Jay Peters
Ball x Pit x Mobile.
The very good Ball x Pit is coming to iOS and Android on March 12th.
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John Higgins
Panasonic partners with Skyworth for TV business in US and Europe.
Skyworth will make the Panasonic-branded TVs, leading marketing in the US and Europe while Panasonic focuses on development. It’s the second storied Japanese TV company to partner with a Chinese manufacturer in as many months, further highlighting the decline of Japanese TV dominance over the past decade.
Andrew Liszewski
It’s harder to clean up a mess you’re still actively making.
Jess Weatherbed
Stevie Bonifield
The former Complexly owner lets loose on YouTube, AI, and why he turned his educational company into a nonprofit.
Nilay Patel
Microsoft has a new gaming CEO who wants to bring Xbox back from the brink.
Tom Warren
Jess Weatherbed
Dominic Preston
A slow update cycle.
MIDI was introduced in 1983, and hit version 2.0 back in 2020, an update cadence we think more of the industry should aspire to.
porkbun:
The MIDI folk kept the same version number for 43 years. HDMI could never.
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Jess Weatherbed
X is working on ‘Made with AI’ labels.
The in-development feature reported by @nima_owji shows a toggle that allows users to disclose synthetically made or manipulated content. The move may be in response to India ordering social platforms to embrace provenance systems like C2PA, a standard that X abandoned after Elon Musk stepped in.
Dominic Preston
Honor is pivoting to robots.
The Chinese smartphone company says it will reveal a humanoid robot at MWC this week, which I’m told will focus on domestic tasks. It’s a big change for the company, even with the Robot Phone also on the way, but makes more sense when you know it has an IPO in its future.