I live in Seattle, where we’ve always had our share of quirky local color. If you’ve ever watched a home Seahawks game on Monday Night Football, you know about the Pike Place Market fish-throwing guys. There used to be a mystery vending machine in the Capitol Hill neighborhood that dispensed random drinks, and no one...
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How Pixar recovered Toy Story 2 after a Unix command deleted nearly the entire film in 1998
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Oops: Twenty-eight years ago, Pixar nearly lost 90% of Toy Story 2’s digital files – not because a system crashed, but because someone ran a routine Unix command that engineers had been using for years without a second thought. The command...
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Siri AI will be more ‘all-rounded’ with the iPhone 18 series
ⓘ Apple Siri AI activation animation. Siri AI will be coming to a wide range of Apple devices with iOS 27, macOS 27, and iPadOS 27. The updated animation currently has a pill shape, but with the iPhone 18 series, that might change. Apple announced the new and improved Siri AI with iOS 27 during...
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Edifier’s new budget headphones put song lyrics on the earcups and I’m confused
The Auro Ace mixes gamer aesthetics with surprisingly decent specs Edifier Most budget headphones today look painfully similar. Same safe designs, same recycled “deep bass” marketing, and the same feature checklists. That’s exactly why Edifier’s newly launched Auro Ace immediately stands out, thanks to its animated dot-matrix display built directly into the earcups and a...
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Android Auto’s biggest update in years delivers edge-to-edge Maps, Gemini, and HD video streaming
The updated Android Auto brings a complete Material 3 Expressive design overhaul, including expressive typography, smooth animations, and vibrant wallpapers. It is the biggest update to the platform since the 2023 “Coolwalk” redesign, which introduced a dynamic interface, split-screen multitasking, a revamped dock, and enhanced safety features.Read Entire Article…Read whole article here
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Microsoft will lean on your CPU to speed up Windows 11’s apps and animations
Microsoft has heard your complaints about Windows 11, and it wants to make things better. That has been the messaging out of Microsoft for most of this year, and the company is also going out of its way to make sure that people know what is being improved and how. One of the goals on...
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AI animation studio Toonstar will turn books into digital shows for HarperCollins
HarperCollins is tapping into AI to bring some of its book franchises to life. Specifically, the publisher is teaming up with Toonstar, an AI animation studio, to turn them into digital shows. The first project will be an adaptation of Lisa Greenwald’s “Friendship List” series, which will also be joined by a graphic novel. You’d...
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Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved
Welcome Flashpoint Archive is a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web. Internet history and culture is important, and the web is evolving at such a rapid pace that what might be commonplace today could be obsolete tomorrow. This project is dedicated to preserving as many experiences from these platforms as possible,...
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Facebook is offering Meta AI-powered animations for profile photos
Meta has been going all in on AI, whether people want it or not, and now it’s bringing more features in that vein to Facebook. The network’s latest move is to let people use Meta AI to animate their profile photos. Because what better way to express your individuality than to use a pre-canned AI-generated...
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Adobe Animate is shutting down next month
Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Adobe is pulling the plug on Adobe Animate. In a FAQ posted to Adobe’s website, the company says it will stop selling the animation software on March...