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Google Beam, spatial personas, and different solutions to the same thing
Video conferencing is absolutely amazing tech, but it's not perfect. Google Beam and the Vision Pro's spatial personas are trying to improve some of the limits of those webcam calls...
The one video game YouTube channel my wife likes
I love Kyle Bosman. I think his style is lovely and his comedic instincts just land with me. The best thing I can say is that it's the only video...
Solar is on a freaking roll
Euan Graham, Nicolas Fulghum, and Katye Altieri: Global Electricity Review 2025 (yes, I did read this after watching Hank Green's video)Rapid solar growth is helping the world meet growing electricity...
Sometimes rock stars become high school teachers
I love, love, loved Absolutely (Story of a Girl) and I was a teenager, and I've watched this video at last a dozen times over the years because I love...
Newer LLMs are getting worse at some things
Joe Wilkins writing for Futurism: AI Chatbots Are Becoming Even Worse at Summarizing DataAlarmingly, the LLMs' rate of error was found to increase the newer the chatbot was â the...
Malicious compliance getting the đ¤¨
Johnny Ryan: EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basisDr Johnny Ryan said "Today's court's decision shows that the consent system used by...
A big Things update you might not even notice
Werner in the Things blog: A Swift CloudWeâve rebuilt Things Cloud from the ground up. The system that keeps your to-dos in sync is now faster, built with modern technology,...
The relationship doesn't have to end, it just might need to change
Glenn Fleishman writing for Six Colors: Can We Still Love Apple? Should We Ever Have?Maybe it is the right time for this love affair to come to an end. Not...
Why do LLMs work?
This is such a good, quick video explaining why we don't really understand why LLMs work the way thy do.
Owning digital goods means having the file, not some stupid ledger
Matthew Gault for 404 Media: NFTs That Cost Millions Replaced With Error Message After Project Downgraded to Free Cloudflare PlanOn Friday, thousands of NFTs that had once sold collectively for...
AI doesn't need to be your personality
This post is a simple reminder that you can enjoy the benefits that AI tools bring to you without making it your whole damn personality. The important thing remains the...
I think we can be pretty certain at least some people use the Vision Pro
Riley Hill on his SlatePad blog, linking to a Wall Street Journal article about how many Vision Pro users are regretting their purchase: I Paid $3,500 for Appleâs Vision Pro....
What if Apple made a folding phone?
I've been using a new phone for the past month, as shown in the photo above. Hmm, that might not be the best way to show it off, how about...
How I radically dropped my tech carbon footprint without cancelling ChatGPT
A year ago it was estimated that (using some fuzzy, maybe 10x too pessimistic math), that ChatGPT uses as much electricity as 17,000 US homes. This was reported as some...
This is happening now
Bruce Springsteen is on his "Land of Hope and Dreams Tour" right now, which kicked off yesterday in Manchester where he said this between a couple songs:There's some very weird,...
Max viewers mostly watched HBO
John Koblin: HBOâs Streaming Service Becomes âHBO Maxâ AgainThe reason for the change, executives explained, was straightforward.People who subscribe and pay $17 a month for the streaming service wind up...
HBO Max became Max so Max could become HBO Max
Got that? Good, because Warner Bros. is reverting the name of their "Max" streaming service to "HBO Max":Ahead the companyâs upfront presentation in New York at Madison Square Garden on...
1 billion isnât cool. You know whatâs cool? - billion of a different metric.
18 months ago there were 1 billion monthly RCS users around the world. Today, Google announced that 1 billion RCS messages are sent in the US alone every single day....