A company called Elo produced and sold them as kiosk machines. They used sound waves to detect where you touched them!
YouTuber Michael MJD shows one off in a video about the Elo iMac’s history. Action Retro also got one, and his YouTube video has details on the tech inside.
If you happen to find one, you can find the driver for it over at Macintosh Garden.
Deadline reported that DreamWorks Animation made the cuts because of business downturn, increased costs, and the strikes that went on for much of this year.
A spokesperson for the company told Deadline that “approximately 70 positions” were cut, spread across its corporate infrastructure, as well as films, TV, and technology departments.
The Washington Post reported that Amazon’s Alexa answered some 2020 US presidential election questions by claiming it was “stolen by a massive amount of election fraud” while citing sources like Rumble, Substack, and Alexa Answers (Amazon’s crowd-sourced answers program).
The Post writes that it flagged some of the questions with Amazon and they were fixed, but that other questions still gave similar answers. The outlet added that Google Assistant and Siri had no such trouble with these questions.
[The Washington Post]
Game Developer reported Friday that Employees of the Polish games studio CD Projekt Red (CDPR) have formed the Polish Gamedev Workers Union (PGWU) under the nationwide union OZZ IP due to the studio’s layoffs earlier this year.
PGWU co-founder Pawel Myszka said in an interview with Polish outlet CD-Action (translated with Google translate) that CDPR has not responded to the employees’ unionization.
IDC VP Francisco Jeronimo posted this week that Google has sold 37.9 million Pixel phones globally since 2016. 9to5Google did some math concluding that the company sold about 10 million of them in the last 12 months — an improvement over its 2019 best of 7.2 million.
That’s progress, but then again, Apple and Samsung each shipped hundreds of millions of phones last year, so those new Pixel 8 phones have a lot of ground to make up.
