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Jess Weatherbed

Jess Weatherbed

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    Solid Glass.

    Never mind Liquid Glass, the new Apple TV intro was made using the real stuff, filmed by shining colorful lighting behind a glass model of the logo. With big companies like Coca-Cola and Google putting out entirely AI-generated marketing, it’s nice to see some things being made the old-fashioned way.

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    “At long last, we can begin.”

    If you can’t wait until November 26th to experience the final season of Stranger Things (which has taken more than three years to release), you can now watch the first five minutes of its first episode, “The Crawl.” It’s been an age since we’ve seen Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) looking so baby-faced.

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Texas is the latest state suing Roblox.

    Following similar lawsuits in Louisiana and Kentucky, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on X that he’s suing the gaming company for “putting pixel pedophiles and profits” over child safety.

    “We cannot allow platforms like Roblox to continue operating as digital playgrounds for predators where the well-being of our kids is sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed.”

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Meta projected it would earn $16 billion from scam ads.

    Internal documents seen by Reuters show that the social media giant expected to make 10 percent of its overall revenue from running ads for illegal online casinos, fraudulent e-commerce and investment schemes, and banned medical products last year. Platform users are shown an estimated 15 billion “higher risk” scam ads every day.

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    “Theme Packs” are coming to personalize Pixels.

    A new Theme Packs app has appeared on the Google Play Store that says it’ll instantly update the wallpaper, icons, sounds, GIFs, and more on Pixel devices in a single tap. The first seasonal pack is themed around Wicked: For Good, but as Droidlife notes, it’s not ready yet: the app doesn’t do anything if you install it.

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    Theme Pack cosmetic changes coming to Pixel phones.
    Theme Packs look to be an easy way to customize Pixel UI elements without having to manually change everything individually.
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