AirDrop* comes to the Pixel 10
Google is really going out of their way to make their Pixel line as compatible with iPhones as possible. Today, the company announced an update available immediately for Pixel 10 devices (others coming later) that allows their Quick Share feature to work seamlessly with AirDrop on iPhones, iPads, and Macs.
According to the company'
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👏🏻 Arc 👏🏻 was 👏🏻 massively 👏🏻 influential 👏🏻
Yesterday, OpenAI pushed an update to their new ChatGPT Atlas browser that added a few nice features, most notably vertical tabs on the side of the browser window. And of course they would, right? This was technically a thing in some highly-customizable browsers like Vivaldi for years before, but Arc really made them mainstream
A new decade begins (omg I'm 40, someone send help!)
Today I turn 40 years old. It's a fun age because I know for a fact some people reading that line will feel sorry for me that I'm so advanced in age, while in others it will spark jealousy as they remember how good it was to be this age. I&
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AI as an accelerant, not a replacement
Christopher Butler: What AI Is Really For
My experience with AI in the design context tends to reflect what I think is generally true about AI in the workplace: the smaller the use case, the larger the gain. The larger the use case, the larger the expense. Most of the larger use cases that I
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Mastodon’s leadership change
Eugen Rochko: My next chapter with Mastodon
Mastodon is bigger than me, and though the technology we develop on is itself decentralized—with heaps of alternative fediverse projects demonstrating that participation in this ecosystem is possible without our involvement
Rochko seems like a good guy and I thank him for all he’s done leading
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The F1 game is taking a year off
Electronic Arts: EA Sports F1® Franchise Announcement
Today, EA SPORTS™ confirms future plans for F1® 25, with the game set to represent both the 2025 and 2026 FIA Formula One World Championships. This news drops alongside an announcement for the future of EA SPORTS F1® as 2027 will see the series return and mark the
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+ 5k on my birthday ✅
I committed to something at the start of the year, and I'm happy to say I was able to make it happen.
I was so close to saying something nice about Dia
Oh man, what remarkable timing. I had a blog post scheduled to go up later today, in which I said
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My favorite M5 iPad Pro review
Riley Hill is one of my favorite writers focused on the iPad, and he just reviewed the new M5 iPad Pro on his SlatePad blog. It's absolutely worth a read, but as a lapsed iPad fanatic myself, I couldn't resist remarking on a couple things.
Alongside high refresh rate support comes
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+ Text files are eternal
Some simple adoration for the greatest file format of all time.
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Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads after the hype
Casey Newton: The Bluesky Exodus, One Year Later
Bluesky's ingenuity in reimagining feeds and moderation tools has been a boon to social networks, which have happily adopted some of its best ideas. (You can now find "starter packs" on both Threads and Mastodon.) Ultimately, though, it has the same shape and
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+ 5 GTA games in 12 years, then 13 years to wait for the next one
The major game studios release one game every five to ten years at this point, when they used to release absolute classics every one or two years. I do not like this trend.
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If the KKK loves what you're saying, you might be the baddies
John Ganz writing in 2023: The Preppie in Decline
His father, Don Black, was a Klan wizard and the founder of the website Stormfront. Here’s what he told me: “From the perspective of my family, he’s making the same points they’ve been trying to make their entire lives, but much better; he’
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0Password
Evan Sandhu on the 1Password blog: A Simpler, Faster Way to Unlock 1Password
The new unlock with device setting lets 1Password open right alongside your Mac or PC. It unlocks as soon as you pass your device's own lock screen using a secure authentication method, whether that's Face ID, Touch ID,
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I just won’t buy one
John Voorhees writing for MacStories: Apple and ISSEY MIYAKE Introduce a Limited-Edition iPhone Pocket
The iPhone Pocket will be available starting Friday, November 14, for $149.95 for the short strap version and $229.95 for the long strap version from Apple’s online store and ten retail stores worldwide
The impression I’ve
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Leveling up the "spend more to get less" iPhone
Juli Clover writing for MacRumors, linking to a post on The Information: iPhone Air Sales Are So Bad That Apple's Delaying the Next-Generation Version
Apple initially planned to release a new iPhone Air in fall 2026, but now that's not going to happen.
Now that The Information is reporting on
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+ The enshitification cycle keeps going
It's not a question of if, it's a question of when.
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Another example of babying your phone for minimal advantage
The findings were basically that after 500 charge cycles, the slow-charged iPhones dropped 11.8% in battery capacity, while the fast-charged iPhones dropped 12.3%.
I think a lot of people still see their phones as dumb PC terminals from 1995. "If an app isn't "closed" then it&
