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Thanks to a new feature in the Samsung SmartThings app, you don’t have to leave the comfort of your home to enjoy a fun karaoke experience with family and friends.
Today, the Korean tech giant announced the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Microphone feature in the SmartThings App. This feature will bring a first-of-its-kind experience to select 2025 Samsung AI-powered Smart TVs and offer a sweet deal with the purchase of a new 2025 Smart TV.
Stingray Karaoke offers its users an expansive library of songs in numerous genres, including Hip-Hop, pop, rock, country, and R&B. The app features an intuitive search feature that allows users to find songs by title, artist, lyrics, or genre in more than 30 languages.
The app features weekly updates, news songs, and specially curated playlists, allowing you to queue up to 100 songs for any special occasion.
Samsung Is Eliminating The Need For Expensive Home Sound Systems For Karaoke Night
Samsung and Stingray Karaoke are taking home entertainment to another level thanks to a brand-new mobile microphone integrated with SmartThings on select 2025 Samsung Smart TVs. This eliminates the need for expensive sound systems to enjoy high-quality karaoke sessions with friends.
For the first time, Stingray Karaoke users can turn their smartphones into microphones, allowing them to sing along to their favorite songs. This is thanks to award-winning mobile technology that “ensures their voice is perfectly mixed in real-time while delivering premium sound through their Samsung TV speakers without delay.”
“Samsung Smart TVs are dynamic entertainment hubs providing tremendous value and access to an ever-expanding ecosystem of experiences,” said Maya Harris, VP & Head of Strategic Partnerships for Samsung’s TV & Mobile Services. “The seamless mobile microphone integration with SmartThings is a brand-new innovation that allows trailblazing partners like Stingray to push the boundaries of interactive entertainment on Tizen, delivering even more immersive and accessible experiences that bring people together in new ways.”
“Partnering with an industry leader in Samsung has allowed us to create a unique and accessible karaoke experience that takes entertainment technology to new heights,” said Eric Boyko, President, Co-Founder and CEO of Stingray. “As we continue to innovate and expand our offerings, we remain dedicated to delivering exceptional innovations to audiences worldwide.”
Here’s How To Get Started Via Samsung:
To jump in, simply select the Samsung Daily+ icon located on the left panel of your Samsung TV Smart Hub, launch the Stingray Karaoke app, and scan the QR code to activate your mobile microphone to start singing along to popular songs across genres and eras.
New 2025 Smart Television owners receive a free six-month trial of Stingray Karaoke, which unlocks the new smart microphone feature and the app’s vast library of more than 100,000 licensed songs.
Owners of 2023 and 2024 Samsung Smart TVs can redeem a free month of Stingray Karaoke. Select the Samsung Daily+ icon on your Samsung TV Smart Hub to redeem the free trial offer and launch the Stingray Karaoke app. A pop-up will appear to grant you access.
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Source: Anna Barclay / Getty / Elon Musk / X
Elon Musk’s time as owner of X, formerly Twitter, is reportedly over, but before you celebrate, it sounds like his slimy tentacles will still be all over the platform.
Spotted on the New York Times, Elon Musk claims he sold X to xAI, the artificial intelligence startup the Tesla chief founded in 2023. Yes, if you’re wondering if there are potential conflicts of interest, you’re not far off in your thinking.
According to the website, it’s an all-stock deal, with xAI valued at $80 billion and the mess that is X worth $30 billion. This is $14 billion cheaper than when Phony Stark reluctantly acquired the platform, then called Twitter, for $44 billion in 2022.
“XAI and X’s futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent,” Musk wrote in his post on X. “The combined company will deliver smarter, more meaningful experiences to billions of people while staying true to our core mission of seeking truth and advancing knowledge.”
Both companies share resources. xAI’s intelligence models are trained based on the data it gathers from posts from X users. The companies also share engineers and the chatbot Grok.
Social Media Thinks Elon Musk Is Money Laundering
Social media has been very skeptical of this proposed deal. “He sold Twitter/X to himself. This is clearly money laundering in 4K,” one user wrote on X.
Another post read, “how do you sell your own company to your own company.”
“We can tell he’s bored because how do you sell your shit to yourself??” said another post.
Yeah, this deal is sketchy. We shall see how it continues to play out. Until then, you can see more reactions in the gallery below.
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Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty / 23andMe
23andMe has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, so what the hell does that mean for DNA records? Users are understandably worried.
Spotted on Newsweek, the genetic testing company 23andMe is going through some financial hard times and had to file for bankruptcy on Sunday, and now the future of the company is looking shaky, leaving many wondering what in the world is going to happen to the database of genetic profiles for the over 15 million people who have signed up for the service.
23andMe is best known for shipping at-home DNA testing kits to customers to help them discover their roots or see if they are predisposed to specific health issues.
