Substack’s Notes feature is getting more Twitter-like capabilities

April 16, 2024

Substack is adding new capabilities to its Twitter-like Notes feature that bring it more in-line with the social network now known as X. The company announced on Tuesday that users can now post videos directly to Notes in the Substack app and on the web. Users can now also embed Notes on external webpages. The […]

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WhatsApp is adding filters to easily find messages

April 16, 2024

For those who use WhatsApp more like an inbox, the app will now become more useful. WhatsApp on Tuesday announced a handful of new chat filters for the app to access certain types of messages easily: All, Unread, and Groups. The “All” filter is selected by default and shows you an unfiltered version of your […]

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Loft Labs brings power of virtualization to Kubernetes clusters

April 16, 2024

It may seem like a paradox to have virtualized Kubernetes clusters. They are, after all, an abstraction in themselves of virtual machines made popular by VMware in the early 2000s. Loft Labs saw a similar problem with resource utilization in Kubernetes clusters that VMware saw with server utilization, and has built a virtualization tool to […]

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Crossword answers revealed

April 16, 2024
Give up? Here’s the solution to the May/June 2024 crossword puzzle “Not that MIT.”

Amazon brings its “Amazon Live” shoppable video to Prime Video and Freevee

April 16, 2024

Amazon is trying to keep live shopping relevant with the launch of an “Amazon Live” FAST (free ad-supported TV) channel on Prime Video and Freevee. Previously only available as a feature on desktop, mobile, and Fire TV, the new live channel will give customers in the U.S. more ways to engage with interactive, shoppable content. […]

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Atlas shrugged: Boston Dynamics retires its hydraulic humanoid robot

April 16, 2024

Now that humanoids are all the rage in the robotics industry, Boston Dynamics on Tuesday officially retired theirs. The Hyundai-owned firm has always marched to the beat of its own drummer. Even so, it’s an odd decision as funding pours into the category by the hundreds of millions. Venturing an educated guess, I would say […]

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Amazon Music follows Spotify with an AI playlist generator of its own, Maestro

April 16, 2024

Spotify isn’t the only one to dabble with AI playlists — on Tuesday, Amazon announced it would do the same. Amazon Music is now testing Maestro, an AI playlist generator, allowing U.S. customers on both iOS and Android to create playlists using spoken or written prompts, which can even contain emojis. Amazon suggests that in […]

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