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David Snow reports via Cult of Mac: A new report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) shows Apple News+ growing its subscription rate about four times as fast as major news sites are. CIRP showed Apple increased its News+ subscriptions i… Continue reading Apple News+ Subscription Growth Blows Away Major Media Sites
In a press release today, the best music player of the 1990s announced that it’ll open up its source code to developers worldwide. “Winamp will open up its code for the player used on Windows, enabling the entire community to participate in its develop… Continue reading Winamp Is ‘Opening Up’ Its Source Code
When given the choice, pet parrots prefer to video-call each other instead of watch pre-recorded videos of other birds. Those are the findings from a new paper (PDF) set to appear next week at a conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Hawai… Continue reading Pet Parrots Prefer Live Video-Calls Over Watching Pre-Recorded Videos
Ben Schoon reports via 9to5Google: Google’s Arif Dikici confirmed on LinkedIn this week that Android is now using VideoLAN’s (the makers of VLC) “dav1d” software decoder to allow AV1 to work on more devices. This is now available on all devices running… Continue reading Android Gets a New Software-Based AV1 Decoder
Besides obvious technological advancements, early computers built by Apple differed in a major way from their modern analogs. Rather than relying on planned obsolescence as a business model, computers like …read more Continue reading Wozamp Turns Apple II Into Music Player
Longtime Slashdot reader jmv writes: After more than two years of work, Opus 1.5 is out. It brings many new features that can improve quality and the general audio experience through machine learning, while maintaining fully-compatibility with previous… Continue reading Opus 1.5 Gets a Serious Machine Learning Upgrade
Amazon Prime Video has cut Dolby Vision and Atmos support from their ad tier subscription. “That’s on top of the ads that Amazon injected into the service on January 29th,” reports The Verge. “Now, when you pay $2.99 a month to remove those ads, you ca… Continue reading Amazon Prime Video Drops Dolby Vision, Atmos Unless You Pay Extra
Amazon Prime Video has cut Dolby Vision and Atmos support from their ad tier subscription. “That’s on top of the ads that Amazon injected into the service on January 29th,” reports The Verge. “Now, when you pay $2.99 a month to remove those ads, you ca… Continue reading Amazon Prime Video Drops Dolby Vision, Atmos Unless You Pay Extra
Spotify has reached a new deal with star podcaster Joe Rogan that will allow his hit show to be distributed broadly. From a report: Rogan’s fresh deal, estimated to be worth as much as $250 million over its multiyear term, involves an upfront minimum g… Continue reading Joe Rogan Gets New Spotify Deal Worth Up To $250 Million
From ‘bae’ to ‘selfie’, and even ‘google’, there’s no shortage of words that have transcended their specific origin stories to achieve widespread use in the English language. And one of the most pervasive sources has been the Star Wars universe, even t… Continue reading Lightsaber lexicon: The monumental impact Star Wars has had on language