised lossless audio, the company has another treat. Free listeners can finally listen to any track they want. After enhancing Premium, perhaps Spotify figured it could add a free perk without shedding subscribers. Spotify accounts on the free plan can now choose any track and immediately listen to it. Previously, that was paywalled for Premium subscribers. Non-paying ones had to shuffle through an alb

Spotify Free's Upgrade Lets You Pick Any Song You Want

Music streaming service Spotify is rolling out improvements to its free music tier, including the new ability to listen to any song you want, and this follows the company granting Premium users access to lossless streams. The company outlined three new ways ad-supported users can now access the specific song they want to listen to without shuffling: Pick & Play to choose any song from the interface, including your library; Search & Play to use the app's search function; and Share & Play to list

Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks

Following its long-awaited launch of lossless streaming for paid subscribers, Spotify is upgrading its service for free users, too. On Monday, the company announced that free users globally will now be able to search and play any song they want or play a song shared by a friend or an artist they follow on social media. The company calls the new features “Pick & Play,” “Search & Play,” and “Share & Play,” respectively. With the former, free users can hit play in the Spotify app to pick and play

Spotify Would Prefer You Didn’t Sell Your Own Data for Profit

Spotify has never been shy about the fact that the massive amount of user data it collects is a major part of its secret sauce, from its user-specific Discover Weekly playlist to the annual event that is Spotify Wrapped. But the company, which does everything it can to lock people into long listening sessions and sells ads based on user data, would really prefer it if you didn’t bottle up that sauce and resell it for your own profit. According to a report from Ars Technica, a set of users did ju

Spotify Lossless is an inconvenient improvement

If you listen to music the way a lot of people do these days — with a pair of wireless earbuds, from a Bluetooth speaker, or just blaring directly out of your phone — you will never notice a difference between Spotify’s high-quality 320Kbps streams and its lossless audio. But, if you usually listen with wired headphones while working at your desk, or have a quality speaker from the likes of Bose that supports Spotify Connect, there actually is something to be gained here. Comparing Spotify’s no

NASA Says This Martian Rock Holds Potential Signs of Life. Here’s What Must Happen Next

For four years, NASA’s Perseverance rover has searched for possible signs of ancient life on the surface of Mars. It has found myriad interesting features in its travels, including a rock with strange spots, discovered inside Mars’ Jezero Crater. Dubbed “Cheyava Falls,” the 2024 discovery immediately caught the attention of scientists on Earth, as its spots indicated it may hold a potential biosignature—a sign of life. The rover went to work. The bot analyzed the rock’s composition and surface

Spotify Lossless ‘rolling out gradually’ four years after Apple Music upgraded entire library

In the four years since Apple Music upgraded its entire music catalog to lossless overnight, Spotify has been just around the corner from catching up. Starting today, Spotify is taking the very first steps toward making that actually happen. Premium subscribers will receive a push notification from the Spotify app when lossless support becomes available. So what took so long? Here’s what Spotify says. “The wait is finally over; we’re so excited lossless sound is rolling out to Premium subscrib

Perseverance Rover Finds Potential Sign of Ancient Life in Martian Rock

Today, NASA officials unveiled intriguing new findings from “Sapphire Canyon,” the 25th geological sample collected by the Perseverance Mars rover. This rock core has captivated scientists ever since Perseverance extracted it in July 2024, as it may help them determine if microbial life ever existed on the Red Planet. Now, NASA has revealed that the initial analysis of the Sapphire Canyon sample could not rule out a biological origin for its distinctive features. “This very well could be the cl

Lossless Audio Finally Arrives for Spotify Premium Subscribers. Here's How to Enable It

Lossless audio, a format that Spotify says has been much-requested by subscribers over the years, is finally arriving on the streaming service. In a post, the company says that 24-bit/44.1kHz FLAC audio will now be an option for premium subscribers in select markets "across nearly every song available in Spotify." Subscribers will have the option to adjust music quality as Low, Normal, High, Very High and now Lossless, with the option to see how much data each tier requires. In addition to wo

Spotify lossless streaming is finally here and it's included with a Premium plan

Stop me if you've heard this one before: over a half-decade of rumors, infrequent teases and affirmations that something is on the way, only for fans to impatiently bide their time and the thing to eventually arrive with very little advance warning. No, I'm not talking about Hollow Knight: Silksong this time. Spotify is finally rolling out a lossless option that offers higher-quality music streaming. Best of all, the company is offering it to Premium members at no extra charge. You'll get a not

