Isaiah Colbert: That ‘AI-Generated’ Anime Is a Slap in the Face to Pro Animators Unlike the breathtaking Dragon Ball Z fan film, Dragon Ball: Legends—which took the indie studio Studio Stray Dog four years to make—Corridor Digital’s attempt at recreating the passion and energy displayed in early-aughts
After you do a workout in the Workout app on the Apple Watch, it gives you a summary of your workout. It's nice, but it's also a pain because to get rid of that summary, you need to scroll allllll the way to the bottom of
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Brian X. Chen, Nico Grant, and Karen Weise: How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race The excitement around chatbots illustrates how Siri, Alexa and other voice assistants — which once elicited similar enthusiasm — have squandered their lead in the A.I. race. This is a very odd
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I recently started giving Apple News another shot. I'm an Apple One subscriber, so I figured why the hell not, I'm paying for it, after all. My issue is that my reading habits are based around RSS and a read later service (Readwise). Personally, I want
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Dan Kois: That Oscar Absolutely Should Have Gone to My Year of Dicks I’m here to tell you that yes, it is too bad My Year of Dicks didn’t win. And while even the most diehard cinema fans don’t usually spend a lot of time talking about
Walter Chaw: It Took Me Nearly 40 Years to Stop Resenting Ke Huy Quan I carried resentment of these characters with me into adulthood. They amplified my feelings of otherness. I grew up wanting to be Luke Skywalker in a culture that could only see Asian men as sexless sidekicks
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It's the day of the Oscars, and while I don't love the show like I used to, I do find it a good time to "call it" for the last year and make my list of favorite movies released in the previous year. It&
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Jason Snell: By the Way, Alexa, You’ve Been Replaced That all said, once it was up and running, it’s been a breath of fresh air. The Nest Hub’s touchscreen interface is a bit laggy, but I basically never have to touch the screen. It displays multiple named
Eric M.: Single-User Mastodon Instance Is a Bad Idea If you're thinking about setting up your own single-user Mastodon instance for similar reasons, I urge you not to do it. The user experience is so broken that it's baffling that anyone would find it acceptable. Everything
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