Well, everyone of a certain age, anyway.
Over at Polygon, they’ve surveyed more than 4,000 Americans over 18 to find out the truth of anime’s reach in popular culture. Netflix’s number one spot on the “Where are you watching anime?” list explains its sudden One Piece obsession, and the survey has even more results about who is watching and why they watch.
Apple and Google have defended their app stores as necessary tools to protect users, but Verge alum Russell Brandom highlights this article focusing on loan apps Google Play allows even though its own rules say it shouldn’t. Rest of World found dozens of apps in Mexico and Peru that broke Google’s TOS by requesting access to things like a user’s contact list, information which has been used to harass people over debts.
Microsoft’s flagship FPS has had a bumpy ride since its release, and there are rumors a “Tatanka” battle royale project was canceled. What isn’t a rumor is that Halo is dropping some conventions borrowed from other live service games, like marking big updates as “seasons.”
The team explains that new updates are now numbered (the next one on January 30th is Community Update 29 or CU29), while the battle pass-like Operations will give players a chance to earn free rewards for a few weeks at a time.
As preorders opened for Apple’s new headset, Tim Cook posted this video showing shots of mostly-automated production steps involved in building the Vision Pro.
The price of running generative AI is high, so it’s not surprising Samsung and Google have teamed up to power the new features in Galaxy S24 phones.
This is the first use deploying Gemini Pro on Vertex AI to customers, for summarization in Notes, Voice Recorder, and Keyboard. It’s also using Imagen 2 for Generative Edit on photos, as well as Gemini Ultra for complex tasks and, like the Pixel 8 Pro, Gemini Nano as an on-device LLM.
The livestream is live and looping ahead of the 1PM ET start time for Samsung’s big Galaxy S24 introduction. We know the new phones will have plenty of AI onboard, but other details on that, and anything else Samsung plans to announce, will be revealed in about 45 minutes.
