How Apple added support for automatic transcript generation in the Podcast app, a feature highly requested by both disabled users and podcast creators
As seen in MacRumors, iOS 18 beta testers can set a new Siri wake … X: Dave Winer / @davewiner : @johnspurlock John, I just heard about transcriptions a couple of days ago. Do I have to publish my pod...
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters
What To Know About ‘Llama 3’ Model Marcus Gopolang Moloko / Memeburn : Meta AI with built in Llama 3 is on WhatsApp in South Africa Hamsat Abdurasheed / News.ng : Meta releases Llama 3, new AI assista...
A review of Ivory, a new Mastodon iOS app from Tapbots, maker of the now-defunct Tweetbot: an inspired design, Tweetbot-like gestures, custom filters, and more
You *can* add a non-Mastodon account to it. Here, I added my @viticci@pixelfed.social profile to Ivory and posted a picture from the app. … Tweets: Veerle Pieters / @vpieters : The launch of @tapbots...
Amazon plans to shut down Drive, its cloud storage service launched in March 2011, at the end of 2023 to focus “on photos and video storage with Amazon Photos”
Important dates to know Brandon Hill / Tom's Hardware : Amazon Drive Cloud Storage Service Being Discontinued Next Year Tweets: Bryan William Jones / @bwjones : I had to push back on IT insistence tha...
Facebook's metaverse is designed to solve several problems: an aging userbase, dependence on Google and Apple, regulatory risk, and reputational damage
it's about holding a mirror to our own broken, shared world. @Facebook's promised metaverse is about distracting us from the world it's helped break.”-@ethanz https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Joanna S...
Sources: Google plans to add free, ad-supported streaming TV channels to Google TV and has held talks with media companies that provide the channels
which you almost certainly already have Michael Perrigo / Chrome Unboxed : Google TV is working to inject free, ad-supported streaming channels into your experience Michael King / The Streamable : Doz...
As carmakers integrate 100-150+ chip-based electronic control units in each car, a look at the challenges of an auto industry that is more dependent on software
The trend toward self-driving and electric vehicles will add hundreds of millions of lines of code to cars. Can the auto industry cope? Tweets: @davewiner , @bertrandduflos , @azaidman , @trengriffin...
Facebook says it will start testing Live Audio Rooms in Groups and expects to roll out the feature to everyone on the Facebook app by the summer
Clubhouse, Fleets, whatever Facebook just announced, etc. etc. But not everything works best as audio, IMO. Some things are better consumed and stored as text. But then, I am an old Sara Fischer / @sa...
Apple to stop production of AirPort Express, Extreme, and Time Capsule Wi-Fi base stations, which were last updated in 2013, but will sell while stock lasts
On Thursday Apple made official … William White / InvestorPlace : Friday Apple Rumors: Apple Discontinues Airport Wireless Router Line Shaun Nichols / The Register : Apple grounds AirPort once and for...