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Spotify has launched a new feature called Page Match that lets you quickly sync your spot in a physical or ebook with an audiobook. Point your camera at a page, and the Spotify app uses computer vision to match text with audio. If you have to jump behind the wheel for a long drive, but didn’t want to put down The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, you can just snap a pic to jump to the spot in the audiobook where you left off in the physical book.It’s not unlike Amazon’s Whispersync for Voice, which lets you seamlessly jump back and forth between Kindle books and Audible audiobooks. The difference is that Spotify’s version works with physical books and ebooks on any e-reader (though an ebook on your phone won’t work since the app uses the camera and can’t read your screen). Page Match will be avail...

Spotify is going all in on books in 2026 and partnering with Bookshop.org to let you buy physical copies of audiobooks and support local retailers starting in the Spring. The announcement dovetails with the launch of Page Match, a new feature that lets you sync physical books and ebooks with audiobooks in the Spotify app using your camera.When the partnership launches later this year in the US and UK, there will be a button at the bottom of pages for audiobooks, prompting you to “get a copy for your bookshelf.” The process will take you out of the Spotify app to complete the purchase on Bookshop.org, leading you directly to the checkout page.At an event announcing the partnership, Bookshop.org founder and CEO Andy Hunter talked about the importance of reading, saying that “Spotify is br...

Lumière extrême, Gérard Mourou, Tana Editions, 144 pages, 18 €, numérique 13,99 € Quelle énergie ! Le Français Gérard Mourou, Prix Nobel de physique 2018, continue, à 81 ans, de travailler sur des projets ambitieux, comme la réduction des déchets radioactifs, la fusion nucléaire, la destruction des débris spatiaux, la recherche de traitements contre le cancer et les maladies cardiaques… Ses armes maîtresses ? Des lasers, qu’il a su rendre particulièrement puissants dans les années 1985-1986, avec sa doctorante Donna Strickland. Ce qui leur vaudra le prix Nobel. Lire plus tard Au moins deux autres découvertes importantes liées aux lasers suivront. L’une permettra de développer des chirurg...

Substack is notifying some users that the email addresses and phone numbers linked to their accounts were exposed in a “security incident” last year. In an email to account holders, Substack CEO Chris Best said that a hacker had accessed internal data without authorization in October 2025, but that passwords, credit card numbers, and other financial information remain secure.“On February 3rd, we identified evidence of a problem with our systems that allowed an unauthorized third party to access limited user data without permission, including email addresses, phone numbers, and other internal metadata,” Best said in the email. “We do not have evidence that this information is being misused, but we encourage you to take extra caution with any emails or text messages you receive that may b...

La température cutanée des souris a été surveillée en continu à l’aide d’une caméra thermique. LABORATOIRE DE MARKUS H. SCHMIDT, DOCTEUR EN MÉDECINE Donnez un morceau de chocolat à une souris transgénique de type Hcrt-KO, et il y a de fortes chances que ce moment de bien-être la plonge momentanément dans un état de catalepsie – une soudaine perte de tonus musculaire. Ce rongeur, artificiellement privé de la capacité à produire certains neurotransmetteurs – l’hypocrétine et l’orexine –, permet d’étudier un type de narcolepsie qui, chez les humains, engendre des crises de catalepsie, souvent à la suite d’une émotion positive. La narcolepsie peut en effet prendre plusieurs formes, mais se caractérise essentiellement par des troubles du sommeil, n...

When Valve first announced its impressive-looking Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller hardware in November, the company said the products would begin shipping in early 2026. Some journalists were told “Q1 2026” specifically. But because of the ongoing memory and storage crunch, that launch has been delayed to sometime in the first half of this year, and Valve says it will reset expectations for how much they will cost “as soon as possible.”“We planned on being able to share specific pricing and launch dates by now,” Valve says in a new post. “But the memory and storage shortages you’ve likely heard about across the industry have rapidly increased since then. The limited availability and growing prices of these critical components mean we must revisit our exact shipping sche...

During a two-hour hearing in the US Senate Wednesday, top executives from Waymo and Tesla urged lawmakers to take action on long-stalled legislation to speed the deployment of self-driving cars on public roads. But after two hours of Q&A around a number of hot-button topics, including robotaxi safety, legal liability, remote operation, and China, it was clear that lawmakers were no closer to passing any bill related to autonomous vehicles.Waymo faced questions about its decision to use a Chinese-made vehicle for its next-generation robotaxi, as well as several incidents in which its vehicles failed to stop behind a school bus during student pickups. Tesla was asked about its decision to remove radar from its vehicles, its position on binding arbitration, and its misleading marketing...

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has earned more than $400 billion in annual revenue for the first time. The company announced the milestone as part of its Q4 2025 earnings report released on Wednesday, which highlights the 15 percent year-over-year increase as its cloud business and YouTube continue to grow.As noted in the earnings report, Google’s Cloud business reached a $70 billion run rate in 2025, while YouTube’s annual revenue soared beyond $60 billion across ads and subscriptions. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai told investors that YouTube remains the “number one streamer,” citing data from Nielsen. The company also now has more than 325 million paid subscribers, led by Google One and YouTube Premium.Additionally, Pichai noted that Google Search saw more usage over the past few mon...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Federal safety regulators are once again taking a hard look at self-driving cars after a serious incident involving Waymo, the autonomous vehicle company owned by Alphabet.This time, the investigation centers on a Waymo vehicle that struck a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica, California, during morning drop-off hours. The crash happened Jan. 23 and raised immediate questions about how autonomous vehicles behave around children, school zones and unpredictable pedestrian movement.On Jan. 29, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration confirmed it had opened a new preliminary investigation into Waymo's automated driving system.Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy ReportGet my best tech tips, urgent security alerts and exclusive d...

Though the Virtual Boy was both a commercial and critical failure, the console’s infamy is part of what has made it such a fascinating piece of Nintendo’s history. Original units are still going for hundreds of dollars on bidding sites, and hobbyists have spent years keeping the Virtual Boy alive through emulation and homebrew games. For a long while, it seemed like Nintendo wanted nothing more than for the public to forget that the Virtual Boy ever existed. But over time, the company has become more comfortable acknowledging and even joking about the system through references in games like Super Smash Bros. Melee, Tomodachi Life, and Luigi’s Mansion 3.Looking back on the Nintendo 3DS and more recent experiments like the Nintendo Switch and Labo, it wasn’t exactly surprising to learn th...