iPhone in Canada: Cheaper Ad-Free YouTube Premium Lite Plan Debuts in U.S.
YouTube has officially launched its more affordable subscription tier, Premium Lite, in the U.S., offering users an ad-free viewing experience on most videos for $7.99 per month.
The move aims to provide a budget-friendly alternative to the standard YouTube Premium plan, which is priced at $13.99 per month.
Premium Lite is designed for users who primarily consume non-music content on YouTube. Subscribers to this plan can enjoy ad-free viewing on a wide range of videos, including those related to gaming, comedy, cooking, and learning.
Doesn’t include downloading or music content.
iPhone in Canada: Digg Rises from the Dead: Reddit Co-Founder Joins Comeback
Tech pioneers Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian have acquired Digg, the once-popular social news platform, with plans to bring it back.
Rose, who founded Digg in 2004, and Ohanian, who co-founded Reddit, are aiming to revive the site as a place for genuine online communities in an era of social media clutter and misinformation. Seeing Rose team up with Ohanian was not something we had on our Bingo card in 2025. Digg owned the internet back in the early 2000s, but a design change in 2010 drove its user base to Reddit instead.
Wow! I haven’t thought of Digg in ages! It used to be regular viewing for me to watch the Kevin Rose – Other Guy couch discussion.
Neal.fun: Internet Artifacts
I accidentally stumbled down a rabbit hole. Went from manton.org ⇢ Sven Dahlstrand ⇢ Neil.fun ⇢ Internet artifacts
MacRumors: Apple Announces New MacBook Air With M4 and ‘Sky Blue’ Color Option
Apple today announced refreshed 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air models, now featuring the M4 chip, an upgraded camera, and a new “Sky Blue” color option.
Wikipedia: Richard S. Sutton
Sutton is considered one of the founders of modern computational reinforcement learning, having several significant contributions to the field, including temporal difference learning and policy gradient methods.
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2025, he received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery together with Andrew Barto.
NYT: Aging Women’s Brain Mysteries Are Tested in Trio of Studies
Women’s brains are superior to men’s in at least in one respect – they age more slowly. And now, a group of researchers reports that they have found a gene in mice that rejuvenates female brains.
Humans have the same gene. The discovery suggests a possible way to help both women and men avoid cognitive declines in advanced age.
The study was published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances. The journal also published two other studies on women’s brains, one on the effect of hormone therapy on the brain and another on how age at the onset of menopause shapes the risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease.
NYT: Why Aging Experts Are Obsessed With ‘Health Span’
Trying to stay healthy into old age is a better goal than attempting to live as long as possible.
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There are currently two main ways experts think we may be able to extend our health spans. The first is by adopting everyday healthy behaviors we already know we should be engaging in: exercising regularly, eating nutritious food, getting good sleep and investing in our social bonds. The second is using more experimental approaches that target cellular processes involved with aging through drugs, genetic manipulations or extreme diets.
NYT: Don’t Let Daylight Saving Time Ruin Your Sleep
In fact, this can create a monthslong mismatch between our internal clocks and our school and work schedules, leaving many people chronically short on sleep, said Dr. James Rowley, a spokesman for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. This is why the organization supports the elimination of daylight saving time altogether, he added.
This is the single thing that I agree with Donald Trump on: it’s time to get rid of DST.
Last Updated: 05.Mar.2025 23:50 EST
