Tag: Personal Investing Ideas & Strategies
Echoes of the Emergent, a hauntingly beautiful Playdate exclusive, sold me on visual novels
Somehow in all these years, I’ve never gotten into visual novels, despite being a person who loves both reading and video games. The idea has always intrigued me in some way, but I’ve never really felt compelled to actually pick one up. That changed when I first saw the announcement…
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Still Wakes the Deep is a modern horror classic
Don’t look down. Don’t look down. Don’t look down. Waves the size of skyscrapers explode beneath me as I creep across a busted metal beam in the middle of the North Sea, suspended at the base of an oil rig that’s in the process of collapsing. I’m crawling swiftly but…
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Meta’s Oversight Board made just 53 decisions in 2023
The Oversight Board has published its latest annual report looking at its influence on Meta and ability to shift the policies that govern Facebook and Instagram. The board says that in 2023 it received 398,597 appeals, the vast majority of which came from Facebook users. But it took on only…
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Surface Pro Copilot+ review: The best Surface tablet ever made, no thanks to AI
It’s taken 12 years, but Microsoft has finally made an Arm-powered Surface tablet that I don’t want to toss out of a window. The new Surface Pro, one of the company’s first Copilot+ AI PCs, is astoundingly fast and power-efficient, thanks to Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Elite chip. It can…
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The Morning After: Apple may be planning thinner iPhones, MacBooks and Watches
According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple’s mission to make its thinnest product ever won’t stop at the iPad Pro — the company also has plans for a skinnier Macbook Pro, Apple Watch and iPhone. Gurman says the slimmed-down iPhone — also rumored by The Information — could come as early…
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The Morning After: Microsoft pauses its creepy Recall AI feature
Microsoft has belatedly cottoned on to the whole “using AI to watch someone’s screen might be a bit creepy” thing. It has announced it will limit the launch of Recall, which was due to arrive alongside the first batch of Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs on June 18. Instead, it will…
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