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Apple is destroying the Mac by trying to make it safer (macworld.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | macworld.com | frontpage

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Google's AI stoplight program is now calming traffic in a dozen cities worldwide (engadget.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | engadget.com | newest

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Removable Key That Works as a Mouse Could Come to Future MacBook (macrumors.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | macrumors.com | newest

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Formatting Text Messages in Fiction (2020) (cmosshoptalk.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | cmosshoptalk.com | newest

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Mastodon has 407K+ more monthly users than it thought (techcrunch.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | techcrunch.com | frontpage

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The bots have come for podcasts (semafor.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | semafor.com | newest

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Disney Research: Realistic and Interactive Robot Gaze (2020) [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | youtube.com | newest

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Texas Grid Operator Gave Bitcoin Miner Millions to Cut Summertime Power Use (themessenger.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | themessenger.com | newest

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Permission Slip: Consumer Reports app to take back control of your data (permissionslipcr.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | permissionslipcr.com | best

2

Melding animation, reinforcement learning for free-ranging emotive performances (ieee.org)

a year ago | CharlesW | ieee.org | frontpage

2

Bing Is Generating Images of SpongeBob Doing 9/11 (404media.co)

a year ago | CharlesW | 404media.co | newest

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Unbundling AI (ben-evans.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | ben-evans.com | frontpage

2

iFixit iPhone 15 Teardown: A Microscopic Look Inside The iPhone 15 [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | youtube.com | newest

2

A Chance Discovery Uncovered One of the First Female Oceanographers (scientificamerican.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | scientificamerican.com | newest

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Maybe in Your Lifetime, People Will Live on the Moon and Then Mars (nytimes.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Apple Launches SF Symbols 5 with 700 New Icons for Developers to Use in Apps (macrumors.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | macrumors.com | newest

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Behind U2's Residency at Sphere Las Vegas [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | youtube.com | newest

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4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Control Panel for Twitter: Extension for more control over Twitter/X (jbscript.dev)

a year ago | CharlesW | jbscript.dev | newest

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Bitten by the Black Box of iCloud (sixcolors.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | sixcolors.com | newest

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Tetris used to prevent post-traumatic stress symptoms (2017) (ox.ac.uk)

a year ago | CharlesW | ox.ac.uk | newest

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My $400 baby monitor locked previously free features behind monthly subscription (reddit.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | reddit.com | newest

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Pulsifer v. United States, a case that turns on a federal law’s use of “and” (motherjones.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | motherjones.com | best

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NSA's new project takes aim at foreign AI hacks (axios.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | axios.com | newest

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AI is coming to the Arc browser – but probably not like you think (theverge.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | theverge.com | newest

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Multiview High Efficiency Video Coding (MV-HEVC) (hevc.info)

a year ago | CharlesW | hevc.info | newest

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Jaron Lanier says AI advancing without human dignity will 'undermine everything' (businessinsider.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | businessinsider.com | newest

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AWS stirs the MadPot – Security exec spills tea on hush-hush threat Intel tool (theregister.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | theregister.com | newest

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macOS Sonoma can be installed on 83 unsupported Macs with this tool (appleinsider.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | appleinsider.com | newest

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The Giant Magellan Telescope's final mirror fabrication begins (phys.org)

a year ago | CharlesW | phys.org | newest

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ChatGPT Outperforms Humans in Emotional Awareness Test (psychologytoday.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | psychologytoday.com | newest

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H&R Block, Meta, and Google allegedly schemed to scrape taxpayer data: lawsuit (gizmodo.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | gizmodo.com | best

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Smoother animation ≠ Better animation [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | youtube.com | newest

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In France, workers build a castle from scratch the 13th century way (npr.org)

a year ago | CharlesW | npr.org | newest

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“The most important case that the FTC has brought in its 109-year history” (politico.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | politico.com | newest

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A Look Back at 40 Years of GNU and the Free Software Foundation (zdnet.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | zdnet.com | newest

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French Authorities Raided Nvidia's France Office (tomshardware.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | tomshardware.com | newest

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Deep Render Says Its AI Video Compression Tech Will 'Save the Internet' (tomshardware.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | tomshardware.com | newest

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OpenAI offers creators way to opt out. One artist calls it 'enraging’ (businessinsider.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | businessinsider.com | newest

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High-Resolution Lidar Images of Rivers and Deltas (kottke.org)

a year ago | CharlesW | kottke.org | best

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The Norwegian secret: how friluftsliv boosts health and happiness (theguardian.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | theguardian.com | newest

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Prices hospitals post can be wildly different than what they share over phone (vox.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | vox.com | frontpage

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Powerful new EV charger starts field tests in Arizona this weekend (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | arstechnica.com | newest

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Google quietly corrects previously submitted disclosure for critical WebP 0-day (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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iPhone 15 Pro first to use new dense Micron memory chips (appleinsider.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | appleinsider.com | newest

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Adobe’s Photoshop on the web launch includes its popular desktop AI tools (theverge.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | theverge.com | newest

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Use Game Mode on Mac (support.apple.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | apple.com | newest

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Old Macs can still get macOS Sonoma with a tool available in October (appleinsider.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | appleinsider.com | newest

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Apple may be quiet on AI, but it’s also the biggest buyer of AI companies (qz.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | qz.com | newest

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LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing media, DeepMind researchers find (venturebeat.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | venturebeat.com | frontpage

1

We Don’t Need Another Antihero (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | theatlantic.com | newest

