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Polaroid’s tiny instant camera is $72 and includes a free pack of film

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The compact Polaroid Go is great for road trips and adventures. | Image: Polaroid Smartphone cameras are convenient, but they lack the charm of analog instant cameras. If you’re trying to relive the nostalgia of waiting for an instant photo to develop, Amazon is selling the second-generation Polaroid Go instant camera with a 16-photo film pack for $71.99 (usually $109.99). That’s the lowest price we’ve seen for the bundle, with a pack of film usually costing $21.99 on its own. Plus, it’s four dollars cheaper to buy the bundle than to buy just the camera on its own. Polaroid Go Instant Camera Generation 2 Where to Buy: $109.99 $71.99 at Amazon (with film pack) With its more compact footprint, the Polaroid Go 2 shoots on smaller film to match. Where classic Polaroid photos are 88mm x 107mm, the Go film is 53.9mm x 66.6mm, a great size for sticking to your bulletin board or stashing in your wallet. The camera has a USB-C port for charging the battery...
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Matt Groening lets slip that Simpsons: Hit & Run might be making a comeback

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Doh! | Image: Activision / 20th Century Fox At D23, when asked about the potential for a sequel to the cult classic The Simpsons: Hit & Run game, Matt Groening replied, "I think the original game is coming back in some form," before current showrunner Matt Selman added, "or not." The tone in both of their voices and the body language suggests that Groening may have just revealed something he wasn't supposed to. The original title came out way back in 2003 for PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, and Windows. While it's possible to get the game up and running on modern computers, it's not available on modern consoles . It's currently not in the PlayStation Plus Classics Catalog or on the Xbo … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/980720/matt-groening-simpsons-hit-run-d23
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Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot

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If you squint you can just about make out the hat. | Screenshot: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter a request. On the other, you submit an answer. But the important thing is that there's a human on both sides of the equation. Prompts can request a response as text or image, and then whoever is roleplaying as the AI gets 150 seconds to respond. Just like a real LLM, Your AI Slop Bores Me works on a sort of token system. Requests cost credits, and to earn credits you have to jump onto the AI side and answer some of your own. You can also just wait as you get one free request every two minutes. But, as fun as it is to drop … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/980502/roleplay-as-an-ai-chatbot
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Don’t overlook Elektron’s budget electronic music instruments

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They’re far more powerful and fun than their bargain price suggests. | Photo: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge When I'm asked what to buy if you want to get into making electronic music, I often recommend Elektron's budget-minded Model:Samples and Model:Cycles grooveboxes. They don't grab headlines the way Teenage Engineering's gear or the Telepathic Instruments Orchid do, and even compared to the company's higher-end and more niche musical offerings like the Digitakt , Octatrack , or Tonverk , they're often overlooked. But as my collection has grown to include fancier and far more expensive instruments, I still find myself coming back to the Model series. Those looking to get their first groovebox are often drawn to more familiar brand names like Korg … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/980275/elektron-model-cycles-model-samples-groovebox-electronic-music-instruments-rev...
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The X-Files creator Chris Carter wanted to make a more horrific movie

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The version of The X-Files: I Want to Believe that premiered in 2008 was not exactly the movie co-writer / director Chris Carter intended to make. Carter wanted to bring agents Mulder and Scully back to the big screen with a grisly story about faith and the supernatural. But executives at 20th Century Fox felt that Carter's ideas were too dark, and he was pushed to turn the project into a PG-13 feature. Now, almost two decades after I Want to Believe 's theatrical debut, Carter is back with a new director's cut of the film for Hulu that's much closer to his original vision. "We got to tell a good X-Files story," Carter said of the original … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/979925/the-x-files-chris-carter-vrach-frankenshteyn-interview-hulu
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Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam

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Instagram's wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week. It doesn't look like the old Instagram wordmark. It doesn't even look like it spells Instagram anymore. And we cannot figure out why Instagram decided to do this. On this episode of The Vergecast , David and Nilay start by discussing the new logo, the executive urge to redesign everything all the time, and whether new is always better. After that, they get into the other big Meta release of the week: Mark Zuckerberg's many-thousand-word missive on the future of AI. There are a lot of ideas and proposals … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/podcast/980367/instagram-logo-new-zuckerberg-ai-vergecast
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You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks

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Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update , you can toggle off a new "Media watermark" setting in Gemini and Google's AI video generator, Flow. When toggled off, Google will remove the "sparkle" watermark that appears in the bottom-right corner of content generated with the company's Nano Banana and Omni models. Though visible watermarks are now optional, AI-generated content will have invisible SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata embedded in the background, according to Josh Woodward , the vice president of Google Labs, Gemini, and AI Studio. That means you … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/tech/980416/google-gemini-ai-watermarks-removal
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