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Terrence O'Brien

Terrence O'Brien

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    Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash.

    Guillemot founded Ubisoft in 1986 with his four brothers, Yves, Michel, Christian, and Gérard. The company has struggled recently, but is behind some of the most popular gaming franchises, including Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry. 69-year-old Claude was one of two reported victims in the crash of a small Cessna.

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    Akai quadruples the processing power of its cheapest full-featured MPC.

    The $799 MPC One G2 has an 8-core processor with 4GB RAM, and 64GB of internal storage. That means you can run 32 plugin instances and 16 audio tracks simultaneously, up from eight of each in the previous model, and polyphony is now 256 notes, up from 64.

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    Apple says dropping support for some Watches is about processing power.

    Cait Dooley, Apple Watch and Health Product Marketing Manager, was quick to tell TechRadar that older Apple Watch models will still work with newer iPhones and receive security updates. It’s just that Siri AI and some other watchOS 27 features require a bit more horsepower.

    “The great new features in watchOS, including the capabilities of Siri AI and the new tap gesture, work best with the processing power that is in Apple Watch Series 9 and later, Ultra 2 and later, and SE 3. Older devices can still be paired with iPhones that are running the latest software and continue to receive security updates, so they can continue to have a great Apple Watch experience.”

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    Is Wordle actually easier on hard mode?

    Looking at the data suggests as much. The average number of guesses drops from 4.3 to 4.1, and the failure rate drops from 4.3 percent to just 2.5. It might be because more confident players are choosing hard, but the constraints might also keep players from making bad guesses.

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    Stanford grads walkout on Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s commencement speech.

    Unlike Eric Schmidt or Gloria Caulfield, Pichai didn’t mention AI. Instead, it seems the students were protesting Google’s broader politics, and chanted “Free Palestine” over Pichai’s speech as they filed out.

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