Luke Miani

This is an incredible safety feature from teslas latest update. Using ambient lighting to signal detect bicycles and keeping the doors locked on first press

The T1 Phone has arrived!! Those who pre-ordered the T1 Phone will be receiving an update email. Phones start shipping this week!!!

Google Chrome is quietly downloading a roughly 4 GB AI model to many users’ computers without clear upfront consent. The file, called weights.bin, is part of Google’s Gemini Nano on-device language model and lands in the browser’s user data folder under OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It powers built-in AI tools such as “Help me write,” smarter tab suggestions, on-device scam detection, and page summarization. The download triggers automatically for devices meeting minimum hardware requirements, and Chrome often replaces the files if deleted. While the model processes data locally, installation happens in the background with minimal notification. The scale is noteworthy. Hundreds of millions or billions of installations add up to thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions globally from data transfer, even though each is a one-time event. To prevent or remove it, go to chrome://flags, disable the entries for the optimization guide on-device model and Prompt API, restart the browser, and manually delete the folder.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says they need to "deepen their connection" with the community and retire features that don't align with their future plans "We will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console"

McDonald’s is reportedly planning a Subscription Fry service, offering unlimited medium fries for $20 per month.

Jason Sudeikis made around $300,000 per episode in season 1 of Ted Lasso. By season 3, Apple had bumped him to about $1 million per episode. Tim Cook just announced season 4 lands August 5, after a three-year break that looked like the end. The rest of the cast got similar raises. Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein, Juno Temple, and Brendan Hunt all moved from the $50,000 to $75,000 per episode range to the $125,000 to $150,000 range. When production costs kept rising, Apple agreed to absorb them so Warner Bros. would keep producing the show. Most streaming companies wouldn't have signed that deal. Apple did. The reason has very little to do with making good TV. Apple TV+ has roughly 45 million paying subscribers. Netflix has 325 million, more than seven times as many. Apple captures less than 1% of all US streaming time, while Netflix takes 8.2%. Apple TV+ has been losing over a billion dollars a year, according to a March 2025 report from The Information. None of that is going to change Apple's plans. In the three months ending December 2025, Apple made $143.8 billion in revenue and $42 billion in profit. That works out to more than $400 million in profit every single day. The whole annual Apple TV+ loss is less than three days of Apple's profit. To Apple, the streaming service barely registers. Ted Lasso is the show that made people sign up for Apple TV+ in the first place. When it launched in August 2020, Apple TV+ was less than a year old and barely on the cultural radar. Ted Lasso won 13 Emmys, including Outstanding Comedy in its first two seasons. Suddenly Apple TV+ was the home of a show people couldn't stop talking about. That kind of cultural moment is worth more to Apple than any money the streaming service loses. Ted Lasso fans buy more Apple products. They stay subscribed longer. They tell their friends, who sign up too. Each new fan becomes another monthly check to Apple, and another reason to keep their iPhone instead of switching. The character started as a 5-minute NBC Sports commercial in 2013, where Sudeikis played a clueless American football coach trying to manage a Premier League team. Thirteen years later, that same character has become one of the most expensive ways Apple has ever found to sell iPhones. On August 5, the most expensive iPhone ad ever made premieres as a TV show.

You have got to be kidding me. The State Department is putting Donald Trump’s scowling face on the U.S. passport. His signature in gold. Superimposed over the Declaration of Independence, a document literally written to get away from this exact behavior. No sitting president has ever done this. Coins, park passes, battleships, and now your passport. The man cannot find a surface he will not slap his name or face on. This is not patriotism. It is vanity.

Claude now connects to the tools creative professionals already use. With the new Blender connector, you can debug a scene, build new tools, or batch-apply changes across every object, directly from Claude.