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One woman, two mirrors, three looks…but I’m suspicious
Matt Growcoot: 'One in a Million' iPhone Photo Shows Three Versions of the Same Woman
Standing in front of two large mirrors, Tessa Coates’ 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 the pose Coates
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But what if like, I just don’t like it anymore?
Mike Masnick: Musk’s Faulty Vision Of ‘Free Speech’ Is Driving Speech Off ExTwitter
I mean, it’s not like we didn’t warn Elon Musk. Free speech is not about creating a single private space where everyone gets to speak, because that doesn’t support free speech. It enables the worst of society to
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My review of the Apple Watch Ultra 2
Without question, this is the most minor Apple Watch upgrade I’ve 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 I’ll knock out quickly, and then I’ll discuss my experience with the new double
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Annoyed by the car market, defensive of the camera market
Lloyd Alter: How 'Skeuomorphism' Is Making U.S. Roads More Deadly — 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, [“]If “petro-masculinity” defined the past decade, as oversized, gas-guzzling
iA Writer 7 is here with a distinct way to “integrate” AI tools
iA Writer 7 is out today, and it’s a $50 one-time purchase on the Mac, and another $50 purchase for the iPhone/iPad version. They’ve been leading up to this release for a week now with a series of posts about AI and writing.
1. No Feature
2. Writing with AI
3.
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Plex started emailing your friends and family what you’ve been watching. People didn’t like that
Jason Koebler: Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family
A new feature, called “Discover Together,” expands social aspects of Plex and introduces an “Activity” tab: “See what your friends have watched, rated, added to their Watchlist, or shared with you,” Plex notes. It also shares this activity in
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Robert De Niro is the best
Marianne Garvey for CNN: Robert De Niro claims his speech was censored by the Gotham Awards and Apple: ‘How dare they do that’
“The beginning of my speech was edited, cut out and I didn’t know about it. And I want to read it,” De Niro, prompting cheers from the room. He then pulled
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Sports Illustrated tries to get off on a technicality
Here’s a quote from Sports Illustrated in Maggie Harrison’s 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 content from an
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iA teases what “AI” features are coming in iA Writer 7
Oliver Reichenstein writing for iA: No feature
AI is a danger if you resign yourself to it and delegate all
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Ocarina Of Time's underrated dungeon
Jim Norman: Ocarina Of Time's Deku Tree Dungeon Is Still My All-Time Top Gaming Moment | Nintendo Life
You Don't Know Me! My latest GPT
Sometimes you post something to social media and it escapes your friend group and goes some level of viral. This
Trying to improve copy/pasting on iOS
As of a few years ago, iOS started showing a modal warning whenever an app tried to read your clipboard.
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PlayStation Portal one week review
Last year I called the Steam Deck my favorite product of the year, and a year later, I think that still stands. Hardly a day goes by where I don’t use the Steam Deck a little, I still enjoy the Nintendo Switch, and I also got an Analogue Pocket this year, so I guess
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OpenAI’s chaotic weekend
Benj Edwards writing for Ars Technica:
Monday morning, 650 of 770 OpenAI employees sent a letter to the OpenAI board demanding that all current board members resign and Altman and Brockman be reinstated, or they will likely leave to join Altman and Brockman at Microsoft.
As of writing, the number is over 700 employees signed
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Perfect Dark comes to PC, unofficially
Kyle Orland: Perfect Dark Finally Gets the Full-Featured PC Port It Deserves
over 23 years after its release, Perfect
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That Nothing chat app says it’s end-to-end encrypted…it isn’t
According to Nothing, their new iMessage app was end-to-end encrypted.
Nothing Chats is built on Sunbird’s platform and all Chats messages are end-to-end encrypted, meaning neither we nor Sunbird can access the messages you’re sending and receiving.
As you may have guessed:
that’s just not true.
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