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How Useful Will Apple Intelligence Be? The Next iPhone Will Tell Us
12 Sep

How Useful Will Apple Intelligence Be? The Next iPhone Will Tell Us

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On Monday, Apple held one of its splashy media events. This one was used to show off its next round of iPhones, AirPods, and Apple Watches. These are three of its biggest products, and all of the design tweaks feel very familiar to the current Apple universe. But Apple has also trotted out some new tricks, like sleep apnea detection in the Apple Watch and a new feature that instantly turns a pair of AirPods Pro into hearing aids. And of course, the company is also very keen to get consumers hyped up about the iPhone’s new Apple Intelligence features—even…
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Could AI and Deepfakes Sway the US Election?
06 Sep

Could AI and Deepfakes Sway the US Election?

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Leah Feiger: All right, that's a good one. Thank you, Tori. Will, what do you have for us?Will Knight: Wow, I don't know if I can really compete with RFK, but as a good CIA operative, I'm going to promote something from the weirder corners of AI, AI and philosophy, I guess. So there's this thing called Roko's basilisk. So the basilisk is a mythological creature serpent that if you looked in its eyes, it could kill you. And so there was this thought experiment someone posted on an AI forum saying that superintelligence in the future would be incentivized…
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Apple Podcasts now has a useful web interface for browsing and listening to shows
20 Aug

Apple Podcasts now has a useful web interface for browsing and listening to shows

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Apple has just given podcasts listeners an improved way to stream shows from its library on any device. Starting today, the version of Apple Podcasts on the web has a look and feature set that more akin to the company's standalone app. Not only is the platform accessible on any device via the web, but you'll get more tools beyond simply playing episodes — even if you don't have desktop or mobile app installed.Through the web interface that looks similar to what you'd see inside the full app, you'll be able to browse shows, access your library, view top charts,…
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Your Photos Aren’t Real
15 Aug

Your Photos Aren’t Real

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At a splashy media event this week at its headquarters in Mountain View, California, Google announced four new Pixel phones. But the most important stuff unveiled at the Made By Google event wasn’t the hardware itself, but rather all of the generative AI tools packed into the devices.Most notable are some AI-powered camera features that allow Pixel owners to easily add their own image to a group shot after they’ve taken the photo, or to alter a photo entirely by changing night to day and adding objects that were never really there. It’s an exploration of our limits—how convincingly technology…
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How a Traditional Toymaker Is Going Big on Digital Games
09 Aug

How a Traditional Toymaker Is Going Big on Digital Games

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Listen to Odd Lots on Apple PodcastsListen to Odd Lots on SpotifySubscribe to the newsletterHasbro has been making toys for decades, including many classic favorites like G.I. Joe and My Little Pony. But in recent years, it's also been going big on digital games. An app version of the classic board game Monopoly — called Monopoly GO! — has become one of the top mobile games of all time and grossed billions in revenue since it launched last year. Hasbro also owns Wizards of the Coast, the publisher of Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, and the best-selling video game…
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Good Luck Selling Your AI Startup
08 Aug

Good Luck Selling Your AI Startup

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There is no wilder time than the present to build a company around artificial intelligence. The server bills are astronomical, for one. Also the market for talent is red hot, and you’ll end up paying through the nose for good people. Even if you do get funding, staff up, get the product off the ground, and start making headway in a crowded field, there’s the specter of Big Tech looming overhead. The hypercarnivorous raptors of Silicon Valley—Google, Apple, Amazon, and Meta—will fix their steely eyes on the plump prey of your best employees and your intellectual property.But they can’t just buy…
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Spotify, Stop Trying to Become a Social Media App
18 Jul

Spotify, Stop Trying to Become a Social Media App

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Spotify’s decision to introduce comment sections under podcasts should surprise no one. For years now, apps have been ripping off each other’s most popular features. Where once apps adhered to their respective “things,” today they want to do it all: You can post Stories on YouTube, use AI search tools on Instagram, and shop for clothing on TikTok. And, as of last week, you can experience the thrill of seeing what random strangers think about your favorite podcasts on Spotify.In 2020, Spotify flirted with social tools, such as a Stories-esque feature for artists and a collaborative playlist feature for users.…
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Good Search Borrows, Great Search … Steals?
20 Jun

Good Search Borrows, Great Search … Steals?

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Web crawling—the act of indexing information across the internet—has been around for decades. It has primarily been used by search engines like Google and nonprofits like Internet Archive and Common Crawl to catalog the contents of the open internet and make it searchable. Until recently, the practice of web crawling has rarely been seen as controversial, as websites depended on the process as a way for people to find their content. But now crawling tech has been subsumed by the great AI-ening of everything, and is being used by companies like Google and Perplexity AI to absorb whole articles that…
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