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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 Practices
What this means, practically, is that Apple will let you swap the screen of one iPhone with the screen of another iPhone, something that was impossible for a consumer or independent shop to do
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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
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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: Elon Musk: AI will be smarter than any human around the end of next year
On Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted the imminent rise in AI superintelligence during a live interview streamed on the
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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 except for a blissful few years where Opera was easily better than Chrome, using a Google alternative felt like I was making a personal sacrifice by using an inferior product simply to avoid using the
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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 hesitant to compete more directly with a broader segment of the videogame industry are as much a mystery today as ever. However, the rise of handheld gaming on Linux- and Windows-based hardware presents new
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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 of ArsTechnica isn’t so sure:
It's a little fuzzy how this will play out, but it may not allow the kind of emulators you see on Android and desktop, which let you
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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 considerably from his 1954 Japanese debut to the latest franchise installment, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. And in his most recent incarnations, clear national lines have been drawn between Toho’s version and Legendary’
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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 hold writers (and readers) hostage on their platform, forcing them to operate in a closed-content ecosystem that predominantly benefits Substack. Readers must use the Substack app or the Substack site to see content
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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 Goddard writing and directing. He’s best known for writing The Martian’s adaptation and writing/directing Cabin in the Woods.
Here’s my top 4 featured movies on my Letterboxd account:
Yeah, I’m
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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 observations. The first is that I don’t think the new video is very good. Oh, sure, the individual shots can be impressive. […]
The problem is that, based on how Apple and MLS built the
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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
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 leaderboard used by
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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 plummet as our “follower” count rises. The whole value proposition of Substack is that it’s a newsletter and writer hub. This latest intervention is indicative of their efforts to transition to a social media
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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 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 of time in my review
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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 common request we’ve 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 that today, we have finally
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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, Apple TV, HomePod, Vision Pro, and most importantly every iPhone. The iPhone is a cellular device, but when you’re at home, you’re on your Wi-Fi network. If your iPhone and your wireless
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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 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 implemented. That said, there are
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Take a breath, save your outrage until WWDC
Abner Li writing for 9to5Google: Apple Might Use Google Gemini to Power Some AI Features on the iPhone
According to Bloomberg, there are “active negotiations to let Apple license Gemini, Google’s set of generative AI models, to power some new features coming to the iPhone software this year.” Apple has also talked with OpenAI,
