Hoards of celebs have their names tied to booze brands, but there isn’t a pairing that feels more authentic than the star of gritty hits like Shameless and Fargo and a great bottle of whiskey. Macy lives in Woody Creek, Colorado, just a stone’s throw from the distillery. The... Read more

If you still hold any notion that Google Chrome’s “Incognito mode” is a good way to protect your privacy online, now’s a good time to stop. Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” the company collected while users browsed the web using Incognito mode, according to documents... Read more

Join us in Atlanta on April 10th and explore the landscape of security workforce. We will explore the vision, benefits, and use cases of AI for security teams. Request an invite here. Apple researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence system that can understand ambiguous references to on-screen entities... Read more

Enlarge / An Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center under construction in Stone Ridge, Virginia, in March 2024. Amazon will spend more than $150 billion on data centers in the next 15 years. Getty Images Redis, a tremendously popular tool for storing data in-memory rather than in a database,... Read more

In an effort to cut costs, Sega announced that they will be laying off 240 staff across three subsidiary companies as well as selling Relic Entertainment to an external private investor. The job losses will be spread across three of Sega’s subsidiaries: Sega HARDLight (responsible for multiple Sonic The... Read more

Do we really need another day of hoaxes, when the internet is trying to fool us pretty much every other day of the year, too? Regardless, April Fools’ Day is here again, so it’s worth saying: Everything you read on April 1 that seems even the least bit weird... Read more

Streaming from a mix of AAC files from Apple Music on the iPhone 15 Pro, and both Qobuz and Spotify using the aptX compatible Sony Xperia 1 V, I was thoroughly entertained by the M40s. They’re balanced and surprisingly punchy, with a delicious low-end that I genuinely didn’t expect.... Read more

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Enlarge / Teams is being decoupled from the other Office apps worldwide, six months after Microsoft did the same thing for the EU. Microsoft/Andrew Cunningham Months after unbundling the apps in the European Union, Microsoft is taking the Office and Teams breakup worldwide. Reuters reports that Microsoft will begin... Read more

The cryptocurrency Ether (ETH) hits the one million validator milestone with 32 million Ether currently staked. This 32 million is valued at around $114 billion according to current market prices. According to one report on Cointelegraph “the network achieved a validator count of one million, with the 32 million ETH... Read more