Kyle McMahon

@kmcmahon
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@daringfireball I thought @reckless1280 's rundown of the situation and backstory in this Vergecast was very good.
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/866619/sony-tcl-tvs-chatgpt-ads-vergecast
The end of the Sony era in TVs

Plus: ChatGPT ads, Apple AI gadgets, the Trump Phone, YouTube Shorts, and more on The Vergecast

The Verge

@atpfm Re the discussion of sports broadcasts on AVP and @siracusa's comments about sound, I really enjoyed this episode of 99PI about the audio of sports broadcasts:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-sound-of-sports/

The Sound of Sports - 99% Invisible

When we think of the sound of sports on TV or radio, it’s generally commentary. But sports broadcasts would be nothing without all the sounds that are behind the commentary — the crowds, the kicks, the thwacks, and the grunts. During the World Cup of 2010, the constant noise of Vuvuzelas made many people realize that the

99% Invisible
Halo: Campaign Evolved launches on PS5 in 2026 

Rebuilt and modernized version of the original Halo campaign includes two-player couch co-op and four-player online crossplay.

PlayStation.Blog
@dmoren Unsolicited advice, I know, so disregard if it's not helpful, but: I find Discord runs great as a Safari web app. Including notifications, including microphone and camera access. About the only thing I couldn't get the web app version to do is screen/window sharing.
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Modern college students aren’t organizing their files into folders and directories, forcing some professors to rethink the way they teach programming.

The Verge
'Camera' should have been a generic Bluetooth profile, so all cameras could have connected directly to a phone OS for time and location information, without every camera vendor having to write a garbage mobile app.
Kendall Baker (@kendallbaker) on X

🚨 SCOOP: MLB rights deals are “close to being done,” per sources. What I’m hearing: - Apple is fully out. RIP Friday Night Baseball - NBC/Peacock is in, for Friday and Sunday exclusive and Wild Card - MLB TV being sold to ESPN (for a boatload of $$$) - Netflix gets HR Derby

X (formerly Twitter)
Cassette adapters are remarkably simple

YouTube

@branden_branden Discord is a great candidate to use as a Safari web app on macOS. If their desktop app is just gonna be a wrapped SPA, okay, but then I'll choose to use WebKit instead of Chromium. Lots of benefits, including no ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/104996

Use Safari web apps on Mac - Apple Support

Starting with macOS Sonoma, you can use Safari to save any webpage as a web app, so that you can use it independently of Safari. Web apps offer a streamlined, app-like experience and easy access from the Dock.

Apple Support

@jsnell Ha ... I was writing to let you know you can turn off Apple Sports Live Activities per team, but your real-time follow-up beat me to it.

There *was* a very irritating bug in this for a while, that would keep re-enabling Live Activities for followed teams you had disabled, but it seems to have been fixed recently.