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Why many of us have no patience for liquid glass
Jason Snell: Apple in 2025: The Six Colors report card
It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’
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Financially secure Sony shuts down a great game studio they acquired, seemingly just to ruin
Brendon Bigley: Bluepoint Games Shuttered by PlayStation for Some Unfathomable Reason
Are we sincerely supposed to believe that in a
Hosting my own analytics
I've used Plausible for my analytics since 2021, and I've been quite happy with it. It
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Apple will kill iPadOS
How's this for a hot take to start the weekend: I think Apple is going to discontinue iPadOS.
Another new model coming to Quick Subtitles
There will be a Quick Subtitles update out soon that adds OpenAI's Whisper model to the app as
That thing "nobody" was asking for
I watch the occasional Kyle Hill video, and his latest about data centers in space being a bad idea got
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Why I don't offload my writing to AI
Claudio Nastruzzi: Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation
When an author uses AI for "