Month: August 2024
The first macOS Sequoia beta with Apple Intelligence just landed, but only a select few can try it out
We’re inching slowly but surely closer to the official release of macOS Sequoia, and more upcoming features have been sprinkled into the various betas that have just been released by Apple – with a major addition coming to the new macOS 15.1 beta for developers. The release of the second…
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Elon Musk tried to launder Donald Trump’s disastrous climate record — it didn’t work
During their glitchy, rambling, two-hour “conversation” on X last night, Elon Musk made the case to Donald Trump that climate change was real and maybe electric cars weren’t as bad as the former president has been making them out to be on the campaign trail. The result was a feeble…
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows took the longest to make in franchise at four years, Ubisoft says it’s “the right balance”
When Assassin’s Creed Shadows launches later this year, its development cycle would have been longer than any game in the series at four years, and Ubisoft thinks that’s the perfect amount of time to make a game. Speaking with GamesIndustry.biz, lead producer Karl Onnée explained that Shadows took longer to…
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Flipboard is going to let you follow fediverse accounts right inside the app
Flipboard is making good on a major fediverse promise. Late last year, at the same time it announced it would be switching user accounts to ActivityPub, Flipboard said it planned to let users follow users on federated platforms that used ActivityPub from the Flipboard app. Starting Tuesday, that feature is…
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Google Wallet now lets you add passports, library cards, and health insurance, thanks to AI
Ahead of its Made By Google event, where we expect big new Pixel 9 phone reveals, Google has released the AI-powered update to Android’s Wallet app, which was announced at Google I/O 2024. This update will make it much simpler to save a broader range of digital passes (if you live in the US, that…
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How to save your online writing from disappearing forever
While the notion lingers that “the internet is forever,” it can also feel like it’s written on water. If you’re an internet-based creative, the company that publishes your writing or exhibits an online gallery of your work can suddenly fold (see: Gawker or Game Informer), migrate content management systems, or…
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