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YouTube’s lo-fi music streams are all about the euphoria of less

Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto | Getty Images) Dion Lewis was trying to make the best out of a difficult situation. Last August, when a storm left his Chicago neighborhood without electricity for a week, he improvised. Lewis had recently created a YouTube page for tutorials about the various aspects of computer programming called Code Pioneers, and […]

Elon Musk tweets, then deletes, Holocaust joke

Enlarge / After 12 hours, the Tesla CEO deleted the Holocaust joke. (credit: Twitter) In the early hours of Thursday morning, Elon Musk tweeted a meme that compared Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with Adolf Hitler. The tweet, replying to crypto coin enthusiasts, included a photo of Hitler with the phrase “stop comparing me to […]

Apple, AMD, and Intel shift priorities as chip shortages continue

Enlarge / Sure, it’s cheaply produced clip art… but it’s also a disturbingly accurate picture of the current state of supply and demand in the semiconductor product market. (credit: tommy via Getty Images) 2021’s infamous chip shortages aren’t only affecting automakers. In a post-earnings conference call Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said, “We’ll do everything we […]