Today on the 5: I saw a news item about Amazon retiring the "Try Before You Buy" program at the end of this month. It's the latest in a series of small moves that are changing some things about the shopping site that make it more in line with traditional stores.

Today on the 5: I picked up the 1960 film The Playgirls And The Vampire a while ago, but only got around to watching it this weekend. It wasnt quite what I expected it to be, which in this case is probably a good thing.

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Today on the 5: Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Meta is ending third party fact checking on their platforms. The CEO claimed that this move would benefit end users, and I he may be right...just not in the way he thinks.

Today on the 5: Some of you may remember that in 2019 Apple placed an ad at CES touting their dedication to user privacy on their own devices. I'm not sure if the company would run that same ad today.

Today on the 5: Yesterday Dell announced that the XPS, Inspiron, Latitude and Precision computer lines are being retired. While surpising, it's both long overdue and a strange ending of an era in computing.

Today on the 5: Thanks to a wonderful B movie account over on Bluesky, I decided to watch a movie from 1983 titled Endgame. It's a wonderfully low budget slice of Itlian ripoff filmmaking.

Tonight Ant Pruitt returns to talk with me about the recent Adobe MAX Creativity Conference. We're going to talk about the major keynotes and the experiments that Adobe is working on to boost what creators can do. Show music by OGRE. Support the show!

Today on the 5: I came across an article over at Ars Technica about the issues around the deployment of passkeys as an alternative to passwords. It reminded me of whjy I've opted not to use them and why I generally wouldn't recommend themn to most people.

Today on the 5: There are rumors that Apple is working on a folding tablet of some kind, possibly like two iPads glued together. The company is apparently confident it can create this product without a crease along the fold, which might be much more vital than most people realize.