The Congressional ‘Crypto Is Bullshit’ Caucus
Joseph Zeballos-Roig, reporting for Semafor: “It’s all bullshit,” Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont. told Semafor. He was wary of the industry even before the recent collapse…
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‘Kanye West Isn’t Buying Parler After All’
Darrell Etherington, writing for TechCrunch: Despite a joint statement between Ye (fka Kanye West) and Parler in October noting that the two had reached an…
Stable Diffusion With Core ML on Apple Silicon
Apple’s Machine Learning Research team: Today, we are excited to release optimizations to Core ML for Stable Diffusion in macOS 13.1 and iOS 16.2, along…
Apple’s AR/VR headset: Operating system renamed to xrOS as release inches closer
It’s looking more and more like Apple’s next big thing won’t be something that fits in your pocket or a bag. Rather it could be…
Reed Albergotti: Kinda Smart on Apple and China, Kinda Dumb on Green Bubbles
Reed Albergotti, formerly of The Washington Post, now writing for Semafor, in a piece with the clickbait headline “Apple’s Chinese Dream Is Over”: China is…
‘FTX’s Collapse Was a Crime, Not an Accident’
David Z. Morris, writing for CoinDesk, with the best “all you need to know” overview of the FTX scandal I’ve seen: Perhaps most perniciously, many…
‘The Greatest’ — Short Film From Apple Celebrating Accessibility Features
People without arms using touchscreen phones. A deaf mother whose watch lets her know that her baby is crying. A blind man whose phone tells…
Apple AR, VR operating system now called ‘xrOS’
Apple has reportedly changed the name of its mixed-reality operating system to “xrOS,” signaling that the company may be close to releasing a mixed-reality headset.…
Deals: Apple’s 1TB 14-inch MacBook Pro with 16-core GPU is on sale for $1,949 ($550 off)
Apple’s 14-inch MacBook Pro equipped with an upgraded M1 Pro chip (10-core CPU & 16-core GPU) is discounted to $1,949 — a record low and…
Digital car keys can be shared between iPhone and Pixel users
Google released an update for Pixel phones that allow users to send and receive digital car keys to iPhone users. Car Key now shareable across…
New betas have Apple Silicon optimizations for Stable Diffusion AI art generator
According to an Apple engineer on the machine learning team, the newest beta updates for macOS Ventura, iOS 16, and iPadOS will improve performance for…
iFixit calls the 10.9-inch iPad an iPad Air, but worse
The iFixit teardown of the 10.9-inch iPad shows that the tablet is mostly a recycled iPad Air 4 with odd shortcomings. Apple’s 10.9-inch iPad Apple…