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If you’re doing research for a book you’re writing on, an essay, a report, chances are you might have to go back and forth between your sources from time to time. Combing through your search history is one way to look for stuff you were researching a couple of weeks ago, but this isn’t the most efficient way to go about it.

The good news is that if you’re a Chrome user, Google has recently announced a new Chrome feature called Journeys that should make it easier for you to look up your past searches along with all the relevant websites.

Now, Google can already recall some of your search terms in the past, but what Journeys does is it takes it one step further. For example, if you were recently searching for cryptocurrency and you pulled up some websites related to it, using the Journeys tool will let you search for that term and will also display all the relevant pages that you might have visited as well.

It can also show the sites you spent more time on, which might be an indicator that it might be more relevant, and can also make some suggestions based on your search. It’s quite a useful tool compared to trying to search through your history, especially if you can’t fully recall when exactly you made the search or which websites you might have found.

The feature should be in the process of being rolled out to users as we speak, so keep an eye out for it if you think it’s something you think you might find useful in the future.

Chrome’s New Journeys Feature Will Make It Easier To Revisit Past Searches

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When you think of headphones, your mind might jump to more established audio brands like Bose, Sennheiser, Audio-Technica, Bowers & Wilkins, Sony, and so on. However, interestingly enough and assuming the data from Statista is accurate, it looks like the company currently dominating the US headphones market is none other than Apple.

The report claims that based on what they’ve found, Apple’s AirPods and Beats headphones actually make up for about half of the US headphones and earbuds market. This is based on a survey which included 4,220 adults where they found that 34% of the participants used AirPods, while 15% had Beats headphones.

Is this surprising? Yes and no. It’s surprising because let’s face it, Apple’s AirPods and Beats headphones aren’t exactly known to have the best sound quality. However, the way Apple has designed their products has allowed for them to work very well with each other, and it seems that this convenience is what’s driving customers to Apple’s products, at least in part.

The survey also found that coming in third place is Bose, followed closely by Samsung, JBL, Sony, Skullcandy, and interestingly enough, LG. Whether or not you think that Apple or Beats’ headphones are value for money is a different story, but it is clear that at least based on this data that customers are still flocking to these brands regardless.

Surprisingly, Apple Is Dominating The US Headphone Market

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MoviePass is making a comeback, and we’ve learned some more details about the latest incarnation of the cinema subscription service. Cofounder Stacy Spikes, who is back at the helm, says MoviePass 2.0 is being built on a Web3 framework and will have a kind of virtual currency. 

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Members will have credits they can use for tickets for themselves and friends. Unused credits will roll over to the next month and you’ll be able to transfer them to other people. There will be tiered plans, but Spikes didn’t divulge pricing

The new MoviePass app will show you how many credits you have and available screenings at theaters. Credits will work differently during peak and off-peak times — a Friday or Saturday showing might cost more credits. You’ll be able to reserve specific seats at some of MoviePass’ partner theaters.

Spikes said there’ll be ways for people to earn credits through the app via a “preshow experience.” In other words, watching ads. To make sure you’re actually watching them, the app will employ facial recognition and eye tracking. Yikes. 

MoviePass is also opening up a portion of the company for equity investment. Those who take a stake in will receive benefits, such as a lifetime membership.

If 30 percent of moviegoers become subscribers, the company “could double the annual revenue and attendance of the overall movie industry,” Spikes said, though he noted that’s a moonshot target. He added that many subscribers of the previous service checked out movies they otherwise might not have gambled on because impulsive movie-watching decisions didn’t cost them anything extra.

Spikes and Hamet Watt founded MoviePass in 2011 to offer users a certain number of movie tickets every month as part of a subscription. HMNY bought the company in 2017 and, soon after, changed the pricing model to allow members to see one movie in theaters a day for $10 per month. Although the service blew up and had more than 3 million subscribers at its peak, the business model was unsustainable. MoviePass ultimately declared bankruptcy in January 2020.

Spikes regained ownership of MoviePass in November. He said he bid less than $250,000 for the assets. However, they didn’t include customer email addresses or other data, so MoviePass is starting over almost from scratch.

It’ll be interesting to see if Moviepass can carve out a place for itself in a cinema landscape that’s changed dramatically in recent years. Chains like Regal Cinemas, AMC and Alamo Drafthouse have established their own subscription plans. 

Theaters have struggled over the last couple of years, with the pandemic forcing many to at least temporarily close their doors. But a Web3-based service with a virtual currency and facial recognition component might not be the lifeboat these chains, or their patrons, are looking for.

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A US federal court has sentenced Canadian hacker Doug Bowser to 40 months in prison for his involvement in Switch hacking group Team Xecuter, the Department of Justice announced on Thursday. Not to be confused with Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser (or Mario’s nemesis, for that matter), Bowser was part of a collective that developed and sold devices people could use to play pirated games on their consoles.

The FBI arrested Bowser in 2020. One year later, he agreed to pay $10 million to Nintendo to settle a civil privacy lawsuit and another $4.5 million in restitution to the company. Leading up to today’s sentencing announcement, Bowser faced up to 10 years in prison. According to the Justice Department, video game publishers have lost more than $65 million thanks to Team Xecuter’s exploits. Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI are still working to apprehend Bowser’s accomplices.