If my name was Mark Zuckerberg, I would be a little afraid of these very buff ladies who are very mad at you. Meet Team Sunshine, a group of four women who meets 5 days a week to play a fitness game inside of a headset. That game is Supernatural.It's sort of like a mix between Pelaton and Beat Saber. The bad news is is that a few weeks ago, Meta announced that there would be no more new content for Supernatural. While you could still play the game, that sort of feels like it's effectively killed it.That sai ...

I'm testing out Spotify's new feature for audiobooks called page match, which allows you to scan a physical copy of the book you're reading and continue listening at the same spot in the audiobook version. You can also do the reverse if you want to continue reading where you left off in the audiobook. The page match feature will help you find the right page in your physical book.I got to test it out early and it works pretty fast. It also works with books you have on an e-reader. One thing I will point out ...

If the goal is to convince more people that they should go watch Hamnet in theaters because Khloe Xiao is a great director and they like they're just not going to because they can either watch it on whatever streaming service it comes to in 3 weeks or they'll have it on Plex through some server. You do need to provide an alternative that people are going, "Oh, that is worth in my opinion the $30." Because the films themselves, even though we might disagree with this take, as we can see in the data, people j ...

This morning, EX's offices in Paris were raided by French police in Europole. It's part of an ongoing investigation that French prosecutors first announced last year. The probe has since been expanded to include ex's Gro AI chatbot following several reports of it generating sexualized deep fakes of adults and minors on the platform.Elon Musk and former ex CEO Linda Yakarino have both been summoned by French prosecutors to attend a hearing that will take place in April. You can read the full story as we lear ...

No one really cared that much about buttons before IKEA released a $6 button. >> I bought three of these buttons when they first came out. So far, I have set up one.I had a very specific routine I wanted to do. I just wanted a thing that I can press one button and this light will turn on and turn purple and this light will turn on. >> This is the perfect use case for a button.>> I want this thing to initiate an Alexa routine every time I press the button. Oh my god, the amount of work that it took to even g ...

There is a sort of original sin in the AI community and I think it lays at the feet of open AI for starting the race the way that it did. OpenAI basically started as this sort of academic research team building things for academic research purposes essentially and they did a bunch of things that in academia are generally done right like take a bunch of research papers and put them into your AI model. less problematic when you're doing something to extend research than when you're doing it to try to make bil ...

Project Panama was something that Anthropic started in late 2023 or early 2024 with the goal to quote destructively scan all the books in the world. >> Such a brutal sentence. >> It's Yeah, it's really unfortunate.It sounds like something a Bond villain would set out to do. >> Um they didn't actually want to destroy all the physical books in the world. Um just one just one copy one copy of each.Um sure it's more efficient to slice the spines off and scan them. But the point was that they wanted to digitize ...

Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of hydraulic powered cutting machines. A very cool phrase that is going to make sense in 10 minutes or so. I'm your friend, David Pierce, and I am currently phone shopping. So, I have this iPhone 16, which is fine. It's blue, which is why I bought it if we're being honest with each other. And the problem with it now is that I miss having some camera power, but what I really miss is having a battery that isn't awful. This battery is awful. like I'm I'm at like 3 ...

Tesla is discontinuing the Model S and the Model X. Elon announced this on Tesla's earnings call this week. >> It's it's it's it's time bring the Model S and X programs uh to um to an end with an honor honorable discharge.Um because we're really moving into a future that is based on autonomy. >> I think Elon's done running a car company. I think he's absolutely lost interest in his car company.There's news today that he's going to try to merge SpaceX and XAI. You can just like track the whole evolution of T ...

This is the long- aaited combination of Chrome OS and Android that is supposed to make these things make sense. Chromebooks that can functionally run Android apps, Android tablets that have a like desktop class browser. This is the thing that it always should have been.It looks kind of just like Chrome OS and Android together. Like if you close your eyes, what do you think it would be. >> Smoosh those things together in your brain.That's that's what it is. >> Google made a Dex and they have a better design ...