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Spotify’s annual Wrapped feature just dropped, giving listeners a fun, personalized summary of their listening habits. It has gained immense popularity over the years, and as a result, many companies have seized the opportunity to create similar year-in-review experiences, offering users a recap of their habits, preferences, or interactions from the past year. Here are some platforms and websites that mimic the Spotify Wrapped concept. Amazon Music Amazon Music has a new Spotify Wrapped knockoff this year called “2025 Delivered,” which offers a summary of users’ listening stats, such as top artists, songs, and even podcasts. Notably, the platform also…
In September, popular creator IShowSpeed live-streamed his meeting with the popular humanoid influencer Rizzbot. Rizzbot has more than a million followers (and 800 million views) across social media and is known for its comedic roasting of subjects, as well as giving people the middle finger. Speed, meanwhile, has more than 50 million followers (and 6 billion views) across various platforms and is known for his dramatic behavior while livestreaming. What happened when the two parties met is the subject of a lawsuit that Rizzbot’s creators, Social Robotics, detailed in a petition filed in November against Speed, né Darren Jason Watkins…
It’s only been a day since Netflix announced an $82.7 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros., and the acquisition has already been described as sending Hollywood into “full-blown panic mode,” possibly delivering “a death blow to theatrical filmmaking,” and maybe even heralding “the end of Hollywood” itself. Some of the firmest opposition has come from the Writers Guild of America, which issued a statement declaring, “This merger must be blocked.” “The world’s largest streaming company swallowing one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent,” the WGA said. “The outcome would eliminate jobs, push down wages,…
HX Expeditions introduced its roster of 2027-28 Galápagos itineraries and extended its partnership with Metropolitan Touring, which owns the 50-passenger MS Santa Cruz II, the vessel HX operates in the destination.Bookings for the 2027-28 season are scheduled to open on Dec. 22, 2025. “The original five-year charter agreement will now continue through 2029, reaffirming both organizations’ shared commitment to responsible, science-led exploration in one of the planet’s most ecologically significant regions,” said HX Expeditions, which holds a minority stake in Metropolitan Touring.For the 2027-28 season, HX will sail on itineraries that begin or end in Quito or Guayaquil, Ecuador, including…
Winter 2026 is an ideal time to plan a Caribbean getaway, with plenty of new nonstop routes from across the United States to some of the region’s most secluded islands.A multitude of U.S. airlines are launching exciting new flights that will unlock direct access to popular resort islands as well as quieter destinations that still remain hidden gems. These new routes will have something for every type of traveler, no matter their home airport or price point. Even better: some of the new flights are to U.S. territories in the Caribbean and don’t even require U.S. citizens and permanent residents…
Limitless, the AI startup formerly known as Rewind, has been acquired by Meta, the company announced Friday on its website. The company, which made an AI-powered pendant to record your conversations, says it will no longer sell its hardware devices and will maintain support for its existing customers for a year. Customers will no longer have to pay a subscription fee and will be moved to the Unlimited Plan for the time being. Other functionality will be wound down, including its non-pendant software “Rewind,” which recorded users’ desktop activity and turned it into a searchable record. The startup, founded by…
Antonio Forenza was working as head of research and development at Rakuten Symphony, a telecom subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate, when he realized that he needed to find a better way to manage his stress levels. A few years earlier, he had lost 40 pounds with the help of an Apple Watch, which counted steps and tracked his calorie burn, and he began wondering if there was a similar device to assess his stress. “I wanted to lose 40 pounds of stress, and realized there’s no wearable for that today,” Forenza told TechCrunch. That’s when Forenza realized he’d stumbled onto…
Celebration Key, Carnival Cruise Line’s new exclusive destination that opened earlier this year on the south side of Grand Bahama island, is ready to bring guests some holiday cheer with a dazzling display of festive décor for the very first time. Each of the destination’s five portals features holiday trees, wreaths, and garlands—each with different themes. Highlights include larger-than-life gift boxes stacked at Paradise Plaza and a 20-foot Celebration Key-themed tree in Lokono Cove, holiday-themed sand sculptures, including an eight-foot-tall sand tree in Santa’s Village at Starfish Lagoon and more. Carnival says that Santa will make special appearances for festive family photos,…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has identified at least 80 instances in which Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software violated road rules by running red lights or crossing into the wrong lane, according to a new letter sent to the automaker this week. NHTSA said in the letter it has received 62 complaints from Tesla drivers, 14 reports submitted by Tesla, and four media reports that describe potential violations. That’s up from around 50 violations NHTSA cited when it opened an investigation into the behavior in October. The federal safety agency’s Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) is probing whether…
Waymo plans to voluntarily issue a software recall with federal safety regulators related to how its robotaxis operate around school buses, the Alphabet-owned company told TechCrunch. The voluntary software recall will be filed early next week, according to the company. Waymo said as soon as the issue was identified it updated its software on November 17. The company contends this update has meaningfully improved performance to a level better than human drivers in this important area. Software recalls have become more common in the age of modern passenger vehicles — and now robotaxis — in which operations are handled by software. These updates,…