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Archives for October 2024

How to send messages via satellite on your iPhone or PixelHow to send messages via satellite on your iPhone or Pixel
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy and Wes Davis
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
“I can assure you that Spectre isn’t going anywhere.”

Nate Mitchell, the CEO and cofounder of Spectre Divide developer Mountaintop Studios, published a blog post seemingly trying to assuage fears about the game’s concurrent player count, which Mitchell admits is “lower than we’d all like.” Currently, Steam says there are 2,345 people in-game.

The free-to-play shooter launched in early September. Shroud, a hugely popular streamer, was an adviser.

Update: Added player count and Shroud’s involvement.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Home Depot is reportedly starting to accept Apple Pay.

9to5Mac has an article about the apparent rollout and says that the rollout “appears to be very gradual.” Home Depot had been a major holdout on accepting Apple Pay, but a support account said in September that the company was evaluating mobile payments.

Walmart is now arguably the biggest retailer to not accept Apple’s mobile payments.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The big new metaverse innovation: sitting.

Meta’s avatars can now sit in Horizon Worlds experienceswell, as long as a developer uses the right “gizmo” in their world.

Meta introduced upgraded avatars last week.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Adam Mosseri was the PM for the “Facebook Phone.”

Mosseri, who now heads up Instagram, talked a bit about the project in response to a post from our EIC Nilay Patel about the HTC First.

If you want to do some time-traveling, check out Dieter Bohn’s review from 2013.

I was the PM on that project (my first project as a PM). Clearly a failed product, but (1) we took a lot of good design ideas from it into the main apps in addition to chat heads, like immersive media and (2) what we lacked was a sufficiently valuable differentiator, which has in turn informed many projects since. Lots of lessons learned.
Screenshot: Adam Mosseri (Threads)
The best mechanical keyboards to buy right now

Whether wired, wireless, or low profile, here are our picks for the best readily available boards.

Nathan Edwards and Jon Porter
Tom Warren
Tom Warren
Microsoft made a song about OneDrive.

Microsoft just announced a bunch of new features for its OneDrive cloud storage service today. The software giant must be super excited about these new features, because it has created a OneDrive song to celebrate the moment. This has to be AI-generated, surely?

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Six months later, Humane’s AI Pin is getting timers.

David Pierce called out the lack of timers in his April review of the AI Pin, but now they’re here.

The AI Pin is getting a bunch of other new features, too, thanks to the CosmOS 1.2 update that Humane says is starting to roll out.