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Shira Ovide

@ShiraOvide

I write The Tech Friend newsletter at The Washington Post.

Relatively inactive here.

Reach me at [email protected]

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linkhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/people/shira-ovide/ calendar_today10-03-2008 17:53:59

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I actually can't really wrap my head around how awful this looks. Like this is class action lawsuit levels of different from any of the pre-release footage I've seen lmao. This is a mess.

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I’m hunting for people reusing tech gear in surprising ways. The stranger the better.

Are you reusing VR headsets for hermit crab shells?

Do you make collages from 1950s punched cards?

Do you harvest Xbox parts to power cars?

I made those up, but I'm ISO ingenuity.

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The combined time of Apple's staged product events since 2016 is the equivalent of 9+ viewings of Kenneth Branagh's 1996 'Hamlet.'

The combined time of Apple's staged product events since 2016 is the equivalent of 9+ viewings of Kenneth Branagh's 1996 'Hamlet.'
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Connie Wang(@conniewang) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Please read the story that’s been 30+ years in the making, taught me the real meaning of fomo, humbled me to filth about the specialness of my own story—and gave me a sisterhood I never knew I needed so much nyti.ms/3VREJu3

Please read the story that’s been 30+ years in the making, taught me the real meaning of fomo, humbled me to filth about the specialness of my own story—and gave me a sisterhood I never knew I needed so much nyti.ms/3VREJu3
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Shira Ovide(@ShiraOvide) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How will we feel about generative AI if the killer use case is churning out one zillion ads for Facebook and Amazon?

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Your periodic reminder that IDC estimates 22 million foldable phones will sell globally this year out of ~1.2 billion plus total phones.

These devices are currently not popular at all.

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Hey, a shopping link in the Google I/O video

(This may be one of very few sensible use case for shoppable links in YouTube?)

Hey, a shopping link in the Google I/O video (This may be one of very few sensible use case for shoppable links in YouTube?)
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Google will not win at publicly shaming Apple to end green bubble hell for Android users.

But. Google is not wrong that Apple is blocking encrypted messages between iPhones and Androids.

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This is what Google's answer box with new AI looks like by Geoffrey A. Fowler

Very curious to see how people use this irl and how every website will pivot to get into the new answer box.

washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

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Hot Google I/O take: No company keynote should be more than an hour.

(No meeting should last longer than an hour, either.)

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