Author: Awais
2025 is wrapping up, and honestly, the only good part about this stretch of the year is finally getting our Spotify Wrapped. Unfortunately, I wasn’t nearly as excited about it last time. Even though last year’s Wrapped had a few interesting touches, like the NotebookLM podcast, it still felt pretty underwhelming. But Wrapped 2025 just dropped, and it completely restored my faith in the whole thing. Wrapped 2025 is more interactive and personal than ever As announced via Spotify’s For the Record blog, Wrapped 2025 has officially dropped. You can view it right now by heading to the Spotify mobile…
When former Epicurious staffer Kendra Vaculin tried these elegant Bombay Rolls, she proclaimed, “I never want to be without a batch.” In line with this sentiment, a reader also reports, “My taste buds are singing!” Overflowing with hot green chutney and sharp cheddar, the spicy, buttery wheels are adored by all.The recipe comes from London-based cook and author Meera Sodha. Known for her weekly column at The Guardian, Sodha routinely shares scrumptious vegan offerings. Her work has appeared widely, in places like Food & Wine, The New York Times, Food52, and, of course, Bon Appétit and Epicurious, just to name…
[Submitted on 13 Aug 2025 (v1), last revised 2 Dec 2025 (this version, v2)] View a PDF of the paper titled GeoMAE: Masking Representation Learning for Spatio-Temporal Graph Forecasting with Missing Values, by Songyu Ke and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:The ubiquity of missing data in urban intelligence systems, attributable to adverse environmental conditions and equipment failures, poses a significant challenge to the efficacy of downstream applications, notably in the realms of traffic forecasting and energy consumption prediction. Therefore, it is imperative to develop a robust spatio-temporal learning methodology capable of extracting meaningful insights from incomplete datasets.…
Customer service and marketing are AI’s biggest use cases in retailInventory management and supply chain are a big focus looking aheadAI maturity is actually very low – this is a largely untapped and poised for big growthMore than two in three (70%) retailers are piloting or have partially implemented agentic AI with as many (71%) expecting the tech to help improve operational efficiency as soon as next year, according to a new Fluent Commerce report.However, although 12% have already seen a strong impact, only 8% have fully deployed AI across their operations.Presenting a further challenge, only 5% consider their AI…
It appears details of Samsung’s upcoming One UI 8.5 update have been leaked, revealing the wave of new features the software installment will likely bring to your current Galaxy handset – and potentially what the Galaxy S26 series will launch with. The information was posted on X by leaker Tarun Vats (via Android Police), who claims to have exclusively got hold of the One UI 8.5 changelog detailing what appears to be pretty much every change. While we can’t be sure this leak is accurate, take what it reveals with a pinch of salt, it does appear to fall in…
hosting platform for your own website, where you can showcase your portfolio and other useful resources about yourself. Before making my switch, I had been using WordPress for about 1 year, and I started thinking about a few things that were difficult when using WordPress: Creating the website – It was hard to achieve the design I wanted Slow – Creating and updating in WordPress is slow because it’s a drag-and-drop editor Lack of flexibility – you have to use premade components. Alternatively, you can use custom HTML code, but you then still have to copy the code over, which…
Uber has made a big push to offer robotaxis as an option for its rideshare services in more markets this year. Starting today, the company is offering autonomous vehicles as an option for customers in Dallas. The move is in partnership with Avride.At the start, the AVs providing rides will have a person in the front seat, but Uber plans to have fully driverless operation “in the future.” The company will have a small fleet of Avride’s Hyundai Ioniq 5 vehicles to start, but it plans to eventually have hundreds of these AVs working in Dallas. Riders can set their…
PSVR 2 deals have been particularly amazing over the past couple of weeks, and there’s still time to get Sony’s latest VR headset at a lowest ever price in the US and UK. Get the PlayStation VR2 Horizon Call of The Mountain Bundle at Amazon US for just $299 (was $399.99).• Shop Amazon’s full Holiday salesThat’s not the only strong PSVR 2 post-Cyber Monday deal, though, as UK gamers can also get in on the action. If you head over to Sony, you can grab the headset and a copy of the excellent Horizon Call of the Mountain for just…
If you’re a fast food expert, you know that it can feel like the United States misses out on the best releases from our go-to chains. From a Kit Kat quesadilla at Taco Bell to fried pickles at KFC, it’s hard not to feel like other countries’ fast food offerings are more fun, creative, and well, just plain better. And nothing makes that stark contrast more evident than Japanese convenience stores. While we may have Buc-ee’s Beaver Nuggets, Wawa hoagies, and Casey’s pizza, our national convenience store chains are generally lacking in the food department. Yes, the roller dogs and…
Google’s AI Overviews have reshaped search almost overnight. For paid search marketers, the fight for above-the-fold visibility is no longer just about ad rank – it’s now a push to appear above the AI result itself. This shift follows the rapid surge in AI Overviews that Adthena highlighted in our previous study. That analysis showed AI Overviews quickly moving beyond informational queries and into shorter, high-volume commercial searches. The mechanism behind this decline is clear: AI Overviews intercept attention, cut click-through rates (CTRs), and push both organic and paid listings lower on the page. The result: fewer clicks and less…