I can’t get enough of ad agency creative Dustin Ballard’s AI hijinks: he made The Red Hot Chili Peppers sing a grocery list, turned Lil Jon’s “Get Low” into a time-honored Christmas classic, and showed up a congressional hearing on AI. That’s just a taste.
Recently, he revealed the process — it starts with his own voice!
Every desktop GPU should ship with four of these unholy things.
(Backstory: In 2013, Valve disavowed its involvement in the Xi3 Piston, a small gaming PC that was supposedly going to be a Steam Machine but shipped with Windows 7 instead. From the beginning, it had “DP/HDMI” stamped on its I/O shield — how did we miss it?!?)
Not a single line was changed, in case you’re wondering. Here’s the final signed order (pdf).
The Wham Bam Cloud Personal Printer Sentry is a $29 gadget designed to protect your home if your printer catches fire, by exploding into a cloud of extinguishing powder if direct flame touches it for 2-3 seconds.
Most reputable 3D printers have thermal runaway detection; I don’t know if it works in practice; insert lp0 joke! Totally just bought one anyhow.
It’s from Gulikit, the company that’s popularizing drift-resistant Hall effect joysticks. With hidden pockets for microSD cards and its docking cable, I could definitely see traveling with this instead of a USB-C hub! It’s $45; not terrible for a 4K60 HDMI dock with 100W PD and Gigabit Ethernet.
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Disney Imagineering tells us the ride will now have more than 250 different variations, up from... well, it depends:
Currently, there are reported to be 4 opening segments, 5 primary destination segments, 7 hologram segments, and 5 ending destination segments which can be combined in different ways, while still taking into account the separation of different eras of the Lucasfilm portfolio.
Grogu and company will be added on April 5th at Disneyland, Disney World, and Disneyland Paris.
It’ll let them use their own payments alongside (or instead) of Google Play, starting this week.
If you do, it’ll only charge you 26 (or 27) percent of revenue instead of 30, or 11 (or 12) percent for subs instead of 15. What a savings! Never mind Google knows you’ll pay more than the discount to process payments yourself. Never mind that Spotify pays zero.
Play devs can also link to outside payment offers this week in the EU. Tim Sweeney’s calling that a “new Google Tax on web transactions,” but we don’t yet have details.
It wasn’t immediately clear from Bunnei’s memo whether the Nintendo 3DS emulator was toast or might live on under new management — they only said that “Yuzu’s support of Citra” was being discontinued.
But now, the source code has vanished from GitHub — just like Yuzu’s source code did. Here’s our full story:
