Author: Zach_Wilson
The super simple gadget trying to replace your phone
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 42, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I also have for you a new minimalist phone,…
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The new Apple Image Playground app in iOS 18 will label images as AI-generated
At WWDC 2024 earlier this week, Apple announced a whole host of AI features coming to its various software platforms, including an Image Playground AI art generator in iOS 18 – and now we’ve got some more information about how the app is going to work. As reported by 9to5Mac,…
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Adobe made a small change to its terms and conditions and that made its users very, very unhappy — scrutinizing data to find illegal content is a risky move
Adobe recently updated its terms of use, and although companies do this all the time, these new changes have sparked a significant amount of discord and discussion among users. The updated terms of use give Adobe access to any form of media uploaded to its Creative Cloud and Document Cloud…
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NASA says Voyager 1 is fully back online months after it stopped making sense
Voyager 1, the farthest human-made craft from the Earth, is finally sending back data from all four of its scientific instruments, NASA said this week. That means the agency is once more receiving its readings on plasma waves, magnetic fields, and space-bound particles. Now, NASA says Voyager 1, which is…
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Obscure monitor vendor pips Samsung, Apple, LG to produce world’s first 5K touchscreen display — Alogic’s Clarity Touch works with a stylus and can even charge your laptop
Alogic has announced the Clarity Touch 5K, a studio-quality 27-inch display that also functions as a hub to declutter workspaces by connecting to workstations with just one cable. The 27-inch IPS display with QD backlight offers a stunning 5120×2880 resolution, the same as Apple’s Studio Display but with touch baked…
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Apple quietly released a new operating system that almost nobody noticed — unnamed OS surfaces in Private Cloud Compute blog as Apple goes ballistic on AI
By now you’ll be very familiar with most, if not all, of the artificial intelligence, sorry “Apple Intelligence,” features it announced at its WWDC 2024 – but during the reveal, the company went to great lengths to talk about the steps it was taking to safeguard user privacy. To back…
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