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Spotify is expanding its push into the book world with the launch of Audiobook Charts in the United States and the United Kingdom, introducing a new way for users to track the most popular and fast-rising titles on the platform. Spotify’s newly announced Charts funtions is similar to the service’s existing music and podcast rankings. Updated weekly, they highlight top audiobooks overall as well as leading titles across genres, with placements determined by listener engagement and consumption data. Spotify bets charts can turn browsing into listening Focuses on the platform strategy behind surfacing trending titles Credit: Spotify Available to both…

I’ve mostly lived in the Apple ecosystem, so CarPlay has always been my default in the car. My iPhone connects instantly. Everything looks familiar, and I don’t have to think much about it. It’s quite comfortable for me. But because my partner uses an Android phone, there are days when Android Auto ends up taking over the dashboard instead. That’s exactly where my mixed feelings began. The older version of Android Auto never fully won me over. It wasn’t bad, but it didn’t feel polished or particularly cohesive. The layout felt slightly weird, and the experience wasn’t as fluid as…

Your TV has multiple HDMI ports for a reason. And no, it’s not just to give you more places to plug things in. In most cases, those identical-looking HDMI ports have different capabilities. Some are better suited for handling streaming and gaming, while others are more suited for audio devices, such as the soundbar. Now the thing is, even if you plug everything in without paying attention, your setup will work just fine. But you might not be getting the best your TV has to offer. That’s why you must understand how HDMI ports are different and how you can…

The good news is you don’t need a lab, a soldering station, or even the mythical spare keyboard and mouse to get real value out of a Raspberry Pi 3B+. With just a TV, HDMI cable, a micro-USB power device, an SD card, and a wired gamepad, you can knock out genuinely useful projects in a single weekend without turning your living room into a hacker cave. There is a very specific kind of guilt that comes from owning a perfectly functional Raspberry Pi that currently lives in a drawer doing absolutely nothing except quietly judging you. And yet… here…

If you’re in the mood to watch a detective show on Netflix, you have plenty of options, some of them extremely good. But there’s also a chaff amongst the wheat. Netflix is in the business of producing a lot of original content — the sheer volume is one of the best things about it, since you’ll never run out of things to watch — but a lot of that content can be on the trashy or unremarkable side. Sometimes, it pays to look beyond Netflix originals. There’s one detective show available to watch on Netflix right now that blows most…

When it comes to streaming devices, there are about four or five in the marketplace that have built up their brands well enough that the majority of people know about them. Google ceased production of its Chromecast lineup and replaced it with the Google TV Streamer. The NVIDIA Shield is another option for users, as is the Walmart Onn 4K Pro. But the three biggest players in the space are the Roku streaming devices, Apple TV 4K, and the Amazon Fire TV Stick. All of these products have different features that make them unique. All of them have also made…

I recently bought a shiny LG TV that I’ve been wanting to get for a long time. I assumed that my new TV would give me the best possible audio and video quality right out of the box. So, I didn’t change any settings for the first few days. I soon realized that not all TVs offer the best performance settings by default. I started noticing that colors did not look their best, the screen gets brighter randomly, and the overall picture quality did not look sharp. Then I decided to dig into the settings. After spending around 20 to…

Streaming today feels abundant, until you realize how much is actually missing. You open an app like Netflix or Amazon Prime to watch a show everyone is talking about, only to find it’s not available in your region. Again. Trust me, I struggled with the same frustration for the longest time, but not anymore. I’ve finally found a DNS solution that not only unlocks geo-restricted content on my TV, but does so without affecting streaming speeds or turning a movie night into a buffering nightmare. Smart DNS Proxy gives you the best of both worlds More content, same speeds Pankil…

ChatGPT is undoubtedly a conversational chatbot. But it also comes with the power of “vision.” They aren’t humanoids yet, but they are multimodal, as they can process and generate multiple types of data. This includes the ability to read screenshots. As ChatGPT can read and interpret images, it doesn’t just extract text, but can understand intent and come back with different layouts and context. I have found using screenshots, the “hidden shortcut” to getting high-quality results from ChatGPT. While text is great, images provide spatial context, auto-formatting, and are great for grabbing unselectable data that a copy-paste job simply can’t…

I use Plex all the time. My partner uploads content like movies to our personal media server, accessible through the Apple TV app. We also have access to libraries from friends who share theirs so I can watch the content they have. We have the lifetime subscription, which affords the ability to stream content, download offline, and more. Meanwhile, friends can download the Plex app, get an invite for our server, and access our content. But Plex offers much more than that, including free streaming that anyone can access without paying a dime, needing an invite, or even signing up.…