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Smartwatches can detect Parkinson’s years before diagnosis (english.elpais.com)

Accelerometers record subtle changes in movement and sleep patterns, and this information could anticipate the disease long before it becomes evident.

So where are we all supposed to go now? (www.theverge.com)

Supercomputer makes calculations in blink of an eye that take rivals 47 years (www.telegraph.co.uk)

Twitter's API keeps breaking, even for developers paying $42,000 (mashable.com)

Twitter's API issues have frustrated developers in each of Twitter's new API access tiers. Those with Basic or Pro plans — paying $100 and $5000 a month for API access, respectively — have experienced unannounced changes to their plans, numerous bugs, and often receive zero customer support. And developers shelling out for...

Twitter seeing 52% of its links removed on google after user requirement change (boingboing.net)

Can't remember name of an old Android app... help!

Hey all, I used to use a to do app and can’t remember name, it was very distinct though, please help!...

Elon refusing to pay google for hosting could be behind the instability issues. (i.imgur.com)

It’s possible that the enforcement of a rate limit isn’t because of AI scraping, but rather because they failed to migrate before the June 30th deadline.

PC speed gains erased by modern software (hackaday.com)

Interesting take on comparability vs performance. I gotta imaging capturing user data and sending to a cloud collector is also a big culprit.

So, where do we go now? (www.theverge.com)

Not sure I agree with all of his points, but it’s a start that we’re at least publicly acknowledging this as the end of an era (for good IMO)

Did Google really just say they'll delete accounts "together with all data"? 😂 (media.kbin.social)

FTC prepares “the big one,” a major lawsuit targeting Amazon’s core business (arstechnica.com)

Windows 11’s AI-powered Copilot (and its Bing-powered ads) enters public preview (arstechnica.com)

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would continue its put-ChatGPT-in-everything adventure with a new Windows 11 feature called Copilot. The company added generative AI to Edge and to the Bing-powered taskbar Search field months ago, but Copilot promises to be the most visible and hard-to-ignore version of Microsoft’s big...

Adventures in AI Programming: Daily Experiments with GPT-4 (reticulated.net)

‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power (www.theguardian.com)

Gfycat is shutting down September 1st (gfycat.com)

The Gfycat service is being discontinued. Please save or delete your Gfycat content by visiting https://www.gfycat.com and logging in to your account. After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted from gfycat.com

The Tragic Tale of the Internet (video) (youtu.be)

Just released video about how the internet has completely changed for the worse. Fascinating discussion. What are your thoughts on this?

The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so, The mods of r/IAmA are stepping back (www.theverge.com)

Twitter is refusing to pay Google for cloud services. Here’s why it matters, and what the fallout could be for users (theconversation.com)

With the Twitter limits today, I think we are already seeing the fallout begin....

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