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    Your tiles are getting roasted in the comments.

    After adding AI last month, Zillow now has DMs too. But we won’t rest until its social media-ification democratizes the process of throwing shade at soulless millennial house flips.

    aposm:

    I won’t be satisfied until they add a public comment section on every listing so we can roast the horrible flips with grey vinyl flooring…

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    Widgets on wheels.

    Android Authority has done its usual digging around and discovered code for home screen widgets in Android Auto. They’re clearly still a work-in-progress, but should eventually let you run one widget at a time on the left third of the screen.

    Screenshot of a Spotify widget running on Android Auto
    Screenshot of a calendar widget running on Android Auto
    Screenshot of a Gemini widget running on Android Auto
    Screenshot of a weather widget running on Android Auto
    Screenshot of a widget error on Android Auto
    1/5
    Spotify is one of the apps the site got working, but it currently doesn’t display artist or track names properly.
    Image: Android Authority
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    Dominic Preston
    When life hands you Grok, donate to Wikipedia.

    Elon Musk’s xAI has launched Grokipedia, and no-one was more surprised than us to discover that some pages appear to have been lifted wholesale from Wikipedia. But fortunately Verge commenters have led the way on the best possible response.

    bigcow:

    hold on let me go donate to wikipedia

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    “I subscribe to Netflix for the games.”

    Said no-one, I suspect. As Netflix shuts down another game studio, we’re not the only people questioning the streamer’s efforts to become a gaming giant.

    eldinar:

    It’s almost like people don’t subscribe to Netflix for games.

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    Samsung finds its Jony Ive.

    Did you know Samsung has never had a company-wide head of design before? I bet you’re not surprised.

    Mauro Porcini, who recently led Pepsi’s big redesign, has the unenviable job of making the company’s phones feel like its fridges (ads and all), after becoming Samsung’s first ever chief design officer.

    Correction: It is Jony Ive, not Jonny.

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    Dominic Preston
    Nothing for less.

    The oh-so-hip phone manufacturer will launch what it’s calling its “first entry-level smartphone” this Wednesday, the Phone 3A Lite. The teaser confirms the return of some form of Glyph lighting, but we don’t know much more than that. Expect it to cost less than the $379 / £329 Phone 3A, though I suspect a US launch is unlikely.