in 2022 sonos bought a mysterious dutch audio company for $100m because of a secret invention

today it announced its first product using their technology... and it might change speakers forever

here's the story of mayht and why sonos might be *years* ahead of the competition 🤯 growing up in the 90s, brothers timothy and mattias scheek were always playing around with speakers — taking them apart and turning them into new ones

later, they started their own company, creating beautiful high-end loudspeakers

...but they wanted to invent something new

every year, roland garros (the french open) asks an artist to create a poster for the tournament

today, the collection has become an *incredible* display of tennis as modern art

let's take a look at some of the best ones — starting with this iconic 1984 poster by gilles aillaud american artist donald lipski is known for his large-scale installations, and in 1995 he made this beautiful 3D work for the roland garros poster

i can't believe apple killed 8+ apps today 🤯

first off, RIP @1password → passwords app

syncs across iphone, ipad, mac, vision pro, and windows RIP @alltrails → apple maps

you can easily find and download trails for when you don't have service

i asked bard when it'll (inevitably) be shut down by google

turns out it's already been shut down due to lack of adoption 🤔 the best part? it listed this hacker news comment from 6 hours ago as its only source
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=352466…

some classic movies could *really* use a new title for the french market

"titanic" won't work in france, so... "the batman" would've done *much* better in france if they just...

for some *ridiculous* reason the french love to translate movie titles from english to... english

here's a thread with my all-time favorites, starting with "the hangover"

...i mean VERY BAD TRIP "the other guys" should work for a french audience, right?

france: non. VERY BAD COPS

absolutely losing it over this american journalist discovering... a train

you're telling me you just walk on and sit down??? ah yes, the beautiful european view of a construction site in brussels

oh my god amsterdam looks *incredibly* realistic in the new call of duty — almost can’t believe this is a video game here's the rest of the amsterdam mission — the level of detail is just incredible! 🤯

(via youtube.com/tbaggaming)

it’s incredible how reading this feels like finally unlocking 100% of your brain

(via @christophepas) @Christophepas just imagine an e-reader with this technology. i'd finally be able to finish a book!

can't stop watching these guys who run around tokyo like they're in a video game the movements, the npc interactions, the sound effects — everything is just perfect

students are starting to steal each other's notes with iOS 15 and it's... kind of genius big shoutout to the french student who had this incredible idea vm.tiktok.com/ZM8YSy8vy/