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My god, where did the YouTube suggestions go?
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Politics are personal
Justin Ferrell: It's Not Politics, It's Just Personal
What happens when no amount of work or labor—and no tax cuts—could even scratch the surface of the tens of thousands of dollars in medical care that keeps your son above ground?
A very touching post about empathy and the real
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Apple says they will add encryption to RCS
Jess Weatherbed writing for The Verge: Apple Will Soon Support Encrypted RCS Messaging With Android Users
“End-to-end encryption is a powerful privacy and security technology that iMessage has supported since the beginning, and now we are pleased to have helped lead a cross industry effort to bring end-to-end encryption to the
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+ Why I quit Superhuman
I appreciate the app, I just had to let it go.
This challenge escalated quickly!
Check it out on YouTube and Podcasts!
Matt and Chris have all the new Apple hardware, and Niléane takes the
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I’m not used to seeing this
John Gruber: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
The fiasco here is not that Apple is late on AI. It’s also not that they had to announce an embarrassing delay on promised features last week. Those are problems, not fiascos, and problems happen. They’re inevitable. Leaders prove their mettle and create
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Handheld consoles, assemble!
Jez Corden writing for Windows Central: EXCLUSIVE: Xbox's New Hardware Plans Begin With a Gaming Handheld Set for Later This Year, With Full Next-Gen Consoles Targeting 2027
Microsoft is working with a PC gaming OEM (think ASUS, Lenovo, MSI, Razer, etc.) on an Xbox-branded gaming handheld, surprisingly slated for later in
Apple
The "essential" iPhone
Today marks day 13 of using the iPhone 16e as my primary phone, and after this review goes live, I&
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Apple might be cooking this fall
Tim Hardwick reporting on Gurman’s reporting in Bloomberg, which I don’t have access to, so I’m quoting the MacRumors article:
While specific details are scarce, it's supposedly the biggest update to iOS since iOS 7, and the biggest update to macOS since Big Sur.
Honestly, bring it on! I know
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+ iPhone 16e review in progress: battery life
You can never do too much battery testing, but after a week with this phone I've got some impressions to share.
Watch me write a task manager in 30 minutes
A core tenet of A Better Computer is showing, not telling. I don’t use a lot of press kit
Comfort Zone
I'm Sick, I Have a Sickness
Niléane has entered her keyboard era, Chris has a consumer warning as well as a really good macropad, and then
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I'm setting the bar too low
I've been a proponent of high-refresh rate displays for years now, and I think it's pretty ridiculous that Apple doesn't put these displays in their sub-$1,000 iPhones. I think if you're just keeping up with the Apple ecosystem then you probably don't
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+ iPhone 16e review in progress: photography
Here's a peek behind the scenes as I work on my iPhone 16e review.
Politics
Wow, what courage
Mia McCarthy writing for Politico: No More in-Person Town Halls, NRCC Chief Tells House Republicans
The chair of the House GOP's campaign arm told Republican lawmakers Tuesday to stop holding in-person town halls amid a wave of angry backlash over the cuts undertaken by President Donald Trump's administration.
There’
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NVIDIA finally gets some competition
Tom Warren for The Verge: AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT Review and Benchmarks
The RX 9070 is around 17 percent faster than Nvidia’s RTX 5070 in 4K without upscaling enabled, cruising past Nvidia’s card for the same price. The RX 9070 XT is as fast as the RTX 5070 Ti for $150
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The releases keep on coming! New MacBook Air and Mac Studio
Man, the releases recently are coming in fast and furious, today with Apple announcing new MacBook Airs and Mac Studios.
My MacBook Air predictions
The Air will likely get a bump to the M4 chip and I’m not totally sure what will happen to the $999 model. as far as I see it, there
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So much time and money for a minor vibe shift
Gary Marcus: Hot Take: GPT 4.5 Is a Nothing Burger
Half a trillion dollars later, there is still no viable business model, profits are modest at best for everyone except Nvidia and some consulting forms, there’s still basically no moat, and still no GPT-5. Any reasonable person with a scientific mind would