Author: Olsi
This month, Daniel Craig earned the best reviews of his career for Luca Guadagnino’s acclaimed drama Queer. But the veteran English actor has always had an interesting career, from his early roles in The Power of One and Tales from the Crypt to his more recent films like the Knives Out mysteries. A reconsideration of his filmography is, therefore, expected and warranted – not dismissing his revolutionary 15 years as James Bond but putting them in the context of the variegated career out of which they sprang. So prep those martinis (shaken or stirred) and sharpen those knives, as here…
We’re getting closer to Christmas, which means we’re going to start seeing a lot more markdowns on popular tech items like wireless earbuds and headphones. As a matter of fact, we came across this fantastic offer on some Beats buds earlier today: Right now, when you purchase the Beats PowerBeats Pro TWS Earbuds through Best Buy, you’ll only pay $130. At full price, this model sells for $200. We tested the Powerbeats Pro last fall, and reviewer Ryan Waniata praised the Pro for its top-shelf battery life, water resistance, and excellent sound quality. Why you should buy the Powerbeats Pro…
It’s that time of year again — time for Steam Replay. Similar to Xbox Year in Review and PlayStation Wrap-Up, Steam Replay 2024 looks back over your gameplay stats for the entire year, showing you what you’ve played, how long you’ve played it, and the feats you’ve accomplished along the way. As usual, Steam Replay runs through the end of the year, so if you want to view your Replay and unlock the exclusive Steam Replay 2024 badge, you’ll need to sign in soon. Thankfully, you can save your Steam Replay to your profile as a featured showcase, as well…
Threads is introducing a new way to reshare photos and videos on its social network. Instead of quote posting the original post and then adding commentary, Threads users will instead be able to click a new option, “Use Media,” allowing them to just reshare the photo or video directly to a new post where they can add their own text. The image or video will still be credited to the original poster, however. The feature was announced on Wednesday by Instagram head Adam Mosseri in a post on Threads. He noted that the new option would be a “quick, easy…
GPS tracking firm Hapn is exposing the names of thousands of its customers due to a website bug, The Tech Spot has learned. A security researcher alerted The Tech Spot in late November to customer names and affiliations — such as the name of their workplace — spilling from one of Hapn’s servers, which The Tech Spot has seen. Hapn, formerly known as Spytec, is a tracking company that allows users to remotely monitor the real-time location of internet-enabled tracking devices, which can be attached to vehicles or other equipment. The company also sells GPS trackers to consumers under its…
Successful tech companies follow a typical pattern: from product to platform where other startups build businesses on top of theirs. To spur that, they often launch a fund. Fast-growing social media site Bluesky, which now claims 25 million users, is on that path. On Wednesday it announced a new fund, with an initial $1 million warchest, run by open source and Python big wig Peter Wang. Bluesky, the decentralized social app from Jack Dorsey (though Dorsey left the Bluesky board in May), was launched five years ago and has really taken off as an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. The…
ChatGPT is coming to phones. No, not smartphones — landlines. Call 1-800-242-8478 (1-800-CHATGPT), and OpenAI’s AI-powered assistant will respond as of Wednesday afternoon. “[Our mission at] OpenAI is to make artificial general intelligence beneficial to all of humanity, and part of that is making it as accessible as possible to as many people as we can,” OpenAI chief product officer Kevin Weil said during a livestream. Today, we’re taking the next step and bringing ChatGPT to your telephone.” The experience is more or less identical to Advanced Voice Mode, OpenAI’s real-time conversational feature for ChatGPT — minus the multimodality. ChatGPT responds to the…
Microsoft-owned GitHub announced on Wednesday a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool, which will also now ship by default with Microsoft’s popular VS Code editor. Until now, most developers had to pay a monthly fee, starting at $10 per month, with only verified students, teachers, and open source maintainers getting free access. GitHub also announced that it now has 150 million developers on its platform, up from 100 million in early 2023. “My first project [at GitHub] in 2018 was free private repositories, which we launched very early in 2019,” GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke told…
