🔍 Brave Now Lets You Customize Search Results-for Better or Worse

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Brave Now Lets You Customize Search Results-for Better or Worse. Google's search results have become cluttered. If you open the world's most - used search engine and look up “sofa for small flat,” you'll be met with a handful of ads showing elaborate corner suites, followed by some common questions… (Matt Burgess via WIRED)

Matt Burgess @mattburgess1

Today, @brave is launching a new way to search. 'Goggles' allow you to re-rank its search results, based on a custom set of rules and filters. For instance, one Goggle removes URLs from the top 1,000 websites; another strips Pinterest from the results

wired.comBrave Now Lets You Customize Search Results—for Better or WorseThe privacy-focused company’s new Goggles tool allows users to weed out the noise—whatever that might mean.

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Spotify is developing 'Community,' a new place to see your friends' activity in the mobile app. Spotify is developing a new feature called Community that would allow mobile users to see what sort of music their friends are streaming in real-time as well as what playlists they've recently updated in a dedicated place in the app. The company… (Sarah Perez / TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez @sarahintampa

Spotify is developing ‘Community,’ a new place to see your friends’ activity in the mobile app:

ift.ttSpotify is developing ‘Community,’ a new place to see your friends’ activity in the mobile app – TechCrunchSpotify is developing a new feature called Community that would allow mobile users to see what sort of music their friends are streaming in real time as well as what playlists they’ve recently updated in a dedicated place in the app. The company today offers a similar “Friend Activity&#…

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Amazon shows off Alexa feature that mimics the voices of your dead relatives. Amazon has revealed an experimental Alexa feature that allows the AI assistant to mimic the voices of users' dead relatives. The company demoed the feature at its annual MARS conference, showing a video in which a child asks Alexa to read a bedtime… (James Vincent / The Verge)

James Vincent @jjvincent

Amazon has shown off an experimental Alexa feature that uses AI to mimic the voices of your dead relatives. The company says the feature "can’t eliminate that pain of loss" but "can definitely make their memories last."

theverge.comAmazon shows off Alexa feature that mimics the voices of your dead relativesAmazon says it can clone voices from a minute of audio

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Mark Zuckerberg envisions a billion people in the metaverse spending hundreds of dollars. Mark Zuckerberg told CNBC's Jim Cramer that Meta Platforms is in a position to spend extensively on long-term research. The metaverse should usher in a massive economy, he said. Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg told CNBC's Jim Cramer on Wednesday… (Kevin Stankiewicz / CNBC)

Leslie Josephs @lesliejosephs

What? People are expected - en masse - to buy digital items for a *virtual* life, a society that has struggled to own actual HOMES?

cnbc.comMark Zuckerberg envisions a billion people in the metaverse spending hundreds of dollars eachZuckerberg is happy with the progress of Meta Platforms’ Quest 2 headset. Now he has a big goal for 2030 that involves a user base spending meaningfully.

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Sriracha Shortage Is Taking Some Spice Out of Life. A fixture at Vietnamese restaurants, sriracha sauce can lace aromatic pho with a jolt of heat. It's the star ingredient in spicy mayonnaise zigzagging countless sushi rolls, and it has even inspired a legion of fans to dress up for Halloween each… (Christine Chung / The New York Times)

Christine Chung @chrisychung

Hold your sriracha bottles close!

nytimes.comSriracha Shortage Is Taking Some Spice Out of LifeAn abysmal spring harvest of Mexican chiles caused an “unprecedented shortage” of Asian hot sauces, a California-based producer said.

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