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Benedict Evans: The VR Winter Continues it’s obvious that the devices will get better, lighter and cheaper, but much less obvious whether that’s enough. How many people will care? We should be careful of saying ‘no-one will do that’ - we all do things every day that ‘no-one
Julian Chokkattu writing for Wired: Nothing’s CMF Devices Prove Yet Again Cheap Doesn't Have to Mean Boring What's most remarkable about these devices is the price. I have tested cheap and flagship smartphones for nearly a decade, and after setting up the CMF Phone 1,
Mike Haynes has moved his crashthearcade blog to Ghost: Ghosting WordPress The Ghost editor is really an example for WordPress' Gutenberg editor to follow. It functions largely in the same way but doesn't have any of the jank that makes Gutenberg so frustrating to use. It’s
Louie Mantia: Qualifying Art We are all too different from each other and it is not sustainable for every piece of artwork or every product to reach 100% market saturation . Appealing to a global palate is a surefire way to make the blandest art. Yes, yes, yes! Add this to
Alyssa Mercante for Kotaku: Star Wars: The Acolyte Is Doing a Different Kind of Fan-Service, and It Rocks The Disney+ series ticks many boxes that the more traditional, masculine fans of the franchise have been begging for for years (High Republic lore, rare aliens, wild lightsaber fights) while also aggressively
Casey Newton interviewed Adam Mosseri on the First Year of Threads. He talks about a lot in here, but Adam brings up the fediverse in an answer, and that is of course the thing people like me are most interested in. Here's what he said: The fediverse is
Cloudflare: Declare Your AIndependence: Block AI Bots, Scrapers and Crawlers With a Single Click We hear clearly that customers don’t want AI bots visiting their websites, and especially those that do so dishonestly. To help, we’ve added a brand new one-click to block all AI bots. It’s
Eugen Rochko on the official Mastodon blog: Highlighting journalism on Mastodon You will notice that underneath some links shared on Mastodon, the author byline can be clicked to open the author’s associated fediverse account, right in the app. This highlights writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse,
Jonathan Maze writing for Restaurant Business: McDonald's Is Ending Its Drive-Thru AI Test McDonald’s is ending its two-year-old test of drive-thru, automated order taking (AOT) that it has conducted with IBM and plans to remove the technology from the more than 100 restaurants that have been using
Sean Endicott: Ever Put Content on the Web? Microsoft Says That It's Okay for Them to Steal It Because It's 'Freeware.' "With respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the 90s has been
Elizabeth Lopatto writing for The Verge: Perplexity’s Grand Theft AI (emphasis mine): “Someone else did it” is a fine argument for a five-year-old. And consider the response further. If Srinivas wanted to be ethical, he had some options here. Option one is to terminate the contract with the third-party
Malcolm Owen for AppleInsider: Why AAA Games Promoted by Apple Flop in the App Store Assassin's Creed Mirage was downloaded approximately 123,000 times since June 6, Appfigures says. However, it has only managed gross revenue of $138,000. The report believes that the revenue level indicates that
Filipe Espósito writing for 9to5Mac: US carriers enabling RCS for iPhone users running iOS 18 beta 2 Now it seems that these carriers have flipped the switch and are now enabling RCS for users running the latest iOS 18 beta. Amazing! I can’t wait to text full-size photos to
Jason Snell on Six Colors: Preparing for the Era of Orchestrated Apps When everything is orchestrated properly, all the capabilities of all your apps are put into a big soup, and the AI system at the heart of your device can choose the right capabilities to do what you need
Jason Kottke: Walmart Is Switching to Electronic Price Tags Walmart is switching to electronic price tags that “allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds”. No one wants this!! No one wants surge pricing on ice cream and price increases on items already in your cart. The