The Verge snapped some photos of the apocalyptic scene in the Big Apple yesterday — from amber skies to desolate streets. To stay updated, you can follow the EPA’s air quality monitoring tool AirNow. Its forecast for Thursday is still bad — not quite a Code Maroon (hopefully) but a Code Red for “unhealthy” air.
Fired Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson has posted a ten-minute first episode (going from an hour to half the length of the longest TikTok doesn’t really feel like an episode, but whatever) of his show on Twitter. Now that it’s up, Axios reports Fox sent a letter notifying Carlson he’s in breach of his contract —signed in 2019 and amended in 2021 — that guaranteed the network his exclusive services for the next few years.
So what’s next, more negotiations or a lawsuit?
After David wrote that the Vision Pro is Apple’s secret TV project, I’ve seen many people say some variation of “watching TV is a group activity.” Is it?
Sure, I might be in the minority of viewers tuning in solo for F1 streams at 3AM, but ABC has killed the TGIF TV programming block three times in the last 25 years, and in Entertainment Weekly’s oral history, Family Matters co-creator Michael Warren explained why it was canceled the first time in 1997:
Households started getting two TV sets, and mom and dad started saying, “We don’t want to watch Family Matters. If you guys want to watch those, you can go to your room and watch your own TV.” And when the kids went in the other room, they didn’t watch those shows. They watched Friends.
In the era of phones and iPads, I wasn’t aware that we’d changed back?
Apple’s new Proton-like Game Porting Toolkit for macOS has already allowed people, like this Redditor, to get Windows PC-only DirectX 12 games running on Apple Silicon, including Cyberpunk 2077 and Diablo IV.
Did it get them running smoothly? Not so much (although I wonder what it would look like on a Mac Studio or Mac Pro), but to be fair, it’s already ahead of how the game ran at launch on a base PS4 or Xbox One.
So to recap: about a year ago, Chris Licht took over CNN and immediately announced the CNN Plus streaming service would Go90 within 30 days of its initial launch.
This was at the direction of now-Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav as he attempted to remake CNN. But after a devastating profile in The Atlantic outlining a year-long “meltdown” causing low employee morale and low ratings, it’s over — WBD confirmed Licht’s resignation this morning.
Ready to slap some virtual 4K screens on your face? That’s the price when Apple’s Vision Pro headset is available “early next year” in the US via Apple Stores and Apple.com. More countries will join the last “later in the year.”
Now we’ve seen some pictures of Apple’s Vision Pro headset, complete with the rumored display that can show the user’s eyes to indicate they’re in mixed reality and not screened off in a private virtual reality.
What are your first impressions? Tasteful or creepy.
One of the new features in macOS Sonoma (which should come in handy once Death Stranding launches on the platform) is the ability to enable “Game mode” to prioritize gaming on the Apple Silicon CPU and GPU, along with lowered audio latency on AirPods and doubled BT sampling rate on Xbox and PS controllers.
