I’m coming to you live from my hot-as-hell apartment here in San Francisco. We’re facing a historic heat wave and none of us have apartment air conditioning.
Even funnier, the AC at OpenAI HQ is broken, according to an employee. The office is based in the Mission district, which tends to get hotter than the rest of the city. (One Google DeepMind staffer flaunted his working AC in reply: “We’re hiring!”)
The Raspberry Pi 5 microcomputer can take advantage of Class A2 SD cards to boost read and write speeds, but only if the card itself properly supports the standard. Not all do, which prompted the company to partner with Longsys to create its own A2-compatible card that guarantees support for performance increasing features like “command queueing.”
A 32GB version will sell for $9.95.
Ryan Broderick of the excellent Garbage Day newsletter has a new podcast exploring “viral freakouts” like Tide Pods and NyQuil chicken. A recent episode featuring Michael Hobbes covers The Anxious Generation and the notion that smartphones have created a teen mental health crisis. It’s a good listen and a more nuanced discussion of the subject than anything in Haidt’s book.
That’s straight from Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu, who took great exception to our story from September 25th, which was sourced to a Fast Company article about his comments at one of their events. Jesse told me the actual daily user number was around 20,000, spiking up to 34,000 the day the company’s new LAM Playgrounds were launched, and that his actual comment was that 5,000 of those people were using the Rabbit at any given time. For context, Jesse also told me Rabbit has sold 100,000 R1s so far.
Fast Company has corrected its story, and we’ve updated our story as well. You can hear the whole conversation on Decoder.
There’s white smoke from ESPN’s HQ in Bristol, CT, today, as Shams Charania broke the news of his own free agent signing, saying:
I am honored to join ESPN as the company’s Senior NBA Insider.
He will take over the spot from his one-time mentor and longtime rival, Wojnarowski, who announced his retirement last month.
Though Over the Garden Wall still remains criminally unavailable on Max where it belongs, a new two-minute-long stop-motion short from series creator Patrick McHale and Aardman is coming to Cartoon Network’s YouTube channel on November 3rd.
What better place to ring in the new year than in zombie-infested Raccoon City? The port for Apple devices, announced for the App Store earlier this year, has now gotten a December 31st release date, AppleInsider spotted.
Like Resident Evil 4 and Village, it’ll be free to start, and an in-app purchase unlocks the full game.
[AppleInsider]
...and leaves with two Porsches. The car customizer has continued operations long after its four-season association with MTV’s Pimp My Ride, and now Meta’s chain-wearing CEO is a customer.
Along with a GT3 Touring, the Zuckerbergs obtained a Porsche Cayenne SUV that’s stretched out and now features sliding doors.
