Scene & Heard: Festival Of Tables

Have you ever wished your PC could handle tedious daily tasks for you? Thanks to Power Automate in Windows 11, it's possible to put your computer to work for you. Here's how I use it to automate my repetitive day-to-day activities and boost my productivity.

Three days before his new pizza shop was set to open in Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe, Jake Rothey was blending edamame into plant-based ricotta, accepting a 10-pound case of blue oyster mushrooms and detailing his love of down-to-earth dining, all at the same time. One of the naturally leavened pizzas at The PZA, a new takeout-and-delivery focused shop in Denver.

I use AI audio generators to spark inspiration or even craft entire compositions, but I’ve learned they come with hidden pitfalls.

Dear Eric: My former best friend and longtime housemate is a serial monogamist and cannot go a couple weeks without being in a long-term relationship, usually having no more than two to three weeks in between very serious relationships. This friend disappears fully into relationships with people who aren’t good to him, and it’s impossible to get him to respond to invitations to hang out. After months of initiating plans, and rarely hearing back, I decided to take a step back from it due to incredible initiation fatigue. He will occasionally call me and say he misses me and wants to grab lunch.

For the last two years, Spotify has offered users the chance to create a Playlist In a Bottle. This is a kind of musical time capsule which you fill with songs one year, ready to open the next year. And if you were forward-thinking enough to create a Playlist In a Bottle in 2024, it's now ready and waiting to be opened.

Whether you’re watching a home video, a movie, or a TV series, subtitles are useful to understand what’s going on on your screen. However, it can be difficult to find the right subtitles for your movies and shows, and your own recorded videos likely has no subtitles at all. Thankfully, Video LAN, the makers of VLC media player, introduced a new AI tool that will solve this at CES 2025.