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Mastodon has announced it will add quote posts to the platform, and some other news.

Sharing our thinking and progress on bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon, with a goal to create a safe and respectful space for everyone.

Use Google Lens to search your screen within the Google app or Chrome on iOS. Plus, AI Overviews are coming to more Lens queries.

Google is rolling out new search gestures in the Chrome and Google iOS apps that allow users to highlight anything on their screen to quickly search for it.

This month, amidst the increasingly chaotic rumblings of the world in the news, I found myself looking for a new distraction. Since Civilization VII wasn’t out just yet, my eyes quickly turned to the vinyl record player that my partner and I had been storing in its cardboard box for months without ever taking the

Logic Pro for iPad supports many different file formats and sample rates for import.

Use instrument and audio patches in Logic Pro for iPad.

You can split an audio region such as a band recording into separate stems and use the individual stems in your projects.

Your Phone and Watch have a lot of data about you. I mean, like, a lot. Someone should really write a book all about the general issues for society that this raises. Yesterday I decided I wanted to take a look specifically at the health data on my iPhone. I’m not a huge user of the iPhone’s or the Apple Watch’s health features. I don’t use or subscribe to Apple Fitness+, for example. I’m not in any studies. But I do have a bathroom scale that records data and I allow the Watch to keep an eye on my activity. This means that, like so many people, I have grown to heartily detest the blandly affirming Californian inside those devices who periodically encourages me to take a walk, or stand up, or be mindful, and so forth.

You won’t have to import the Pomera D250. King Jim is bringing it to the US next month with a new keyboard layout and English updates.

The iPhone 15 Pro will get Visual Intelligence in a future software update, Apple representatives told John Gruber of Daring Fireball.

Amazon is making a big change to how it handles serving ebooks to those who have bought them from the Kindle store1. Starting on Feb. 26, it’s closing the “USB sideloading” hole t…

The ad-supported service is home to the biggest content library of any streamer. So why is Tubi still considered a social punching bag?

There have been two dominant narratives about the rise of misinformation and conspiracy theories in American public life. What we can, without prejudice, call the establishment narrative — put forward by dominant foundations, government agencies, NGOs, the mainstream press, the RAND corporation — holds that the misinformation age was launched by the Internet boom, the loss of media gatekeepers, new alternative sources of sensational information that cater to niche audiences, and social media.

A world of authentic, post-spin journalism: The dream Jon Stewart spent a decade making real is now America’s waking nightmare. What did he get so wrong?

And we’re all losing.

Dear Reader — A magazine is not a bundle of ideas. It’s a relationship: a deep ongoing collaboration between writers, editors, and readers. Earlier we gave you a look at one part of this picture: what it means to write for a living. Today we’d like to show you another side — our side. We do have a request to make: Can you help us meet an ambitious giving goal of $150,000 toward funding our talented staff next year? Write “Staff” on your donation memo and every dollar you contribute will be spent on staffing. But we also want to...

An introduction

Farewell to a friend of social harmony (1500–2000)

International relations, foreign policy, Russia, national security, technology and war

Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come.

Logic Pro for iPad Remix FX is a flexible multi-effect unit that combines several DJ-style effects, mainly for use in electronic music.

The flight simulator for the next generation

The flight simulator for the next generation