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Liam Dawe: 5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming Gamers using Linux (be it desktop or Steam Deck) in 2023 are now in a place where they can get excited alongside friends who use Windows or traditional consoles, because they know there's a good probable
Steve Scherer: Exclusive: Meta's Canada News Ban Fails to Dent Facebook Usage Daily active users of Facebook and time spent on the app in Canada have stayed roughly unchanged since parent company Meta started blocking news there at the start of August These "pay to send traffic
Jason Snell: Giving Up the iPad-only Travel Dream My productivity needs are clearly unlike those of most people, but the truth is that everyone’s got different productivity needs. The problem with the iPad continues to be that as it builds functionality, it has failed to build in flexibility—or
Yesterday: Another rumor today suggests that Apple's standard iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus models are unlikely to enjoy any increase in data transfer speeds following the transition. Followed by this report today: Apple may offer a USB-C data transfer accessory cable for iPhone 15 Pro models that
Ted Gioia: Ugly Numbers From Microsoft and ChatGPT Reveal That AI Demand Is Already Shrinking What’s wrong? Everybody was supposed to prefer AI over conventional search. And it turns out that nobody cares. Not everybody said that, but yes, I’ve agreed from the jump that search engines are
PlayStation.Blog: PlayStation’s First Remote Play Dedicated Device, PlayStation Portal Remote Player, to Launch Later This Year at $199.99 PlayStation Portal is the perfect device for gamers in households where they might need to share their living room TV or simply want to play PS5 games in another
Today’s adventure comes in 4 parts: 1. A quote 2. My opinion 3. My contradictory opinion 4. An unexpected endorsement of Bluesky The quote Will Oremus: Why Facebook Won’t Let You Control Your Own News Feed (via Casey Newton) In 2014, another internal report, titled “Feed ranking is
Jay Peters: YouTube Is Rounding the Corners on Desktop - The Verge YouTube is rolling out rounded edges on the main video player you see on YouTube.com, spokesperson Allison Toh confirmed to The Verge on Tuesday. They’re coming to all users, so if you’re not seeing them
Petrana Radulovic: Stop Apologizing for Enjoying Romantic Comedies Across social media, many people are saying they liked the movie, then quickly clarifying that they know it’s dumb, silly, and not serious fare. And some critics have praised the movie while also trying to defend their fondness, saying they know
Nintendo Life: Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 Will Have Lower Frame Rates on Switch, Konami Confirms Konami has now provided a statement to us and other outlets to clarify that it is only the Switch release that is targeting 30fps. All other platforms will target the games at 60fps.
This new paper has been making the rounds, showing that ChatGPT has a well-documented liberal bias. As with so many of these “ChatGPT is biased!” stories, it’s not nearly as clean as the headlines you’ve probably read in the past week have made it seem. This piece from
Alex Kantrowitz: Why ChatGPT Hasn’t Ignited the Employment Apocalypse That So Many Predicted. “They can do one discrete, information-oriented task, basically, at a time before they need a human to review what they’ve done and then move to the next thing,” he says Quoting myself from 3 short
Jon Brodkin: Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs Sue After Digital Apes Turn Out to Be Bad Investment The Sotheby's auction house has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by investors who regret buying Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs that sold for highly inflated prices during
I was reading this list of the 10 biggest web design mistakes in 1999, and it was a good read on what drove people crazy back then, and considering how those sins have changed over time. Let's take a look at a few choice quotes. Don't
The Newsprint: The Leica Q2 The Q2 has an incredible build, there’s no doubt. And it’s this build quality that provides the backdrop for the rest of the qualitative features of the camera. Without a sturdy build, you can’t get that feel. And without the feel, you