This story starts with Elon Musk’s decision to take radar sensors off Tesla cars, but is ultimately about what happens when an inconsistent, hard-driving management style runs into unexpectedly hard problems. And then what happens when a bunch of your best people disappear to try and fix a flailing social network. It’s a good read!
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But people are already doing seriously remarkable things with the newest thing in AI. Some people are also seriously nervous about where it’s headed, and how open OpenAI actually is. Plus, would you let a bot write all your emails forever? And wait, hang on, is the moon real? It’s a very existential Vergecast, y’all.
As ever, it’s super complicated to figure out how and where to watch the NCAA basketball tournament. But here’s the trick: skip all the services and just download the NCAA March Madness Live app. It has all the games, including lots for free to everyone.
Every year, I use it obsessively for four weeks, and then I delete it for 11 months. As of right now it’s back on my homescreen.
But seriously: what is a Moon photo? What is a photo at all, really? Live from SXSW, that’s what we tried to figure out.
When Google announced it was shutting down Reader in 2013, the company clearly didn’t think it was big news — it was the fifth bullet in a blog post full of dev tools! But a lot of people still miss it, and with Mastodon and the Fediverse and the open web on the rise, we might need something like it again. Reader Resurrections, anybody?
[Official Google Blog]
On The Talk Show, John Gruber and Jason Kottke got way down in the weeds on the evolution of blogging, what it means to be A Blogger, how social media changed what it means to write on the internet, and much more. There’s like a whole hour just about headlines! It’s super nerdy and super fun.
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And yes, that’s wiper, singular. We also talked about the new Spotify design, streaming boxes, Gigi Sohn, weird wearable cameras, and everything else happening this week.
Look, I admit it: I’m a to-do list app sicko. I’ve used them all, and I never get anything done because I use them all instead of actually accomplishing anything. (I’m using Twos right now, if you’re curious.) If you also love shuttling your stuff to a new app in the hopes that it’ll solve everything, Shu Omi has just the video to get you started. BRB downloading 100 new apps.
Google has been trying to figure out TV software since 2010, and this new 9to5Google story is a fun trip down memory lane of all the company’s many chaotic efforts. (And its hilariously bad ideas about TV remotes.) After all this time, it’s amazing how revolutionary it still seems to have a half-decent web browser on your TV.
