Weather phenomena have the wildest names

Heat dome: A heat dome is a weather phenomenon that occurs when a high-pressure system traps hot ocean air over a region. Ring of Fire: The “Ring of Fire” is a weather pattern that occurs during the summer. It’s a large ri…

Gurman on Magic Battery

Funny but Gurman’s sentiment feels right here—more over the top branding from Apple’s marketing team.

Hyundai is going wild with their EV design language

I don’t know what got into Hyundai’s water but they’re having a design renaissance with their post-ICE vehicles. Whether you like them is less important than acknowledging the huge departure this new design language is from the Hyundai we’r…

YouTube’s Shorts Shelf on web looks like what you get when the business wants one thing, Product/UX want another, and you arrive at the wrong compromise. YouTube put that strip on the home page right under the first two rows of recomm…

Spatial sticky notes are a mixed reality use case I’m looking forward to

There’s been a lot of chatter that mixed reality devices will be solutions looking for a problem. Well, I’m looking forward to attaching digital notes to physical objects. Then I can ditch sticky notes for good and skip the conf…

Stanford created generative agents that simulate human behavior in a virtual environment

Stanford published a paper a few days ago detailing their work with Generative Agents and it sounds like tech that is destined to show up in video games. …computational software agents that simulate believable human behavior. Generative age…

Diablo IV’s open beta was fun

I’m not a Diablo expert but I did spend some (read: too much) time with Diablo IV this past weekend. My goal was to get a sense of whether I’d want to purchase and play the full title when it releases. I’m more interested …