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Netflix earned $1.5 billion from ads in 2025
Netflix’s advertising business more than doubled its advertising revenue to $1.5 billion from 2024 to 2025 — and it’s on track to keep growing. “We expect that [advertising] business to…
Spotify is testing a feature that syncs audiobooks with paper editions
Spotify appears to be working on a novel feature that will allow audiobook listeners to pick up where they left off in the physical book. Android Authority reports that version…
OpenAI’s 2026 ‘focus’ is ‘practical adoption’
OpenAI plans to focus on “practical adoption” of AI in 2026, according to a blog post from CFO Sarah Friar. As the company spends a huge amount of money on…
Asus may have made its last phone
Asus chairman Jonney Shih told Taiwan’s Inside that the company is done making phones for now, marking the end of its Zenfone and ROG Phone lines. “Asus will no longer…
You need to listen to the cosmic horror-comedy podcast Welcome to Night Vale
It’s relatively rare for a podcast to last 14 years, especially a fiction one. In fact, as far as I can tell, Welcome to Night Vale is the longest continually…
Here are the 10 deals worth grabbing from Best Buy’s winter sales event
Good deals are often hard to come by at the beginning of the year — which is precisely what makes Best Buy’s Winter Sale worth checking out. The ongoing sales…
Disney deleted a Thread because people kept putting anti-fascist quotes from its movies in the replies
”Share a Disney quote that sums up how you’re feeling right now!” That’s what Disney posted on Threads the other day, and people immediately replied with lines from Star Wars,…
The Setapp Mobile iOS store is shutting down on February 16th
Important: Setapp Mobile sunset notice Setapp Mobile is scheduled to sunset on February 16, 2026, due to still-evolving and complex business terms that don’t fit Setapp’s current business model. All…
Best MacBook deals for January 2026
Apple currently sells MacBooks equipped with its own M-series processors in a wide range of sizes and price points, all of which run the company’s newest operating system, macOS 26.…