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5th-Gen Emerald Rapids CPU Leak Shows 60 Cores, 420MB Cache (tomshardware.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | tomshardware.com | newest

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iPhone 15 Pro Max vs. DSLR photos: Real world camera comparison (9to5mac.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | 9to5mac.com | best

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Unity Apologizes for Controversial Changes, Walks Back Some (kotaku.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | kotaku.com | newest

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Yelp names and shames businesses paying for 5-star reviews (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | arstechnica.com | newest

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The new FineWoven iPhone cases are bad (theverge.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | theverge.com | newest

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Developing the Next Generation of AI Assistant (ieee.org)

a year ago | CharlesW | ieee.org | newest

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A Disney director tried–and failed–to use an AI Hans Zimmer to create soundtrack (technologyreview.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | technologyreview.com | newest

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Google made an AI-generated fake the first result for “Tank Man” (futurism.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | futurism.com | newest

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Project Bongo: In-Depth Overview of the iPhone 15 Pro's Canceled Haptic Buttons (macrumors.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | macrumors.com | newest

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Generative AI Market Analysis: People Love to Cum (404media.co)

a year ago | CharlesW | 404media.co | newest

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Amazon limits authors to 3 books a day to combat AI-generated material (themessenger.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | themessenger.com | best

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How Apple made the ultimate Snoopy watch: “You wouldn't believe the minutiae” (gq-magazine.co.uk)

a year ago | CharlesW | gq-magazine.co.uk | newest

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Google Updates Its SEO Playbook for Content Generated with AI (decrypt.co)

a year ago | CharlesW | decrypt.co | newest

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Halide 2.12: All the Latest iOS 17 Photography Features (lux.camera)

a year ago | CharlesW | lux.camera | newest

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Apple isn’t perfect on environment isues, but it’s depressingly ahead of peers (engadget.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | engadget.com | newest

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5G “Open” Standards Are in Play–Just How Open Are They? (ieee.org)

a year ago | CharlesW | ieee.org | newest

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Apple Transparency Government and Private Party Requests [pdf] (apple.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | apple.com | newest

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Google outlines Outline SDK: Censorship, geo-block-beating tool for apps (theregister.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | theregister.com | newest

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DOT approves $100M to fix the nation’s broken EV chargers (theverge.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | theverge.com | frontpage

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Apple patches “clickless” 0-day image processing vulnerability in iOS, macOS (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Masked 'boot girls' are freeing booted cars in Atlanta (roadandtrack.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | roadandtrack.com | best

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X launches account verification based on government ID (techcrunch.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | techcrunch.com | frontpage

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Swiftly, a new Swift toolchain installer and manager (swift.org)

a year ago | CharlesW | swift.org | newest

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iPhone 15 USB-C port is 100% standard; MFi certification rumors wrong (9to5mac.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | 9to5mac.com | best

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WordPress blogs can now be followed in the Fediverse, including Mastodon (techcrunch.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | techcrunch.com | frontpage

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Reddit Activity Plummeted After the Protests (garbageday.email)

a year ago | CharlesW | garbageday.email | newest

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The Animators Who've Spent 40 Years on a Single Film [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | youtube.com | newest

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Apple's A17 Pro Within 10% of i9-13900K, 7950X in Single-Core Performance (tomshardware.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | tomshardware.com | best

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‘Toy Story’ Animated Simulcast of NFL Game Set to Stream on Disney+ and ESPN+ (deadline.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | deadline.com | newest

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The Hot Water Rectangle (greenbuildingadvisor.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | greenbuildingadvisor.com | newest

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Analogue Duo: Portable FPGA Emulation (analogue.co)

a year ago | CharlesW | analogue.co | newest

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Why Apple put a Thread radio in the iPhone 15 Pro (theverge.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | theverge.com | best

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River is a visual connection engine (maxbittker.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | maxbittker.com | newest

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iPhone 15 Pro facts and estimates (leancrew.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | leancrew.com | newest

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Apple’s USB-C AirPods Pro will support lossless audio with the Vision Pro (theverge.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | theverge.com | newest

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Good news, everyone: Apple’s Polishing Cloth supports the iPhone 15 Pro Max (theverge.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | theverge.com | newest

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Reddit’s replacement mods may be putting its communities at risk (theverge.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | theverge.com | frontpage

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iOS 17: How to Separate Your Browsing Habits with Safari Profiles (macrumors.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | macrumors.com | newest

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The Infamous Port of Pac-Man: Atari Archive Episode 66 [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | youtube.com | newest

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What You Say to Google Assistant and Alexa (Not Siri) Gets Used for Ad Targeting (consumerreports.org)

a year ago | CharlesW | consumerreports.org | best

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SpaceX broke its record for number of launches in a year (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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RIP Lightning: In lieu of flowers, please send dongles (macworld.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | macworld.com | frontpage

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The legacy of Star Trek: The Animated Series, 50 years on (bbc.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | bbc.com | frontpage

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When Moviegoers Started Watching Films from the Beginning (hollywoodreporter.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | hollywoodreporter.com | frontpage

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The end of the subscription era is coming (nickfthilton.medium.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | medium.com | best

2

Why Go with an Evil-Looking Orb? (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | theatlantic.com | newest

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Dara Khosrowshahi had a stint driving for Uber and delivering for Uber Eats (businessinsider.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | businessinsider.com | best

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DJ Phonetic: Beatbox with Historical Speech (brianfoo.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | brianfoo.com | newest

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AI coding is 'inescapable' and here to stay, says Gitlab (theregister.com)

a year ago | CharlesW | theregister.com | newest