Painter Steven Novak made what he calls a “portal painting” — a concave painting meticulously made to be a little like sticking your head inside of a 360-degree (or, I suppose, 180-degree, in this case) picture and looking around.
Here’s another video showing, in more detail, how he made it. He doesn’t reveal how much it costs to make, but it sounds like it’s... probably more than a Vision Pro.
US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has certified a class-action lawsuit she previously wouldn’t, which alleged Apple’s outside purchase ban for iOS apps was monopolistic, reported Reuters yesterday.
Her change of heart came after the class was restricted to those with Apple accounts who’d spend at least $10 through the App Store. If Gonzalez Rogers sounds familiar, that’s because she presided over the Epic case that Apple can’t seem to shake.
Android app developer Dylan Roussel leaked an apparent changelog this morning that says “Bard is now Gemini” — the name used for the new model Google put in service last year to compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4.
The log says Google will debut voice chat with Gemini, as well as a new “Ultra 1.0” model with “Gemini Advanced,” a paid plan that offers ChatGPT Plus-like file uploading features.
NASA started its livestream at 11:30AM ET as its Juno spacecraft began flying by the volcanic moon. During the livestream, NASA has been answering viewer questions about the mission.
Sadly, it’s ending as I type this, but you can rewatch it here.
Honestly? Apart from leftover residue, not bad, from the look of it in this pic shared by iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens.
Hopefully, that front screen still working means you can forego the $799 front glass replacement cost if you didn’t pony up for two years of AppleCare Plus.
The company logged over 450,000 miles of autonomous driving in California from December 2022 to November 2023, according to reporting from the state’s DMV. As Wired notes, that’s nothing compared to the millions of miles of testing notched by other companies.
But it’s almost four times what Apple did the previous year, showing there’s actual work being done on the long-rumored car project, even as Apple lowers its expectations.
9to5Mac pointed out the caveat in a new support page Apple published yesterday. The company lists the Magic Trackpad as supported, but makes no mention of the Magic Mouse, so presumably that’s lumped in with Bluetooth mice.
Also, while “most Bluetooth keyboards” will work, Apple says its own older, removable-battery-powered keyboards and trackpads are incompatible with the Vision Pro.
Google Search Liaison Danny Sullivan posted today that the company had “decided to retire” the feature that let you view a previous version of a webpage right from search results, as reported by Search Engine Land.
Adding “cache:” to a URL (as in cache:theverge.com) still works, but soon, it won’t. Sullivan said he hopes Google will replace the cached option with Internet Archive links, but offered “no promises.”
