ICYMI, we discovered the founder of Leia is using a Red Hydrogen as his daily driver. The phone was one of our flops of the decade, and made our list of the worst gadgets we’ve touched. But... the maker of its screen is not only alive, but thriving! Take a look:
Well, everyone of a certain age, anyway.
Over at Polygon, they’ve surveyed more than 4,000 Americans over 18 to find out the truth of anime’s reach in popular culture. Netflix’s number one spot on the “Where are you watching anime?” list explains its sudden One Piece obsession, and the survey has even more results about who is watching and why they watch.
Or at least it’s supposed to look like one, and it’s a metacommentary on ChatGPT? Showrunner Issa López explained on X/Twitter:
The idea is that it’s so sad up there that some kid with AI made the posters for a loser Metal festival for boomers.
It was discussed. Ad nauseam.
Apparently the K-pop poster on the left has a cut backstory too.
López doesn’t confirm whether the poster is completely AI-created, and some of the text is more coherent than I’d expect from the average image generator. That’s True Detective, I guess — gotta leave some mysteries hanging.
The journaling app, which now competes with Apple’s Journal, is rolling out a new feature that lets you create shared journals with up to 30 other people. Members can make entries, as well as comment and react to photos and stories posted there.
This feature obviously isn’t meant for sharing your most private and personal thoughts, which is why Day One notes that it’s optional and that your private journals are kept separate. Only paid subscribers can host shared journals, though.
While Kayak previously offered the ability to filter out certain aircraft, a company spokesperson tells 404 Media they noticed a “spike” in usage after a door blew out of a Boeing 737 Max 9 during an Alaska Airlines flight.
That’s why the site has started letting users specifically filter out both the 737 Max 9 and 737 Max 8 instead of grouping them in a single filter. This tool might not come in handy right now, though, as the 737 Max 9 is still grounded while the FAA investigates.
The agency was finally able to take a picture of the charcoal-like space gravel of the Bennu asteroid sample after getting the canister’s last two stubborn screws out.
The picture presented here is nowhere near as interesting as the detailed and very zoomable full-res download you can grab from NASA’s site, though.
This vibe check comes from an engineer named Diane Hirsh Theriault who has been at the company for over 8 years:
Google does not have one single visionary leader. Not a one. From the C-suite to the SVPs to the VPs, they are all profoundly boring and glassy-eyed.
With rolling layoffs continuing to hit different teams, including the X “moonshot” division today, Theriault writes that “executives are cashing out their human capital at the very moment it seems to me like they really need it.”
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Electrek reports that Tesla is slowly releasing FSD v12 on beta to a very small group of testers after CEO Elon Musk promised its release last year. If the demo was anything to go by, delaying the release to 2024 was a good idea, especially after almost running a red light.
FSD v12 is supposed to feature what Musk calls “end-to-end neural nets,” meaning that instead of relying on a mix of cameras and sensors like radar, FSD v12 will mainly use AI and cameras.
