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The Messy-Contacts Edition Sunday, May 14, 2023

Marissa Mayer Wants To Reinvent Your Contacts, by Lance Ulanoff, TechRadar

The premise behind Mayer’s two-year-old project is simple: rescue contact management from neglect. Make collecting, keeping, and sharing contacts easy. Make updating them automatic, and do it all with a combination of pattern-matching, crowdsourcing, heuristics, and – inevitably and increasingly – AI.

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On a more practical level, though, Mayer added “We need to get contacts right. Right now, everyone’s contacts are a mess.”

Beats Studio Buds+ With New Transparent Design Spotted At Best Buy, by Joe Rossignol, MacRumors

Apple’s rumored Beats Studio Buds+ have already arrived to at least one Best Buy location, according to a photo shared by tech enthusiast and former leaker Ben Geskin. The box confirms the earbuds will have a transparent design option like the Nothing Ear (2) earbuds, and longer 36-hour battery life with the included USB-C charging case.

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MLS Season Pass Free Trial Debuts From Apple TV, by Christopher Harris, World Soccer Talk

Major League Soccer and Apple TV have debuted a one-month free trial to MLS Season Pass. It’ll give soccer fans an opportunity to test drive the streaming subscription service.

Sofa Is A List-making App For Escaping Endless Netflix Scrolling, by Kevin Lynch, iMore

The app helps organize your downtime, letting you curate and organize lists of movies, TV, music, books, podcasts, apps and video games that you fancy checking out when time allows.

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Please Let Me Monetize My Hobbies, by Naveen Arunachalam

Please, let me monetize my hobbies. After all, what’s the point of doing something purely for fun when I could be making money off it?

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I am doing my hobby projects -- one of which you are reading right now -- because they calm me down. They relax me. They are something I know how to do… or rather, I think I know how to do. There are no right or wrong, and I don't usually have to make other people happy with what I do here.

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