davemark

davemark, 1 hour ago to Tennessee

"A judge blocks the foreclosure sale of Elvis' Graceland, after his heir alleges fraud"

A fascinating story, but what got me was the bit about Graceland being valued at $400 million. For 14 acres. That's about $28M per acre. That's approaching mid-town-Manhattan prices.

This how much Elvis was revered? Still an amazing draw? Can't think of any other person whose home has so much value.

https://www.gpb.org/news/2024/05/22/judge-blocks-the-foreclosure-sale-of-elvis-graceland-after-his-heir-alleges-fraud
#Tennessee #Elvis #RealEstate

davemark, 1 hour ago to apple

"Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price"

Given that Amazon is going to start charging for the AI version of Alexa, I wonder if Apple has this same plan up its sleeve.

Maybe roll AI into the Apple One Premier bundle? Or add a tier, Apple One Ultra?

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/22/amazon-plans-to-give-alexa-an-ai-overhaul-monthly-subscription-price.html
#Apple #Siri #AI #Amazon #Alexa

davemark, 19 hours ago (edited 16 hours ago) to ai

[UPDATE: Added a screenshot]

From Reddit, here’s a test for Google…

Go to Google search, type:

“which us presidents earned degrees from UW Madison”

No quotes. That’s a really really wrong answer. Anyone else see this?

This just unvetted source material? That’d be a red flag for their AI, yeah?

#AI #Google

davemark, 1 day ago to apple

👂🏻🎶🎸
Apple Music drops their top 10 albums of all time.

I love a good list, any notable snubs?

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-music-reveals-top-10-albums-of-all-time-on-100-best-list/
#Apple #Music #AppleMusic

davemark, 1 day ago to poetry

One of my favorite all time poems, apropos of nothing:

"Because I could not stop for Death—
He kindly stopped for me—
The Carriage held but just Ourselves—
And Immortality."

-- Emily Dickinson

#Poetry

davemark, 1 day ago to movies

"The core “Pixar braintrust” is gone"

From @gruber on Pixar laying off 175 employees.

Sad watching the once absolutely brilliant flow of films from Pixar devolve to a shadow of its former self.

Pixar was a mighty Indie that reinvented the movie industry.

What made this happen? Was it the loss of Steve Jobs? Changeover at the exec level?

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/21/pixar-layoffs
#Movies #Pixar

davemark, 1 day ago to apple

"Apple Vision Pro immersive ‘Adventure’ video shot in Paris premiering this week ahead of international launch"

The limited (but growing) Vision Pro content reminds me of the "early days" each time a basic content is rolled out:

• Renting VHS tapes
• CD availability
• DVD rentals

Etc., etc., etc.

These are early days. Way early.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/21/vision-pro-immersive-adventure-video-in-paris/
#Apple #VIsionPro

davemark, 2 days ago to microsoft

"New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC"

This is a new AI-powered feature called "Recall", lets you search and retrieve your past activities.

This a huge win? A privacy nightmare?

Once your on screen data gets swallowed by the AI, will there be any way to pry it back out?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/
#Microsoft #Privacy #AI

davemark, 2 days ago to apple

One of the new Copilot Plus laptops, with the same "Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite" chip inside:

• Base price of $1299
• 13.4" display, 16GB/512GB
• Available July 5th

Equivalent 13" 16GB/512GB base M3 MacBook Air is $1499.

Will this push Apple to lower their premium on Memory/SSD?

Return of the "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads?

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/new-xps-13/spd/xps-13-9345-laptop/
#Apple #Microsoft #CoPilot #Mac

davemark, 2 days ago to apple

😮🙌🏻
A great (undocumented?) Safari shortcut:

• On your Mac, in Safari, hover over a link
• Now type control-command-d (⌃⌘D)

A preview of the linked page appears in a popup. Cool beans!

Nice find by @lapcatsoftware https://underpassapp.com/news/2024/5/1.html
#Apple #Mac #Safari #macOS

davemark, 2 days ago to ai

"Inside Microsoft’s mission to take down the MacBook Air"

The not-yet-for-sale Windows "Copilot Plus PCs" are beating M3 MacBook Air (slightly) in Microsoft's home field testing (battery life and benchmark performance)

• When will these machines be available?
• How will their costs compare to the M3 MacBook Air?
• Will Apple release the M4 MBA by then? If so, will the CoPilot PCs still win?
• What #AI will #Apple show at #WWDC?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24160463/microsoft-windows-laptops-copilot-arm-chips-m1
#Microsoft #CoPilot #Mac

davemark, 4 days ago to apple

Steve Jobs, 23 years ago, showing off the first Apple Store, just before it opened...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce02galgfRo
#Apple #AppleStore #History #SteveJobs

davemark, 4 days ago to streaming

🍿
Samsung TV Plus is free and has a TON of content, both live and on demand.

