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Spotify’s new Taste Profile feature lets users fine-tune their algorithm’s recommendations

You’re responsible for your own Spotify algorithm now. On stage at SXSW, Spotify’s co-CEO, Gustav Söderström, announced the Taste Profile feature, which allows users to personally customize exactly what they want to listen to, whether it’s music, audiobooks or podcasts….

Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro review: the top choice for your Galaxy phone

Samsung promised “more than a design refresh” for its new top-end Galaxy Buds – it added upgraded woofers for improved, dual-amped hi-fi sound, a new blade design, clearer call performance, and better noise cancellation. Ultimately, while the $249.99 Galaxy Buds…

US Army announces contract with Anduril worth up to $20B

The U.S. Army said late Friday that it has signed a 10-year contract with defense tech startup Anduril. The deal could be worth up to $20 billion. According to the announcement, the contract starts with a five-year “base period,” with…

Razer Boomslang 20th Anniversary Mouse Review: For Collectors

The original Boomslang came from the era of Xbox’s bulky Duke controller. We had just barely made it past the N64’s beloved three-pronged abomination. At a time when “ergonomics” was a novel idea to be explored instead of a defined…

Single-celled organism with no brain is capable of Pavlovian learning

Stentor coeruleus is a single-celled organism with unexpected abilities MELBA PHOTO AGENCY / Alamy A simple unicellular organism with no brain or neurons seems capable of an advanced form of learning. The simplest form of learning, known as habituation, is…

The best eReaders for 2026, tested and reviewed

Sign Up For Goods Product news, reviews, and must-have deals. An eReader is more than a convenient way to carry an entire library on an airplane. Today’s eReader screens are stunning, with sharp text that looks just like real ink…

Scientists discover ALS protein that links DNA repair to cancer and dementia

Researchers at Houston Methodist have discovered that a protein tied to neurodegenerative conditions such as dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) also helps control a critical DNA repair process. This repair system, known as DNA mismatch repair, corrects mistakes that…

ByteDance has reportedly suspended the global rollout of its new AI video generator

A month after Seedance 2.0’s launch in China sparked cease-and-desist letters from Disney and Paramount Skydance over its use of copyrighted materials, its developer ByteDance has reportedly hit pause on the release of the AI video tool in other regions….

Trump administration is collecting $10 billion on the TikTok deal

In September, Donald Trump claimed that “the United States is getting a tremendous fee” for brokering the TikTok deal. Now sources tell the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times that fee is expected to be in the range…

The MacBook Neo is ‘the most repairable MacBook’ in years, according to iFixit

Apple’s new MacBook Neo isn’t just the most affordable MacBook by far — it’s also the most repairable MacBook in “about fourteen years,” according to an in-depth teardown by how-to website iFixit. The “big story,” in iFixit’s view, is the…