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Alongside the beautiful shots I’m seeing across social media, NASA has a photo album for yesterday’s launch that’s well worth checking out even if you tuned into the livestream. The album is hosted on Flickr, making America’s mission to the moon feel even more nostalgic.
The Oura Ring Pet isn’t real, but based on the Instagram comments, some people really want this.
That’s according to Reuters sources, but I wonder what it might reveal about Elon Musk’s combination of companies now that papers for a public offering have apparently been filed.
The Financial Times reports that Amazon is in talks with Globalstar about an acquisition to help boost its low Earth orbit satellite business, but Apple’s 20 percent stake in Globalstar is forcing negotiations between the three companies.
You can watch a livestream on NASA’s channel on Twitch or follow along with NASA’s liveblog on its website. The launch is currently expected to happen at 6:35PM ET.
Sega launched an entirely real “Sanic Collection” for April Fools’ Day, which consists of three t-shirts that you can buy only on April 1st. The timing is spot-on, too: Sanic just turned 16 on Tuesday.
Dyson posted this silly video, showing off its imaginary pet hair care products and sleek new ’dos for a dog, cat… and horse.
Josh.ai, a company that creates custom smart home automation systems, announced a new accessory called Josh MindControl for April Fools’. The monolithic box (with a dash of RGB underlighting) is capable of “intuiting your intentions” so it can “immediately understand what you would like to do, even if you didn’t fully know yet yourself.”
The update adds protections against DarkSword, a security vulnerability that can steal information from your phone if you visit an infected link. Apple previously released iOS 18.7.7 to the iPhone XS and XR, but if you have a newer phone and don’t want to download iOS 26, now you can install the patch without worrying about getting Liquid Glass.
Though Netflix insisted that it bought Ben Affleck’s AI company InterPositive to help filmmakers, Deadline reports that one of the startups big selling points listed in its 2024 patent application is its ability to bring production costs down by millions of dollars.
You can also pick up finger guns, ride llamas, and ride on the shoulders of your friends. This is a rare April Fools’ Day bit that’s actually good, IMO.
For April Fools’ Day, Capcom posted a video featuring Pragmata protagonist Hugh in an adult-sized Mega Man outfit. It’s goofy, but the game is only a couple weeks away from release — maybe it will actually be unlockable?
I walked away from a recent demo feeling that the game was pretty Capcom-y, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this Mega Man costume is actually a thing.
A disclosure spotted by TechCrunch says the incident prompted the toymaker to activate “its security response protocols.” Hasbro says it’s currently working to determine the impact of the breach, but it will continue to “take orders, ship product and conduct other key operations.”
Satechi’s April Fools’ prank this year solves a problem humanity has faced ever since we started wrapping our feet in fabric tubes: missing socks. The FindAll Socks incorporate small Apple Find My-compatible trackers so you can quickly find one or both when they inevitably go missing.
MSI’s April Fools’ prank aims to solve the problem of your cat plopping itself directly atop your keyboard. It showed off an “MEG Cat Holder” that gives your furry friend their very own RGB bed attached to your monitor. As MSI puts it: “Your cat already acts like they own your setup, now they can complete it!”
The publisher filed a lawsuit in Munich last week, accusing OpenAI of violating copyright laws after ChatGPT allegedly copied a popular German book series, according to The Guardian:
In response to the prompt “Can you write a children’s book in which Coconut the Dragon is on Mars”, the chatbot generated text and images the publishing group said were “virtually indistinguishable from the original”.
As well as generating the text of a story, the AI-powered chatbot created a cover featuring Siegner’s orange dragon and two sidekicks, as well as a blurb for the back cover and instructions for how to submit the manuscript to a self-publishing platform.
WaterField Designs is celebrating Apple’s 50th anniversary and April Fools’ Day with a couple of new carrying cases for vintage Apple gear.
There’s a backpack for the Macintosh SE/30 made from waxed canvas and leather, and a belt-worn holster for the Apple Newton. They’re both priced at $2,026, and neither is available for purchase.
For April Fools’ Day, The New York Times is sharing a “Micro Crossword,” which has just three boxes to fill in. The NYT is also launching April Fools’ Day-themed versions of other puzzles, too, including a maximalist Connections.
iOS 26 devices are already protected against the hacking tool that targets iPhones when visiting malicious links, and today Apple is pushing out a new security update for older, vulnerable versions of iOS. That means iOS 18 users can protect their phones and avoid the Liquid Glass design update.
If you’re the type that pays Google $249.99/mo for its AI Ultra plan in the US then you’ve earned yourself early access to Gmail’s new semi-useful-perhaps-someday-in-the-future AI Inbox. It’s still in beta, so take care.
Providing all goes to plan, NASA’s Artemis II mission will launch later today and carry astronauts around the moon for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The launch window is targeted for 6:24PM ET, with the onsite countdown officially underway.
Shortly upon returning to office, Trump terminated CBP One, an app the Biden administration used to streamline border processing, and revoked the status of 900,000 migrants who had used it to apply for temporary parole, sending them a mass email reading, “It is time for you to leave the United States.”
In terminating parole “without observing the process mandated by statute and by their own regulations,” US District Court Judge Allison Burroughs ruled, the administration “took action that was ‘not in accordance with law.’”
OpenAI gave up on Sora last week, but in a post about Google’s new “cost efficient” Veo 3.1 Lite AI video model, DeepMind staffer Logan Kilpatrick says that “video’s here to stay.” And in a blog post about the model, the authors discuss Google’s “commitment to making video generation more available to developers.”
Despite the Trump administration’s efforts to try to limit states from regulating AI, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Monday with the new guardrails.
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) published a new report today following an investigation on how the companies use Remote Assistance Operators (RAOs), and of the 14 companies he sent a letter to, “every AV company refused to disclose how frequently their RAOs intervene to help their self-driving cars,” according to a press release.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Nothing plans on launching AI smart glasses during the first half of 2027. The upcoming glasses will reportedly come with built-in cameras, microphones, and speakers, while offloading AI processing to a user’s smartphone and the cloud.
OpenAI’s latest round of private investment has closed, with participation from Amazon, Nvidia, Softbank, and Microsoft, as well as $3 billion from individual investors, as it prepares for a potential IPO. This comes after it announced the end of its video generator Sora, and the announcement says it will focus on building a “unified superapp” with ChatGPT, Codex, browsing, and other agents all built in.
ChatGPT has 6x the monthly web visits and mobile sessions than the next largest AI app, while total AI time spent is 4x the next largest AI app and 4x all others combined. Search usage has nearly tripled in a year, and our ads pilot reached more than $100 million in ARR in under six weeks.
