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Wes Davis

Wes Davis

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    Wes Davis
    Apple AI paper details how its multi-modal ‘Ferret-UI’ LLM can interpret phone UIs.

    The company has been steadily releasing research papers on its AI work for years. With Ferret-UI, the company seems to be looking at how AI can help with smartphone navigation:

    Automating this process of perception and interaction has the potential to help users achieve their goals with relative ease. Moreover, it is also a valuable building block for accessibility, multi-step UI navigation, app testing, usability studies, and many others.

    Ferret-UI: Grounded Mobile UI Understanding with Multimodal LLMs

    [arxiv.org]

    Miku fans wanted a hologram concert — they got a TV show insteadMiku fans wanted a hologram concert — they got a TV show instead
    Wes Davis
    Wes Davis
    May the 14th be with you.

    Dune: Part Two will be out on Blu-ray May 14th, while digital storefronts will release it on April 16th. You can pre-order the Blu-ray at Amazon.

    Meanwhile, the movie is still in theaters. Variety notes it has gobbled up $665 million at the global box office. That’s more than any other film so far this year.

    Note: If you buy something from our links, we might get affiliate revenue.

    Dune: Part Two

    [Variety]

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    Wes Davis
    Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum faked the Moon landing.

    Or they will, in a new movie called Fly Me to the Moon, from Apple Original Films (and distributed by Sony Pictures). The movie imagines Johansson and Tatum as Kelly Jones and Cole Davis, who are given the directive to film a fake Apollo landing just in case the real one goes sideways.

    It hits theaters July 12th.

    I can’t recommend this Animal Crossing Switch Lite bundle enoughI can’t recommend this Animal Crossing Switch Lite bundle enough
    Wes Davis
    Wes Davis
    Remember AirPower?

    Apple never did realize its dream of a wireless charger that works no matter where you put your device and also unites Qi charging and the Apple Watch’s proprietary standard (though that second bit lives on in the AirPods Pro 2). Apparently, it had overheating issues.

    We later got MagSafe for iPhones, an infinitely better idea. But assuming this is real, Apple Demo shows it off charging an Apple Watch Series 4. He says it gets “quite warm.”

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