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Meta has squandered Threads
Jon Passantino writing for Status: Hanging by a Thread
Now Threads feels rather lifeless. While users still post there, for many has become something of a second-tier platform—a place that they dump content out of habit, not because they’re having real conversations or finding meaningful engagement.
Anecdotal, of course, but nothing feels
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+ I’m a season 1 sorta guy
Yes, this is about Severance, but it's really about more than Severance.
Apple
A personal update on Apple TV+
When Apple TV+ launched just over 5 years ago, it’s fair to say I wasn’t a fan. I
Comfort Zone
You’re telling me I’m holding it wrong? Really!?!!
Darth Chris makes an appearance, Niléane has an exclusive first look at…checks notes… the iPhone 16 Pro, Matt insists
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What people do with an empty text box
Update: literally minutes after posting this, Anthropic added web search to Claude. This improves the situation for Claude, but other
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The base MacBook Air should have an M1 processor
Why oh why does the base MacBook Air that Apple sells have their latest generation chip, the M4? That's so overkill for the vast majority of people, and I'd bet that most of them wouldn't even notice the speed difference in their day-to-day tasks. Sure, maybe my
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The VR market shrunk yet again in 2024
Counterpoint Research: Global VR Market Declines 12% YoY in 2024; ‘AR+AI’ Smart Glasses to Take Centre Stage in 2025
Global VR headset shipments fell 12% YoY in 2024, marking their third consecutive year of declines due to the continued weak consumer demand.
This is actually brutal, 3 consecutive years of the VR market shrinking?
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Ghost gets ActivityPub into beta
Ghost: Social Web
We've got our social web integration for Ghost to a point where we're excited to have you try it out, but there's a lot of work still in progress and (as alluded to earlier) there are some significant rough edges.
I’m excited to see this
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The Pebble (which made me fall in love with smart watches) is back
Introducing Two New PebbleOS Watches!
We’re excited to announce two new smartwatches that run open source PebbleOS and are compatible with thousands of your beloved Pebble apps.
The original Pebble was my “a ha!” moment when I realized smart watches were the real deal, even in that rudimentary form. I’m bummed these new
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You don’t need AI to play old games on modern hardware
Fatima Kardar, Corporate Vice President, Gaming AI, at Microsoft: Empowering Creators and Players With Muse, a Generative AI Model for Gameplay
We’re excited to announce a generative AI breakthrough, published today in the journal Nature and announced by Microsoft Research, that shows this potential to open up new possibilities— including the opportunity to make
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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
