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A Day in the Life of Siri AI (opens the original)
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Last week, to honor the long-delayed release of the new Siri, I gave it 125 tests. I issued queries ranging from “What’s my driver’s license number?” to “What are people waiting on me for?” You should read the whole thing, but here’s the punch line: It’s so much better than you think.Today, I’m offering a postscript to that “Pogue’s Posts” post.Usually, you trigger Siri by saying, “Hey Siri,” or by holding in the side button of the phone as you talk. (On the Ma
125 Tests of the New AI Siri (opens the original)
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Apple may be the last company to embrace AI. But wow, was it worth the wait.The new AI Siri came out this week as part of OS 27 for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac, and it’s a life changer. A phone changer. It replaces most Google searches, most ChatGPT or Claude interactions, and cumulative hours of fumbling and searching and dragging and copying and finding and tapping and pasting.Also, this is ethical AI: It deceives nobody, puts nobody out of work, and draws 100% of its power from renewab
“Bummer of a Summer”: Interview with the Chopt Salad founders (opens the original)
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This summer, outbreaks of the cyclospora parasite sickened at least 18,000 Americans in 49 states. The biggest outbreak was the one brought to us by contaminated Mexican iceberg lettuce → Taylor Farms → Taco Bell, or so the theory goes. (Here’s my recent “CBS Sunday Morning” story on how cuts to the government’s food-safety programs may have led to this disaster.)Terrified of spending days or weeks with explosive diarrhea, millions of people stopped eating salad altogether. Visitor traffic to Ch
Steve Jobs, Closed Macs, and Me: A Guest Post (opens the original)
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I interviewed 150 people for my book “Apple: The First 50 Years”—and one of the most intriguing was Del Yocam. Apple hired him as director of materials in 1979, only three years after the company’s founding. “Oh, it was a mess,” he told me of his arrival. “There were product pieces, all kinds of stock, everywhere. There were all kinds of Apple II’s sitting there, not moving because of shortage of parts.”Yocam, then 35, was a details guy. He’d worked at Ford and two minicomputer companies, so he
“The Book of Mormon” at 15: The Interview (opens the original)
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This year, the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon celebrates its 15th anniversary. On September 25, it will pass Mamma Mia’s record to become the ninth longest-running show in Broadway history. Six million people have spent almost $1 billion to watch almost 6,000 performances of this show, which won nine Tony awards and a Grammy.Here’s a little Pogue secret: Before I was a tech guy, I was a theater guy. I spent a decade conducting and arranging Broadway shows. A few months ago, Warner Music Gro
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