https://thenextweb.com/news/military-vehicles-add-distance-mixed-reality-windshields It was wonderfully old-fashioned. A Double Decker bus tour. The bus was even red and had that platform at the back. So quaint. There was even a human conductor offering a live commentary in a pretty convincing cockney accent. The windows offered live translations. The family chose their seats and the windows booted up. … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/632830/microsoft-kathleen-hogan-strategy-chief-notepad No-one was surprised when she got the job. The book had closed days before when humans in the know as well as their Agents agreed she was a shoe-in. It wasn’t a bad choice. She knew her stuff. She was known around the business as “the Agent whisperer”. Her relationship with her Agent was … [Read more…]
https://www.engadget.com/wearables/muses-new-wearable-eeg-knows-how-hard-youre-thinking-120041154.html You don’t have to wear one obviously. We’re not living in a dystopia! The company even produced a little animation making fun of the idea of compulsory brain scanning! I must admit I was unsure when I first joined and my Agent explained it to me. But one day when my stats were telling … [Read more…]
https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext/careless-people-meta-mark-zuckerberg/ They needed to ‘flood the zone’. They couldn’t stop the publication. Their legal Agents were caught in never-ending rounds of black box litigation with the publisher’s Agents. Agents could be slow. In the meantime the feeds were full of extracts. The stories were becoming part of the landscape. He liked to think of the … [Read more…]
https://www.ft.com/content/a3753f62-1efc-4ca3-9934-47ab9994fa87 Someone should make an Agent setting for “exasperation”. It could have eyes that it could roll. It could be able to sigh and shake its “head”. I’m not stupid. I know my Agent isn’t human, can’t feel but it can do a good impersonation if it helps me. It can sound upbeat if I … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/14/ai-coding-assistant-cursor-reportedly-tells-a-vibe-coder-to-write-his-own-damn-code/ The school was in a poorer area. Families could only afford ad-sponsored Agents, often older models. Staff regularly had to pause lessons as pupils waited for their Agent to finish its pitch before answering. The Headteacher had refused Partnerships, despite what that meant for budgets but something had to be done. The school needed … [Read more…]
https://thenextweb.com/news/alternative-apps-to-instagram-ai-slop-for-artists She opened the encrypted message. Yes it was a message – they weren’t luddites, just careful. The meeting was set for this evening. The location revealed, it wasn’t far this time. They moved each week. They probably didn’t need to but some members were paranoid: airgapping their neutered laptops, renewing firewalls,checking the building for … [Read more…]
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/13/airpods-live-translation-ios-19/ Breakfast had gone better than he’d feared. She seemed to understand his point and, to be fair, he got what she’d meant the previous evening. “Negotiations were ongoing,” you might say. He’d also managed to get through to Chris. Talking to a sulky teenager was not his forté, as had been proved numerous times, … [Read more…]
https://www.ft.com/content/e6aef340-313b-483d-9a00-c1f4fc14df86 I suppose it’s a “start-up”. It’s a new business looking to do things differently so I suppose you could call it that. We never used the term because we didn’t like the techie connotations, the way people had that look when they heard the words. We didn’t have a foosball table or a chill-out … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/news/626851/tesla-takedown-protests-elon-musk It had been a status symbol, the company had become an icon, its founder a legendary figure. The fall from grace had been sudden and precipitous. When the protests started it became a faux pas to be seen with one. Constant memes. Other boycotts were now widespread. Those who could, dumped their Agents and … [Read more…]