davemark

davemark, 12 hours ago to movies

😮🍿

This trailer for "Megalopolis" is 🔥

From Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, etc.), a lifelong project, coming to theaters late 2024.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU1QyAYa60g
#Movies

davemark, 12 hours ago to apple

"The Forged Apple Employee Badge"

I absolutely love this story.

@cabel is a terrific writer, lays this out like a prosecutor would, with links and pictures that bring the story to life and bring home the guilty verdict.

https://cabel.com/2024/05/16/the-forged-apple-employee-badge/
#Apple #History

davemark, 12 hours ago to privacy

"NYPD will deploy drones to respond to 911 calls"

• Pilot program is in 5 precincts.
• Each precinct will get rooftop drone platform
• Calling it “drones as first responders”

This a good thing? Drones can certainly get eyes to an emergency quickly. Video footage admissible in court?

Privacy implications? Will people be shooting these down?

https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-will-deploy-drones-to-respond-to-911-calls-in-5-nyc-precincts-officials-say
#Privacy #NewYorkCity #NYC #Police #Drones

davemark, 1 day ago to MLB

Baseball friends, don’t sleep on this pirates rookie Paul Skenes.

In his 2nd major league appearance, he’s:

• thrown 6 innings of no-hit ball (he’s on a pitch count, done for the day)
• got 11 strikeouts
• ended his day throwing pitches of 99mph and 100mph

Skenes is special. ⚾️

#mlb #Pittsburgh #Baseball

davemark, 1 day ago to apple

New Dalrymple Report is live!😎

Air fryers, Apple adds Eye Tracking, all sorts of iPad stuff, lots more.

Dig in, and thanks for listening. 🙏🏻❤️

https://www.loopinsight.com/2024/05/17/the-dalrymple-report-eye-tracking-new-ipads-gpt-4o/
#Apple #TheDalrympleReport

davemark, 1 day ago to apple

"Speed Up iPhone Typing With This Simple Keyboard Trick"

This is one of those low-discoverability things that is absolutely worth knowing:

• In iOS, bring up the keyboard (works in any app)

• Press and HOLD the "123" key, then drag up to a number

• Let go with the number selected.

The number is typed, you are back in the alpha keyboard, all with a single click, rather than the 3 clicks you normally use.

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/speed-up-iphone-typing-simple-keyboard-trick/
#Apple #iPhone

davemark, 1 day ago to apple

"Apple says the majority of Mac users also own an iPad, which likely means macOS is never coming to the iPad"

I, for one, don't want macOS on my iPad.

I love the simplicity of the magic piece of glass that is iPad.

I do wish we had an iPadOS that worked more cleanly with my Mac. Hard to put into words, but I wish the shared models were more similar.

Finder on the Mac and Files on iPad for example. Very different experience.

But macOS on my iPad. Nah.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/15/majority-of-mac-users-also-own-ipad/
#Apple

davemark, 1 day ago to ai

Google is adding "an AI-generated summary at the top of many of their search results"

If Google AI pulls detailed answers directly into the search page, the less likely you are to visit other sites.

Better for Google. Worse for the external sites, yeah? Or am I missing something?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24155321/google-search-ai-results-page-gemini-overview
#AI #Google #Search

davemark, 1 day ago to science

"Experiments generate quantum entanglement over optical fibres across three real cities"

• Quantum Entanglement, where 2 particles are connected and affect one another even if those particles are light-years apart.

• The demo used existing fiber cable, proof of concept that quantum entanglement can work in existing network

• One experiment, in Boston, used fiber that crossed the Charles River 6 times

Huge leap forward!

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01445-2
#Science #Physics

davemark, 2 days ago to apple

San Francisco Apple Store.

Took this a few years ago. Popped up in my widgets just now.

Love this photo, especially love the reflection. Very clean.
#Apple #Photography

davemark, 2 days ago to apple

From Apple Support, an Apple Pencil Pro video showing actions, gestures, features, and settings.

Worth watching if you are thinking of buying one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK-ZMshDh14

#Apple #iPad #iPadPro #ApplePencil

davemark, 2 days ago to apple

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, definitely my favorite from my previous post.

Look at the fondness in their smiles. Wonder what they were thinking.

#Apple #Miscrosoft #SteveJobs #BillGates #Photography #History

davemark, 2 days ago to tech

Bill Gates shares some little seen photos from his past.

Follow link, start scrolling.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/15/business/gallery/bill-gates/index.html
#Tech #Photography #History

davemark, 2 days ago to apple

"Samsung mocks Apple’s crushing iPad Pro ad with its own ‘UnCrush’ pitch"

Watch the ad. Clever? Easy pickings to mock your rivals mistake?

Me? I thought it was meh. Samsung has done way better, like that ad where someone got a "notch" haircut when iPhone came out with the notch. That one was wicked.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157869/samsung-ipad-crush-ad-uncrush-galaxy-tab-s9

#Apple #Samsung #Ad #Uncrush #Crush

davemark, 2 days ago to ai

In the future, I ask my AI to:

• Create a season of the Sopranos where Carmella takes over the family business

Where does the 💰 go? Assuming it's just for private consumption, not for resale.

• Do the actors get paid?
• Will I pay my AI a fee?
• Will this new form of entertainment kill the studios?
• What will future Apple look like? Will Vision Pro-like glasses become the primary biz?

#AI #Futurology #Apple

davemark, 3 days ago to news

“Slovakia’s Prime Minister Fico in life-threatening condition after being shot multiple times”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/15/europe/slovakia-prime-minister-fico-shooting-intl/index.html
#News

davemark, 3 days ago to ai

From 14 years ago, here's the original Siri demo.

This is aspirational, not a show of features, but still, there's a tantalizing promise there that we never reached.

But watch that GPT 4o demo I posted earlier with this video in mind. To me, feels like we are much closer to that original dream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpjpVAB06O4
#AI #Siri #GPT4o #Apple #WWDC #OpenAI

davemark, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to ai

OpenAI's demo of "GPT 4o" (link below) is astonishing. The demo itself starts at about 9 minutes in.

Can't help but think about Siri and how high the bar is for Apple.

26 days until WWDC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQacCB9tDaw
#AI #OpenAI #GPT4o #Apple #Google #Siri