Author: Zach_Wilson
The original Apple Computer cost $666.66, but you can get Steve Jobs’ Polaroids of it for $2148
When Apple co-founder Steve Jobs wanted to price his new Apple-1 computer, he chose a price roughly three times what it cost to build it: $666.66. The price made his cofounder and chief system designer Steve Wozniak laugh because of its proximity to a joke line he used to dial,…
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The Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold might be the slimmest and largest folding phone when it arrives
We’re less than two weeks away from Google’s next Pixel event, but that hasn’t stopped insiders from flooding the internet with new leaks, and the company is also teasing its next-generation devices. Now, according to Android Headlines, the Pixel 9 Pro Fold will have an interesting design as it’ll simultaneously be…
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Squid Game returns this December — and will end with another season next year
Squid Game’s second season will debut on December 26th with a newly-announced “final season” to follow sometime in 2025, Netflix said on Wednesday. Netflix also shared a brief trailer to accompany the news. It’s been nearly three years since the first season of Squid Game premiered on Netflix, and the…
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Meta’s future is AI, AI, and more AI
The good news for Meta is that, unlike pretty much every AI startup, it already makes a lot of money. Last quarter, the company made just over $39 billion in revenue, up 22 percent from a year ago, and about $13.5 billion in profit, up 73 percent. 3.27 billion people…
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Google is trying to delete and bury explicit deepfakes from search results
Google is dramatically upping its efforts to combat the appearance of explicit images and videos created with AI in search results. The company wants to make it clear that AI-produced non-consensual deepfakes are not welcome in its search engine. The actual images may be prurient or offensive in some other…
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TikTok is one of Microsoft’s biggest AI cloud computing customers
Microsoft’s cloud AI business was on track to earn $1 billion in annual revenue, according to The Information, but the report notes that TikTok may not need these capabilities this heavily if it develops its own large language model (LLM). Last year, my colleague Alex Heath reported that TikTok’s parent…
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