Despite initial success, with its peak market valuation reaching $5.8 billion in 2021, the company has experienced financial woes, and its value has dropped $50 million.
Per Newsweek:
“Importantly, this step allows us to continue operating our business while we chart the path forward.”
In a statement given to Newsweek, a spokesperson for 23andMe said: “There are no changes to the way the Company stores, manages, or protects customer data.
“Any buyer will be required to comply with applicable law with respect to the treatment of customer data and any transaction will be subject to customary regulatory approvals, including, as applicable, approvals under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.”
Changes At The Top For 23andMe
Plenty of changes have already taken place at the top as part of the bankruptcy. The company’s co-founder and CEO, Anne Wojcicki, has resigned.
Wojcicki has been trying to purchase all outstanding shares that she doesn’t already control after failing multiple times to take the company private. This has resulted in pushback from the company’s board and the resignation of seven independent directors in September 2024.
She is still pursuing this option.
What Can Customers Do?
Understandably, those who have used the service are worried about what’s going to happen with their genetic data. There are steps you can take for some peace of mind.
According to Newsweek, any 23andmMe customer can request any data about them being held removed.
Other steps include:
Go to the “Settings” section of your profile. Scroll to a section labeled “23andMe Data” at the bottom of the page. Download your data: If you want a copy of your genetic data for personal storage, choose the option to download it to your device before proceeding. Scroll to the “Delete Data” section.
You can see reactions to 23andMe filing for bankruptcy below.
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Source: Pacific Press / Getty / Tesla / Elon Musk / Donald Trump
Donald Trump and his MAGA cult are now all-in on electric cars, specifically, Elon Musk’s crappy Tesla vehicles after the company’s stock continues to take a hit, and sales stall due to him Musk hitching his wagon to the Trump train and being a douche.
Orange Mussolini and his loyal supporters are vowing to buy the once popular, but extremely poorly designed electric car in response to protests of the EV company across the nation in response to Musk’s DOGE ruining federal workers’ lives following unjust mass layoffs in the name of reducing government spending.
Taking to his favorite megaphone, Truth Social, Trump announced he will purchase a Tesla vehicle to show confidence in Musk and his company while incorrectly calling boycotts of Tesla illegal.
Per CNBC:
“I’m going to buy a brand new Tesla tomorrow morning as a show of confidence and support for Elon Musk, a truly great American,” Trump wrote in a post published early Tuesday morning on Truth Social.
Trump said “radical left lunatics” are “illegally and collusively” boycotting Tesla, which the president described as one of the best automakers in the world. This action, Trump said, was meant as an attack on Musk and what he stands for.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1899520772139372904
For those who believe everything Trump says, boycotting companies is not illegal. In 1982, the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment protects American citizens’ rights to protest private businesses.
Elon Musk’s Businesses Are Suffering Globally
Source: ELSA BIYICK / Getty
Anyway, in a recent interview, Musk himself acknowledged that the self-inflicted harm to his businesses was leading to him running them “with great difficulty.” This wouldn’t have been the case if he hadn’t gotten into politics, specifically giving Donald Trump ridiculous amounts of money to ensure his return to the White House.
https://x.com/MirageWL8/status/1898870276315927032
Musk rallied against the people who were buying his vehicles, opting to side with the folks who clowned his cars in the first place because electric vehicles can compare to good old fashioned gasoline-powered cars that ruin the environment and cause climate change that they they constantly deem a hoax, even thought they have seen their houses burn down or be washed away in unprecedented natural disasters.
MAGA Republicans Love Tesla Electric Vehicles All of A Sudden
Now, as we are in the upside down, in an attempt to “own the libs,” following Cheeto Jesus’ footsteps, they are claiming they are getting Teslas to help Musk out and stand with him as he loses billions.
https://x.com/rolandsmartin/status/1899505153239101713
Bruh, the stupidity mixed with hypocrisy is off the chains.
You can see more reactions in the gallery below.
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Source: Alex Wong / Getty / Donald Trump
Donald Trump is on a quest to make America broke again, oops we mean “wealthy again” through tariffs, but he keeps ignoring what economists are trying to get through his thick orange head, regular Americans will feel the pain through their wallets.
Felon 47, for whatever reason, is obsessed with tariffs and believes they are a great tool against our three main trade partners, Canada, China, and Mexico because he feels we are being “ripped off,” in the trade deal he negotiated during his first term.
Trump didn’t waste any time imposing a 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico, but he pulled some back after the stock market reacted negatively. As of this writing, the markets continue to tank due to his bonehead decision.
The Orange Menace imposed an additional 10% tariff on goods from China on top of the 10% tariff he imposed on the country in February. Analysts believe that Trump’s new round of tariffs will make video games and other electronics more expensive and push publishers to abandon physical releases.
https://x.com/ZhugeEX/status/1896897066888278262
GameRant reports that Trump’s tariffs on Mexico could make consoles like the Nintendo Switch 2 more expensive and have other negative implications.
