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While Amazon-owned Audible dominates the audiobook market, it’s far from the only player in town.
If you’ve been looking to explore beyond Amazon’s offerings, there’s a world of alternatives waiting to be discovered. Whether you’re seeking better prices, different content libraries, or unique features, these five Audible alternatives are worth your attention.

Is there anything more annoying than finding yourself stuck in a place where your phone’s data connection isn’t working—or, if you’re on a pay-for-what-you-use mobile plan, realizing you’re burning through mountains of mobile data when a password-protected Wi-Fi network is right nearby and taunting you with its speedy stream of unlimited internet goodness?
Today, I want to introduce you to a power pack of tools that’ll banish those Wi-Fi woes to the past. They’ll eliminate frustrat
The rise of generative AI chatbots has ushered in powerful new tools to help us get work done more efficiently. The technology has also introduced a slew of new terms into our lexicon, such as corpus and prompt engineer. But recently, another term has been popping up: “answer engine.”
But just

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Intel’s push into software is going well and the company could have cumulative software revenue of $1 billion by the end of 2027, Chief Technology Officer Greg Lavender told Reuters.
Intel made north of $100 million in software revenue in 2021, the year Lavender was brought in from cloud computing company VMware by CEO Pat Gelsinger to steer the chipmaker’s software strategy. Since then,

The European Union said Friday that blue checkmarks from Elon Musk’s X are deceptive and that the online platform falls short on transpare

When two octogenarian buddies named Nick discovered that ChatGPT might be stealing and repurposing a lifetime of their work, they tapped a son-in-law to sue the companies behind the artificial intelligence chatbot.
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Jagat Pun finds that working as a delivery driver is becoming harder and harder.
Pun spends his days zipping around New York City delivering Uber Eats orders, a job he’s done since 2020. But recently he’s had to work through the added burden of extreme heat, which makes waiting outside on sidewalks with no shade, navigating streets, and climbing up multiple flights of stairs in pre-war buildings all the harder.
“I get scared when the weather is really bad, but there’
