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Reimagining the Desktop with Deta

Opinion I took in the "secret," invite-only Webinar for the spring release of Deta from Luma yesterday. I’ve been beta testing Deta for a couple of months now, and I don't particularly get it -- how would it be useful to me? I hoped that by watching the Webinar I would get more of a clue. Webinar hosted by Luma The Holy Grail Computing has a decades-long long history of user interfaces, starting with PARC’s Star system in 1981 -- released a full three months before IBM announced its first PC. PARC's desktop design, which we all use now (graphical... Read more →

Facebook Failed. Twitter Thrilled.

Opinion Joan Donovan: With the tech crash upon us, what would be the worst thing that could happen if we just did not log back in to Meta products, like Facebook, Whatsapp, Instaagram, or Threads? Jane Manchun Wong: Woke up and can't login to work. Am I getting fired? Elon Musk: If you're reading this post, it's because our servers are working. Tim Pool: Using X [Twitter] to tell people your social networks are down kinda wild. Boz: This was a particularly unusual issue where the server was erroneously telling the headset it had been logged out. Nikita Bier: Last... Read more →

Twitteratti who jeered self-serious letter on AI

Opinion Investment firm Silicon Angle got AI firms to sign onto a letter promising to make AI as important as gas-guzzling cars and industry-destroying Internet. You can read the full letter and the list of signatories at https://openletter.svangel.com. Twitter reacted with cheers and jeers. Here are some of the best jeers. Source: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1764659720642818414. Text of open letter promising to make the world better thru great AI Neoluddite: I wonder if you will break this pledge quicker than the last pledge you made to Elon Musk in the Founding Agreement of OpenAI. Martin Shkreli: never ever ever Logos & Aesthes: We... Read more →

Best Tweets About Apple Abandoning Autonomous Automobiles

Opinion Interior of a Lucid Air electric automobile Mark Gurman broke the news that Apple this week canceled its Project Titan [which staff apparently called "Project Titanic"] to come up with an Apple Car, after spending a decade and a guestimated $10 billion dollars worked on by two thousand engineers. Some speculate that Apple wanted an L5 car, which means so self-driving that you could be having sex in the back seat during downtown Beijing rush hour traffic: no driver, no problem. Here are some of the best tweets to come out of the announcement: - - - Apple doesn't... Read more →