Jay Peters
$3 million for a mech? Bargain!
Anybody have some money they can lend me for this? I’ll pay you back after I save the galaxy over the course of 49 episodes.
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Apple hasn’t increased its free iCloud storage since iCloud launched 12 years ago.
I knew this, but I didn’t feel it until I saw this graph. Come on, Apple!
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Some new details about Humane and its Ai Pin.
Janko Roettgers (who has written for The Verge) wrote in his latest newsletter that an FCC filing indicates “Humane is looking to act as an MVNO,” which could explain how the Ai Pin can be used for phone calls. The filing also says that the company’s largest shareholder is OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Humane was set to reveal more about the Ai Pin on the same day as this weekend’s eclipse, but it now plans to share more on November 9th.
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Twitch is starting to roll out its tool that will let streamers stop banned users from watching their streams.
You can read more about the feature on a Twitch support page. Twitch said in August the feature would be arriving in September, so the company is a bit behind schedule on delivering the feature.
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“A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter.”
Nieman Reports has the story and more details about the memo.
NPR left Twitter (now X) in April after the platform labeled NPR as “US state-affiliated media.” (X got rid of those labels entirely shortly after, apparently at the suggestion of Elon Musk’s biographer, Walter Isaacson.)
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Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Yu Yu Hakusho comes out on December 14th.
Netflix announced the release date on Wednesday evening, and you can read more about the adaptation in this post on Netflix’s website from July 2022.
Hopefully it turns out as well as Netflix’s One Piece, which will be getting more episodes at some point in the future.
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Google has another big court case next week.
The company will be headed to court over a pay discrimination lawsuit; a female executive alleged she was hired at a lower level and salary than other men in her role. Forbes has a good overview of the case, which is set to begin on Tuesday.
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Here’s a preview of what OpenAI might announce at its event in November.
At its November 6th developer conference, the company plans to reveal an API that will let applications remember conversation histories as well as a vision API that can let apps analyze images, Reuters reports.