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TikTok’s wind-down prompt initially only played calming music to remind teens to take a break from the app at nighttime. It was also only shown to teens under 16. But now, the prompts will include meditation, too, and will be available to adults who toggle on “Sleep Hours” from the Screen Time settings page as well.While testing its meditation feature, TikTok says it found 98 percent of users under 16 kept it on after trying it for the first time. Teens can ignore the initial 10PM reminder, but the app will display another full-screen prompt later that’s harder to dismiss.TikTok…

Watching the behavior of our tech overlords has answered questions I’d never thought to ask. How do you NDA an army of baby mamas? Is there anything more embarrassing than impersonating Benson Boone? (Also, who is Benson Boone?) And now, the latest: how long after a sovereign ruler of a repressive state murders one of your columnists should you make a deal with him? The answer, it turns out, is a little over six years.In October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a writer for the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post, was killed and dismembered with the approval of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin…

Coinbase says cyber criminals “bribed and recruited” support workers to help steal customer data and trick victims into sending money to attackers. As a result of the attack, bad actors obtained the names, addresses, phone numbers, government IDs images, account data, and partial social security numbers of a “small subset of users,” according to a blog post on Thursday.In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the crypto exchange said it received an email on May 11th from a threat actor who claimed they had information about certain Coinbase accounts. The bad actor demanded $20 million in exchange for…

May and June are rarely considered the best time of year to land a streaming deal, though that doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to save if you can forgo big-name services like Netflix and Hulu. Now through May 30th, for instance, both new and returning subscribers can sign up for a year of ad-supported Peacock Premium for just $24.99 ($55 off) when they use promo code SPRINGSAVINGS at checkout.Admittedly, Peacock doesn’t carry the same kind of prestige as other services, but it still has plenty to offer in the way of TV shows and movies. The second season of Poker…

YouTube now has a chart that tracks the top 100 podcasts in the US. The Joe Rogan Experience took the number one spot during the week of May 5th to the 11th, followed by Kill Tony, Rotten Mango, and 48 Hours.YouTube will update the chart every Wednesday and rank each show by watchtime, according to a blog post from YouTube’s Steve McLendon. The chart will include playlists “designated as ‘podcasts’ by the creator in the upload process, and will not include playlists that contain only clips or Shorts.”YouTube will continue adding more features to the chart and expand it to…

Pinterest has apologized for a recent wave of “over-enforcement” that erroneously deactivated many accounts. The platform has experienced some weird moderation issues in recent weeks, and outraged users reported their accounts had been suspended without warning or explanation. In response to many appeals, the platform cited unspecified community guideline violations.The company initially addressed ban concerns with a statement saying that it will “continuously monitor for content that violates our Community Guidelines and accounts with violative content may be deactivated as a result.” This answer did little to soothe outrage from users who were calling for Pinterest to clarify how accounts…

Garmin’s back with a bunch of goodies for runners. That includes two new Forerunner watches, a new chest strap, and several new running and triathlete features that won’t be paywalled behind its newly launched Garmin Connect Plus subscription.On the watch front, there’s the $749.99 Forerunner 970, which replaces the 965 as its top-of-the-line running watch and includes offline maps. Meanwhile, the $549.99 Forerunner 570 is a new mid-range option that’s a slight step-up from the more affordable Forerunner 265. It doesn’t have offline maps.Let’s start with what the Forerunner 570 and 970 have in common. (There are currently eight lineups…

Sony’s long-awaited WH-1000XM6 wireless noise-canceling headphones are here and – as you’ll hear – I think they’re a very tasty package indeed. Yes, there are the class-leading improvements to sound quality and noice cancelling that you’d expect but crucially they bring back one ace feature that was missing from 2022’s WH-1000XM5. They fold. Yep – once again Sony’s flagship wireless headphones are foldable. We’ve been lucky enough to review them too – check out what our writer Esat Dedezade thought about them in our full Sony WH-1000XM6 review. Despite several leaks Sony has managed to keep the detail of the…

Audio-Technica’s engineers are seemingly working overtime to elevate the design of the record player. Following the reveal of its floating, glowing Hotaru turntable last month, the company has announced its new AT-LPA2 featuring a chassis and platter made from transparent acrylic. With electronics like its power supply and playback controls packed into a separate unit that can be kept out of sight, the turntable is a reminder that transparent tech can still look modern and sleek.The AT-LPA2 features a similar design to the Audio-Technica AT-LP2022 turntable that was released in January 2023 to help commemorate the company’s 60th anniversary. The…

Sony’s WH-1000XM6 noise-canceling headphones have arrived three years after their popular predecessors. That’s a longer gap than usual for the lineup, but don’t expect any earth-shattering changes. Whereas the 1000XM4 to 1000XM5 upgrade brought a significant design overhaul, this time Sony is mostly focusing on sound, noise cancellation, and quality-of-life hardware refinements, rather than messing with the visual style.The 1000XM6 are an amalgamation of the best traits from Sony’s past models and should be the best of the series. But they’re also the most expensive. Sony has raised the price to $449, a $50 jump compared to the prior model…

Introduction I’m a simple man. Whenever someone asks me what new headphones they should get, I confidently point them in the direction of the five-star WH-1000XM5. Their exceptional audio and world-blocking noise cancellation propelled them to the top Stuff’s list of the best headphones, after all. But when you’re already sitting comfortably at the apex of the noise-cancelling headphone hierarchy, how do you push things further? Sony’s answer comes in the form of the WH-1000XM6 – the latest evolution of its flagship over-ears that have dominated the premium audio landscape for years. Available this month for $450/£400/€450, these aren’t just…

Today, I’m talking with Gerrit Kazmaier, the new president of product and technology at Workday, an enterprise software company. Decoder listeners probably know the name Workday; a lot of companies use its platform for HR and finance management, which the suits have started bundling into a phrase they call “human capital management.” I invite you to have whatever feelings you want about that.Anyhow, if you’ve been applying to jobs lately, you have certainly run into Workday, and you are almost certainly frustrated with it. I mean, I’ll just say this from the jump: it’s rare that enterprise software executives come…