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Archives for November 2024

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
A 6-hour Final Fantasy VII Rebirth speedrun?

Yes, please. That’s just one of many promising runs at the next Awesome Games Done Quick, which is happening from January 5th to 12th. The full schedule is now live, which also features a run of Crazy Taxi with a live band. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Games Done Quick

[gamesdonequick.com]

David Pierce
David Pierce
The big business of going out of business.

Do not miss the photos of this huge Bay Area warehouse, jam-packed with the remnants of failed tech companies. Fancy office chairs, branded swag, weird new ideas about cubicles, endless rows of phone booths, and more. And most of it’s for sale! It’s like upscale, totally cursed Ikea in there.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Instagram could let AI generate a profile picture for you.

Reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi dug up a menu within the app showing the option to “create An AI profile picture.” While you can already upload an AI-generated profile picture to Instagram, this would streamline the process.

Meta’s other apps — Facebook and WhatsApp — have been spotted working on a similar feature.

Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

Rebooting the member list, taking the show streaming — is it enough in the age of AI?

Nilay Patel
Umar Shakir
Umar Shakir
Mazda’s gorgeous Iconic SP Concept may be destined for production.

In a Mazda Insider Blog interview, design chief Masashi Nakayama said:

This concept is not just one of those empty show cars. It has been designed with real intent to turn it into a production model in the not-so-distant future.

Mazda debuted the rotary engine hybrid electric coupe last year. However, as Road & Track notes, Mazda has reneged on promises it made in the past.

red sports coupe
Mazda’s Iconic SP concept.
Image: Mazda
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Threads is investigating an issue where replies appear as new posts.

Over the weekend, several Threads users noticed seemingly random, out-of-context posts on their feeds — only to realize they were replies without the original post attached.

Fortunately, it looks like a fix may be on the way, as Instagram engineer Seth Kinast says the company is “investigating” the apparent bug.