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YouTube ‘Premium Lite’ subscription offers ad-free viewing for less

The Verge

Premium Lite is currently being tested in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. “In The new “ Premium Lite ” plan was spotted by a user on ResetEra , and YouTube subsequently confirmed the test offering in a statement given to The Verge.

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These 5 simple ideas could fix our food system

Fast Company Tech

Listen to the audio versionread by Julian himselfin the Next Big Idea App. Grazing cattle is sustainable and efficient on the Argentinian Pampas, but not so easily done at scale on the polders of the Netherlands. Below, Julian shares five key insights from his new book, How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy.

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Samsung’s Galaxy S20 is receiving Note 20 features with new One UI update

The Verge

SamMobile reports that the update is already appearing in select European countries including Italy, Hungary, Portugal, and the Netherlands. The notes app is also getting updated, and can now sync audio recordings with written notes. The 5G Galaxy S20, S20 Plus, and S20 Ultra are reportedly among the first to be getting the update.

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South Korean startup Cochlear.ai raises $2 million Series A to detect the sounds missed by speech recognition

TechCrunch

The company was founded in 2017 by a team of six music and audio research scientists, including Han, who completed his PhD in music information retrieval at Seoul National University. Cochlear.ai’s Series A will enable it to build datasets of audio samples more quickly, allowing it to add more sounds to its software. ”

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Bubbles aims to supercharge chats with async video messaging

TechCrunch

Bubbles adds threaded video, audio and text comments to workers’ desktops — an idea that Medema said came to him when he was the CTO at Bloomon, a flower delivery service in the Netherlands. This begins a threaded conversation where participants can comment at and add reactions to specific time codes. .

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What’s the best student laptop? We asked students

The Verge

Audio quality is an important consideration for kids’ laptops. It can be a real struggle to find a place to charge while in class,” says Cas Heemskerk, a sophomore from the Netherlands. Wallace plans to buy Bella a better device in the next few weeks. My own brother scratched my laptop with his nails.”.

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Lenovo’s IdeaPad Slim 7 is a showcase for AMD’s exceptional new processor

The Verge

It’s currently planned for the Netherlands, Germany, and Australia, but Lenovo hasn’t announced pricing yet. On the left are two USB-C ports, one HDMI, and one audio jack; on the right, two USB-A 3.2 A quick caveat: you can’t buy it in the US at this time. So if you’re in those countries, or can ship one from abroad, keep an eye out.

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