Llama Group, the company that owns the well-known music player Winamp and the music platform Jamendo, has taken legal action against NVIDIA and AI music startup Suno. NVIDIA and Suno are accused of using Jamendo’s music catalog without permission to train their AI models. The issue was discovered at the end of 2024 when Jamendo’s community pointed out articles online that suggested NVIDIA and Suno were using its licensed music for their AI training datasets....

The open-source release of Winamp, a popular audio player, has gone particularly badly. It has been deleted from GitHub, possibly due to the controversy and confusion surrounding it. Llama Group, the current owner of Winamp,released the source codein September 2024. After many issues, Llama Group deleted the entire Winamp repository from GitHub. This comes after a lot of issues that show Llama Group didn’t really understand what was involved with putting the software on GitHub....

Quick Links In the early “Wild West” days of Android, to really make your phone yours, you needed to root it. But times have changed. Many features that once required rooting are now baked right into Android or through third-party apps. 1Take Screenshots It might seem crazy now, buttaking a screenshot wasn’t always a simple button press away. Early Android versions made you jump through hoops, often requiring plugging your phone into a computer....

Venus, the second planet from the Sun, has a thick, opaque atmosphere, preventing optical-based telescopes and orbiting space probes from observing its surface. This didn’t prevent Earth’s scientists from mapping the planet’s surface; they used radar to unveil what’s below Venus’s clouds. 1Venus is a Victim of a Rampant Greenhouse Effect Venus’s atmosphere is made mostly of carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gasses that traps heat and causes the greenhouse effect....

Quick Links Everyone knows what a laptop looks like, right? Well, the classic clamshell we all know and love today didn’t start out that way, and laptop makers are still trying to reinvent the wheel to this day. As a case in point, here are 10 of the wildest attempts at messing with the laptop form factor. 1Toshiba Libretto W100 I debated whether this should go on the list at all because laptops with two screens and no keyboard are having a bit of renaissance lately, but in the context of the time the W100 from Toshiba was releasedback in 2010no one could take it seriously....

Quick Links Apple Messages seems to get new or improved features with every release of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. This frequency of additions makes it easy to miss one, so here are several features you might have overlooked. All features are available whenmessaging Apple users with iMessage. Some features arecompatible with other types of deviceslike Android phones but may appear or work a bit differently. Edit Recently Sent Messages New as ofiOS 16,iPadOS 16, andmacOS Ventura, you canedit a text messagefor up to 15 minutes after you send it....

To get the most out of a smart speaker, you may need to adjust the way you approach daily tasks. Treat your smart speaker like a true assistant and offload whatever tasks you can, to avoid breaking your concentration and becoming distracted from the task at hand. Most of these tasks will work with most smart speakers on the market. We used Google Assistant, Alexa and Siri to test most of these....

Google Search has changed a lot over the years—unsurprising for a 25+ year-old service. What started as a barebones search engine optimized for speed has evolved into something that’s much, much more. In 2012, though, Google Search saw one of its biggest transformative changes. On May 16th, 2012, Googleintroduced the world to the “Knowledge Graph.“It’s hard to remember a time before Google filled every corner of the screen with information, but that was mostly the case before the Knowledge Graph arrived....

Is your backlog of games not quite long enough? Lucky you, since we have three more indie games to add to your library. This month we’ve got a retro-inspired driving game, a laid-back but dark city-builder, and the best new survival crafter of the last few years. 1FUMES Released in early access on July 29,FUMESis a single-player vehicular combat game that’s unapologetically retro. It’s the kind of game that doesn’t really get made anymore, ever since the genre fell out of favor in the late 90s and early 2000s....

Summary If you’re looking for a specific file in a folder full of many files, you may use file previews to see a file’s contents without opening it. You have multiple ways to do this on your Windows 11 PC, and I’ll show you what those ways are. Preview Files in File Explorer’s Right Sidebar Using Preview Pane Windows 11’s built-in File Explorer app offers a preview pane feature that allows you to see your files’ previews within the file manager....

Do you have old Wii Remotes lying around your house? Well, it’s a good thing you didn’t throw them away years ago. Thanks to modern software, those Wii Remotes can live a new life on your desk in several fun and unique ways. WithWiinUPro, you can make your Wii Remote act like a mouse (or keyboard) within Windows. While it won’t scroll around your screen like a mouse (without some extra fiddling, and even then it’s hit or miss), you’ll be able to easily make the buttons do anything you want....

Quick Links After years of streaming music, I realized it’s not my favorite way to listen to music. To me, the best way to listen to music is offline, through physical media like CDs, cassettes, and vinyl records, or by buying digital tracks and albums to listen to offline. Here are some reasons I prefer to keep my music listening offline. 1If I Buy the Music, I Own It The age of streaming, while convenient, brought with it the issue of licensing....

Quick Links Samsung DeX is fun and reliable enough that I’m able to do all of my desktop-related tasks from a docked phone! Still, while I’ve already gone all-in on DeX, that doesn’t mean there aren’t improvements I’d like to see. 1Support for Multiple Monitors Many of us are accustomed to working on a laptop (or even a tablet) these days. I count myself among these people. Yet I’ve noticed that when colleagues say they need an external monitor to be productive, they often want more than one....