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X-Men ’97 is an absolute stunner
Alex Abad-Santos for Vox: What if an Animated X-Men Series Is the X-Men’s Best Future?
The stuff in between
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Apple opens up more iPhone repair options, which raises an interesting question
Jason Koebler for 404 Media: Apple Announces Half Measure to Make iPhones More Repairable Immediately After Law Banned Its Repair
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It was 23 years from Macintosh to iPhone. It’s been 17 years since the iPhone.
Jason Snell for MacWorld: Call Apple Vision Pro a flop at your own risk
Today, we are so tech-savvy as
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A trifecta of Elon Musk garbage
What a day! We’ve got 3 links I’m pushing through as an omnibus post.
Benj Edwards for ArsTechnica:
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The only search engine I think goes toe-to-toe with Google
Jason Koebler writing for 404Media: Friendship Ended With GOOGLE Now KAGI Is My Best Friend
In all of these cases
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I don’t actually want Apple to make everything
I was reading the most recent Club MacSrories and this paragraph got me thinking…
The reasons why Apple is so
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Apple just allowed emulators on iOS! Or did they? Not everyone agrees.
Apple updated their App Store guidelines this week to allow game emulators for “retro games”. Great news! Right?
Samuel Axon
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The many faces of…Godzilla
Samantha Nelson writing for Polygon: America Made Godzilla a Superhero. In Japan, He’s Still a Monster.
Godzilla has evolved
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The social network Substack wants to own more and more of the relationship
Home With The Armadillo: Substack Is Setting Writers Up For A Twitter-Style Implosion
Essentially, the “follow” feature allows Substack to
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Another Matrix movie, huh?
Warner Bros has announced they’re making a fifth Matrix film, not with either of the Wachowskis, but with Drew
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What I want from immersive video and why that MLS highlight reel was not quite it
Jason Snell on Six Colors: Apple’s Immersive Video Problem
Now, having seen the video, I have a few more
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Claude tops GPT 4 in blind comparisons
Benj Edwards writing for ArsTechnica: “The King Is Dead”—Claude 3 Surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the First Time
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Your quarterly reminder that Substack is not infrastructure, they’re an aspiring social platform
Jeanna Kadlec on Threads
Substack is completely gutting their business right now. Every writer I know is seeing our subscriptions
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Ina Fried’s Vision Pro review
Ina Fried: Axios Review: Using Apple’s Vision Pro in Real Life
The Vision Pro quickly feels heavy on your
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404 Media adds full-text RSS for subscribers, and I’d love to do the same (if I can figure out how)
404 Media: 404 Media Now Has a Full Text RSS Feed
Since we launched 404 Media in August, the most
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Bring back the AirPort!
Joe Rosensteel: It’s Time for a New AirPort
networking underpins everything that Apple does care about. Every Mac, iPad,
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Digital wallets and the “only Apple Pay does this” mythology
Apple Pay is great, but I think there is some misunderstanding out there about the details of how it works.
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First look at what opting a Threads account into the fediverse will look like
This (shockingly low res) view went up yesterday and shows what the user experience will be like for Threads users