Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bought it. (www.washingtonpost.com)
A prominent author’s decision to pull her novel from publication after being “review bombed” highlights Goodreads’s power and raises qu
Apple forced to make major cuts to Vision Pro headset production plans (www.ft.com)
So, where do we go now? (www.theverge.com)
Not sure I agree with all of his points, but it’s a start that we’re at least publicly acknowledging this as the end of an era (for good IMO)
PC speed gains erased by modern software (hackaday.com)
Interesting take on comparability vs performance. I gotta imaging capturing user data and sending to a cloud collector is also a big culprit.
‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power (www.theguardian.com)
Tesla thinks a grabbing stick is a good replacement for right-hand drive in the UK. (www.arenaev.com)
Order a Model S or Model X in the UK and you’ll receive a left-hand drive car and a bonus grabbing stick.
Gfycat.com shuts down on September 1 and all Gifs will be taken down (www.ghacks.net)
A Tesla owner says he was locked out of his EV after its 12-volt battery died amid the Texas heat (www.businessinsider.com)
The Tesla owner said getting stuck in his driveway was “annoying as hell,” and he tried everything from hosing the car down to jumping the battery.
Apple forced to make major cuts to Vision Pro headset production plans (www.ft.com)
OpenAI being Sued for "Stealing" Peoples Content Online (www.firstpost.com)
OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sam Altman are in massive trouble. OpenAI is getting sued in the US for illegally using content from the internet to train their LLM or large language models
How much internet speed in Wi-Fi should I typically get on my smartphone? (lemmy.world)
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite, which according to the internet should be able to support speeds up to 1.2Ghz. I have a contract in which my provider should give me access to 500mbs on wi-fi but this is the most I ever got with my phone, I normally get 280mbs or lower. Is this considered normal, despite being a wireless...
Apple forced to make major cuts to Vision Pro headset production plans (www.ft.com)
Apple forced to make major cuts to Vision Pro headset production plans (www.ft.com)
Gfycat is shutting down September 1st (gfycat.com)
The Gfycat service is being discontinued. Please save or delete your Gfycat content by visiting https://www.gfycat.com and logging in to your account. After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted from gfycat.com
Apple forced to make major cuts to Vision Pro headset production plans (www.ft.com)
Over 100 artists boycotting venues that use face-scanning technology (www.rollingstone.com)
Rage Against the Machine founders Tom Morello and Zack de la Rocha are among more than 100 artists boycotting venues using face-scanning technology.
A Look at Bluesky - An overly complicated social networking platform (juliette.page)
cross-posted from: jemmy.jeena.net/post/18494...
Uniforms? Check. Motto? Check. Now the Space Force needs an identity. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Three years after it was established as the sixth branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, the U.S. Space Force is working to define its m
Apple is now the first publicly traded company to close above a $3 trillion market value (techcrunch.com)
Apple’s market cap hit $3 trillion, as its shares rose 1% to a new high and passed the $190.73 price required to reach the milestone.
Windows 11’s AI-powered Copilot (and its Bing-powered ads) enters public preview (arstechnica.com)
Last month, Microsoft announced that it would continue its put-ChatGPT-in-everything adventure with a new Windows 11 feature called Copilot. The company added generative AI to Edge and to the Bing-powered taskbar Search field months ago, but Copilot promises to be the most visible and hard-to-ignore version of Microsoft’s big...
Lithium Scarcity Pushes Carmakers Into the Mining Business (www.nytimes.com)
Ford, General Motors and others are striking deals with mining companies to avoid raw material shortages that could thwart their electric veh
Mars has liquid guts and strange insides, InSight suggests (arstechnica.com)
Elon Musk blames data scraping by AI startups for his new paywalls on reading tweets (www.theverge.com)
Elon Musk blamed AI companies for new “temporary” limitations on Twitter access. Verified accounts can read up to 6,000 posts per day, while unverified users are limited to seeing 600 posts per day.
Tesla Sales Surge as Tax Credits Fuel Demand (www.nytimes.com)
Incentives and price cuts made Tesla electric cars cheaper than comparable gasoline models. But the company faces growing competition in China, a key marke
Thousands of Twitter users report problems accessing site as Elon Musk says new limits have been installed (www.nbcnews.com)
As thousands of Twitter users reported problems attempting to access the social media site Saturday, Elon Musk tweeted he is limiting the daily number of tweets users can read.
