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One of Canva’s new AI features has been caught replacing the word “Palestine” in designs. The Magic Layers feature — which is designed to break flat images out into separate editable components — isn’t supposed to make visible alterations to user designs, but it was found by X user @ros_ie9 to automatically switch the phrase “cats for Palestine” to “cats for Ukraine.”The issue was seemingly limited specifically to the word “Palestine,” as @ros_ie9 noted that related words like “Gaza” were unaffected by the feature. Canva says it has now resolved the issue and is taking steps to prevent it from…
Oprah Winfrey’s video podcast, Book Club, and Favorite Things are headed to Amazon, according to reports from The New York Times and Variety. Starting in July, The Oprah Podcast will get new episodes twice per week, instead of once, debuting across Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Music, Audible, and Fire TV channels.The show will still appear on YouTube and other streaming platforms, but it will join Amazon’s library of celebrity-helmed shows under its Wondery brand, including New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, and Baby, this is Keke Palmer. Last year, Amazon split up Wondery, keeping…
The $295/£225 Dryrobe Nexus is a new spin on the company’s iconic changing robe and I’ve been testing out one for a few weeks now. It’s not hard to see who the company is aiming at – people who wear Dryrobes as everyday coats instead of people who just want to change on the beach or riverside. You don’t need to go far to see changing robes being used as winter or spring coats these days; they’re a standard part of the scenery at most sporting fixtures where they adorn substitutes and bored parents. But while Dryrobe’s standard Advance is…
Spotify has dabbled in customized running playlists, but now it’s diving more firmly into the fitness space with curated playlists and content from creators like Yoga with Kassandra, Sweaty Studio, Chloe Ting, and Pilates Body by Raven. Not only that, but Premium subscribers will have access to over 1,400 classes from Peloton.Spotify has already expanded well beyond its music roots, with audiobooks, podcasts, and video. So moving into fitness and wellness doesn’t seem like a big stretch, especially since there are plenty of playlists out there built around exercise. But it does further crowd an already messy app.Users will now…
The models in our best TVs roundup are impressive, but none of them can compare to what Samsung’s just announced – a gigantic 14-metre LED cinema screen. Called the Samsung Onyx Cinema LED, it’s now the biggest standard size in Samsung’s cinema LED lineup, aimed squarely at premium large format experiences. And its headline-grabbing size isn’t the only thing going for it. Unlike traditional projectors, Onyx uses LED panels, which means no lamps to replace, no complex cooling setups, and far less ongoing maintenance. For cinema operators, that, in theory, should translate to less downtime, and fewer headaches behind the…
If you’ve been looking to snap up one of the best laptops, there’s an Apple MacBook Pro discount on Amazon that’s definitely worth your attention. The 14in MacBook Pro with Apple M5 Pro chip, 24GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD has dropped to $1999 on Amazon, down from $2199. That’s a $200 saving, and the lowest price we’ve seen on Amazon so far. And if you’re in the UK, the same model is also discounted to £2004, down from £2199 – a solid saving. It’s not just the smaller model, either. The 16in version with the same M5 Pro…
The iPhone 18 – a future contender for our best smartphones guide – could land with 12GB of RAM for the first time. The news comes courtesy of analyst Dan Nystedt (via MacRumors) and, if true, will see the base model iPhone 18 match its iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max siblings in the RAM department. If the reports are true, it’ll make for a notable shift. Apple has historically kept its base iPhones a step behind the Pro models when it comes to RAM, so closing that gap would be a clear sign of changing priorities. The likely reason?…
In late 2025, Google started rolling out new icons with a gradient design. Now it seems the new look is coming to the rest of Google’s apps. 9to5Google got its hands on images of the new icons that ditch the uniform circle design that tries to cram in every color of the Google logo.In general, the looks are softer. Corners are rounder, the gradients gently transition from almost pastel to the more saturated Google primary colors. We’ve already seen this new design language show in updated versions of the Google G logo, as well as Gemini, Photos, and Maps. According…
In January I finally made good on my threat/promise to install Linux on my desktop. I wanted to see how far I could get using a Linux PC as my main computer without doing a bunch of research beforehand or troubleshooting afterwards. Since then I have booted into Windows exactly twice: once to scan a multipage document that wasn’t scanning right in Linux, and once to print a photo for my kids’ school on extremely short notice. There’s a reason it’s taken me three months to write the next installment in my Linux diary: nothing has gone horribly wrong.It didn’t…
When you’re juggling more than just your own calendar, staying organized can be overwhelming. Fortunately, the Skylight Calendar 2 can help simplify things by syncing multiple calendars in a single spot, and now through May 7th, it’s available directly from Skylight for $259.99 ($40 off), its best price to date.Skylight’s 15-inch smart calendar improves upon the original with a brighter screen, faster performance, and a slimmer design with swappable magnetic frames. Otherwise, though, it offers the same core experience, making it easy for the whole family to see events at a glance, whether you mount it on a wall or…
Part of what has held back electric cars has been the cost. But an influx of used vehicles over the next three years could bring prices down dramatically. In 2025, just 123,000 leases on EVs expired. That is expected to more than double to 300,000 in 2026, and double again to 600,000 in 2027 and 660,000 in 2028, according to Cox Automotive.Most leased vehicles end up entering the used market. This means more than a million used EVs could become available over the next few years, making them far more accessible. The vast majority of cars sold in the US…
Researchers at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the University of Arizona say that between 2005 and 2019, the number of words we speak out loud to another human being fell by nearly 28 percent. And that has likely only gotten worse following the pandemic.The researchers actually counted the number of words we were speaking on average (16,632 in 2005). They looked at data from 22 studies in which over 2,000 people recorded audio of their daily lives. Over time, as ordering through apps became the norm, texting increased, and our lives became increasingly online, they found that number had…