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    Today on The Vergecast: a 60-year-old Mac, and Twitter In Memoriam.

    I have spent an alarming amount of time in the last 24 hours reading thousands of the best tweets anyone ever tweeted. We talked about those tweets, our brushes with main-character-ness, and more. Plus, Will Poor resurrects his extremely old Macintosh, and wonders: how can I make this thing last another three decades?

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    David Pierce
    The Arc browser for Windows is one step closer to real.

    The Browser Company has been teasing a Windows version for a while now, and the app is apparently almost ready! So far only a few people are testing it — the “Beta Testers Onboarded” count is at a whopping four as I type this — but CEO Josh Miller says he hopes the waitlist will be empty by spring. (If you want to get on said waitlist, here’s the link.)

    Arc for Windows

    [www.isarconwindowsyet.com]

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    David Pierce
    It’s time for the Excel World Championships!

    I’m currently sitting in the seventh row of the stands at the HyperX Esports Arena in Las Vegas, where 16 Excel whizzes are going to spend the night competing to solve puzzles with spreadsheets. T-shirts are being thrown, all the lights are green, thousands of dollars in prize money is at stake, the energy in here is already off the charts. The stream — on Twitch, YouTube, and ESPN — starts at 10:30 ET, and it’s definitely the most fun you can have on this Saturday night.

    Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4

    Google has been an ‘AI-first company’ for nearly a decade. Now, a year into the AI era brought on by ChatGPT, it’s finally making a big move.

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