Tim Wu for the New York Times : Mergers Like JetBlueās Proposed Acquisition of Spirit Usually Turn Out to Be Bad A comprehensive meta-analysis of 50 studies covering more than 3,000 contested mergers in the United States in recent decades found that āmost studied mergers result in competitive harm,
Andrew Webster for The Verge: Zach Gageās Puzzmo gets acquired as the newspaper games space heats up As part of the deal, Gage and Therox will continue to develop Puzzmo, which currently operates as a website, with a mobile app in the works. But Puzzmo will also begin rolling
Let just jump into a bunch of micro-reviews of the video games I played this year, in the general order that they came out. Dead Space This remake of the 2008 original was a master class in video game horror. I hadnāt played the original, but this was not
Matt Growcoot: 'One in a Million' iPhone Photo Shows Three Versions of the Same Woman Standing in front of two large mirrors, Tessa Coatesā reflection does not return the same pose that she is making, and not only that, but both reflections are different from each other and different from
Mike Masnick: Muskās Faulty Vision Of āFree Speechā Is Driving Speech Off ExTwitter I mean, itās not like we didnāt warn Elon Musk. Free speech is not about creating a single private space where everyone gets to speak, because that doesnāt support free speech. It enables
Without question, this is the most minor Apple Watch upgrade Iāve ever experienced personally (the Series 7 to 8 upgrade was tiny as well, but I never bought the Series 8). There are a few upgrades here that Iāll knock out quickly, and then Iāll discuss my
Lloyd Alter: How 'Skeuomorphism' Is Making U.S. Roads More Deadly ā Streetsblog USA The electric car revolution is a golden opportunity to redesign the vehicle from the ground up to make it smaller and safer. Instead, as Alissa Walker wrote in Curbed, [ā]If āpetro-masculinityā defined the past decade, as oversized,
CSS { In Real Life } | Stop Using AI-Generated Images By choosing AI-generated images over those made by a human, editors are taking away one of the only sources of income available to those entering the field. I recently stopped using Midjourney and DALL-E generated images for header images on this site.
iA Writer 7 is out today, and itās a $50 one-time purchase on the Mac, and another $50 purchase for the iPhone/iPad version. Theyāve been leading up to this release for a week now with a series of posts about AI and writing. 1. No Feature 2.
Jason Koebler: Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family A new feature, called āDiscover Together,ā expands social aspects of Plex and introduces an āActivityā tab: āSee what your friends have watched, rated, added to their Watchlist, or shared with you,ā Plex notes. It
Marianne Garvey for CNN: Robert De Niro claims his speech was censored by the Gotham Awards and Apple: āHow dare they do thatā āThe beginning of my speech was edited, cut out and I didnāt know about it. And I want to read it,ā De Niro, prompting cheers from
Hereās a quote from Sports Illustrated in Maggie Harrisonās Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers: Today, an article was published alleging that Sports Illustrated published AI-generated articles. According to our initial investigation, this is not accurate. The articles in question were product reviews and were licensed
Oliver Reichenstein writing for iA: No feature AI is a danger if you resign yourself to it and delegate all thinking to AI. AI is an opportunity if you use the extra processing power it can give us to think deeper, better, clearer. I really appreciate iA and I believe
Jim Norman: Ocarina Of Time's Deku Tree Dungeon Is Still My All-Time Top Gaming Moment | Nintendo Life Prior to that very moment, my childhood had been filled with "get down from the top of that tree," "maybe we shouldn't burn things," and "let's not jump into that hole, even if
Sometimes you post something to social media and it escapes your friend group and goes some level of viral. This leads to tons of people who don't know you seeing something you posted. They likely have zero context over who you are or what you believe. They don't know if