Month: September 2024
Anker’s new $35 MagSafe gadget sticks SD cards to your iPhone
Anker’s next puck-shaped accessory is an SD and microSD card reader called the MagGo USB-C Adapter that can be used with laptops, tablets, and smartphones. When connected to an iPhone 15 or 16, it can also unlock ProRes 4K recording at 60fps if the memory card supports at least 220MB/s…
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Lego creates life-size, drivable McLaren P1 that uses almost 343,000 Technic pieces and can hit 40mph
McLaren and Lego have a long history of partnerships, with the unlikely duo teaming up on a number of highly complicated kits, including 1:8 scale versions of the Senna GTR and MCL36 F1 race car. But now, the relationship has been taken to the next level, with a 1:1 Lego…
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Netflix wants to stream live episodes of Hot Ones
Netflix is looking to bolster its live offerings with some chicken wings. Bloomberg and Variety report that Netflix is in talks with BuzzFeed about streaming live versions of the popular YouTube show “Hot Ones,” which features famous people eating spicy wings while being interviewed by host Sean Evans. Netflix and…
Read MoreThe Music Industry’s ’90s Hard Drives Are Dying
The hard disk drives that the music industry relied on to archive a generation of albums are increasingly unreadable. Source
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ChatGPT o1-preview can solve riddles faster than me and I kind of hate it for it
When OpenAI released the much-hyped Strawberry model for ChatGPT this week, it boasted of its prowess with complex logic like software coding, gene sequencing, and quantum physics in a series of videos. I take the company at its word that the models, called o1-preview and o1-mini on ChatGPT, are capable…
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Youtube’s pesky new pause screen ads are its latest attempt to push you to Premium
We’ve been reporting on YouTube‘s increasingly annoying ads for a long time now: the plans for unskippable TV ads from early last year, followed by the arrival of longer ads on smart TVs last December, and so on. And now the streamer has found a new way to really push…
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