Month: March 2024
As the Snoopy Omega Lands, Cartoon Luxury Goes Boom
As the new MoonSwatch watch hits stores, licensing operations behind IP from Popeye to Miss Piggy are no longer dealing in bargain-basement merch—Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga, Fendi, Audemars Piguet and more are tapping into high-end comic connections. Source
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macOS has been riddled with bugs lately – but the new macOS 14.4.1 update has just fixed the most notorious one
The last few weeks have been plagued with bugs and oddities for users who updated their Mac devices to macOS Sonoma 14.4, including a particularly thorny issue that functionally broke a lot of users’ USB hubs. A new update, macOS 14.4.1, has just been released to address the most notorious…
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The Blipblox myTRACKS groovebox is a complete music production studio for kids
Back when I was a kid (puts on old man glasses) we had the Casio SK-1. We’d spend all day making samples of burps and turning them into stupid little songs, but that’s about as far as it went. You couldn’t layer tracks or anything. Modern children, however, are about…
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Disney Plus has a new Hulu-ified logo
Disney has made some slight but notable updates to the logo and splash screen for its Disney Plus streaming service that likely nod to its looming merger with Hulu. The biggest change is the new teal / seafoam background color, which appears to be a rough mix between its original…
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Here’s why AI search engines really can’t kill Google
AI is coming for the search business. Or so we’re told. As Google seems to keep getting worse, and tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot seem to keep getting better, we appear to be barreling toward a new way to find and consume information online. Companies like Perplexity…
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The Morning After: The EU is already investigating Apple, Meta and Google over fees and defensive policies
We had the first wave of changes and tweaks to Apple, Google and other big tech companies’ policies and services just before the EU’s sweeping Digital Markets Act (DMA) took a harder line against monopolistic behaviors and practices. See: third-party app stores with Apple, the option to pay for Facebook…
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