By previewing smarter Siri vaporware at WWDC and the iPhone 16 launch, Apple burned a reputation earned over decades for only promising actual working products
In the two decades I've been in this racket, I've never been angrier at myself for missing a story than I am about Apple's announcement …
Congressional leaders seem flummoxed by the growing popularity of Chinese-owned apps Xiaohongshu and Lemon8, an unintended consequence of the TikTok ban
The Chinese apps RedNote and Lemon8 have exploded in popularity as TikTok faces an imminent ban and the Supreme Court upheld the law forcing its sale. Bluesky: @harrymccracken.com ...
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3, an open-source MoE model of 671B total parameters, with 37B activated per token, claiming it outperforms top models like GPT-4o
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, known for challenging leading AI vendors with its innovative open-source technologies, today released a new ultra-large model: DeepSeek-V3.
Metaverse products from Meta, Microsoft, and others are just 3D virtual social spaces, and lack key features of the metaverse concept, chiefly interoperability
theoretically interesting idea in search of a mass market use case. “I want to use my Elder Scrolls Online sword in Minecraft” is not anything actual gamers say & give actual game ...
Metaverse products from Meta, Microsoft, and others are just 3D virtual social spaces, and lack key features of the metaverse concept, chiefly interoperability
Meta's ‘Horizon Worlds’ app, Microsoft and Roblox are capitalizing on a buzzword that's far from reality
Source: Facebook is planning to change its company name to reflect its focus on the metaverse as soon as next week at Connect, its annual AR/VR conference
Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse — Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect …
Poparazzi, which hit #1 on App Store, is a new photo-sharing app that bans selfies, focuses on sharing photos of friends, and has no follower counts or comments
The future of social is multiplayer — Hyping up your friends is actually a lot more fun than self-glorification.
Collaborative design service Figma launches whiteboarding tool FigJam and adds voice chat to all of its products
and FigJam looks like it has a chance to be the same way https://www.protocol.com/... Robert Stephens / @rstephens : Within seconds of using this I am gobsmacked and in love. Every...
Following Trump's ban on Facebook and Twitter, alternative social apps and private messengers top the app stores, including Signal, Telegram, MeWe, and CloutHub
A handful of unelected tech executives have tremendous influence on public discourse. Tweets: Evan Greer / @evan_greer : i know no one wants to hear this but it is a short path fro...
After Parler's ban, a social app called Parlor, which connects users following similar topics, got at least as high as #2 in the Play Store and iOS App Store
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Parler CEO says the company has been dropped by “every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers”, which could end the business
Parler CEO Mark Matze said today that his company have been dropped by virtually all of their business alliances after Amazon …
Apple announces the $729 iPhone 12 mini with 5.4-inch OLED display, five colors, and similar specs to the iPhone 12
Apple debuts $999 6.1" iPhone 12 Pro and $1,099 6.7" iPhone 12 Pro Max with flat-edge design, 5G, LiDAR, three rear cameras with 5x zoom, and 128GB base storage
Apple today unveiled the new 6.1-inch iPhone 12 Pro and 6.7-inch iPhone 12 Pro Max at its pre-recorded “Hi, Speed” digital event.
Snap Camera, which lets users overlay their faces with AR filters in services like Zoom, Hangouts, and Twitch, has seen 10X surge in downloads since March 1
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg : Tweets: @russcp , @kensadahiro , @business , @jackdbrody , @dtrinh , and @sarahfrier Tweets: Russ Caditz-Peck / @russcp : “The feature, called Snap Camer...
Report: Rajeev Misra, head of the $100B Vision Fund, is accused of sabotaging other SoftBank execs for career advancement; Misra and SoftBank deny allegations
- Rajeev Misra, the head of SoftBank's $100 billion Vision Fund, is accused of overseeing a plan to lure SoftBank's then-president into a … Source: Wall Street Journal .
A look at the many failed social networks launched since 2002, including Friendster, Myspace, Bebo, ConnectU, Path, Yik Yak, Orkut, Google+, and Vine
that your feed could look a lot more interesting, more avant-garde, joyous, local, intimate, kinky, weird, and hilarious and, yes, scarier and even more hateful than it does now.” ...