When I first saw the Rabbit R1, it was more appealing than the Humane AI Pin. The R1 had a real screen, not a flimsy projector, and a small scroll wheel, all wrapped up in a shiny, fiery orange-red case.
Unfortunately, as our review explains, it doesn’t work as well as promised. It doesn’t do much and is full of bugs and problems at launch. Devindra Hardawar, who reviewed it, even had issues with the scroll wheel. No.
The most important takeaway might be: If your phone can do all of these tasks just as well (or better in most cases), then what’s the point, Rabbit?
The truth might be that I just wasn’t a fan of the Rabbit R1. Although I’m interested in pretty much everything Teenage Engineering designs.
– Mat Smith
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There is a gap between the plans and what is needed.
New research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) suggests that current carbon removal plans will not be enough to meet the Paris Treaty goals of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. There is a gap of up to 3.2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) between current global plans to remove carbon from the atmosphere and what is needed to avoid the worst effects of global warming. The study says that rapidly reducing emissions is far more important than eliminating the CO2 that already exists.
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Or on May 30th.
Google has updated its inappropriate content policy to explicitly ban advertisers from promoting websites and services that generate deepfake pornography. There are already restrictions on ads that contain certain types of sexual content. However, these directly target “synthetic content that has been altered or generated to be sexually explicit or contain nudity.” The company will begin implementing the rule on May 30, giving advertisers the option to remove any ad that violates the new policy.
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They are aimed at emulators.
Nintendo has sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice to over 8,000 GitHub repositories that host Yuzu Switch emulator code. You may recall that the game maker said Yuzu enabled “piracy on a colossal scale.” Redacted companies representing Nintendo claim that the Yuzu source code “illegally circumvents Nintendo’s technical protection measures and executes illegal copies of Switch games.” This is all happening as game emulators experience a resurgence. Last month, Apple relaxed its restrictions on retro game players in the App Store. However, the more serious reasons for emulation (archiving a game history that might otherwise be lost; playing games that are no longer in circulation) disappear when you do it for a free copy of Tears of the Kingdom.
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