[This week, we probe each other’s knowledge of common acronyms from the early internet, the mobile era, and the AI boom. So fire up your LLM, send an RCS, and tell your BBS pals the game is afoot. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Genx Newz is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s … Read more
[ Michael Calore: Scoop on Netflix. Lauren Goode: Scoop on Netflix. Michael Calore: Nice. Lauren Goode: Yeah. What’s your recommendation, Mike? Michael Calore: So, I’m going to recommend that everybody check out WIRED’s new podcast. And this is not self-dealing or anything like that. I mean, it is, yes, technically, but I listened to it. … Read more
[ Michael Calore: I’m going to go watch a bunch of shorts and see what I get served and I’ll report back. Lauren Goode: Hims and Hers? Michael Calore: Yeah, Hims and Hers. Lauren Goode: All right, let’s take another quick break and then we’re going to come back with our recommendations. [Break] Lauren Goode: … Read more
[ Michael Calore: Is it granular, like salt, like a seasoning? Andrew Couts: Yes. It’s like the most finely ground sea salt with various herbs and some other spices. I don’t know exactly what’s in it. Unlike my wife, I don’t read Italian. Whatever’s in the ingredients list is still a mystery to me, but … Read more
[ Michael Calore: OK Kate, as our guest, what’s your recommendation this week? Kate Knibbs: Actually, I’m going to recommend another sci-fi series that’s a book adaptation and I wrote about it when I came out last year, which is Silo on Apple+. It’s adapted from Hugh Howey’s Wool book series. One of them is … Read more
[ You may only know TikTok as the massively popular social video app for phone-obsessed teens, but lately the app has been caught in the political fray. On Wednesday, the US House of Representatives approved a bipartisan bill that, should it become law, would require TikTok’s parent company, the Chinese firm ByteDance, to sell the … Read more
[ The last few months have been rough for Google. Company executives have been in the hot seat because of some embarrassing missteps, the most awkward of which was the bungled launch of Google’s latest image generator. The company launched it as part of its suite of GenAI tools named Gemini, but then quickly pulled … Read more
[ [Break] Lauren Goode: All right, Will. What is your recommendation? Will Knight: My recommendation is this application called WhisperKit, which is from a company called Argmax, which was founded by some Apple developers who left to do their own thing. I think it’s appropriate because it’s a good example of the importance of the … Read more
[ There was a time when getting a job at Google or Amazon would be a ticket to long-term stability and success. Many of the big tech companies seemed immune to large-scale layoffs, and as their profits skyrocketed, those cushy jobs became highly sought-after. But economic headwinds, and the looming influence of AI, are leading … Read more
[ Domain names have value, even when the websites that were once hosted there are shut down or abandoned. Prospectors will often swoop in and snatch up an unused domain, then erect a new website filled with clickbait articles. If the domain name used to rank highly in search results, the new clickbait articles will … Read more
