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Apple just launched a redesign of the popular song-identifying app Shazam, which was spotted by 9to5Mac. This update takes full advantage of the company's recently-launched Liquid Glass visual language.

The company promises a "sleek" new look, but that's not the only change. This visual redesign should make it much easier to quickly glance at recent songs you've identified via the Home tab. They



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  • Top US shipbuilder HII has been investing more in its workers.
  • The company says that's led to better hiring and retention of a more experienced workforce.
  • Solving workforce problems is considered key to solving larger US shipbuilding issues.

US shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries is putting more money into wages and a new


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Google is rolling out new Gemini-powered features in Maps that aim to make navigation more conversational and intuitive, according to a blog post from the company on Wednesday.

The update introduces the first hands-free, voice-driven navigation experience in Maps, built with Gemini and Google’s "comprehensive information about the real world." Users can now ask complex, multi-step questions such as



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Disney is facing frustration from fans while its channels are down from YouTube TV, but sports fans' willingness to pay up is part of the problem.
  • Sports fans who have YouTube TV are mad, since they don't have access to ABC or ESPN.
  • The two sides must agree on how much the Google-owned live TV service will pay.
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The author, shown with her mother in 2016, always thought she would take over her mom's day care business. Then her mom got sick, and everything changed.
  • I was working for my mom's successful day care business when she died in 2019.
  • The plan had always been for me to take over one day, but I decided to quit a year later.
  • Though I've often wondered if it was the right choice, I

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Google and Epic Games have reached a settlement that would bring their years-long court battle to a close. The companies have filed a proposal in the federal court of San Francisco, asking US District Judge James Donato to approve a modified version of the order he originally imposed on Google when it lost the case. "Together with Epic Games we have filed a proposed set of changes to Android and



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"Empire of Storms" and "Tower of Dawn" by Sarah J. Maas.
  • The tandem read is a hotly debated topic in the "Throne of Glass" fandom.
  • I decided to try reading Sarah J. Maas' "Empire of Storms" and "Tower of Dawn" together.
  • I'm a tandem read convert because reading the books together made me love both more.

As I'm writing this article, I'm rereading the "Throne of Glass" series for the third


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"When I'm working, I'm all in," Canva CEO Melanie Perkins said. "When I'm not working, I'm all out."
  • Canva CEO Melanie Perkins said that she has built "healthy habits" — like keeping Slack and email off her phone.
  • "When I shut my laptop, I actually tune out," Perkins said on "Lenny's Podcast."
  • Other CEOs of companies like Telegram, Hinge, and Glassdoor have

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Sony AI released a dataset that tests the fairness and bias of AI models. It's called the Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark (FHIBE, pronounced like "Phoebe"). The company describes it as the "first publicly available, globally diverse, consent-based human image dataset for evaluating bias across a wide variety of computer vision tasks." In other words, it tests the degree to which today's AI