Spotify Launches “Daylist” in New Markets and Languages

Online Tech Tips is reader-supported. We may earn a commission when you buy through links on our site. Learn more. Daylist is Spotify’s hyper-personalized and dynamic playlist uniquely modeled after a user’s momentary listening patterns. The entire premise of daylist is that since users are ever-changing, so should their playlists. The feature launched about a […]

For Subscribers: Celebrate 125 years of MIT Technology Review

We’re giving away 25 complimentary virtual (livestream) tickets to EmTech MIT, our flagship event on emerging technologies and trends. Winners will get a complimentary livestream ticket, that includes livestream access to the event on MIT campus from September 30 – October 1, 2024 plus on-demand access for three months after the event. You’ll hear from technology […]

Third-Party Products Causing Paint Peeling Issues on the Galaxy Z Fold6

Online Tech Tips is reader-supported. We may earn a commission when you buy through links on our site. Learn more. Some Galaxy Z Fold6 users report having the paint on their foldable phone come off, which is disappointing for a $1,900 flagship device. However, what many thought to be a manufacturing flaw is, according to […]

Google Rolls Out AI-Powered Meeting Notes for Google Meet

Online Tech Tips is reader-supported. We may earn a commission when you buy through links on our site. Learn more. Google Meet now has a personal note-taker powered by Gemini, Google’s generative artificial intelligence model. Dubbed “Take notes for me” or “Take notes with Gemini,” the feature automatically captures meeting notes and generates recaps. The […]

The Download: climate tipping point alarms, and AI’s vision of the 3028 Olympics

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The UK is building an alarm system for climate tipping points The news: The UK’s new moonshot research agency just launched an £81 million ($106 million) program to develop early warning systems to […]

The UK is building an alarm system for climate tipping points

The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) will announce today that it’s seeking proposals to work on systems for two related climate tipping points. One is the accelerating melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, which could raise sea levels dramatically. The other is the weakening of the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre, a huge current rotating counterclockwise […]

The Download: how to prove you’re human, and replacing the grid’s gas

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How “personhood credentials” could help prove you’re a human online As AI models become better at mimicking human behavior, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between real human internet users and sophisticated systems […]

The Download: Monkey names, and smart masks for health monitoring

The news: Do animals have names? It seems so, after new research appears to have discovered that small monkeys called marmosets “vocally label” their monkey friends with specific sounds. How they did it: The team used audio recorders and pattern-recognition software to analyze the animals’ high-pitched chirps and twitters. To prove they’d cracked the monkey […]