Per GameRant:
Industry experts are particularly concerned about the ripple effects on the video games market. Mat Piscatella, Circana Executive Director and Video Game Industry Analyst, predicts a “sharp downtick” in the number of physical game releases in the United States. Much of the production infrastructure for these games is based in Mexico, and a 25% tariff would disrupt supply chains, increasing manufacturing costs. As a result, retailers may raise prices on both physical and digital games to maintain price parity. “If physical game prices go up, digital games’ MSRPs will likely follow,” Piscatella noted in a recent discussion on Bluesky. He expressed doubts about any positive outcomes for the physical game market in the near future.
Bruh.
During Trump’s first disastrous presidency, the video game industry convinced him to chill and exclude them in the tariffs he placed on Chinese goods, but he has not extended the same grace.
The ESA warned that Trump’s tariffs could significantly harm the video game industry. There are fears that Project 2025, the extreme right-wing playbook that Trump claims he knows nothing about, could somehow interfere with the release of Grand Theft Auto 6 because the language in it suggests possible censorship of games like GTA 6 due to their graphic and violent nature.
This nightmare is just beginning. Brace yourselves, it’s going to be a long four years. You can see reactions in the gallery below.
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Source: Nathan Stirk / Getty / X
Elon Musk is too busy firing and laying off government workers to pay attention to his crappy platform X because it was running like absolute crap on Monday.
X, formerly known as Twitter, has been down for thousands of UK and US users for a good portion of the day. Outage tracking website Downdetector.com reported more than 21,000 incidents of people in the US reporting issues with the platform during the first incident and 10,800 in the UK.
The platform reportedly returned to normal around 2:30 a.m. PT, so the outage lasted about 45 minutes in total.
X wasn’t out of the woods yet. Later in the day, around 6:45 a.m. PT, Downdetector.com reported 8,000 incidents, and the platform eventually went down again minutes later.
The last time X suffered a significant outage like this was in August 2024, with 66% of users reporting issues with the app, website, and server connections.
Since Musk reluctantly acquired the platform for $44 billion and laid off about 80% of its employees, X has been running terribly.
According to the Tesla chief, his company suffered a massive cyberattack.
“There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against 𝕏. We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved,” Musk wrote on his personal X account.
Right now, Musk’s time and attention have been on his DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency), which has been under fire for firing thousands of government employees and shutting down government agencies like USAID as part of the Trunp administration’s efforts to cut government spending and waste. This has been nothing short of the purest of jigs.
X Users Always Deliver The Jokes When The Platform Suffers An Outage
As with every time X goes down, the reactions from users are always hilarious.
“When you think Twitter is down but you can’t go on Twitter to see if #TwitterDown is trending because Twitter is down,” one user on X wrote alongside a GIF of Chandler from the show Friends looking sad while looking out of a window.
https://x.com/jjeonghyeons/status/1899148534735147184
Currently, the platform is up and running again, but we won’t be shocked if it goes down again. You can see more reactions in the gallery below.
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Source: The Washington Post / Getty / Elon MuskWell this doesn’t sound efficient at all. The New York Times reports Elon Musk is definitely getting in gaming time while at his DOGE office.
DOGE is laying off federal workers nationwide to “cut costs” and “shrink government.” While this is happening, Elon Musk, who is in charge or isn’t, depending on who you ask, of the temporary department Trump made a reality via an executive order, is still making sure he is playing Diablo IV, Path of Exile 2, or whatever other game he is cheating at.
According to the New York Times, Musk originally planned to work out of the West Wing in the White House, but found the accommodations unfitting for a rich bozo such as himself referring to it as a “hovel,” decided to set up his gaming rig in the Secretary of War Suite in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building across the street.
“He installed a gaming computer with a giant, curved screen and blinking LED lights, and decorated his desk with a DOGE sign and a MAGA hat,” The New York Times reports. “He also had a DOGE T-shirt emblazoned with a quote from one of his favorite movies, Office Space: ‘What would you say you do here?”
Elon Musk’s Gaming Rig Looks Cheap
Musk’s gaming setup is getting clowned on BlueSky with one person calling out his “appalling cable management,” his curved monitor and the missing period at the end of his “D.O.G.E” sign.
Like his behavior and style, his gaming setup screams tacky, and he seems to be playing it very cheap with his rig. We guess that’s him being efficient with his money because this whole operation he has going on is anything but that.
We wonder how those federal workers who lost their jobs over the last two months feel about two billionaires firing them. One pretending to be president chills at his lame golf club and golfs after throwing a temper tantrum in the Oval Office, while the proxy president, Elon Musk, plays video games on company time and ruins people’s lives.
