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The Irritating Phenomenon Known As ‘Tilly Norwood’ Is Getting Some Sort of Movie Now
Ugh.
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ATP Member Special: Mac-Assed Mac Apps
A banger of an Accidental Tech Podcast members-only special, right on time. ATP memberships are just $8/month or $88/year, and the members-only episodes alone are worth the price. They do a great job explaining what makes for a Mac-assed Mac app, but an even better job talking ab…
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What billions of AI predictions taught Expedia before the age of AI agents
There's an important distinction between AI that just works today, and AI that lasts at scale. Many companies optimize hard for the first one without ever asking whether they're building the second. Velocity without discipline and strategic direction is a liability, not an asset.…
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Netflix invented binge-watching. Now it may have outgrown it.
A new report suggests Netflix viewers aren’t sticking around for Season 2. The bigger issue may be that binge-watching itself is no longer the advantage it once was.
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Allen Pike, Back in November: ‘Why Is ChatGPT for Mac So Good?’
Allen Pike, back in November (and corresponding Hacker News thread): Still, I wouldn’t count out the possibility of a change in course here. While mobile is king, desktop is still where work happens. While OpenAI has acquired Sky to double down on desktop, Google has long been al…
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Tencent's Apache-licensed Hy3 takes on GLM-5.2 at half the size — and wins everywhere except coding
For the past year, the awkward secret of the open-weight model boom has been that many of the strongest Chinese releases were off-limits to a large slice of the enterprises most interested in them. License terms that excluded the European Union, the United Kingdom and South Korea…
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Counterpoint: China’s 618 smartphone sales fall 13% year-on-year
According to market research firm Counterpoint Research, smartphone sales in China fell 13% year over year during the month-long 618 shopping festival, as major brands raised prices to offset higher memory costs. Between May 26 and June 21, all major Chinese smartphone brands exc…
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Alibaba wins reprieve on US lobbying after Pentagon blacklisted companies
Tech giant Alibaba Group Holding has secured a temporary legal reprieve that effectively allows it to resume lobbying in the United States, the latest development in its dispute with the Pentagon after the firm was included on a blacklist of companies deemed to support China’s mi…
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In 1959, the Soviet Luna 3 probe swung around the far side of the Moon carrying a camera loaded with film salvaged from downed American spy balloons that developed its own film onboard, scanned the negatives with a photocell, and radioed 17 grainy frames back to Earth — the first images humans had ever seen of a hemisphere no one on the planet had ever laid eyes on
How a 1959 Soviet probe, loaded with captured American spy film, photographed the far side of the Moon, developed the negatives onboard, and radioed 17 grainy frames back to Earth — filling in the last blank hemisphere on the human map.
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Pocket FM Ropes In Ex-Bank Of America Exec Abhilash Padival As CFO
Amid plans to bolster international presence, audio OTT soonicorn Pocket FM has onboarded ex-Bank of America director Abhilash Padival as…
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Kuaishou shares tumble as Tencent slashes stake after US$3b Kling AI deal
Shares of Kuaishou Technology plunged 12 per cent on Tuesday after Tencent Holdings slashed its stake in the short-video platform by selling 273 million Class B shares, just days after leading a US$3 billion financing round for Kuaishou’s artificial intelligence video unit, Kling…
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China's AIFU Semiconductor Targets 1 Billion BAW Filter Chips Annually, Breaking Overseas Monopoly
Guangzhou-based AIFU Semiconductor ramps BAW filter chip production to 1 billion units, breaking Broadcom and Qorvo's 5G RF filter monopoly with proprietary single-crystal aluminum nitride technology.
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Good Judgment Beats Good Prompts
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An Interactive Tomato Farm Overseen by AI
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Flight Sim Tracking from Spatial Audio
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Proof of Human: How to Verify a Person Is Real and Unique
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LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Become an AI Engineer - Cohort 7
Our 7th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts in less than a week. This is a live, cohort-based course created in collaboration with best-selling author Ali Aminian and published by ByteByteGo.
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