Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for May 16, 2024
Today’s Featured Book Deals $2.99 The Maidens by Alex Michaelides Get This Deal $4.99 How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith Get This Deal $1.99...
Meta Threads is testing pinned columns on the web, similar to the old TweetDeck
X, formerly Twitter, turned TweetDeck into X Pro and pushed it behind a paywall. But there is a new column-based social media tool in town, and...
Exercise Changes the Way Our Bodies Handle Saturated Fat, Study Finds
Scientists in the U.K. seem to have unearthed yet another benefit of exercise: It could make our bodies better at using up certain kinds of fat....
Autopsy Confirms 14-Year-Old Died From Spicy Chip Challenge
When 14-year-old Harris Wolobah of Massachusetts died last fall, the boy’s family suspected it could be related to a viral spicy potato chip he ate just...
The Most Anticipated New Books of Summer 2024, According to Goodreads
Welcome to Thursday! I would like a prize for pulling myself away from This Strange Eventful History this morning. I hope you’re reading something that’s keeping...
The Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror of the Summer, According to Goodreads
Goodreads has even more summer fun in the form of new, fire releases. We’ve already told y’all about the site’s overall list of books to look...
Google expands hands-free and eyes-free interfaces on Android
As part of 2024’s Accessibility Awareness Day, Google is showing off some updates to Android that should be useful to folks with mobility or vision impairments....
Want to Share Hulu With Twice as Many People? Disney Has Your Back
Disney Bundle subscribers can now stream Hulu content in the Disney+ app. One interesting side effect of this “combined app experience” is that you can effectively...
Google Rolls out New Accessibility Feature That Lets You Talk by Staring At Emojis
Sure, Google I/O was one massive AI-palooza focused mostly on Gemini. But for Global Accessibility Awareness Day, there are a few more AI-enhanced vision features coming...
Star Trek: Discovery Took the Best Episode of Its Season and Gave Us a Much Less Interesting Version of It
Since it aired a few weeks ago, I keep touching on what still remains the standout episode of Discovery’s final season so far: “Face the Strange,”...