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Source: Google / Pixel Watch 3
We truly appreciate it when a wearable has a function that could improve or save our lives. Case in point, Google’s Pixel Watch 3 has finally gotten FDA clearance for a first-of-its-kind loss-of-pulse feature.
Earlier this week, the FDA gave Google the green light to roll out the new loss-of-pulse feature on the Pixel Watch 3. As of Fall 2024, the feature is already available in the EU.
According to Google, the opt-in feature can “detect loss of pulse and prompt a call to emergency services to provide care if you are unresponsive,” turning your or your loved one’s Pixel Watch 3 into a potential lifesaving device.
Google says the feature will begin rolling out in the coming weeks.
Per the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation website, out-of-hospital-cardiac arrests account for nearly 356,000 deaths each year in the U.S., the rollout of the loss-of-pulse feature onto wearables could significantly reduce that number.
Loss of Pulse Detection is the latest addition to potentially lifesaving tools from Google. Here is how it all came together:
Powered by a multi-check, AI-based algorithm and the multipath heart rate sensor in Pixel Watch 3, the feature can identify a potential loss of pulse and prompt a call to emergency services if the user is unresponsive.
Google rigorously tested the algorithm over hundreds of thousands of hours of data to strike the right balance between sensitivity to an event and reducing the number of potential false notifications to emergency services.
They also collaborated with a diverse range of experts, from cardiologists and global resuscitation authorities to frontline EMS professionals, including dispatchers and paramedics, to ensure effectiveness and real-world applicability.
The Pixel Watch 3 is now available for $349.99 and comes in four color options. You can purchase one here.
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Source: NurPhoto / Getty / Skype
Do you remember Skype? We are sure not many of you do, but it was once the most popular way people conducted free video chats with each other before Zoom and other apps came along. For those who do, we are sad to announce that Microsoft has decided to retire it.
Microsoft, which acquired the free video calling service for an eye-watering $8.5 billion in 2011, announced via a post on X, formerly Twitter, that it is sunsetting Skype and telling users to migrate to a free version of Microsoft Teams.
Since its inception, Skype has gone from being a platform for video calling that was so popular that it became a verb to now being a relic of the tech past thanks to the arrival of FaceTime, WhatsApp, Zoom, and Slack.
In a blog post, Microsoft said the decision to kill Skype was “to streamline our free consumer communications offerings so we can more easily adapt to customer needs.”
Speaking to CNBC about Skype, Jeff Teper, president of Microsoft 360 apps and platforms said that the company “learned a lot from Skype over the years. … But we felt like now is the time because we can be simpler for the market, for our customer base, and we can deliver more innovation faster just by being focused on Teams.”
Social Media Thinks Skype Fumbled The Bag Epically
The reactions to the news aren’t surprising. Many believe that Microsoft let Zoom and other clients steal its thunder, especially during the pandemic when video chatting was a necessity for social distancing.
“Skype had a 17 year headstart and cracked under pressure in 2020,” one user on X, formerly Twitter wrote.
Another user noted Skype’s importance to older people because it’s all they know and migrating to a new service could be a headache for them.
“This is shocking,” another user named Maphry wrote in a post on X. “There are so many elderly who are not happy to change technologies anymore, but are used to this one over decades to keep in touch with their loved ones. It will require a lot of effort (usually by their families) to bring them over to alternatives.”
No lies detected.
Welp, Skype had a good run, you can see more reactions in the gallery below.
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This iPhone issue doesn’t sound like a bug to us, but Apple is treating it as such. A viral TikTok video shows the iPhone’s dictation tool displaying Trump when someone says “racist.”
Spotted on The Verge, Apple is aware of the so-called bug after the viral TikTok caught fire on social media on Tuesday. In a statement to both the New York Times and Fox News, the company confirmed the bug: “We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers dictation, and we are rolling out a fix as soon as possible.”
The Verge has tried to reproduce the bug, but it did not happen during their attempts.
According to Apple, the issue involves what the company describes as a “phonetic overlap” between “Trump” and “Racist.” However, according to someone who was part of the Siri team, this smells like a well-orchestrated prank from someone who worked at Apple.
Per The Verge:
The company told Fox News that other words with an “r” consonant are also occasionally affected. But John Burkey, who formerly worked on the Siri team at Apple, told the Times that Trump’s name appearing “smells like a serious prank” that could have been purposefully carried out by someone internally.
Apple is seemingly scrambling to fix the issue because it happened after Apple announced it would be investing $500 billion in the United States to help alleviate the pain Orange Mussolini’s stupid tariffs will inflict on the company.
There is already a 10% tariff on imported goods from China and a 25% tariff on chips coming into the United States.
Also, Tim Cook already kissed Donald Trump’s ring, personally donated to Trump’s inauguration fund and attended the sh*t show.