Month: October 2024
Instacart’s smart cart helps you navigate to the sauce that’s on sale
If you always have trouble finding that specific pasta sauce like I do, there’s a smart grocery shopping cart that can map it out for you. Instacart’s Caper Cart, which has a touchscreen and payment terminal up front where you’d normally seat your toddler or play Jenga with your produce,…
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Scale of Verizon outage impact laid bare in Cloudflare report
Cloudflare has released details outlining the scale of the recent Verizon outage which affected millions of telco users across the US. Verizon customers across the country first experienced connectivity issues on September 30, with users reporting their devices were stuck in SOS mode amidst the outage. At the time, data…
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Phoenix Springs review: A dazzling and disquieting sci-fi mystery
Playing Phoenix Springs feels like being trapped in a gorgeous dream that’s steadily becoming a nightmare. It’s a point-and-click mystery set in a bleak futuristic world of dramatic shadows and muted primary colors, its scenes connected by streams of anxious static. The game stars Iris Dormer, a technology reporter who’s…
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Where Have All the Chief Metaverse Officers Gone?
The captains of industry that were going to pilot us through new virtual worlds are still around. They’re just going by a new name. Source
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Phoenix Springs reimagines the point-and-click adventure as weird noir
In Phoenix Springs, it’s not so much the ravishing hand-drawn visuals that first grab the attention, but the voice of narrator and protagonist Iris. Befitting her name, she behaves like a roving eye, investigating and describing her surroundings with a clinical, almost robotic detachment. Yet Iris is no blank slate:…
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The Morning After: The first Apple Intelligence features should finally arrive on October 28
It's been a wait. Apple Intelligence will start rolling out on October 28, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Apple said last month it was targeting October for iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 — which will bring some of the first Apple Intelligence features to iPhone 16 and…
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