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The hype cycle running face-first into reality
Jonathan Maze writing for Restaurant Business: McDonald's Is Ending Its Drive-Thru AI Test
McDonald’s is ending its
Matt Birchler
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Microsoft vs. their robot on what “freeware” is
Sean Endicott: Ever Put Content on the Web? Microsoft Says That It's Okay for Them to Steal It
The empowering nature of a general interface
There's been some chatter for a while that the chatbot interfaces we have for LLMs today are not
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Get wrecked, Perplexity
Elizabeth Lopatto writing for The Verge: Perplexity’s Grand Theft AI (emphasis mine):
“Someone else did it” is a fine
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A couple reasons I think big games on iPads and iPhones aren't setting the world on fire
Malcolm Owen for AppleInsider: Why AAA Games Promoted by Apple Flop in the App Store
Assassin's Creed Mirage
The public web and consent
This blog exists on the public web, and that means you as a user have a lot of control over
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RCS is rolling out to iOS 18 beta users (as long as you’re on a major carrier)
Filipe Espósito writing for 9to5Mac: US carriers enabling RCS for iPhone users running iOS 18 beta 2
Now it seems
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Preparing for the Era of Orchestrated Apps
Jason Snell on Six Colors: Preparing for the Era of Orchestrated Apps
When everything is orchestrated properly, all the capabilities
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Digital price tags are a good thing
Jason Kottke: Walmart Is Switching to Electronic Price Tags
Walmart is switching to electronic price tags that “allow employees to
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My honest feelings about the Vision Pro after nearly 5 months
I’m closing in on 5 months with the Vision Pro and I thought it was a good time to
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This might be why the Vision Pro doesn’t get Apple Intelligence
John Gruber: WWDC 2024: Apple Intelligence
[A]ccording to well-informed little birdies, Vision Pro is already making significant use of
How I built one of the biggest BIN lookup sites in the world, and how it was killed
Below is a lightly-edited transcript of a talk I gave recently at work where I walked through the story of
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How many Mac users use Safari? Diving into the numbers nearly drove me mad. (members post)
It seems like such a simple question, and I thought I had an answer, but I wasn't even close. Today we dive down the rabbit hole and try to get to an answer.
You get the good and the bad
I posted this on Mastodon, showing Perplexity, which is a search engine that says it will browse the web for
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Incomplete thought: Why “Pixar isn’t good anymore” doesn't vibe with me (members post)
Why does it feel like Pixar movies aren't as significant as they used to feel? Is Pixar just making bad movies, or is something else to blame?
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Apple Podcasts transcriptions rock, and they could rock even harder
Ari Saperstein writing for The Guardian: Accessible and ‘A Pleasure to Read’: How Apple’s Podcast Transcriptions Came to Be
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We’ve all gotten pretty loose with the term “Sherlocked” these days
Ivan Mehta for TechCrunch: The Apps That Apple Sherlocked at WWDC 2024
In 2002, Apple released Sherlock 3 with features
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Living that beta life (members post)
Why the hell do I do this to myself every year?!