Month: October 2024
The VR game I’ve been waiting for
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 58, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, Batman forever, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Simone Giertz and billionaire assistants and…
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Google’s next-gen Gemini 2.0 AI model is rumored to be launching in December
Gemini 2.0 could be arriving in December Expect across-the-board performance improvements ChatGPT-5 may be launched at the same time It was only a few days ago we heard rumors around OpenAI launching a next-gen ChatGPT-5 model – rumors dismissed as “fake news” by OpenAI chief Sam Altman – and now…
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Microsoft Envisions Every Screen as an Xbox. How’s That Going So Far?
My journey to play games like Starfield on anything except an Xbox accidentally proved the console still has its place. Source
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I’m obsessed with music, but I wouldn’t even consider buying a Bluetooth speaker since I got my iPhone – its speakers are that good
I recently started using an iPhone 15 after five years away from Apple smartphones, and as my prior pieces on the iPhone’s lackluster 60Hz screen and satisfyingly nostalgic form factor may have let on, coming back to iOS has been a bit of a rollercoaster. There is one thing about…
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Yet another startup wants to crack the LLM code but this time using light; optical pioneer Oriole Networks wants to train LLMs 100x faster with a fraction of the power
A couple of years ago, Israeli startup CogniFiber made headlines with Deeplight, a fiber-optic cable which could, “process complex algorithms within the fiber itself before the signal hits the terminal.” At the time, we warned this technology wouldn’t reach end users in the near future, and was unlikely to appear…
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I love Kobo’s E Ink writing tablets, but there’s one critical area where Kindle has them beat
Having tested ereaders for about seven years now, it’s fair to say I’ve tried most models from the mainstream brands – Amazon Kindle, Kobo, reMarkable, Onyx Boox and PocketBook. These companies make some of the best ereaders and writing tablets, but I am partial to a Kobo because of the…
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