Tag: Software
The Morning After: The EU is already investigating Apple, Meta and Google over fees and defensive policies
We had the first wave of changes and tweaks to Apple, Google and other big tech companies’ policies and services just before the EU’s sweeping Digital Markets Act (DMA) took a harder line against monopolistic behaviors and practices. See: third-party app stores with Apple, the option to pay for Facebook…
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OpenAI just gave artists access to Sora and proved the AI video tool is weirder and more powerful than we thought
A man with a balloon for a head is somehow not the weirdest thing you’ll see today thanks to a series of experimental video clips made by seven artists using OpenAI’s Sora generative video creation platform. Unlike OpenAI‘s ChatGPT AI chatbot and the DALL-E image generation platform, the company’s text-to-video…
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The next Apple Pencil could work on the Vision Pro for spatial sketching
A rumor claims the Apple Vision Pro headset will one day support a future model of the Apple Pencil. This news comes from MacRumors, who got their information from an anonymous “source familiar with the matter,” so we’ll take it with a grain of salt. Details on the update are…
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Spotify finally unveils a desktop app miniplayer to end window-juggling, but there’s a catch
Spotify Premium users rejoice – the music platform is finally adding a ‘miniplayer’ for its desktop app to improve users’ experience – a whopping three years after the web app got a similar feature. The new miniplayer has two different designs and can be activated in the bottom right corner…
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macOS isn’t perfect – but every day with Windows 11 makes me want to use my MacBook full-time
I’ve been using Windows since the days of Windows 3.1, and over the years I’ve learned to love it – despite its numerous idiosyncrasies. I’m so used to the way Windows works, that when things break, or don’t work at all, I can usually overlook those annoyances, and can come…
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Windows 11’s next big update is almost ready to roll – but most people won’t get it for a long time yet
Windows 11’s next major update is coming close to completion, and in fact it’s rumored that it’ll hit its final stage of development very shortly – though its launch for all users will still be a good way down the line (we’ll come back to that). As well-known Microsoft leaker…
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