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Jacob Kastrenakes

Jacob Kastrenakes

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    Amazon is putting the MGM library to work.

    It’s reportedly developing a sequel to Spaceballs, Mel Brooks’ Star Wars parody, with Brooks and Josh Gad producing. The project is in “early stages,” per Variety.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Android phones might get smarter about turning off your screen.

    A new setting in Android 15 called “adaptive timeout” suggests that phones will be able to turn off the screen faster if they detect you’re not around. Right now, the system is more worried about keeping it turned on when you are nearby.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Someone’s hyped about that Nintendo Direct.

    Albania’s Jasir Asani brought out Mario-themed cleats for the team’s match against Croatia today.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Perplexity continues to piss off publishers.

    Wired and Robb Knight, a developer at MacStories, found that the AI search engine seems to ignore requests not to scrape their websites. They both blocked Perplexity in their robots.txt file — a standard instruction document for web crawlers — and found that Perplexity still managed to access their content. They’re not the only ones annoyed.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    More apps will let you record spatial video in iOS 18.

    The feature has been limited to Apple’s Camera app since launch, but third-party apps will be able to record in the format starting later this year.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Android’s AirTag competitors are off to a poor start.

    But not because of the hardware: because of Google’s Find My Device network. All the reviews I’ve read so far say that it’s just not finding the devices. Here’s Android Central:

    The next day, I marked all Bluetooth trackers as lost. Surely, at least one of the five trackers would be found over the next few days? Shockingly, three whole days passed before I heard anything back.

    And get this: it wasn’t even the network that helped me find my “lost” trackers.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Correction:

    Earlier today, we issued a story with the headline “Apple’s new custom emoji come with climate costs.” The story was incorrect, as the emoji are generated locally. We’ve removed the story and regret making the error.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Arc has a delightful new AI chat interface.

    You can now “Call Arc” inside the company’s iOS app to get answers from its AI search feature. If only it were an actual phone number.

    Arc’s “Call Arc” feature. It’s an AI chatbot with the interface of a phone call and a big smiley face emoji where the person’s photo would be.
    The Call Arc interface.
    GIF: Arc