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The Carbon-Thing Edition Saturday, May 25, 2024

What’s Better For The Climate: A Paper Book, Or An E-reader?, by Chloe Veltman, NPR

"If you buy an e-reader and you read loads and loads of books on it, then it's the lowest carbon thing to do," Berners-Lee said. "But if I buy it, read a couple of books, and decided that I prefer paperback books, then it's the worst of all worlds."

Yet Berners-Lee said that reading is still, relatively speaking, a pretty sustainable activity — regardless of whether you read using an e-reader, phone or old fashioned paperback.

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Big Tech Has Distracted World From Existential Risk Of AI, Says Top Scientist, by Alex Hern, The Guardian

Big tech has succeeded in distracting the world from the existential risk to humanity that artificial intelligence still poses, a leading scientist and AI campaigner has warned.

Study Finds That 52 Percent Of ChatGPT Answers To Programming Questions Are Wrong, by Sharon Adarlo, The Byte

That's a staggeringly large proportion for a program that people are relying on to be accurate and precise, underlining what other end users like writers and teachers are experiencing: AI platforms like ChatGPT often hallucinate totally incorrectly answers out of thin air.

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Apple’s Logic Pro For iPad's Upgrades Aren’t Just AI-buzz – Here's My Verdict On A Week With The New Tools, by Jacob Krol, TechRadar

Logic Pro for iPad 2 keeps what was successful with the original Logic Pro for iPad and tries to employ its new AI capabilities in the areas that matter most to a potential user. For a budding songwriter, Session Players allows you to add in drums, piano, and even bass. For a starting band, you can easily split your recording session from a voice memo into separated tracks to adjust and customize.

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New iPod-like Device Turns Strapless Watch Into Click-wheel ‘Phone’, by Ryan Christoffel, 9to5Mac

tinyPod is essentially a case for the core Apple Watch hardware that takes inspiration from the iPod to turn your Watch into something of a tiny phone. Oh, and instead of using your Digital Crown to navigate watchOS, you’ll use the included iPod-like click wheel.

Apple Built A Tetris Clone For The iPod But Never Released It, by Lawrence Bonk, Engadget

Apple once designed a Tetris clone that has been found on a prototype version of the third-generation iPod, indicating the company was experimenting with releasing the game on the music player. It’s called Stacker and, obviously, is controlled via the iPod’s scroll wheel. The software was spotted by X user AppleDemoYT, who is known for finding rare prototype devices.

ICQ, One Of The Oldest Instant Messengers, Is Shutting Down, by Michael Kan, PC Magazine

It's an unceremonious end for a software program that helped kick off instant messaging on PCs in the 1990s. ICQ, which stands for "I Seek You," was originally developed at an Israeli company called Mirabilis before AOL bought it in 1998 for $407 million.

Bottom of the Page

It seems just a while ago, Apple was losing the AI competition, and has to show some AI during the upcoming WWDC, or it will become irrelevant.

And so, Apple made promises, and changed ML to AI.

A while later, it seems maybe Apple is better off changing AI back to ML?

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Thanks for reading.