Oliver Lue for In Defence of Marxism: All told, costs to governments are estimated to be at least $82 million per game, though even that is likely an underestimate. While governments are trying to sell the huge costs of hosting the World Cup by promising $1 billion in tourist spending, as Jules Boykoff, a professor of politics and […]
Ben Lovejoy for 9to5Mac: A growing number of countries around the world are enacting bans or restrictions on the use of social media apps by children. The UK has just announced its own plan to join the list, with a comprehensive ban set to be introduced early next year. I've seen a lot of praise […]
Before, if you had passwords labeled as compromised or weak in Apple Passwords, you had to click each one individually and go to the corresponding website to change them manually. Not a conducive workflow if you have hundreds with a red warning label. In iOS 27, available now as a developer beta, users can just […]
Tom Ley for Defector: Game 4 of the NBA Finals has me feeling like one of those Kansas creationists who point to a bacterial flagellum and start shouting about the presence of God in the creation of life. How else could something this unlikely, this beautiful, this fate-altering have happened? The Knicks won, 107-106, after […]
Ryan Christoffel for 9to5Mac: Siri in CarPlay is now much better at answering questions of any kind, similar to ChatGPT and Google Gemini. In my testing, it’s also able to retain the context of your current conversation better than ever before. Siri AI is the big announcement from this week's WWDC, and it's coming to […]
Craig Federighi had a line in the keynote that was doing a lot of work: “Other tech companies are racing forward, pursuing AI for the sake of AI, without clear regard for the people.” Whether you read that as a genuine philosophy or a positioning move against Google and Microsoft, it set the frame for […]
Mike, in his piece, Can we have the day off?: If AI is going to 10x our productivity across the board, that means that I should be able to produce the same amount of output by midday on Monday that, in the before times, would have taken all week. So can I just take Friday […]
Robert Hart, in his piece This AI Startup Will Clean Your Home for Free to Train Future Robots on The Verge: AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free. The catch — because, despite what its website says, there’s always a catch — is that it will record cleaners as they scrub, […]
Tom Ley, in his piece There’s No Hiding From The Spurs: Oklahoma City lost 22 combined games in the regular season and playoffs, and eight of those came at the hands of the Spurs. The Thunder are so good that people were practically throwing parades for the Nuggets and Pacers last season just for taking […]
Ryan Christoffel for 9to5Mac: Star City premieres this Friday, May 29 with its first two episodes, followed by weekly releases through July 10. The new series follows the alt-history events of For All Mankind, but from the Soviets’ perspective. And the first reviews indicate it’s a very different kind of show. I didn’t watch For […]