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Back in 2011, when he was a tech columnist at The New York Times, Nick Bilton figured out that Apple was soon going to launch an Apple branded-television set, with no remote control. You’d just talk to it. This made no sense of course, as I pointed out.

Bilton closed his column thus:

The company is now close enough that it could announce the product by late 2012, releasing it to consumers by 2013.

It is coming though. It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when.

Maybe it’ll launch in time for Bilton’s first season at the helm of 60 Minutes this fall, with his all-new lineup of correspondents.

AI is upending the movie business, from Amazon's new AI Creators Fund to contract battles that just gave synthetic actors the green light in Hollywood. This episode dives into the real-world impact of generative tools on jobs, creativity, and who gets to tell the next gener...

It’s not about whether technology is inherently good or bad, liberating or oppressive. Architecture shapes incentives; incentives shape outcomes.

I agree this is true right now, and the horrific implications if it wasn’t, but he’s more certain about the future than I am

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“‘The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable,’ Scott Pelley said late Tuesday, just hours after being fired from CBS News after almost 40 years at the network. ‘The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.’” — Variety - - - Previously, in th...

Leading AI labs, executives, and scientists are sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to improve tracking of synthetic DNA sequences that could be used for bioweapons.

modders are widely advertising the service on, where else, Facebook Marketplace

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Surveys now render and record responses in your transactional emails, like your welcome email.

Today I'm happy to share that Progress Planner is joining Your.Online. And it's not just Progress Planner: Marieke, our whole team, and I are joining too.

Scott Pelley, in a statement posted on Instagram (which I’ll quote in full, as the original is locked behind a dickwall if you’re not signed in to an Instagram account): There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes. The Sunday tradition is the most successfu...

Next week is WWDC, which has always represented Apple’s connection to its community of third-party developers, and in recent years has also served as the official start of Apple’s annual operating-system cycle.…

👁️ 🔗 We need a social web for nobodies. writes @dave

1] Every nobody is a somebody to somebody.

2] That is what we have … it’s just spoiled by tech bros, algorithms and loud mouths.

3] People typically have more pride in that which they own versus rent. I think this a core tenant of why ‘global town squares’...

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“Hey Google, how are the Giants doing this year?”  I was standing at my bathroom sink, finishing up my daily ablutions, when a random thought popped into my head. It’s been a minute since I checked in on my favorite baseball team – ever since I moved East, they’ve been in a slump. Maybe they’re … Continue reading "Where’s All the AI Magic?"

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Counting down the hours… NBA finals, game 1. I really don’t know what to expect. 🏀

It’s no secret that AI is becoming enterprises’ biggest and least understood technology expense, and for many companies, the spending

The post The AI cost crisis finally has a watchdog — just not the companies causing it appeared first on The New Stack.

David Smith blogs about his Apple-inspired ideals for development and design: If you are always striving towards improving quality you will eventually end up with a surplus of user expectation. In my experience this surplus is incredibly precarious because once you are bett...

Despite being under Republican control, the House just defied President Trump on the Iran war. No amount of lying or bullying by the White House can make Americans forget we're paying for a senseless war. Now even some GOP Members of Congress are recognizing they ultimately answer to us - not him.