iPhone Air teardown: clever use of space by placing the logic board above the 12.26 Wh battery, the same cell used in Apple's MagSafe Battery pack, and more
I AM SHOCKED iFixit on YouTube : Apple's Thinnest iPhone Ever... Is Actually Repairable? iPhone Air Teardown Jibin Joseph / PCMag : iFixit Teardown: iPhone Air Design Choices Are a Big Win for Repaira...
Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023
Microsoft has announced it is discontinuing … Thomas Stevenson / The Post Millennial : Microsoft to shut down Skype in two months, company says switch to Teams David Phelan / Forbes : Microsoft Kills ...
A look at Musk-backed America PAC's “Register to Vote” online campaign, which collects users' personal data in swing states, but does not help them register
https://www.cnbc.com/... (NYTimes had reported in July, “The group has taken pains to be secretive. Joe Lonsdale...played a key role in the group, recruiting many of his friends — including the Jimmy...
OpenAI debuts Voice Engine, which lets users generate synthetic copy of a voice from a 15-second sample, available to around 10 partners, including HeyGen
but Won't Release the Tech Yet Cade Metz / New York Times : OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voices Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : OpenAI holds back wide release of voice-cloning tec...
Google's video demo of Gemini's multimodal AI capabilities wasn't carried out in real time or in voice; the model was shown still images and given text prompts
Attached: 1 image Just tried the new google Gemini model … Reethu Aaby / The Week : ChatGPT's challenger is here! Everything you need to know about Google's Gemini AI James Laird / Tech.co : Did Googl...
Apple signs a multiyear NFL deal to have Apple Music replace Pepsi as the main sponsor for the Super Bowl halftime show; sources say the NFL was seeking ~$50M
Or Won't—Perform At The Super Bowl Halftime Show Marketing Dive : Apple Music to sponsor Super Bowl Halftime Show as services take spotlight Sissi Cao / Observer : Apple Will Be the New Title Sponsor ...
Kuo: Apple is working on an updated version of the HomePod for release in Q4 2022 or Q1 2023, and there “may not be much innovation in hardware design”
but when? MacDailyNews : Ming-Chi Kuo: New HomePod model coming as soon as this year José Adorno / 9to5Mac : Everything we know so far about a new HomePod model TechRadar : We could see a new Apple Ho...
Payments company Paddle announces an alternative in-app payments system for iOS, charging 5%-10% fees and launching December 7, following Epic v. Apple ruling
which makes it not “in-app” but more like how we've been doing it on the web for the past 20 yrs 😉 Fees: 10% or 5% + $0.50 https://twitter.com/... Elena / @virtualelena : $689m is an incredible number...
Deep dive on the fan-cooled M1 chip in the Mac mini: performance is “outstandingly good”, besting Intel's chips and on par with AMD's new Zen 3 line
Better necessarily implies different. — That's one of my favorite axioms. Joe Rossignol / MacRumors : Mac Mini Teardown Provides Real-World Look at M1 Chip on Smaller Logic Board Ina Fried / Axios :...
[Thread] Trackpad support for iPads is not Apple's capitulation, it is a part of a convergent evolution of PC hardware and software from its earliest days
How to correctly use a computer — Apple Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1269: the pandemic plan Trump's team ignored, UK gov tracking Londoners … Dave Mark / The Loop : Gruber: How to corr...