Siri looks like a Bit from Tron in Apple's Vision Pro

This is what "spatial Siri" looks like. Kind of wish it would fly around and light your room up like the fairy in Zelda though. pic.twitter.com/hLn6N0gPD4

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I've only seen it briefly but it just stayed in place (other than pulsating as you'd expect)

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From a preview of the goggles:

I finally got to try, for instance, the long-promised Siri integration.

I had opened a few windows that were floating around my mixed reality space (generated screens overlayed on the real room). When it was time to close them, I said, “Siri close my apps.” The apps instantly shut down as a lovely floating orb Siri appeared, waiting for my next request. In what I can only describe as a glow-up, Siri in the headset is a translucent, floating glass ball with the iconic Siri graphics swimming inside of it. 

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Intriguingly ominous Thailand hotel described in Dan Wang's annual letter

From his wide-ranging letter about the youth fleeing China, book recommendations, and more:

One night, we were the only guests at a resort so creepy that we debated whether the whole thing was a front for tax fraud. Its bungalows looked like they were the 3-D printed output of an AI generator that received a detailed description of Antonio Gaudí’s Park Güell. That the hotel staff kept taking photographs of us, as if they were documenting that they had real guests, didn’t allay our unease that our presence could be abetting a fraudulent enterprise. 

New Humble Bundle features Soulslikes video games

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New Star Wars and WWE preorders

Some fun new toy preorders: new Star Wars figures at 6" and 3.75", new Mattel toys including a Paul Bearer action figure and TMNT Mutant Mayhem plush Superfly, and Delicious in Dungeon noodle stoppers.

Diorama of Whiplash destroying the Ferrari from Iron Man 2, with detailed video showing how it was made

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I'm shocked by how much I enjoyed Kyle Baker's "Plastic Man"

I bounced off this when I tried it years and years ago, but recently picked up the Omnibus when it was on sale at Amazon, and couldn't believe how clever and funny it was, especially through the time-traveling caper. There's even a touching foreword, where he describes the way Alan Moore saw a talent within him that he hadn't been aware of. Added everything he's done to my wishlist.