Product designer Scott Yu-Jan had the idea to marry an iPad Mini to a Mac Studio inside a 3D-printed approximation of an original Macintosh. It’s not just a fun gimmick — this thing looks delightfully practical, too.
YouTube channel The Sonic Show leaked a trailer for the Japanese version of the rumored Sonic Toys Party, a multiplayer Sonic game that pits players in a Fall Guys-style race against a pile of others (32 of them, according to Insider Gaming last month).
Update May 8th, 2024, 12:45PM ET: The leaked video was removed, but the game has been announced (as Sonic Rumble), so here’s the actual trailer instead.
Apple CEO Tim Cook told press at the China Development Forum in Beijing that China will get it this year, according to Reuters this morning, citing a Chinese state media Weibo post.
MacRumors notes that this is the first time an Apple executive has confirmed where the Vision Pro will launch outside the US this year. Rumors have also suggested Apple will prioritize UK and Canadian launches.
Rumors have said that the company might partner with OpenAI or Google (or Baidu in China) for iOS chatbot functionality while using its own AI for on-device features. Today, Mark Gurman writes in Power On for Bloomberg that Anthropic’s in the mix too. He speculates that Apple could even let any developer build generative AI “deep into the iPhone.”
In the subscriber edition, he also writes that iOS 18 will get a revamped, more customizable home screen.
Neither has any of the apps we’re used to.
Andrew Webster’s reviews of the 3 Body headset and the tablet from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom each drive home the necessity of a healthy ecosystem, even for the coolest tech.
The union’s animation voice actors voted 95.52 percent to 4.48 percent on Friday to ratify contracts that were similar to the deal that ended the actors’ strike last year but didn’t include the same definition, as Variety notes.
The contracts (summarized here) run from July 1st, 2023 through June 30th, 2026, and include pay raises and add limits on the use of AI to replicate voice actors.
Earlier this month, a Fortune story reported that one of X’s latest moves since Twitter entered its Musk era involves whipping up a video app for smart TVs, with one source calling it “identical” to YouTube’s own.
Assuming this video posted by app researcher Nima Owji is what Fortune’s source saw... yeah, I’d reckon there’s some resemblance.
James Channel altered an original copy of NES Open Tournament Golf so that it can both be played on a Nintendo Entertainment and used as a fully-functioning Nintendo Entertainment System.
Or it can play itself, like some sort of Mariourobouros.
