As reported yesterday, Apple Stores closed today to watch a live stream of an event held at Apple’s headquarters. We called around to stores in Vancouver yesterday and they told us they would open at noon today. Retail stores showed white curtains covering entrance windows:
CNET did an aerial fly by of the campus which revealed a massive banner of Steve Jobs (Flash video):
Reuters notes Norah Jones and Coldplay performed at the Cupertino event, a tribute to the 56 ‘hungry and foolish’ years Steve Jobs lived.
[caption id="attachment_390033" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Image: Microsoft[/caption] Microsoft on Tuesday held an in-person event in Seattle, Washington, where the company announced a number of new AI-centric innovations coming soon to its products (via The Verge). The highlight of the event was Microsoft unveiling "the new Bing," powered by a new next-generation large language model under a...
Nintendo announced on Tuesday morning its next Nintendo Direct is slated for Wednesday, February 8 at 2pm PT/5pm ET. The surprise announcement means tomorrow’s livestream will showcase the next batch of Nintendo Switch games, as seen in previous showings. Nintendo says tomorrow’s Direct livestream will have “roughly 40 minutes of information” on Nintendo Switch titles […]
Quora has just opened public access to its AI chatbot ‘Poe,’ which lets people ask questions, get instant answers, and have back-and-forth conversations. Poe allows users to ask questions from a range of AI chatbots, including those from ChatGPT maker OpenAI, as well as other companies like Anthropic. Quora’s chatbot is currently available on iOS, but...