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Dragonlance's new novel revisits the legendary past of Krynn
Govee’s color-changing smart lamps are on sale for up to 30 percent off
Jennifer Daniel on the New ‘Distorted Face’ Emoji
Jennifer Daniel, on her “Did Someone Say Emoji?” blog:
First came Melting Face 🫠, our collective surrender to the liquid state.
Then Dotted Line Face 🫥, the visual representation of sublimation: turning from a solid into a gas just to escape a conversation.
Now, we have Distorted Face (U+1FAEA), a moment defined by tension: where you aren’t just feeling an emotion — you are being physically altered by it.
I’ll live, but it feels a tad spiteful that Apple only adds new emoji to the current-year OS updates. So this year’s 8 new emoji are in MacOS 26.4, but not MacOS 15.7.5, despite both being released this week.
Meta gets ready to launch two new Ray-Ban AI glasses
Cohere launches Transcribe, its first voice model; the 2B-parameter, open-source speech recognition model handles tasks like notetaking and speech analysis (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Cohere launches Transcribe, its first voice model; the 2B-parameter, open-source speech recognition model handles tasks like notetaking and speech analysis — Enterprise AI company Cohere on Thursday launched its first voice model: Transcribe is an open source automatic speech recognition model …