In just over a week, Star Wars fans from all over the world will flock to London, England for Star Wars Celebration Europe. For four straight days, fans will learn about all the latest and greatest things coming to the world of Star Wars, reflect on its history, and buy a lot of cool merchandise. And we do mean a lot…
Spotify already offers a host of personalized playlists, and now the company is giving users even more control over the generation of those mixes. Building on the mood, decades and genre playlists the platform debuted in 2021, Spotify today introduced Niche Mixes, a feature the company says combines all of its personalized playlists “in a playful way.”
In short, you can now prompt Spotify to create an algorithmically generated mix for almost any mood or genre. To do so, navigate over to Spotify’s search bar and type the activity you want the app to soundtrack for you and add “mix” to the end. You can get pretty creative. I asked Spotify to create a witch house playlist for me, followed by one featuring relaxing videogame soundtracks. In both cases, Spotify obliged and did a pretty good job of selecting appropriate tracks. That said, you’ll sometimes run into situations where Spotify won’t produce an exact match for the mix you want. For example, I asked it to create a “dubstep work mix,” only to get a workout playlist instead.
As with the company’s other personalized mixes, you can expect each playlist to feature a mixture of familiar songs alongside tracks ones you may not have heard before. Niche mixes are available to today to free and Premium users who search in English.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/spotifys-niche-mixes-let-you-generate-personalized-playlists-for-almost-anything-220006705.html?src=rss
As with all stages of parenting, nothing can prepare you for the reality of dealing with a teen. Sometimes, a good sense of humor is the best tool in your arsenal.
The space adventures in Marvels’s Guardians of the Galaxy films are nearing their conclusion—and with that, we’ll finally be learning the mystery behind the creation of Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper) in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
German company Isar Aerospace has raised $165 million in order to ramp up the development of its Spectrum rocket, which is scheduled for its debut launch later this year. For Europeans needing access to space, the rocket’s arrival will come not a moment too soon.
A Maryland Appellate Court ruled on Tuesday that Adnan Syed’s murder case is being sent back to trial, citing that a lower court violated the murder victim’s family’s rights to attend the trial in person. Syed was convicted of murdering his high school girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999 and was sentenced to life in…
The cultivated meat company Vow has produced a meatball from a mammoth muscle protein in an effort to show off the numerous benefits of sustainable meat. It’s probably a harmless gimmick, but I’m not a fan of advertising this mostly sheep meatball as genuine mammoth, and I’m skeptical that the stunt is going to sell…
You now know when you can continue following the adventures of Captain Christopher Pike. Paramount+ has revealed that the second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will premiere June 15th, with new episodes appearing each Thursday. While the streaming service isn’t saying much about the plot apart from a Star Trek: Lower Decks crossover, it’s promising a 10-episode run and has already renewed the show for a third season.
Animation fans in the US, meanwhile, can expect Lower Decks season four in August and a fifth season in the pipeline. The new episodes have the crew of the USS Ceritos dodging “malevolent computers,” getting trapped in caves and running into aliens from across the galaxy.
The second season of kids’ animated series Star Trek: Prodigy is now slated to debut this winter. The fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery was already poised to arrive in early 2024.
The two confirmed renewals aren’t surprising. While Paramount+ is now popular for more than Star Trek, the sci-fi franchise remain one of the service’s main attractions. Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks in particular have enjoyed a strong reception. With Picard winding down this April, the remaining productions will have to carry extra weight.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-2-premieres-june-15th-210101079.html?src=rss
Another attempt at smuggling electronics across the country’s borders was foiled by China Customs authorities. According to information released by the General Administration of Customs, on March 16th, a man was detained at Gongbei Port Passenger Inspection Hall while attempting to cross the border with 239 Intel 13th Gen CPUs worth over $46,000. The products were wrapped around the man’s waist, abdomen, and thighs – concealed beneath loose black clothing.
This case is far from being unique since China’s import and export channels have been restricted by US government mandates and as a consequence, many scientific and governing bodies in China are forced to use consumer-based PC components for research and development purposes, including AI, medical, and military applications. Sources in China have been purchasing goods at consumer prices from e-commerce websites (such as JD.com and AliExpress).
Some of the Intel CPUs that were attempted to be smuggled across borders
The Intel Core i5-13400F CPU is considered mid-level range in the Raptor Lake family and is a popular option in the budget DIY market due to its ten cores, sixteen threads, max turbo frequency of 4.6 GHz, 20 MB of Intel Smart Cache, and a maximum TDP of 148W, characteristics that may seem interesting in terms of cost-effectiveness, especially for entry-level and budget builders.
It’s definitely not a surprise that there has been an increase in smuggling cases given the circumstances; last week, for example, the GAC reported a case where a man was caught attempting to cross the border with 84 solid-state drives hidden inside the front bumper of his electric scooter. To evade detection, smugglers are going to extreme lengths, putting themselves at risk and demonstrating the challenges faced by Customs authorities in detecting and preventing illegal activities. More information about this recent smuggling case can be found here.
Man Caught in China Smuggling $46K Worth of Intel CPUs Wrapped Around His Waist
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