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‘The You You Are’ From Severance Is Real, and I Read It
Fans of Apple TV+’s Severance, your day is about to be improved: Apple has released eight chapters of The You You Are, the fictional self-help book by Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale that is central to the plot of the show. If you want to read it, you can even download it for free, or listen to the audiobook version, narrated…
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Have a Reading Backlog? Let AI Read to You
Summary Listening to articles while exercising or doing household chores is an ideal way to get through a reading backlog. Speechify or Matter apps can read articles to you, but note the subscription cost for natural sounding AI voices. Speechify can be used for free, if you can tolerate the robotic free voices. Getting through your reading backlog can be…
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Go Read This: The Verge’s favorite reads from all over the web
The internet is filled with awesome stuff to read, and there’s new awesome stuff to read being published every day! That’s the good news. The bad news is that finding the good stuff feels harder than ever. You either find your favorite writers or sources and check them religiously or just hope that the algorithm gods deliver you something you’ll…
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When the JFK Assassination Files Will Be Released and Where to Read Them
Among the panoply of executive orders signed by president Trump in his first week in office is a directive of special interest to conspiracy theorists: on Thursday, Trump directed the federal government to “present a plan to the President for the full and complete release of records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy,” as well as the…
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I read more books on my phone than ever before in 2024 — here’s why
There’s something about the end of the year that always puts me in a retrospective mood. One thing I’ve been considering is how I used technology over the last year — and that’s help me realized something about the way I read books these days. For years I avoided Kindles and e-readers in general, primarily out of the preference for…
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How to Read an EnergyGuide Label
Looking to buy an energy-efficient washing machine? These familiar yellow-and-black labels can help you make a good choice. Federal law requires retailers to provide EnergyGuide information for all models they sell. By Jennifer Cook EnergyGuide labels, those familiar yellow-and-black tags you see attached to many major appliances, have been around for more than 40 years. But that doesn’t mean consumers…
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The Best Way to Bypass a Paywall to Read an Article for Free Online
Over the past several years, countless websites have added paywalls. This means if you want to read their articles, you have to sign up and pay a monthly subscription fee. Some sites have a “metered” paywall—meaning you can read a certain number of articles for free before they ask for money—and others have a hard paywall, where you’ll have to…
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‘Sill’ Is the Best Way to Read Bluesky and Mastadon Links
I scroll through my Bluesky and Mastodon feeds every day and I sometimes grow tired of reading other people’s musings and opinions on everything. Some days, I just want to catch up on just the useful links in my timeline and Sill is a new tool that lets me do just that—you can think of Sill as an RSS feed…
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Can you read your manager’s emails via Copilot?
Microsoft has released a new collection of tools and a guide to fix security issues that have arisen around the way the company’s generative AI (genAI) Copilot assistant handles information. Namely, the tool’s indexing of an organization’s internal data can lead to the AI assistant sharing sensitive information when it shouldn’t. A Microsoft employee familiar with customer complaints tells Business Insider:…
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Why Having a Book-Shaped Phone Means I Read More Books
When many of us think of ebooks, we think of an Amazon Kindle eReader. But these days, there’s another portable piece of tech that is literally shaped like a book—the book-style foldable phone. I carry one in my pocket, and I’m now reading more than ever. A Book-Shaped Phone Feels Like Holding a Book Bertel King / How-To Geek We…
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