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Google I/O 2024 live blog: it’s AI time

Rhymes with “high time.”

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Wes Davis
Wes Davis
If Apple doesn’t announce a new Apple Pencil tomorrow, I’ll eat my hat.

You can erase the logo for the company’s “Let Loose” iPad event (10AM ET tomorrow) at the top of its home page. I can’t seem to erase the whole thing before it switches to new art, though.

Very unsatisfying. 6 / 10.

The teens making friends with AI chatbots

Teens are opening up to AI chatbots as a way to explore friendship. But sometimes, the AI’s advice can go too far.

Jessica Lucas
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
“Hey man, that’s why we’ve got this network.”

I had forgotten about the 80s and 90s trope of pulling a headphone speaker away from some hapless, distracted youth’s head to tell them something.

But the LSU library used it to great effect while promoting the fact that you could ask its weirdly condescending librarians to print up R.E.M. song lyrics using the new-fangled World Wide Web.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
OpenAI makes ChatGPT’s chat history feature available to everyone — no strings attached.

OpenAI says free and Plus subscribers can now use the feature without giving over their chats to train its models.

With chat history on, users can pick up previous chats where they left off, and the chatbot will reply as though they never stopped. The company also says users can start one-off chats that aren’t saved in the history.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
What new features is Apple considering for Safari?

According to AppleInsider, it’s testing Safari updates like “Intelligent Search,” which would offer on-device AI-powered webpage summaries and a built-in “Web Eraser” feature that lets you selectively — and persistently — block content on websites.

AppleInsider’s story, which cites unnamed sources, seems at least plausible, given Apple is widely expected to debut a smattering of AI features at WWDC in June.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Nike’s 404 Error Air Force 1 arrives on April 23rd.

Despite being a .Swoosh-exclusive this BSOD-themed shoe doesn’t have any NFT links or crypto wallet requirements (although you will need to register an account by April 18th).

Nike’s web3 plans for .Swoosh seem mostly dead, with a January blog post saying digital gaming item tie-ins will skip the blockchain and instead just link to Nike accounts.

Close-up of blue Nike low-top shoe with print on the side reading “404 Error. The requested upper was not found. Try again.”
Nike Air Force 1 Low - “404”
Close-up of blue Nike low-top shoe with print on the side reading “404 Error. The requested upper was not found. Try again.”
Close-up of blue Nike low-top shoe with print on the side reading “404 Error. The requested upper was not found. Try again.”
Close-up of blue Nike low-top shoe with print on the side reading “404 Error. The requested upper was not found. Try again.”
Nike Air Force 1 Low - “404”
Nike Air Force 1 Low - “404”
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Nike Air Force 1 Low - “404”
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