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Roku's new free programming gives AI creators a platform for their productions. Whether the public will embrace it remains to be seen,

Over 1 million Game Pass subscribers will have to pay more for their heavy streaming use.

A Ravenloft series is currently in development from executive producer Alfonso Cuarón, writer and executive producer John August, and Hasbro Entertainment, Deadline reports. It could bring to life one of Dungeons & Dragons' most iconic campaign settings, which got an update earlier this year with Ravenloft: The Horrors Within. Netflix's Ravenloft series will reportedly center […]

MrBeast will feature Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in upcoming videos as part of a multi-year partnership with Google. The deal will kick off with a video featuring Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson turning to Gemini for wilderness survival advice: First up on September 5 is a new MrBeast video following Jimmy and his crew […]

OpenAI recently published an engineering account of GPT-Live. It described how they designed the system to maintain continuous voice interaction while separating latency-sensitive media processing from broader application work. The live path contains the media pipeline and inference loop, while delegation, tool use, persistence, and other application logic run behind an asynchronous RPC boundary. By Eran Stiller

What Rebuilding Kafka From Scratch Actually Teaches You There's a gap between using a system and understanding it. Most engineers never close that gap, and honestly, most of the time that's fine. Kafka works. Topics, producers, consumers, pull the levers, ship the data. Done. But then you hit a weird latency spike, or a consumer group stalls in a way that doesn't match the docs, or replication starts behaving like it has feelings. And suddenly "I know the terminology" doesn't cut it anymore. That's exactly why this rebuild post is worth your time. The Abstraction Tax Every framework you use charges you an abstraction tax. The tax isn't the dependency. It's the mental model debt you carry when something goes wrong and you don't know what layer to blame. Kafka's tax is particularly sneaky because its concepts sound simple: topics are channels, partitions are buckets, offsets are counters. You can get productive fast. And then that simplicity starts lying to you. Why does lag spike when throughput looks fine? Why does adding consumers past the partition count do nothing? Why does a rebalance tank your throughput for 30 seconds? These aren't Kafka quirks. They're direct consequences of how the log is actually structured, consequences that become obvious the second you implement it yourself. What the Rebuild Exposes When you write the log append yourself, the offset model stops being abstract. An offset isn't just a cursor, it's a byte position in a segment file. Consumers aren't "reading from a partition," they're replaying a structured log from a known position. Replication isn't a background checkbox, it's a follower explicitly fetching and acknowledging write positions. A few things that tend to click when you go through this kind of exercise: Segment files and retention , Kafka doesn't delete old messages by scanning. It deletes whole segment files once they're past the retention boundary. If you've ever been surprised by how Kafka handles disk, this is why. Why par

If you've lost your Roku remote but would still like to watch something on TV, the Roku mobile app is the answer.

Google's streaming device used to cost $100. Now, it'll set you back $150.

Google raised the price of its 4K streaming box to $149, up $50 from its original $99 price. The new price is currently live at the Google Store and Best Buy, but Amazon appears to still be offering the original price. The price hike comes just a couple of weeks after Google launched its new […]

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If you want to enhance the sound of your AirPods even further, we've got you. Let's dig into some settings that will level up your listening experience.

If your algorithm is out of whack recently, there are things you can do to get it back on track with content you like.

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Resolution isn't the only thing that matters for a quality picture.

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If you're seeing these labels in your music apps and wondering what they do, let this article walk you through how they work.

Annual Apple TV subscriptions get the biggest bump.

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