Month: July 2023
PSA: Ubisoft is deleting “inactive accounts” and the games those accounts have bought
Do you have a lot of games sitting in your Ubisoft account? You should keep an eye on your email, then – miss the chance to “cancel your account closure”, and you may see your account deleted, and all your games with it. That’s according to a new social media…
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Apple is already using its chatbot for internal work
Apple is using an internal chatbot to help its employees “prototype future features, summarize text and answer questions based on data it has been trained with,” says Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in Power On today. Apple hasn’t been sure what it wants to do with its Apple GPT chatbot project on…
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Six spatial audio albums to give your ears a treat on Apple Music this week
Spatial audio is one of the most fun features of AirPods (3rd gen), AirPods Pro, AirPods Max and Beats Fit Pro / Beats Studio Buds, and if you have Apple Music there’s tons of music in this format to get your ears around with more added every week. Spatial audio…
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Netflix isn’t planning to make a native Vision Pro app yet
Netflix isn’t planning to make a native version of its app for the Vision Pro, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. Instead, he says, the company will allow its existing iPad app to run, unmodified, on Apple’s forthcoming mixed reality headset. As Gurman’s piece points out,…
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Hitting the Books: ‘Vision Zero’ could help reclaim roads from American car culture
Despite decades of focusing our national infrastructure on personal vehicles (often at the direct exclusion and expense of other modes of transport), modern folks gets around on far more than planes, trains and automobiles these days. With our city streets and suburban neighborhoods increasingly populated by an ever-widening variety of…
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Twitter’s rebrand to X may actually be happening soon
Around 12AM ET last night, Twitter owner Elon Musk started tweeting — and did so for hours — about the Twitter rebrand to X, the one-letter name he’s used repeatedly in company and product names forever. It started with a tweet saying “soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter…
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