Microsoft kills Kinect.... (again)
Microsoft is discontinuing the Kinect — again.
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To no one’s surprise, Rebranding to X Has Led to Decreased Downloads in App Store and Play Store
Twitter has seen a dramatic decrease in its Top Downloaded chart position across both platforms since the app was renamed to X. Why? The situation presents a fascinating case study at the intersection of brand equity and mobile platform dynamics.
Read more‘The Peripheral’ Canceled at Amazon Despite Season 2 Renewal
The Peripheral has been canceled at Amazon’s Prime Video, Variety has learned.
Read moreUsing “Ghost routes” in remix
Credit to Kent C. Dodds for this idea, ghost routes are a handy way to create a repeatable component route used by other child routes.
Read moreRice Cooker Chicken Noodle Soup
This is a quick, from scratch chicken noodle soup, and it cooks nicely in a rice cooker (yes, rice cookers can cook more than just rice).
Read moreHow to Block OpenAI’s Web Crawler from Crawling Your Site
Just as you can use robots.txt to block search engines and various bots from crawling your site, you can do the same with OpenAI's GPTBot.
Read moreTechcrunch: “ WeWork goes from $47B valuation to ‘substantial doubts’ about its future”
WeWork is struggling to survive in a post-pandemic world.
Read moreMrBeast’s burger company is suing him for $100 million
The lawsuit, filed Monday, is in response to MrBeast’s suit against ghost kitchen company Virtual Dining Concepts. The two partnered to create MrBeast Burger in 2020.
Read more‘Every single’ Amazon team is working on generative AI, says CEO
“Every single one” of Amazon’s businesses has “multiple generative AI initiatives going right now,” Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said on the company’s Q2 2023 earnings call on Thursday.
Read moreIs Jamstack Officially Finished?
Earlier this week, Netlify officially killed The Jamstack Community Discord. It was a rather abrupt end, with little more than a week’s notice.
Read moreHow to use Sentry with your Remix apps
Sentry is great for error monitoring, and flexible. This post will show how to add Sentry to your remix apps so it's set up for error, performance, and replay monitoring.
Read more15-Inch MacBook Air Demand Reportedly 'Weaker Than Expected' So Far
The new 15-inch MacBook Air has been widely praised, but one new report claims that sales of it are so low that manufacturing is being cut.
Read moreInside-out grilled ham and cheese sandwiches
What’s better than a grilled cheese sandwich? Adding cheese to the outside as well.
Read moreElon Musk says Twitter’s ad revenue has dropped by 50 percent
Twitter is still spending more money than it’s making, according to Elon Musk. In the early hours of Saturday morning, the billionaire tweeted the company was suffering from an ongoing negative cash flow issue due to an approximately 50 percent drop in advertising revenue and heavy debt burden. “Need to reach positive cash flow before we have the luxury of anything else,” Musk said.
Read moreElon Musk’s new xAI company launches to ‘understand the true nature of the universe’
xAI, Elon Musk’s newly formed AI company, has revealed itself with a new website detailing its mission and team at https://x.ai/. Musk tweeted the company’s intent is to “understand reality” without any other details or explanation.
Read moreTwitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads
On Wednesday, Instagram parent company Meta introduced Threads, a text-based companion to Instagram that resembles Twitter and other text-based social platforms. Just hours later, a lawyer for Twitter, Alex Spiro, sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg accusing the company of engaging in “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.”
Read moreThe Verge Reviews The Pixel Fold
“The Google Pixel Fold is a lot of phone. It’s heavy, expensive, and often great. But it’s also every bit the first-generation product that it is, and it’s not ready to take the foldable fight to Samsung just yet.”
Read moreUnicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake
Ironically, the social app IRL‘s users do not exist in real life.
Read moreApple Vision Pro Will Support WebXR for Fully Immersive Experiences in the Browser
In a somewhat surprising move, Apple confirmed that Safari on Vision Pro will support WebXR. Prior to the reveal of the headset, it was an open question whether the company would entertain the idea of XR experiences through the browser, and even more so if the company would adopt the relatively new WebXR standard. But now Apple has confirmed that Safari on Vision Pro will indeed support WebXR.
Read moreRobot pizza startup Zume shuts down
A robot pizza delivery startup, which raised nearly $500 million, has shut down due to technological setbacks. The company, founded in 2015, initially aimed to develop a mobile pizza-making machine, but pivoted to sustainable packaging in 2020.
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