Month: September 2024
The entire staff of beloved game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned
Bloomberg reports that the entire staff of Annapurna Interactive, the gaming division of Megan Ellison’s Annapurna, has resigned after failing to convince Ellison to let them spin off its games division into a new company. IGN is corroborating the report. Former president Nathan Gary, Annapurna Interactive executives, and “around two…
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Google tests desktop windowing for Android tablets
Google is testing a new feature for Android tablets that will let you resize apps freely and arrange them on your screen at will, making it easier to juggle multiple tasks. The “desktop windowing” feature is now available as a developer preview, and for apps that support it, you could…
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Here’s everything you need to know about preordering the new iPhone 16
The dust is still settling from Apple’s latest iPhone event, which introduced us to the Apple Watch Series 10, a new set of AirPods, and a suite of smartphones that are due to arrive later this month. And while we’ve only had some initial hands-on time with the new iPhone…
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Apple AirPods Pro 2 have been approved by the FDA to function as hearing aids
At Apple’s “It’s Glowtime.” special event, the technology giant unveiled a pretty important and powerful health feature coming to AirPods Pro 2. Of course, that’s the forthcoming “Hearing Aid” functionality coupled with hearing protection and a hearing test feature – all of which would be arriving in a software update…
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OpenAI Strawberry is here – it’s called o1-preview and it might be the most human ChatGPT ever
Fast answers aren’t always the best, which might be the key takeaway from the arrival of OpenAI Strawberry – now called o1-preview – a new ChatGPT reasoning model that takes longer to give you what might be vastly better answers. OpenAI announced the preview release on Thursday in a blog…
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Meta, Snap, and TikTok partner to stop the spread of suicide and self-harm content
Meta, Snap, and TikTok have founded a new program called Thrive to help stop the spread of graphic content depicting or encouraging self-harm and suicide. Thrive enables participating companies to share “signals” to alert each other of violating content on their platforms. Thrive is built in conjunction with the Mental…
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