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Jay Peters

Jay Peters

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    Sea of Thieves is setting sail to GeForce Now’s cloudy waters.

    Rare’s hit pirate simulator game is coming to Nvidia’s cloud gaming service this week. No, I’m not sorry for the tortured cloud pun.

    A screenshot from Sea of Thieves featuring five pirate ships.
    Image: Microsoft
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    Jay Peters
    I look forward to giant emotes in Twitch chats.

    Starting this week, Twitch is going to let you add message effects and “gigantify” emotes with Twitch’s Bits currency. The effects promise make chats a little livelier, and I’m excited to see

    A screenshot of a Twitch chat showing a very large cat emote.
    CoolCat, but huge.
    Image: Twitch
    Sony buys Alamo Drafthouse CinemaSony buys Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Here’s one way to win a contest for AI-generated photos:

    What if you just submit a real photo? Read Android Authority’s story about someone who did just that.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    MKBHD interviewed Tim Cook.

    Cook was, unsurprisingly, very on message, but he did acknowledge that AI can have its flaws (which he has said before).

    Also, Cook talks about how the introduction of the Magic Mouse was an “incredible moment.”

    The AI upgrade cycle is hereThe AI upgrade cycle is here
    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Google Meet calls are going to look different... starting with some very tiny changes.

    Google says there are some changes coming to the Meet call UI to bring it in line with the company’s Material 3 Design System. The first tweaks are very minor updates to in-call controls, but more changes are coming “over the course of the next year.”

    Screenshots showing old and new Google Meet controls.
    New square-ish buttons!
    Image: Google