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Bitcoin devotees are declaring a historic victory after US regulators approved a new, more accessible way for people to invest in the crypto asset after a decade of resistance. Yet they won’t go anywhere near it themselves.On January 10,…

While the writers strike may have crippled late-night TV in 2023, scripted television—at least for the first half of the year—was in full swing, and at a distinct high point. If the only series to air all year had been Succession, it still…

While Netflix is busy pumping out more shows than any one person could watch (probably), Amazon Prime Video has remained the place to go for a few of the best shows around. Trouble is, navigating the service’s labyrinthine menus can make…

Max (previously HBO Max) might be one of the greatest things to come out of the streaming revolution. No, this is not a paid promotion; it’s just simple logic, given that so much of television’s most compelling content of the past 25…

Kindle libraries; troves of infinitely streamable songs on Spotify and Apple Music; scores of shows and films on Netflix, Max, and Hulu. Even the Criterion Collection is online now. Cultural archives now live on server farms, so much so…

2023 has been a year defined by artificial intelligence innovation, with OpenAI at the helm. An AI apocalypse didn’t collapse society into chaos, but everyone in Silicon Valley did try to add some sort of AI tool into their software, and it…

I watch a lot of Hallmark Channel programming around the holidays. With all of the options available on Netflix, Max, Hulu, and others, this feels like a very throwback move. Still, every year, the channel’s Countdown to Christmas is…

Photo: Allie Chanthorn ReinmannSurely you don’t have an anti-tofu bias, but if you do, you should knock it off and stop robbing yourself of possibilities and pleasure. I initially made this pie for two reasons: I wanted dessert, and I was…

Photo: Ascannio (Shutterstock)Every time you interact with ChatGPT, you’re actually training it to be better. It takes your conversations and uses that experience to make future conversations more useful and accurate for everyone. That’s a…

If you can’t hear what’s going on when watching modern shows and movies on your TV, you’re not alone. It can be damn near impossible to understand what characters are saying these days, to the point that many of us to exclusively watch with…