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Donald Trump is now on TikTok.

The former President, who once attempted to ban the platform, posted his first video to it yesterday under his usual handle of @realdonaldtrump.

As Politico notes, Trump reversed his stance earlier this year after momentum behind the ban abruptly rekindled and President Biden signed it into law.


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How to watch AMD’s Computex 2024 keynote.

AMD CEO Lisa Su is back in Taiwan to deliver the latest on AMD’s chips in an AI era. Nvidia has already hinted that AMD’s Strix CPUs are about to launch, but rumors have also revealed AMD could unveil its new Ryzen 9000 series desktop CPUs. AMD’s Computex keynote kicks off at 9:30PM ET / 6:30PM PT / 2:30AM UK (June 3rd). You can tune in below.


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“Don’t call it a bandana; call it seaweed.”

The DidYouKnowGaming YouTube channel got David Hayter, the voice of Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid games (with some exceptions), to narrate a roughly 15-minute video of obscure facts and Easter eggs from the first PlayStation game.

It reminded me, after all these years, just how leeringly horny the original game was.


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Napster would have been 25 years old yesterday.

It debuted on June 1st, 1999, and shut down two years later.

Its name lived on as a Best Buy brand, a re-named Rhapsody streaming service, and an attempt to cash in on NFT hype. But in my heart, it will always be a search engine for poorly-labeled, low-quality MP3s that take hours to download over AOL dial-up internet.


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How to make bad iPhone food pics with Midjourney.

This Reddit user’s Midjourney images in the style of bad photos from Yelp reviews are surprisingly on point. The prompt they say they used:

iPhone photo of (food name) with many raisins on top. At a (type of) restaurant (or other location). —ar 3:4 —style raw —s 75

PLUS —sref of some bad food photos you find on Yelp! :)

Others gave it a shot on X.


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Here’s your reminder that Lost, one of the biggest shows of the aughts, is returning to Netflix in the US on July 1st.

I’ll admit that I never finished the series. But I remember Hurley, a polar bear, and that people who aren’t The Verge’s Jay Peters were grumpy about the ending.


The biggest findings in the Google Search leak

A set of 2,500 internal documents, including some related to search, call into question past statements made by the company.

Nvidia’s RTX Video HDR is coming to VLC soon.

The free VLC media player will soon get Nvidia’s RTX Video HDR feature on top of its existing Super Resolution support. RTX Video HDR uses AI to convert SDR color space videos into HDR ones, ideal for the latest crop of OLED HDR monitors. DaVinci Resolve is also getting RTX Video support to upscale lower-quality videos up to 4K and HDR.


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Nvidia’s RTX Remix is getting even more open source.

It lets modders bring modern graphics to old games, including but definitely not limited to ray-traced Half-Life and Half-Life 2. This month, there’ll be an SDK to extend it beyond DX8 and DX9 games, new AI modding tools, and more in open source.


Nvidia’s CEO math.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is on stage at Computex talking about how much better GPUs are for AI tasks than CPUs. Nvidia just made $14 billion of profit in a single quarter thanks to AI chips. “The more you buy, the more you save,” Huang jokes. “That’s called CEO math. It’s not accurate, but it is correct.”


Nvidia’s CEO math.
Nvidia’s CEO math.
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Inside the Google algorithm

On The Vergecast: what we know about how Google works, the media’s deal with OpenAI, and a party speaker cameo.

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How to watch Nvidia’s Computex 2024 keynote.

Nvidia is gearing up for more AI announcements during its Computex 2024 keynote. CEO Jensen Huang will take the stage in Taiwan at 7AM ET / 4AM PT / 12PM UK today to detail more of Nvidia’s AI plans. While it’s unlikely we’ll hear about RTX 5000 GPUs, I’m sure Nvidia will have some GeForce-related news. You can tune in, below.


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The first Starliner Crew Flight Test won’t launch tomorrow, either.

NASA, Boeing, and the United Launch Alliance had hoped for a shorter delay, but NASA says the ULA is taking more time to troubleshoot an issue with ground launch systems that halted the mission less than four minutes from liftoff.

The next launch window begins on June 5th.


Delta gets some prideful skins.

Sean Fletcher, a UI designer who makes skins for the Delta emulator for iOS, announced a series of Pride-themed skins (pictured in the gallery below).

You can pay what you want, but Fletcher says June 2024 proceeds from this particular set will go to Rainbow Railroad, a non-profit devoted to aiding LGBTQI+ people around the world who face persecution. Here’s a guide for installing Delta skins.


A picture of a rainbow pride GBA skin in portrait and landscape mode.

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Sean Fletcher’s Delta Pocket Pride skins.
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