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If AGI arrives during Trump’s next term, ‘none of the other stuff matters’ ift.tt/rB3E0lQ

If AGI arrives during Trump’s next term, ‘none of the other stuff matters’

Future of Life Institute cofounder Max Tegmark on regulating AI, Elon Musk’s potential to be a good influence on Donald Trump, understanding how LLMs think, and more.

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Thanks to Openvibe, there’s life after Twitter ift.tt/keup5Qn

Thanks to Openvibe, there’s life after Twitter

Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads, all woven into one excellent app. And—best of all—it’s Elon Musk-free.

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The most promising new email app I’ve seen in years ift.tt/ZPpDBEr

The most promising new email app I’ve seen in years

Notion Mail is just a rough draft, but it could be a tool kit that lets you build exactly the email experience you want, for the first time ever.

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Why new online puzzles can’t clone the brilliance of ‘Wordle’ ift.tt/A89pVZs

Why new online puzzles can’t clone the brilliance of ‘Wordle’

Everybody from LinkedIn to Apple News is doing games these days, but it’s tough to re-create the alchemy of the original.

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The Internet Archive is even more essential than I realized ift.tt/vM9nb8I

The Internet Archive is even more essential than I realized

Taken offline after a breach, the huge collection of webpages, e-books, and other content is doing essential work abandoned by the for-profit web.

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Big Tech’s experimental AI can’t beat old-school productivity gems ift.tt/p6FzqLt

Big Tech’s experimental AI can’t beat old-school productivity gems

OpenAI’s and Google’s newest AI tools are pretty clever, but tiny companies with long track records still build more indispensable products—with or without AI.

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Yelp has quietly become a home services powerhouse ift.tt/ez13fT4

Yelp has quietly become a home services powerhouse

As it turns 20, the familiar local information app is helping users with major household projects, embracing AI, and taking on Google in court as well as on the web.

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The iPhone 16 Pro is my first phone that feels like a camera ift.tt/K19fEdN

The iPhone 16 Pro is my first phone that feels like a camera

At last, the iPhone has a dedicated shutter button. More than that, it’s melded tech and design into an experience that doesn’t leave me pining for my dSLR.

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Snap’s new AR Spectacles are fun. Too bad you can’t get them (yet) ift.tt/Dk5zoP8

Snap’s new AR Spectacles are fun. Too bad they’re not for consumers (yet)

Snapchat’s creator has a new version of its glasses, and a vision for more approachable augmented reality. But it’s still a preview, not a full-blown consumer product.

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Why Apple’s iPhone event felt like such a horn of plenty ift.tt/IGf8mCs

Why Apple’s iPhone event felt like such a horn of plenty

New iPhones, AirPods, and Apple Watches don’t reserve their best features for the priciest models. And Apple even has new stuff for devices you already own.

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Why Reddit is the internet’s last great hope ift.tt/m0n8WOx

Why Reddit is the internet's last great hope

In an era of AI upheaval, the cacophonous social hub is proving that the human-driven internet has value—and a chance at survival.

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Why Satya Nadella is one of Fast Company’s 10 most innovative people of the last 10 years ift.tt/av2xtbq

The core principles that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella always comes back to

Satya Nadella led the tech giant into pole position in the AI race. He's one of Fast Company's 10 most innovative people of the last 10 years.

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ReMarkable’s new color tablet might be a little too minimalist ift.tt/7zpNlqa

ReMarkable’s new color tablet might be a little too minimalist

The elegant ReMarkable Paper Pro is focused on distraction-free note-taking, and does it exceptionally well—but it could use at least a few more features.

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Cyberspace was supposed to elevate politics. Then reality hit ift.tt/lapjUdE

Cyberspace was supposed to elevate politics. Then reality hit

Once seen as more substantive and democratic than TV, digital electioneering hasn’t exactly brought more gravity to picking a president.

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This app is rejecting generative AI altogether. Good! ift.tt/JQEI1hw

This app is rejecting generative AI altogether. Good!

Instead of figuring out how to make AI-generated art make sense, Procreate won’t offer it at all. It’s a bold stance. But don’t expect many others to follow.

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Why 2024 feels like the first post-Twitter presidential campaign ift.tt/jAIN19d

Why 2024 feels like the first post-Twitter presidential campaign

A dozen years after the first Twitter-era election, X may not be the defining social platform of the Harris-Trump race—no matter what Elon Musk does to make it so.

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Susan Wojcicki, a key Google employee and ex-YouTube CEO, dies at 56 ift.tt/osOcfeE

Susan Wojcicki, a key Google employee and ex-YouTube CEO, dies at 56

The longtime Googler gave the company its first office, helped turn it into an advertising behemoth, and suggested it buy YouTube, which she later ran for nearly a decade.

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Why Google isn’t Standard Oil, AT&T, or even Microsoft ift.tt/QNOM3oj

Why Google isn’t Standard Oil, AT&T, or even Microsoft

The Google antitrust ruling has enormous implications. But it’s already easy to opt out of using the world’s most popular search engine—and AI could shake things up more than any government action.

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A much better way to read email newsletters ift.tt/RSeHQTy

A much better way to read email newsletters

Matter, Meco, and other dedicated newsletter reader apps are optimized for immersive reading in ways your inbox will never be.

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