Backyard Baseball 2001 is getting remastered for Steam, iOS, and Android as Backyard Baseball ‘01, releasing July 8th.
The quarter-century-old sports game was the first of the series to include real MLB players, and 28 of the original 31 pros return in the remaster: including Mike Piazza, Carlos Beltran, Derek Jeter, Mark McGwire, and Jose Canseco. So you can reunite the The Bash Brothers to take on some kids.
Android Headlines says it has the specs for the two new Pro Pixels, a week after dropping the details of the base model.
It sounds like not much is changing from last year on the hardware side, but the XL model will reportedly start from 256GB of storage, double the 10 Pro’s 128GB, suggesting Google is trying the same ploy Apple used to justify the iPhone 15 Pro Max price jump in 2023.
[androidheadlines.com]
Gmail’s AI-powered search upgrade will now take recency, most-clicked emails, and frequent contacts into account when surfacing messages for Google Workspace users, instead of just returning results in chronological order based on keywords. It rolled out to regular users in March.
Google says this update makes it easier for business users to find the emails they actually need, “saving you valuable time and helping you find important information more easily.”
Kyle Chayka, who wrote for this website about the “airspace” aesthetic created by social media, is now looking into how LLM models affect creativity. He suggests that if Silicon Valley once homogenized decor — and, to some degree, created beige influencers — it may now be making LLM users less original, too.
[newyorker.com]
