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Spotify CEO confirms a ‘deluxe’ version with hi-fi audio is coming soon

Daniel Ek says the add-on will bring Spotify’s monthly subscription to around $17 or $18. Aside from better audio, customers can expect ‘a lot more control.’

Amazon’s paid Alexa is coming to fill a $25 billion hole dug by Echo devices

The new AI Alexa could arrive as soon as this month, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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You can now stream Major League Baseball (in the US) for $6 a month.

“For the first time, U.S. subscribers can stream MLB Network 24/7 including select out-of-market games,” writes MLB. It’s $5.99 a monthor $6.99 to bundle live audio for every MLB team.

For football, NFL Plus costs $6.99 a month. Basketball is $14.99 a season for NBA League Pass, though the 2025-2026 season will now come to Amazon Prime Video as well.


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AI laptop stickers have arrived to ruin your day.

Look, I know unsightly stickers on Windows laptops have been with us since long ago when “Intel Inside” was something people actually wanted boast about. But come on, HP.


A close-up of a sticker on the deck of an HP OmniBook X laptop, advertising AI features.
Yes, I know it’s meant to be removed. It’s still too large and thirsty.
Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge
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Elon Musk says he’ll fight Mark Zuckerberg “any place, any time, any rules.”

Musk famously challenged the Meta CEO to a cage match last year that Zuckerberg agreed to but never happened.

Now, more than a year later, a reporter from Fox News got Musk to say today that he’s again open to fighting — this time on Zuckerberg’s terms.


CrowdStrike and Microsoft: all the latest news on the global IT outage

A global IT outage grounded flights and resulted in outages at the London Stock Exchange and other systems early Friday morning.

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It takes one to know one?

The New York Times profiled the guy who ran Silk Road 2.0 — apparently after eight months in prison he worked for the feds as “a full-time, ankle-monitor-wearing cybercrime consultant, paid in freedom and a stipend that covered dollar pizza slices, toothpaste and subway rides.”

Now he’s shilling his crypto compliance startup, arguing that “his criminal experience can help unmask fraud before it leads to another scam like FTX.”


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Threads is testing a new “Your feeds” feature.

Spotted by Radu Oncescu, it lets you view custom feeds from your homepage in the mobile app (as you already can on the redesigned desktop app), so you can easily access posts you’ve saved, liked, and filtered only to show posts by people you’re following.


Simulated screenshot of the Threads app with a UI in testing showing different feeds.
Image: Radu Oncescu
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Go ahead, take that nap.

Fitbit published a study in Nature Medicine using 6.5 million nights of sleep data from users that shows that sleep quality impacts long term health. In a nutshell, the worse your sleep quality, the more likely you are to have conditions like sleep apnea, obesity, migraines, high blood pressure, etc. You get it.

I won’t blame you for thinking “Duh” but this stuff can be helpful for researchers as it gives hard data to what we already know.


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Dua Lipa’s Macan EV ad takes the Porsche to some new places.

The star takes the electric SUV through a cinematic montage of situations to the sounds of Training Season — while explaining how she’d direct a Porsche commercial in ways that “Porsche guys” wouldn’t.

A new approach to marketing the Macan makes sense, considering recent Taycan sales numbers ahead of that SUV’s impending refresh.


Apple’s Sunny imagines a cozy future where screens fade into the background

The murder mystery was a chance for showrunner Katie Robbins to imagine a different kind of sci-fi vision.

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T-Mobile is set to acquire the fiber internet provider Metronet.

T-Mobile is creating a joint venture with the investment firm KKR to acquire Metronet, a service that provides fiber internet to over 2 million homes and businesses in 17 states.

As part of the deal, T-Mobile will invest $4.9 billion for a 50 percent stake in the joint venture and all of Metronet’s residential customers. In April, T-Mobile announced plans to acquire the fiber optic company Lumos as well.


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The next Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box will support 8K.

A year after the first images leaked, more details on the next version were revealed by an Italian retailer, according to HueBlog.com.

The Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box 8K will support HDMI 2.1 allowing it to analyze both 8K and 4K content at 120Hz, up from just 60Hz, previously. It’s expected to arrive in mid-September for €262.49, or around $285.


The Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box 8K next to its packaging.
An upgraded version of the Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box is expected in mid-September.
Image: Philips

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The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 is a great phone that’s out of ideas

Samsung’s flagship foldable is as good as ever, but it feels anything but fresh.