Alex Cranz
Gemini AI is definitely the focus of the first part of this Pixel event.
Yet the elephant in the room is accuracy. Gemini Assistant sounds like it could be super useful! But if it isn’t accurate, is it really better?
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Today’s Pixel event is dedicated to Susan Wojcicki.
The former CEO of YouTube passed away this weekend.
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We’re at Google and already lining up for the Pixel keynote.
The coffee is hot, the sun is only warm, and the journalists with gadgets are plentiful.
Alex Cranz
The real life version of the Twisters truck is way more tank-like.
Just as in Twisters, Reed Timmer custom built his truck to get as close to tornadoes as possible. But where Glen Powell was shooting roman candles at tornadoes, Timmer shoots rockets full of sensors at them.
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There’s a wall mount for the Dyson Airwrap,
and having previously purchased one I can confirm that it isn’t half bad! Is the metal sort of cheap and the adhesive backing pitiful? Yes. But it also includes screws to mount it directly into the wall, and having all my Airwrap accessories on the wall makes me feel fancy. At $32.45, it’s 19 percent cheaper than when I bought it.
They’re more colorful than anything Amazon offers and have built-in support for Overdrive, but the UI feels more focused on selling books than reading them.
Alex Cranz
Alex Cranz
Well, that’s one delicious use of a 3D printer.
The ability to 3D print using edible mediums like chocolate isn’t new, but consider this: a NES cartridge-shaped reverse s’more.
Alex Cranz
It looks like iPadOS 18 has a drive formatting tool.
Given how badly Apple would like people to edit video on iPads it makes sense. This year Final Cut Pro for iPad introduced support for external drives too.
It all sort of feels like iPadOS is becoming a proper computer OS—but as with FCP there are caveats. There’s only three drive formats to choose from and other tools, like First Aid, are still missing.
Alex Cranz
Just how complicit is Mark Zuckerberg?
Because we often wonder how much a CEO actually knows about the goings on of their company—particularly when a large company like Meta has is being sued by dozens of Attorneys General over its policies around underage users.
It turns out Zuckerberg may have had a very direct hand in crafting policies that targeted children and exacerbated issues with body image on Meta’s platforms, at least according to a new report from the New York Times
How Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Failed Children on Safety
[The New York Times]