Lossless is clearly better than a normal Spotify stream, but improvements over “high quality” audio are subtle.
Apple’s lens math doesn’t add up.
After Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) called out Roblox for allegedly hosting a game referencing Kirk’s slaying, CEO David Baszucki said its policies “prohibit content and behavior that re-enacts specific real world violent or sensitive events.” Several lawmakers have pressured platforms to remove posts making light of Kirk’s death.
We aren’t your friends, and you’ll never be alone again.
A teen died by suicide after being convinced to send explicit messages to someone he met on Roblox, who turned out to likely be an adult, The New York Times reports. Now, his mom is suing the platform for allegedly failing to provide adequate guardrails, hoping to overcome Section 230.
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The Environmental Protection Agency wants to stop collecting data on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other polluting sites. The proposed rule change comes as the Trump administration attempts to get rid of the agency’s ability to regulate planet-heating pollution at all.
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If you liked what the previous games have done, you sure are getting exactly more of that.
The app had an outage this morning, leaving many users staring at an unread count, even after reading all their messages. Slack reports it’s fixed, but if your app is still stuck, hitting CMD + Shift + R (Mac) or CTRL + Shift + R (Windows) to force refresh should clear things up.
The full Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy is going to be multiplatform, Square Enix says. The company still hasn’t revealed when the third game might come out, but now I’m curious if it won’t be a PlayStation exclusive at launch like the first two games were.
Apple’s thinnest iPhone yet, its most capable wearables, its best AirPods Pro, and a lot more.
Yao Shunyu left OpenAI for the Chinese gaming and messaging company, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. It’s yet another sign of how the AI talent wars are intensifying — both stateside and between the U.S. and China.
The update was announced last year with a 2025 release window, but anonymous developer LocalThunk wants to avoid crunching on the update, he says in a blog post. “I have never, before Balatro, set a deadline for any of my creative projects and I now realize how important that is for my process.”
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The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack.
Every Friday, Spotify will release “The Drop,” where its editors highlight the latest in music in a series of scrollable, vertical video clips. You can find the new series on the app’s homepage or by searching “The Drop Weekly.”
The company’s success in the space hinges on whether it can continue to push the category forward.
Nintendo Today was updated to version 2.0 today with a new Kirby theme and exclusive content for the Nintendo Live 2025 event in Tokyo. But it will only be accessible at the event using an inaudible sound broadcasted at the venue the app will listen for to verify attendance.
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Nintendo has decided to give us all a welcome break from doomscrolling with its latest Direct livestream, which is happening very soon at 9AM ET. It’ll last around an hour, and you can watch it either via the YouTube embed below, or through Nintendo’s news app.
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“Live translation with AirPods is not available if you are in the EU and your Apple account country or region is also in the EU,” reads the Apple support page. According to Politico, Apple is blaming DMA’s interoperability requirement for the limitation.
