Spotify says yesterday’s launch of its annual year-in-review feature, Spotify Wrapped, was its biggest ever. The streaming service reports that Wrapped 2025 saw over 200 million engaged users within the first 24 hours, 19% more than last year’s AI-centered flop. Last year, it took Wrapped 62 hours to reach 200 million users, the company noted. … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Surrounded by kick-boxing, piano-playing humanoid robots at a high-tech fair in Shenzhen last month, some tech influencers were asking: can the west catch up with China? That question would have sounded absurd two decades ago, … Read more
Rachel Kitchin, senior corporate climate campaigner at environmental campaign non-profit Stand Earth, is excited by the deal between Nike and Syre, and others of its kind. Its annual Fossil-Free Fashion Scorecard, which ranks global fashion companies on their efforts to phase out fossil fuels, puts a 20% score weighting on low-carbon and longer lasting materials, … Read more
First Look Photos: Spoiler Pics For The Week Of May 27 – Soap Opera Digest Use left and right arrow keys to navigate between menu items. Use escape to exit the menu. Sign In Sign InUp with your social account Continue with Google Continue with Amazon Continue with Apple We won’t post to any of … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Breaking Bad star Dean Norris and The Purge series actress Jessica Garza are among cast in supernatural horror-comedy Dubbels. Production has recently wrapped on location in the Catskill Mountains of New York with cast also including Marié Botha (The Penguin) and Zak Corrigan (Junction). Jonathan Cruz, Jordan Mann, Steele Whitney, and Jessica Gibbons round out the ensemble. Writer-director Paul Marashlian … Read more
Proton has added a new privacy-focused spreadsheet app to its productivity suite to tempt users over from Google and Microsoft’s platforms. The new Proton Sheets tool provides real-time collaboration features and end-to-end encryption, according to Proton’s announcement, “ensuring that no one else, not even Proton, can access your spreadsheet and the information it contains.” A … Read more
Maximal extractable value (MEV) refers to the economic value diverted from users by block builders through the manipulation of transaction ordering. The most harmful type of MEV are sandwich attacks, where an attacker simultaneously frontruns and backruns a victim’s swaps. This gives the victim a suboptimal execution price while the attacker pockets a spread. Most … Read more
How do you top a highly detailed scale model of NASA’s new moon-bound rocket and its support tower? If you’re Lego, you make it so it can actually lift off. Lego’s NASA Artemis Space Launch System Rocket, part of its Technic line of advanced building sets, will land on store shelves for $59.99 on January … Read more
I’m convinced that whoever said it’s about the journey, not the destination, has never traveled. Try sitting on a plane for 16 hours — plus delays, airport security, and a snoring seat neighbor — and then get back to me. While getting from point A to point B can feel like a test of endurance, … Read more
When she launched CY Kitchen—a catering and caviar outfit in New York City that quickly became a fashion event fixture—she instinctively displayed her caviar alongside silver wares. Her customizable Golden Ossetra tins soon became a fixture at brand dinners and art-world fêtes; last year, Saks Fifth Avenue even dispatched them to editors as its holiday … Read more