Those wacky, undercooked AI gadgets are probably not the future.

But I think we’re really holding back hardware design if we insist every new idea should just be an app.

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This is fantastic. If you’ve got the Rabbit apk launcher plz share with me christina at christina dot is. This is hilarious. androidauthority.com/rabbit-r1-is-a…

Those wacky, undercooked AI gadgets are probably not the future.

But I think we’re really holding back hardware design if we insist every new idea should just be an app.

tedium.co/2024/04/30/rab…

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I can't believe I've never considered the possibility of living inside an abandoned Radio Shack. sfgate.com/bayarea/articl…

companies are not talking about Amazon as much as they used to

As long as he doesn’t judge my preference for hoodies we’re good

Props to Ken to making good on that gigantic list he spent the last half-decade building.

Columbia University Gives Students Option To Finish Classes From Prison

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I don't think this device is amazing but I agree that giving a device intended for voice interactions grief over its visual interface is kind of missing the point

This is the half-marathon version of how Uber started

This is a good assessment of why the product category is so confusing

This practice has been going on so long that I wrote a column complaining about it in 2011! (It may not be a coincidence that most of the products I cited as examples went on to flop.) web.archive.org/web/2011080123…

Great profile of #1 samir, who is obviously brilliant. washingtonpost.com/home/2024/04/2…

Tedium | Follow us at @[email protected] I talked to GSMA for this, so I got the weird technical info about all this from the source. (Fun fact: It was not intended as an anti-theft tool!)

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Here’s how screwed up brand safety is: Time’s most popular story of 2023, its Person of the Year piece on Taylor Swift, was marked brand unsafe.

I’m sure advertisers love hearing that they missed out on 90 million pageviews because the adtech sucks.

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wake up europe you've prioritized rail, failing to burn the world w/more cars; and you've created a regulatory env that has prevented the creation of monopolistic tech cos who can rise into the position of uncontrollable shadow governments terrible for human rights oh no