Unfair Flips, the coin flipping game that garnered a vibrant speedrunning community, is getting a fun, temporary twist: all flips in the game will now be fair. “For the next 24 hours, YOU can test your TRUE mettle in coin flipping,” developer Heather Flowers says. “No more probability, just pure skill.”
Satechi’s April Fools’ prank this year solves a problem humanity has faced ever since we started wrapping our feet in fabric tubes: missing socks. The FindAll Socks incorporate small Apple Find My-compatible trackers so you can quickly find one or both when they inevitably go missing.
MSI’s April Fools’ prank aims to solve the problem of your cat plopping itself directly atop your keyboard. It showed off an “MEG Cat Holder” that gives your furry friend their very own RGB bed attached to your monitor. As MSI puts it: “Your cat already acts like they own your setup, now they can complete it!”
Next week Bethesda’s sci-fi RPG is coming to the PS5 and getting a paid story expansion. But Starfield is also getting a major free update that adds a long list of features, including pets and a much-improved New Game Plus. You can get a rundown in this new trailer.
For Apple’s 50th anniversary, Cook did an interview with Esquire’s Ryan D’Agostino, who heroically attempts to get Cook to say anything of consequence and gets basically nowhere. Except for this, about Cook’s interaction with the Trump administration:
“So you can talk with them about your point of view on things. They may not agree, but you can engage. You can be heard. You may not, in the end, be able to convince… I’ve never believed that just yelling from the sideline about plus or minus was a good strategy. Your voice just goes into the wind.”
Cook’s point is that engaging is worthwhile, even though he knows he’s not accomplishing anything or convincing anyone. Sort of sounds like his voice is just going… into the wind.
Because everything is gambling now, Elgato has imagined a slot machine add-on for its handy button and dial-equipped accessory.
While today’s update adding MCP hooks for AI bots to press virtual Steam Deck buttons is more real than the lever, Elgato is releasing this free Slotius plugin today for “purely entertainment” reasons — you can’t win a jackpot, but you can spin the reels.
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0A portable turntable is probably the way to go if you’re starting out, but I might choose something cheaper.
The publisher filed a lawsuit in Munich last week, accusing OpenAI of violating copyright laws after ChatGPT allegedly copied a popular German book series, according to The Guardian:
In response to the prompt “Can you write a children’s book in which Coconut the Dragon is on Mars”, the chatbot generated text and images the publishing group said were “virtually indistinguishable from the original”.
As well as generating the text of a story, the AI-powered chatbot created a cover featuring Siegner’s orange dragon and two sidekicks, as well as a blurb for the back cover and instructions for how to submit the manuscript to a self-publishing platform.
WaterField Designs is celebrating Apple’s 50th anniversary and April Fools’ Day with a couple of new carrying cases for vintage Apple gear.
There’s a backpack for the Macintosh SE/30 made from waxed canvas and leather, and a belt-worn holster for the Apple Newton. They’re both priced at $2,026, and neither is available for purchase.
