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Apple’s new iPads are here, let’s break them down
Another day, another opportunity to rate my 2025 Apple predictions!
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Here’s what I predicted would happen with the
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The battle of the budget phones
Just days after I got my iPhone 16e, Apple’s (less) budget (than ever before) iPhone, Nothing is out here
Birchtree's new look
Oh, hello. Something's different around here, huh?
Yup, it's been a few years, and I decided
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+ Who cares about smartphone design?
Just how important is physical design in someone's smartphone buying decision? As with so many things, it depends who you ask.
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Is ChatGPT the next Dropbox or the next iPhone?
Ed Zitron on his Where's Your Ed At blog: There Is No AI Revolution
I kept coming back to one thought: where's the money?
No, really, where is it? Where is the money that this supposedly revolutionary, world-changing industry is making, and will make?
The answer is simple: I do
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+ How I’m using AI tools in early 2025 (members post)
What am I actually using these LLMs for at the start of 2025? Quite a bit, actually.
Now I love Pedro Pascal even more
Seemingly lovely actor Pedro Pascal posted this photo to Instagram a few days ago (via Kottke):
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In response to a transphobic comment someone left, he said this:
I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing
Who's using AI in the workplace?
Pew has a new report out where they talked to workers in the US and asked them how they were using AI at work. The data is really interesting in a few places, so I wanted to share the most notable insights in my view.
First off, only 16% of workers are using AI chatbots
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We do this same thing with AI bots and human blogs
Giles Thomas writing on his personal blog, which he’s been writing since 2006: It's Still Worth Blogging in the Age of AI
If you want to blog to make a name for yourself, then you're going to have a hard time. Here's an example: if you're
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Perplexity is making a web browser
Kyle Wiggers writing for TechCrunch: Perplexity Teases a Web Browser Called Comet
“Just like Perplexity reinvented search, we’re also reinventing the browser,” a Perplexity spokesperson told TechCrunch via email. “Stay tuned for updates.”
Exactly one month ago I wrote “I think OpenAI’s next app is a web browser”, and today perplexity announced they
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Steam Deck sales numbers are in, and they’re not as spectacular as I’d hope (but I do still have hope)
Sean Hollister writing for The Verge: Three Years Later, the Steam Deck Has Dominated Handheld PC Gaming Shipments
Add it up, and that’s just under 6 million shipments in three years. One way to view that: it’s small and it’s not really growing. IDC’s forecasting under 2 million shipments in 2025,
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Worst headline of 2025 contender just dropped
Victor Tangermann writing for Yahoo Finance with the very enticing headline: Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value
During an appearance on podcaster Dwarkesh Patel's show this week, Nadella offered a reality check.
"Us self-claiming some [artificial general intelligence] milestone, that's just nonsensical benchmark hacking to
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When friends act like enemies
Bert Hubert writing on his blog (normally in Dutch, but this one’s in English): It Is No Longer Safe to Move Our Governments and Societies to US Clouds
Written down like this, it seems pretty bizarre, and that’s because it is. It’s also not easy to realize that our relationship with America
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Claude finally gets its “thinking” update
Anthropic released Claude 3.7 yesterday, and as a bit of a Claude stan myself, it’s fair to say I was excited to see it. The last few months have seen meaningful updates to GPT and Gemini, and in an industry moving at this rate, Anthropic felt like they were falling a bit behind.
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🕹️ I casually recommend Steamworld Heist 2 (members post)
This game is definitely fun, and I enjoyed my time with it, but it didn't blow me away.
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“Trust me”
I’m not trying to send any hate at a random MacRumors forum commentor who I don’t know, so please take this more as me explaining why there’s more skepticism about the Vision Pro than other gen-1 Apple products. From the post:
BTW, I also had the first iPhone, and it was
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Your brain doesn’t want you to work out
Dean Burnett writing for Science Focus: Your Brain Is Hard-Wired to Avoid Exercise. Here's Why
So why, even though we’ve evolved to do it, doesn't everyone enjoy exercise? The baffling complexity of the human brain is to blame. Evolving an ability doesn’t automatically mean we’ll want to
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Superhuman’s next big update looks very compelling
On the Superhuman blog: The Next Evolution of Superhuman AI 💖
Custom Auto Labels. Our built-in Auto Labels are great, but what's even better is making your own. Just write a prompt, like “job applications” or “requests for me to review work”. You can now immediately see when people apply for a job,