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Nintendo's digital games will be cheaper than physical
Nintendo: About Nintendo Switch 2 Game Pricing
Beginning in May 2026, and starting with preorders for Yoshi™ and the Mysterious
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OpenAI against the world
Ben Thompson: Apple’s 50 Years of Integration
It’s also worth noting that OpenAI has, in its relatively short life, managed to frame itself as a competitor to basically everyone in tech, from Google to Meta to Microsoft, only to find itself forced to pivot in the face of Anthropic and its focused approach
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Switch 2 sales estimates drop, and why I think console gaming is currently in decline
Jess Weatherbed: Nintendo cuts Switch 2 production amid weakening console sales
Nintendo will produce fewer Switch 2 units than it previously projected in response to weakening demand for the console in the US, Bloomberg reports. Four million units of Nintendo’s flagship device are expected to be made this quarter instead of the six million
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Analyst hat comes off, reviewer hat goes on
Jason Snell thought my MacBook Neo review missed the point of the product:
But this entire conversation misses the most important thing about the MacBook Neo: It is sold in every Apple Store, on Apple’s website, and in every Apple sales channel. Most people won’t think to cruise for a refurbished Air—they
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DLSS 5 looks like ass (and this is coming from a huge DLSS fan)
Cameron Faulkner, Richard Lawler: DLSS 5 looks like a real-time generative AI filter for video games
Nvidia announced DLSS 5 on Monday during its GTC conference, and based on early reactions, it’s going to be a divisive update, with some reactions calling it “slop” that unacceptably alters artistic intent. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
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The different lessons learned using a Mac
Sam Henri Gold: “This Is Not The Computer For You”
Yes, you will hit the limits of this machine. 8GB of RAM and a phone chip will see to that. But the limits you hit on the Neo are resource limits — memory is finite, silicon has a clock speed, processes cost something. You are learning
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"This is an Xbox" gets in the bin
Chris Kerr: Microsoft quietly retires 'This is an Xbox' marketing campaign
When searching for the blog post that kicked off the marketing beat earlier today, I noticed it has been removed from Xbox Wire (Microsoft's Xbox-focused news repository). In fact, the only post currently available on the 'This is
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Encrypted RCS is coming in iOS 26.4
Juli Clover: iOS 26.4 Beta Adds End-to-End Encryption for iPhone-to-Android RCS Texts
iPhone users will need to install the second beta of iOS 26.4 to exchange encrypted messages with Android users, while Google users need to have the latest version of Google Messages.
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I waited on this rumor so long we already know it's wrong
Joe Rossignol: Apple's Upcoming Studio Display 2 Rumored to Have an Unusual Feature
The tipster believes that a 90Hz refresh rate would make sense due to bandwidth considerations. Thunderbolt 5 can support 5K resolution at 120Hz without any compression, but they think Apple likely wants to ensure there will be plenty of remaining
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Of course it can use pro apps. It’s a computer
When I started doing YouTube in 2020, I was in the middle of my iPad era, and the only Mac in my life was a 2012 Mac mini. I don't remember its exact specs, but suffice to say it positively sucks by 2026 standards. And while it was very slow, it did technically
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New wallpaper generator just dropped
ColorFlow is a really cool new wallpaper and animation generator from the folks over at ls.graphics, and it'
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Terraink makes rad maps on demand
Terraink is a cool new website that lets you create cool maps of whatever location you want to. That'
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Tom Scott on AI in February 2023
From the video:
I've been complaining for years that it feels like nothing has really changed since smartphones came along. And I think that maybe, maybe I should have been careful what I wished for.
It's been 2 years since Tom Scott stopped posting weekly videos on YouTube, but he was
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How to make Midnight City
M83’s Midnight City is one of my favorite songs of all time, and this video recreating it is brilliant.
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When the words on the page don’t match what you’re trying to say (follow up on the Ben Thompson post)
Ben Thompson: Technological Scale and Government Control, Paramount Outbids Netflix for Warner Bros.
This is a lot more complicated than the nuclear question, where government control and ownership was a given; the sort of actions taken by the government over the last week fly in the face of the concept of private decision making and
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"What are you going to do, stop me? I've got the guns," is a wild government argument for tech pundits to support
Over the last couple weeks, Anthropic and the Department of War have been engaged in a war of words over something very exciting: terms of use. Anthropic, as a private company, has created a product and reasonably established terms of use for it. However, the Department of War doesn't want to adhere to
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Daft Punk & Stevie Wonder & Pharrell & Nile Rogers get lucky
I don't have anything to say other than you're welcome for finding the best 5 minutes of YouTube you'll see today.
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Anthropic does the bare minimum, but these days that's impressive
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
The Department of War has stated they will only contract with AI companies who accede to “any lawful use” and remove safeguards in the cases mentioned above. They have threatened to remove us from their systems if we maintain