Epic v. Google: Here are your bingo cards for Sundar Pichai’s Fortnite testimony
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is testifying in Epic’s Fortnite antitrust trial; follow along with our Verge bingo cards. Do you know your Android APIs from your APKs?
the “insert slashes in terms people don’t like so the Algorithm doesn’t find them” convention has apparently breached social media containment and reached official US government public comment submissions, I have never felt so old
This is an incredibly ghoulish poll but the response’s mention of copyright here seems… odd? Licensing your works for republication and setting terms there is pretty conventional stuff, and the extent publishers can push is more based on overall economics than *copyright* exactly, so I’m not quite sure what the reference to a “strong” framework is getting at?
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/oct/31/microsoft-accused-of-damaging-guardians-reputation-with-ai-generated-pollMicrosoft accused of damaging Guardian’s reputation with AI-generated poll
Publisher says poll speculating on cause of woman’s death that appeared next to Guardian article caused ‘significant reputational damage’
was buying a dubious zombie brand modern manual typewriter for cheap off Facebook Marketplace a good idea? no. do i regret it? honestly also no.
it's 6pm, is your computer protected by a small stone pyramid of unknown origin
I asked Sudowrite to make a nom de plume for the novella I generated and I kinda regret not going with this one tbh
brain implants are in fact a real if highly experimental treatment for depression, it’s super fascinating and cool! you should probably be trying specifically to get into a program that would facilitate testing that
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58719089
Brain implant may lift most severe depression
Sarah, the first patient to try it, says it has allowed her to enjoy life again.
Apple slow-running the Magic Leap learning curve I guess. (Magic Leap basically gave you a purse strap to put the computer puck on. It wasn’t terrible! But wired designs are pretty clunky for consumer use regardless.)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apples-learning-curve-how-headsets-design-caused-production-challenges
Apple’s Learning Curve: How Headset’s Design Caused Production Challenges
If Apple unveils its long-awaited mixed-reality headset next week as expected, it will represent the company’s riskiest gamble on a new product since the iPhone. It will also test the company’s prowess in design and manufacturing like nothing before. The headset is the most complicated hardware ...
i haven’t seen High Fidelity since college but this is pretty much how I remember it going
