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The past decade has been a journey for Olof Dreijer. In 2014 he and his sibling Karin disbanded their avant-pop duo the Knife at the height of their fame, and the Swedish producer found himself reckoning with his creative future. “I was spending my time doing a lot of youth work and activism and the tracks I was releasing weren’t in my own name,” Dreijer says over a video call from his home in Stockholm. “I wasn’t sure if I would continue working professionally in music.”Having already released a slew of eerie,…

Want a handheld gaming PC? I wouldn’t recommend the $650 Lenovo Legion Go over a Steam Deck. Windows 11 isn’t nearly as convenient and portable as Valve’s Steam OS for playing Windows games on the go. Even Microsoft knows that.But even if it’s not the best portable game console, it’s a nifty portable PC that can absolutely play games. For the right kind of Windows gadgeteer, the Lenovo Legion Go might narrowly be worth the cash.Though it’s roughly the same price as an Asus ROG Ally, Lenovo’s 8.8-inch portable has all…

Samsung’s latest smartphone packs a plethora of the latest flashy AI tools in an attempt to improve text, images, video and search – with both hits and misses.The new Galaxy S24 Ultra comes equipped with a combination of Samsung and Google’s latest AI layered on top of one of the most capable phones on the market, filled to the brim with competition-beating specs.All this capability comes at a steep £1,249 (€1,469/$1,299.99/A$2,199), which is the same price as its predecessor in the UK but more expensive in the US and…

A coalition of more than two dozen digital and democratic rights groups, NGOs and not-for-profits, including noyb and Wikimedia Europe, have written to the European Union’s regulatory body for data protection urging it to reject a tactic that’s been controversially seized upon by Meta in its latest bid to circumvent the bloc’s privacy laws. If the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) fails to move against so-called “consent or pay” approaches to processing citizens’ personal data it will create a fatal loophole in…

The Deepin desktop environment makes blendOS a thing of beauty. Jack Wallen/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysblendOS is available now to download and install for free.This is a great immutable desktop operating system for those who know what they're doing and want the best of all possible worlds in one platform.Users new to Linux need not apply.I've seen just about every attempt at making something unique with Linux and, every once in a while, something really leaves a mark. This time around, that something is…

The most promising places to look for life beyond Earth might not be Mars but icy moons orbiting gas giants. Saturn’s moon Enceladus has just climbed the list, as NASA data reveals it’s home to a molecule thought to be key to the origin of life, and suggests there’s more chemical energy for life to chow down on than we thought.Enceladus might not seem too inviting – it looks like a big snowball. But beneath that icy shell is a deep global ocean that’s surprisingly cosy for life thanks to hydrothermal vents and, it turns…

In “Silent Night,” the new holiday movie from action auteur John Woo, a grief-stricken, revenge-minded father hunts down the gang members who shot his child on Christmas Eve. In ‘It’s a Wonderful Knife,” the teen heroine wishes at Christmas that she’d never been born, and discovers that a serial killer she’d killed in her real life is still very much alive in her alternative timeline. Yep, it’s time for a new slate of Christmas-themed horror films and action movies in theaters or streaming at home. Joel Kinnaman as…

Here is a classic example of a film you root for, fervently willing it to be brilliant. It’s got Joel McHale from Community in it – great. It’s got Justin Long committing to a bit as a Trump-style property baron with blond hair and spray tan – fabulous. Even more exciting: there’s a role for Katharine Isabelle, star of beloved turn-of-the-century horror comedy Ginger Snaps, as a cool lesbian aunt.The premise is fun, too: a loose remake of It’s a Wonderful Life as a comedy-horror about a teenage girl called Winnie…

Digital Audio Workstations, or DAWs, have condensed professional-grade recording studios into software apps any clown can run on their computer or mobile device. Between DAWs, audio interfaces and decent-quality consumer microphones, professional-grade audio is now fully democratized and accessible to the masses. Well, to a certain extent; modern DAWs can absolutely achieve fully professional results, but learning how to drive these colossal pieces of software is a very deep rabbit hole, and they can be pretty…

As Africa’s youthful population continues to grow exponentially, it’s of the utmost importance that entrepreneurs create various healthcare solutions that will cater to the medical needs of the continent’s future. While the pandemic made investors pay attention to Africa’s private healthcare space, women’s health — a subcategory dominated by women founders that broadly addresses women’s menstrual and reproductive health — is subtly neglected. Yet, considering other emerging markets have set a precedent, it’s only a…