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Jess Weatherbed

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    Floppy disks are still breathing life into Chuck E. Cheese animatronics.

    Figuratively speaking, not in a Five Nights at Freddy’s way (I hope). Seen via Buzzfeed News, a Chuck E. Cheese employee showcased a new floppy disk containing the robot animals’ latest song-and-dance routine, in a now-viral TikTok video.

    The longevity of this retro tech is admirable, but the company is now finally working towards phasing out animatronics and floppy disks entirely.

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    The iPhone 14’s Satellite SOS feature is coming to six more countries.

    In addition to announcing a new yellow iPhone 14 variant, Apple has revealed that its Emergency SOS via Satellite feature will be available in Austria, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, and the Netherlands sometime later this month.

    The service is free for two years after activating an iPhone 14, and it’s already succeeded in locating stranded individuals since launching last November.

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    Jess Weatherbed
    What the heck is ‘Deep Discofox’?

    Every Noise at Once is an ongoing project to map the over 6,000 genres and sub-genres listed on Spotify’s music catalog. This fun little timesink can play you an example of each genre or open an entire Spotify playlist of it if you like what you hear.

    Go forth, and learn the differences between ‘Egg Punk’ and ‘Bardcore’.

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    ‘Sorry for killing most of humanity.’

    The new Misalignment Museum in San Francisco is a temporary exhibit that explores a potential future in which AI lives up to expectations set by science fiction and, uh, destroys human society.

    The exhibit is located just eight blocks from the offices of OpenAI. Let’s hope ChatGPT isn’t looking for any inspiration.

    Eight tins of Spam converted into typing robots surrounding a display.
    ‘Spambots’ by Neil Mendoza (seen via Wired) is a featured exhibit in which robotic Spam tins use AI to type a ‘specially altered piggy version’ of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.
    Image: Neil Mendoza