Whenever a new blockbuster first-person shooter drops, gamers limber up so they can once again argue over how multiplayer matches get made and the algorithmic systems that determine who plays against whom and when. The recent release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III is no exception—not long after its multiplayer…
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Sledgehammer Games and Treyarch have dropped a new update for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III that was intended to bring numerous fixes to the game. And while the released patch did still address issues with the shooter’s performance, most notably during parts of the Zombies campaign and in the launcher menu, some…
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Apple is reportedly working on some AI features for the next iPhone, but how will they work?
After a couple years of Google playing with generative AI features (for better and worse) on its Pixel phones, Apple is reportedly going to do the same with the next iPhone.
First reported in October by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is experimenting with several ideas involving AI to possibly incorporate into the iPhone 16 hardware, the next version of iOS, or both. Now, tech leaker @Tech_Reve is reporting that Apple is working on turning Siri into “Apple’s most powerful killer AI app” for the next iPhone and beyond.
But what will this look like, exactly? Let’s dig in.
In his October report, Gurman offered some specific ideas that Apple might be working on for either iPhone 16 or iOS 16, or both. It’s uncertain right now how many of these features will be on-device iPhone 16 exclusives and how many of them will be somewhat device-agnostic by working in the cloud. Here are some of the main features Apple could be working on:
Improved ability for the Messages app and Siri to field questions and auto-complete sentences.
Auto-generated Apple Music playlists.
Assisted writing in the Pages app or automatically created slide decks in Keynote.
These aren’t quite as comprehensive or powerful as Google’s current slate of AI options on Pixel. For instance, Google lets you quickly generate summaries of news articles and do Photoshop-like edits to photos with just your fingers. Whether or not you like those features (and there are good reasons not to), they are more powerful than what Apple is reportedly working on.
But, as always, we’ll have to wait until at least WWDC 202 before we get a real idea of what Apple’s AI plans look like.
When Spotify Wrapped isn’t enough, these websites can help you analyze your Spotify listening data.
Mining your own Spotify data is like accessing a musical window into your soul. What genre do you listen to the most? How obscure are your favorite artists? And, wait, you listened to “Alone” by Heart how many times!?
We’ve scoured the corners of the internet and collected our 13 favorite websites that analyze your Spotify data. So if you’re the type of person who spends your days counting down to Spotify Wrapped or who regularly analyzes your listening habits to understand yourself better, you’ll love these clever tools.
A heads up that each of these websites requires you to log in to your Spotify and grant the website access to your Spotify data, and we’ve included directions at the bottom for how to remove each site’s access once you’ve tried them out.
Stats for Spotify is a classic Spotify data analyzer. It shows you your top tracks, artists, and genres organized by the previous four weeks, last six months, and all time. It also shows how your top tracks, artists, and genres have changed since the last time you used Stats for Spotify.
How Bad is Your Spotify is an AI that judges your music taste. It gained popularity in December 2020 for its snarky roasts of users’ listening habits.
Instafest generates a personalized music festival lineup of your most-listened artists on Spotify. The more you listen to an artist the larger their name will appear on your lineup. It was created by USC student Anshay Saboo. You can choose a festival based on your top artists from the past month, the past six months, or of all time. You can also switch up the aesthetics of the graphic. So, who are your headlining acts?
Icebergify grabs the top 50 artists of your short-term, medium-term, and long-term listening trends and organizes them by their popularity or obscurity. If the artist is super popular (think Beyonce), they’ll be at the tippy-top. But if you listen to a lot of Antichrist Siege Machine, they’ll be closer to the bottom. The tool may also pull in musicians you haven’t listened to in a few months, and if you don’t listen to any artists in a certain level of popularity, the level will show up blank.
Like Icebergify, Obscurify tells you how obscure the music you listen to is compared to other Obscurify users. It’ll also show you your top five obscure artists and will rate your music’s happiness, danceability, and energy compared to other users.
“Bake your monthly genre pie” with this website created by UCLA student Darren Huang. Spotify Pie analyzes your Spotify listening and organizes it into a highly sharable pie chart of all the genres you’ve listened to in the last month. Below the chart, the website reveals your most-listened-to genres and your top artists of the month, too.
If you’re an astrology lover, you’ll appreciate Zodiac Affinity. It chooses five of your liked songs that align with different star signs and we honestly have no idea what the criteria is here.
Discover Quickly sorts your playlists, top songs, and top artists by different criteria, like popularity and danceability. It also lists all of Spotify’s crazy specific genres like “deep metalcore,” “acid house,” and “charred death.” The tool will make you a playlist of that genre or can generate a playlist of songs of a random genre.
MusicScape generates a landscape based on the tracks you’ve recently listened to, taking their mood, mode, energy, and key into consideration to create something unique to your sonic palette.
MusicTaste.Space is fun because it allows you to compare your listening with another Spotify user. Just send a friend the link on the homepage and it will show you all the overlap between your top songs and top artists.
Receiptify transforms your favorite songs into a cute little receipt of your musical taste. Choose your top tracks of the last month, last six months, or of all time.
How NPRcore Are You analyzes how closely your music taste aligns with NPR music. Pick a time period and this tool will tell you what percent NPRcore you are or which of your top tracks and artists are most NPRcore.
Moodify makes AI-generated playlists based on the mood of the song you’re currently listening to.
After you’ve had your fun poking around your data, you can easily unlink your account from each site by going to Spotify app settings and selecting “Remove Access.”
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