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Jay Peters

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    The Super Meat Boy-themed puzzle spinoff comes out later this month.

    Dr. Fetus’ Mean Meat Machine, a Puyo Puyo-style puzzler that obviously takes cues from Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine, will be released on June 22nd. I’m not the biggest fan of the game’s gross-out aesthetic, but I do like all the extra challenges and obstacles shown in the trailer — looks like it could be a really fun puzzle game.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Google Chat will be able to suggest how to finish a sentence.

    It’s the same smart compose tech that Google uses in Gmail, and based on a GIF in a blog post, it indeed looks as if it will work just like you might be used to already while writing an email. Wonder if Slack will get this someday.

    A GIF showing smart compose in Google Chat.
    GIF: Google
    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    AirPlay is coming to hotels.

    The idea is to make it easier to connect to things like a hotel’s Wi-Fi network right from your iPhone. Seems really handy — assuming hotels actually decide to take advantage of it.

    A phone showing a QR code to scan for AirPlay in hotels.
    Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge
    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    An app did rewrite the clickbait headline.

    On Friday, I published an article about Artifact’s new feature that rewrites headlines using AI. It was headlined: “An app might rewrite this clickbait headline — here’s why.”

    Well:

    The new headline: “Instagram co-founders’ app Artifact to rewrite clickbait headlines with AI Assistance.”
    Artifact’s new AI-written headline: “Instagram co-founders’ app Artifact to rewrite clickbait headlines with AI Assistance.”
    Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
    Google’s AI-powered search experience is way too slow

    Why wait for an AI-generated summary when I can just scroll down the page?

    Jay Peters