Technology London

Tech discoveries (especially Apple) and other things of interest

[Oliur @UltraLinx]

what in the f

this is actually wild and has actually blown my mind

[Technology London @techdesignldn]

@gdb Temporary Chat currently combines two separate choices: whether ChatGPT may access existing personal context, and whether the present conversation may be retained. Users should be able to allow the first while refusing the second.

[Technology London @techdesignldn]

@gdb Please add a mode that can read my existing memories and chat history for personalisation, but does not save the current conversation, add it to history, or use it to create new memories.

[Technology London @techdesignldn]

@bea_johanssen @createstreets Poundbury?

[Technology London @techdesignldn]

@isiosstable There’s no question there

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@athyuttamre Teach it name pronunciations. Stop it doing Australian inflections when not a question.

[Technology London @techdesignldn]

@suno Just work on quality of output first

[Technology London @techdesignldn]

@mark_k @OpenAI Too bullish

[Technology London @techdesignldn]

@zeedezigns But they are clear? Presumably that’s the thinking ?

[Technology London @techdesignldn]

@CopyRebeldia But do you actually learn from these whizzy graphics? The screen capture shows each object being tilted but in a way that is implied by the initial graphic. Does it offer any greater knowledge or, like most EdTech, is it overstimulation/interactive feature overkill?

[Matthew Cassinelli @mattcassinelli]

Automations are shareable in iOS 27 for the first time.

There's so many cool experiences waiting to be built on top of App Intents.

Build for Siri AI and you'll get access to a suite of system features you didn't realize you could tap in to.

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

i'm obsessed with what's happening in AI reforestation right now

this Franco-Brazilian startup called MORFO took a patch of land in Brazil that was rock-hard and compacted from years of cattle farming. they replanted it using a single drone. months later the ground was covered in grass, bushes, and small trees. the land came back to life.

here's how the whole thing works.

1. drones scan the terrain with high-resolution cameras and sensors
2. AI analyzes the imagery alongside soil samples, moisture levels, slope, and surrounding vegetation
3. the system picks from a catalog of 300+ native species, deciding exactly which plants will thrive in which specific spot
4. the drone fires biodegradable seed pods packed with seeds, nutrients, and moisture at 180 capsules per minute
5. satellite and drone imagery monitors regrowth over time, with AI tracking vegetation cover and biodiversity
6. two people and one drone cover 50 hectares a day. a person planting by hand manages about one hectare.

and MORFO isn't alone. AirSeed in Australia drops 250,000 seed pods per day into bushfire-scarred koala habitat, replanting swamp mahogany that koalas depend on to survive. Flash Forest in Canada fires 50,000 pods daily into wildfire-destroyed boreal forest, planning the replanting alongside Cree Indigenous communities. re-green won Prince William's Earthshot Prize after planting 6 million seedlings across 30,000 hectares of Amazon and Atlantic Forest.

five companies across four continents built this same approach independently. nobody coordinated. the physics of the problem demanded it.

knowing which seeds belong in which soil used to require years of ecological fieldwork, manual planting crews, and budgets that made large-scale restoration nearly impossible. now two people with a drone and an AI model trained on local soil data can replant 50 hectares before lunch.

this is the AI work that'll still matter in 50 years.

[Thenewarea51 @thenewarea51]

BBC 4 has officially ended its last Long Wave radio broadcast on 198 kHz at 0000 GMT tonight. They ended with an aviation and maritime weather report and one final sign off. The end of an era! 🇬🇧📻

[Technology London @techdesignldn]

@ChaitanyaOnTech @Apple

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@GregSher624 @durreadan01 Because sometimes I forget the name of the app and the folder name has greater relevance than the automatic spotlight folders

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Crazy take from Claude

[Technology London @techdesignldn]

@testingcatalog @nicdunz But that’s not singing? Would be better to test with actual music

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@justinryanio It’s a pity they are silent

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@markgurman But why is it in a separate app and not the Siri app