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John Voorhees writing about Arcās latest escapades in MacStories Weekly: Issue 408 Itās that intermediate layer that makes me suspicious of Arcās motives. The company is starting to feel like a wolf in sheepās clothing, a browser with an interesting, playful design on the surface and
iA: AI Videos: ******* Psychotic Computer-generated imagery is not bad in its every fiber. There certainly are great ways to use AI in a creative process. The more you control your tool and the process, the more mindful the product, the less it qualifies as āAIā. This article is not about
Benjamin Mueller for the New York Times: After 217 Covid Vaccines, Man Had No Side Effects and Robust Immunity By the time the doctors first saw him, the 62-year-old man had received 215 doses of coronavirus vaccine, they said. Flouting their pleas to stop, he received another two shots in
Amanda Marcotte: Trump Is Degenerating Before Our Eyes ā MAGA Voters Don't Notice or Don't Care Around lunchtime on Monday, all three cable news networks cut to Trump awkwardly accepting the Supreme Court nullifying the 14th Amendment on his behalf. After a few semi-coherent, if gross, remarks
Dan Moren: To Embrace Gaming Apple Needs to Level Up Its Game Porting Toolkit If Apple really wants to jumpstart gaming on the Mac, it should bake the underlying technologies of the game porting toolkit directly into the system. Make installing and running a PC game as easy as if
Zachary Small writing for The New York Times, citing this study: Less than 2 percent of console video games include L.G.B.T.Q. characters or story lines even though 17 percent of gamers are queer To be clear, this isnāt 2% of console games having a queer
Sarah Nassauer for The Wall Street Journal: Walmart in Talks to Buy TV Maker Vizio The retail giant is in talks to buy smart television-manufacturer Vizio for more than $2 billion, according to people familiar with the situation. The move would give Walmart more places where it can sell ads
Sarah Perez for TechCrunch: Over Half of Vision Pro-Only Apps Are Paid Downloads, Far More Than Wider iOS App Store According to a recently released report from app intelligence firm Appfigures, over half of Vision Pro-only apps (52%) are paid downloads ā a surprising percentage given that across the wider App
2 short months ago Google announced Gemini (apparently Gemini 1.0). It came in 3 variants: 1. Gemini Nano, which runs locally on devices as small as your phone 2. Gemini Pro, which runs on a server and was the back end for Bard 3. Gemini Ultra, which didnāt
Jen Glennon for Kotaku: Bummer: PS5 Entering 'The Latter Stage of Its Life Cycle,' Sony Says Sony execs also said that its current-gen hardware, the PlayStation 5, is nearing the end of its life cycle. I think the PS5 and Xbox Series console generation will go down as
Alex Heath for The Verge: Zuckerberg says Quest 3 is āthe better productā vs. Appleās Vision Pro He says the Quest has a better āimmersiveā content library than Apple, which is technically true for now, though he admits that the Vision Pro is a better entertainment device. And then
Emilia David for The Verge: I Love My GPT, but I Canāt Find a Use for Anybody Elseās Though Iāve come to depend on my GPT, itās the only one I use. Iāve had the exact same experience. I fully expected that the GPT store
Tim Urban: All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro Itās not just me. VR blows everyone away when they try it, but it seems to have a hard time hooking people for the long run. After a major wave of hype in the mid-2010s, VR receded
Jordan Pearson: How Tech Firms Made a Crypto-Boosting Book an NYT Best Seller by Gaming the System Cafiero linked two examples of firms that publicly said they placed orders for Dixonās book to give to employees. One was Syndicate, a company in the crypto industry that a16z has invested
Anil Dash: āWherever You Get Your Podcastsā Is a Radical Statement But here's the thing: being able to say, "wherever you get your podcasts" is a radical statement. Because what it represents is the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that's supposed to