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Artistic expression and financial return
Louie Mantia: Qualifying Art
We are all too different from each other and it is not sustainable for every piece
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The Acolyte is good
Alyssa Mercante for Kotaku: Star Wars: The Acolyte Is Doing a Different Kind of Fan-Service, and It Rocks
The Disney+
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Threads turns 1, as federation continues to Mark forward
Casey Newton interviewed Adam Mosseri on the First Year of Threads. He talks about a lot in here, but Adam
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Training bots not welcome
Cloudflare: Declare Your AIndependence: Block AI Bots, Scrapers and Crawlers With a Single Click
We hear clearly that customers don’
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Mastodon is actively courting journalists
Eugen Rochko on the official Mastodon blog: Highlighting journalism on Mastodon
You will notice that underneath some links shared on
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The hype cycle running face-first into reality
Jonathan Maze writing for Restaurant Business: McDonald's Is Ending Its Drive-Thru AI Test
McDonald’s is ending its
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Microsoft vs. their robot on what “freeware” is
Sean Endicott: Ever Put Content on the Web? Microsoft Says That It's Okay for Them to Steal It
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Get wrecked, Perplexity
Elizabeth Lopatto writing for The Verge: Perplexity’s Grand Theft AI (emphasis mine):
“Someone else did it” is a fine
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A couple reasons I think big games on iPads and iPhones aren't setting the world on fire
Malcolm Owen for AppleInsider: Why AAA Games Promoted by Apple Flop in the App Store
Assassin's Creed Mirage
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RCS is rolling out to iOS 18 beta users (as long as you’re on a major carrier)
Filipe Espósito writing for 9to5Mac: US carriers enabling RCS for iPhone users running iOS 18 beta 2
Now it seems
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Preparing for the Era of Orchestrated Apps
Jason Snell on Six Colors: Preparing for the Era of Orchestrated Apps
When everything is orchestrated properly, all the capabilities
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Digital price tags are a good thing
Jason Kottke: Walmart Is Switching to Electronic Price Tags
Walmart is switching to electronic price tags that “allow employees to
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This might be why the Vision Pro doesn’t get Apple Intelligence
John Gruber: WWDC 2024: Apple Intelligence
[A]ccording to well-informed little birdies, Vision Pro is already making significant use of
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Apple Podcasts transcriptions rock, and they could rock even harder
Ari Saperstein writing for The Guardian: Accessible and ‘A Pleasure to Read’: How Apple’s Podcast Transcriptions Came to Be
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We’ve all gotten pretty loose with the term “Sherlocked” these days
Ivan Mehta for TechCrunch: The Apps That Apple Sherlocked at WWDC 2024
In 2002, Apple released Sherlock 3 with features
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Yes, Apple is also training on public web data
From Apple’s Machine Learning Research blog: Introducing Apple’s on-Device and Server Foundation Models
We train our foundation models
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THAT FEATURE IS SO COOL! I’ll never use it, though.
Daryl Baxter writing for iMore: iPadOS 18 Looks Great, but It Still Doesn't Fix the iPad's
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Who will get your vote in the Miss AI pageant?
Chloe Veltman for NPR: Fake Beauty Queens Charm Judges at the Miss AI Pageant
Models created using generative artificial intelligence