Spotify's long-awaited lossless music is finally here - how to enable it today

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Lossless audio is coming to Spotify. Lossless audio offers a more accurate and dynamic sound. The feature is slowly rolling out to all users with a paid plan. In 2021, Spotify teased the idea of a high-fidelity tier (hi-fi tier) that would offer lossless audio quality. Unfortunately, licensing issues caused the plan to be put on the back burner. Also: This new Spotify feature almost ma

YouTube Music didn’t learn from Spotify’s mistake, tries to paywall lyrics

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube Music is experimenting with paywalling lyrics for its free users. The company is limiting the number of free lyrics views before prompting users to upgrade to a Premium account. This move is similar to what Spotify did, a change it eventually reversed after user backlash. Spotify and YouTube Music are reasonably competitive in their features, with each service having some nice extras. Spotify Connect is a lifesaver if you have multiple devices, wh

Spotify finally rolls out Lossless audio — here’s how to turn it on

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify’s long-awaited lossless audio tier is now gradually rolling out to Premium subscribers. The feature, simply called Lossless, streams in up to 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC. It is recommended to stream lossless music on Wi-Fi using either wired headphones or speakers on a non-Bluetooth connection. Spotify announced its “HiFi” lossless tier in February 2021, but the feature never arrived — until now. Literally years after the first announcement, Spotify is

Spotify adds lossless streaming after 8 years of teasing

It’s been a long time coming but Spotify is finally getting lossless audio. Rumors have been circulating about a high-fidelity offering since as early as 2017. In 2021, Spotify claimed it was “coming later this year.” And by May of 2024 it was “almost ready.” So, when rumors started picking up again in June of this year, they were met with skepticism, especially amid announcements over the launch of features nobody was asking for, like direct messaging. Well, it’s here. For real. And there’s so

This Bizarre Fish Has 8 Rows of Forehead Teeth It Uses During Sex

Spotted ratfish are scaleless, rabbit-faced deep-sea fish, about two feet (61 centimeters) long, and native to the northeastern Pacific Ocean. As if that wasn’t a strange enough description, these distant shark cousins also feature teeth on their foreheads. While a number of marine animals, such as sharks, rays, and whale sharks, have external tooth-like structures called denticles, it turns out the spotted ratfish’s toothy features are straight-up true teeth, as true as the ones in your mouth.

Spotify’s music recommendations stink. Here’s how I made them better

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority I am a snob when it comes to music choices. I have spent countless hours in my teenage years arguing with strangers on the internet that Megadeth is overrated, or defending Nickelback from being smeared as the worst rock band ever. Now, while I’ve realized I have been wrong in imposing my music choices on others, I still maintain a high level of scrutiny when deciding which music tracks will remain in my Spotify playlists. Yes, I rely on Spotify as one of my go

New book explores the courtroom wars against Apple’s App Store rules

Avid 9to5Mac readers know that it is getting increasingly harder to have a day go by and not come across a post about a new (or old) lawsuit trying to challenge, dismantle, or overturn Apple’s App Store rules. Now, a new book out later this month pieces some of the biggest battles together in one place. In iWAR: Fortnite, Musk, Spotify and the Siege of Apple, Wall Street Journal business columnist Tim Higgins sets out to tell the story of “how Apple became the world’s most valuable company,” us

Spotify’s new ‘smart filters’ let you screen library content by activity, genre, or mood

Spotify is giving users more ways to personalize what they hear. The company is launching a new feature that allows users to filter their library by specific activities, moods, or genres. These filters can also be used to find playlists, or, to some extent, audiobooks and podcasts, and can even kick off a new session on Spotify’s AI DJ. The smart filters, which began rolling out on Friday, will first be made available to Premium subscribers on mobile devices and tablets in select markets, inclu

Spotify’s new ‘smart filters’ let you screen library content by activity, genre or mood

Spotify is giving users more ways to personalize what they hear. The company is launching a new feature that allows users to filter their library by specific activities, moods, or genres. These filters can also be used to find playlists, or, to some extent, audio books and podcasts, and can even kick off a new session on Spotify’s AI DJ. The smart filters, which began rolling out on Friday, will first be made available to Premium subscribers on mobile devices and tablets in select markets, incl

First look: Dyson’s Spot+Scrub Ai robot seeks out stains

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Dyson Spot+Scrub Ai Robot is the company’s first combination robot vacuum and mop. It debuted at Dyson’s Berlin store during the IFA tech show this week and is a follow-up to the company’s 360 VisNav robot vacuum, which launched i