You will have to sign up for an account, but Apple's "Hide My Email" works just fine. The signup process is VERY buggy, but press on, you'll get there.

Currently watching "Jobs" on my Mac. Thought that was apropos.

https://www.samsungtvplus.com
#Streaming #Movies #Samsung

davemark, 5 days ago to privacy

"NYPD will deploy drones to respond to 911 calls"

• Pilot program is in 5 precincts.
• Each precinct will get rooftop drone platform
• Calling it “drones as first responders”

This a good thing? Drones can certainly get eyes to an emergency quickly. Video footage admissible in court?

Privacy implications? Will people be shooting these down?

https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-will-deploy-drones-to-respond-to-911-calls-in-5-nyc-precincts-officials-say
#Privacy #NewYorkCity #NYC #Police #Drones

davemark, 5 days ago to movies

😮🍿

This trailer for "Megalopolis" is 🔥

From Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, etc.), a lifelong project, coming to theaters late 2024.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU1QyAYa60g
#Movies

davemark, 5 days ago to MLB

Baseball friends, don’t sleep on this pirates rookie Paul Skenes.

In his 2nd major league appearance, he’s:

• thrown 6 innings of no-hit ball (he’s on a pitch count, done for the day)
• got 11 strikeouts
• ended his day throwing pitches of 99mph and 100mph

Skenes is special. ⚾️

#mlb #Pittsburgh #Baseball

davemark, 6 days ago to apple

"Apple says the majority of Mac users also own an iPad, which likely means macOS is never coming to the iPad"

I, for one, don't want macOS on my iPad.

I love the simplicity of the magic piece of glass that is iPad.

I do wish we had an iPadOS that worked more cleanly with my Mac. Hard to put into words, but I wish the shared models were more similar.

Finder on the Mac and Files on iPad for example. Very different experience.

But macOS on my iPad. Nah.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/15/majority-of-mac-users-also-own-ipad/
#Apple

davemark, 6 days ago to apple

"Speed Up iPhone Typing With This Simple Keyboard Trick"

This is one of those low-discoverability things that is absolutely worth knowing:

• In iOS, bring up the keyboard (works in any app)

• Press and HOLD the "123" key, then drag up to a number

• Let go with the number selected.

The number is typed, you are back in the alpha keyboard, all with a single click, rather than the 3 clicks you normally use.

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/speed-up-iphone-typing-simple-keyboard-trick/
#Apple #iPhone

davemark, 6 days ago to ai

Google is adding "an AI-generated summary at the top of many of their search results"

If Google AI pulls detailed answers directly into the search page, the less likely you are to visit other sites.

Better for Google. Worse for the external sites, yeah? Or am I missing something?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24155321/google-search-ai-results-page-gemini-overview
#AI #Google #Search

davemark, 6 days ago to apple

San Francisco Apple Store.

Took this a few years ago. Popped up in my widgets just now.

Love this photo, especially love the reflection. Very clean.
#Apple #Photography

davemark, 7 days ago to apple

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, definitely my favorite from my previous post.

Look at the fondness in their smiles. Wonder what they were thinking.

#Apple #Miscrosoft #SteveJobs #BillGates #Photography #History

davemark, 8 days ago to ai

From 14 years ago, here's the original Siri demo.

This is aspirational, not a show of features, but still, there's a tantalizing promise there that we never reached.

But watch that GPT 4o demo I posted earlier with this video in mind. To me, feels like we are much closer to that original dream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpjpVAB06O4
#AI #Siri #GPT4o #Apple #WWDC #OpenAI

davemark, 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago) to ai

OpenAI's demo of "GPT 4o" (link below) is astonishing. The demo itself starts at about 9 minutes in.

Can't help but think about Siri and how high the bar is for Apple.

26 days until WWDC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQacCB9tDaw
#AI #OpenAI #GPT4o #Apple #Google #Siri

davemark, 9 days ago to apple

From M4 iPad Pro review by @joannastern

"iPadOS is far less capable than macOS"

"It's like having the power of a Ferrari, but driving it on a golf course"

Read the words, watch the video. My 2 cents, I wish I could run macOS on that M4 Apple Silicon, or get an iPadOS redo.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/ipad-pro-vs-macbook-the-great-apple-laptop-tradeoff-3304323d?st=90tzwcjmrv8pb9n&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
#Apple #iPad #M4 #Mac #macOS

davemark, 9 days ago to apple

On M4 iPad Pro "bend protection":

"Apple's senior VP John Ternus reveals that Apple has added a new protective "cowling" over main logic board...not only helps with heat dissipation, but also "effectively creates a central rib that runs through the whole thing and tremendously improves the stiffness"

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/14/ipad-pro-structural-design-avoid-bendgate/
#Apple #iPad #iPadPro #M4