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Samuel Hardiman, The Daily Memphian: Memphis, a city known nationwide for Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI’s data centers, may finally take legislative steps to pause data center development. At its Aug. 18 committee meeting, the Memphis City Council is poised to discuss an ordinance that would declare, “a …
This week on the podcast: The trio reunites to discuss Google’s new Pixel lineup, how we feel about Siri AI, and clipboard managers.
I am turning into dust.
This year’s Podcastathon is taking place on Friday, October 2. Myke is gathering answers for a new batch of questions for a “Feuding Families” segment. If you have a few minutes, we’d love your help! I am playing the game, so I have no idea what these questions entail, so don’t send me any spoilers. …
This week on the podcast: Stephen and Myke are joined by Jason Snell to talk about CarPlay on boats and the new version of Pastebot, before useful consumer advice is given about weather stations and network-attached storage.
Rough.
The missing link.
SuperDuper has been an incredible tool for backing up your Mac for a long time, but like most apps that last 22 years, things change. Developer David Nanian has launched a new version that is ready for the next 22 years. He writes: Back in 2007, I designed what was intended to be SuperDuper v3.0. It …
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Right across the state line from the ever-expanding Colossus II site is 2875 Stanton Road, home to a fleet of gas-burning turbines that generate electricity to keep SpaceXAI (and its customers) online. The pushback in Southaven, Mississippi over the Stanton Road site has been growing. Just this …
This week on the podcast: Future Fords are getting Apple Maps, future iPhones are getting leased, and future foldables may be less weird than expected.
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Surprise, surprise.
A look at what happens when an AI data center comes to town... my town.
OpenAI, in an unsigned announcement: Health in ChatGPT is launching to U.S. users. You can choose to securely connect Apple Health and supported medical records so ChatGPT can help you understand your information in context, keep track of what has changed, and have more informed, personalized …
Garmin has joined the likes of Fitbit and Whoop, and is now offering a screen-free fitness tracker, named the Cirqa. Andrew Liszewski at The Verge: The smart band can track more than 80 different activities such as running or yoga that are selectable through the accompanying Garmin Connect app or …
If you use Grok to make CSAM, xAI will sue you. (There are no good guys in this story.)
Myke doesn’t know me at all.
Google is building an AI data center in West Memphis, Arkansas, across the Mississippi River from Memphis. (I know, it’s a very original city name.) Google joins SpaceXAI and others in the Mid-South for cheap land and abundant water, but it faces the same core challenges — mainly, how to feed its …
Alexandria Mansfield, writing for the Jacksonville Florida Times-Union, via Yahoo Finance: Elon Musk has acquired Jacksonville-based APR Energy, according to a Federal Trade Commission filing that surfaced the deal weeks after it closed with no public statement from either side. The FTC’s …
Mark Gurman, writing at Bloomberg: OpenAI’s much-anticipated push into consumer devices is slated to begin with a mobile, screen-free smart speaker designed to be a new type of home computer for the AI era, according to people familiar with the matter. The product — still under development — is …
macOS Golden Gate and iOS/iPadOS/watchOS 27 are out in Public Beta. Jason Snell and Dan Moren have more over on Six Colors. At MacStories, Jonathan Reed wrote up watchOS, and Devon Dundee took on visionOS.
This week on the podcast: Federico is at the beach, Myke questions his iPhone’s future, and Stephen wears watches. Then: a whole stack of Q&A items.
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Finally!