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Warner Bros has announced theyāre making a fifth Matrix film, not with either of the Wachowskis, but with Drew Goddard writing and directing. Heās best known for writing The Martianās adaptation and writing/directing Cabin in the Woods. Hereās my top 4 featured movies on my
Jason Snell on Six Colors: Appleās Immersive Video Problem Now, having seen the video, I have a few more observations. The first is that I donāt think the new video is very good. Oh, sure, the individual shots can be impressive. [ā¦] The problem is that, based on how
Benj Edwards writing for ArsTechnica: āThe King Is DeadāāClaude 3 Surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the First Time On Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus large language model (LLM) surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 (which powers ChatGPT) for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a popular crowdsourced
Jeanna Kadlec on Threads Substack is completely gutting their business right now. Every writer I know is seeing our subscriptions plummet as our āfollowerā count rises. The whole value proposition of Substack is that itās a newsletter and writer hub. This latest intervention is indicative of their efforts to
Ina Fried: Axios Review: Using Appleās Vision Pro in Real Life The Vision Pro quickly feels heavy on your face, as others have noted. But using it is also cognitively more complex than just watching TV while doing some work on a phone or laptop. I spent a lot
404 Media: 404 Media Now Has a Full Text RSS Feed Since we launched 404 Media in August, the most common request weāve gotten from our subscribers is for an RSS feed that contains the full text of all of our articles. We are proud and excited to announce
Joe Rosensteel: Itās Time for a New AirPort networking underpins everything that Apple does care about. Every Mac, iPad, Apple TV, HomePod, Vision Pro, and most importantly every iPhone. The iPhone is a cellular device, but when youāre at home, youāre on your Wi-Fi network. If your
Apple Pay is great, but I think there is some misunderstanding out there about the details of how it works.
This (shockingly low res) view went up yesterday and shows what the user experience will be like for Threads users when they want to opt into the fediverse. There are so many interesting details here, and honestly I think Meta is doing a fantastic job with how this is being
Abner Li writing for 9to5Google: Apple Might Use Google Gemini to Power Some AI Features on the iPhone According to Bloomberg, there are āactive negotiations to let Apple license Gemini, Googleās set of generative AI models, to power some new features coming to the iPhone software this year.ā Apple
Yunqi Li writing for Wired: The Tech Behind Taylor Swift Concert Wristbands Itās funny because oftentimes people think thereās GPS in each of the devices, or thereās a lot of advanced AI technology,ā says Vincent Leclerc, co-founder and CEO of PixMob in an interview with WSJ. āBut
Tatiana Siegel writing for Variety: Appleās Blockbuster Gamble On March 10, the tech giant has 13 shots to take home an Oscar via two historical epics, āKillers of the Flower Moonā and āNapoleon,ā which nabbed 10 and three nominations, respectively. Thatās given Apple the second-biggest haul among the
Maxwell Zeff for Gizmodo: Closing Your iPhone Apps Is a Mythical Waste of Time Apple users seem unanimously convinced that closing background apps is a good habit, but itās more likely a waste of time A few years ago, I would have retweeted, boosted, and linked to this article
Sean Hollister for The Verge: How Nintendoās Destruction of Yuzu Is Rocking the Emulator World Not only did hackers find an unprecedented vulnerability in the original Switch less than a year after release but also the emulator scene managed to develop software that plays Switch games better than the
Sarah Perez: Apple Has Lost Its Confidence Whatās worse is that Apple doesnāt seem to think that IAP can stand up to the competition: app developersā websites. I donāt agree with everything in this piece but it does make me think about the objectively funny way that