Spotify now lets everyone turn off videos in its app
The controls can be used to choose an audio-first experience on the app or a video-enhanced one, Spotify says.
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Instagram expands its movie inspired content restrictions for teens internationally
Instagram first debuted its movie rating inspired content settings in limited countries in 2025.
The Exit 8 movie is even better if you play the game first
There’s an intriguing new video game adaptation to watch in theaters – and no, it’s not that one. Exit 8, based on the game of the same name, hits the big screen on April 10th, and it’s part of a burgeoning trend of horror movies directly inspired by indie games and liminal scares on YouTube. […]
Waymo is offering to help cities fix their potholes
In recent months, some cities have sought a new recruit in their forever war against potholes: Waymo. Municipal officials in multiple cities where Waymo operates have reached out to the robotaxi operator for help in locating potholes on their streets, assuming that Waymo kept such data. Fortunately for them, Waymo does, and it has recently […]
Waymo robotaxis are tracking potholes and sharing that data with Waze users
Two Alphabet-owned businesses are teaming up to find potholes and share that information with cities.
Radify’s sci-fi plasma reactors could break China’s dominance of rare earth elements
Radify Metals is developing a new way to process a variety of metals that promises to be pollution free.
This founder helped build SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now he’s building a ‘fighter jet for orbit’
The company’s novel rocket engine could be a game changer for the U.S. military.
Amazon’s Starlink competitor Leo gets a new date
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company’s space-internet service Leo (formerly known as Project Kuiper) will “launch in mid-2026.” I’m going to assume that means proper commercial availability since the company already announced the start of an “enterprise preview” at the end of 2025, when the service was supposed to originally launch. Unlike SpaceX’s Starlink […]
Ex-Tesla engineer’s startup taps Pronto to help automate a copper mine
Pronto’s autonomous haulage trucks are about to start operating at Mariana Minerals’s Utah copper mine — the first such deal since Pronto got acquired by Travis Kalanick’s Atoms Inc.