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I thought I needed a second monitor until I found this infinite workspace tool

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I struggled to juggle multiple apps on my screen until the thought occurred to me to get a second monitor. For example, I could research on one screen while writing on another — no more constant app switching. I never thought to consider that Windows might have a tool that makes a multi-monitor setup unnecessary, especially for my kind of workflow. Windows has been improving the way users multitask on the system. Luckily, Windows has a hidden suite of tools with a feature that allows me to create custom window layouts that mimic multiple monitors — FancyZones. Now I can divide my screen as efficiently as possible to ensure that multitasking is a breeze. I don’t think I’m getting a second monitor anytime soon. Limited screen real estate can be a problem Snap Assist helps, but it’s also limited You know the drill when working with multiple apps on a single screen. This usually turns into a round of constantly pressing Alt + Tab to switch between two windows instead of viewing them side by …

Mewgenics review – infinite ways to skin a cat | Games

Published by Sam Flores

You know that old saying about cats having nine lives? Well, as far as Mewgenics is concerned, you can forget it – and you can also forget the idea that a game about cats has to be in any way cute. These kitties are red in tooth and claw, prone to strange mutations, and strictly limited to just the one life, which often ends swiftly and brutally. Such is the nature of roguelike, a format that has spawned some of the biggest indie hits of the past 20 years. In these games, failure is permanent; dying sends you back not to the last checkpoint but back to the beginning, the game reshuffling its elements into a new shape for your next run. And so it goes in Mewgenics. You gather a party of four felines and send them out on a questing journey, from which they return victorious or not at all. Down in the sewers, Joyce, the tabby mage, gets trampled to death by a blob-monster. Shortly afterwards, Fulbert, with his Bagpuss-like markings and …

‘Infinite Jest’ Came Out 30 Years Ago This Week. If You’ve Never Read It, There’s Never Been a Better Time

Published by Jenni Sidey

This week marks the 30th anniversary of Infinite Jest, the 1996 Clue-murder-weapon-heavy masterwork that made author David Foster Wallace a celebrity and shifted culture in an era when a genius novel still had the cachet to do that. This milestone is being remembered/monetized with a handsome Hachette reissue, complete with a foreword from Crying in H Mart author Michelle Zauner, better-or-at-least-as-well-known as the indie-pop artist Japanese Breakfast. Just three decades later, the book exists in a culture radically different from the one that produced it. To the extent that it’s remembered and discussed at all, Infinite Jest is spoken about less as the defining diagnosis of American life in the 1990s and more as an indicator that the guy you’re hooking up with (if he’s got the book positioned conspicuously on his shelf) might be a douchebag. Partially because we know men don’t read anymore and partially because American literacy itself is endangered—although anxieties over declining readership were no less present amongst the intelligentsia when the book debuted—the natural presumption is that the book is …

Infinite scrolling: The ‘gateway to addiction’ at the heart of the war on social media | UK News

Published by Sam Flores

In a pocket of spare time, you may reach for your phone to scroll social media – but how often do you end up spending more time here than you planned? You might beat yourself up for losing stretches of your day to scrolling, but your attention is being held by design, experts suggest – more so now than ever. “It is not the social media of 2012. This is much more sophisticated,” Dr Kaitlyn Regehr, associate professor of digital humanities at UCL, tells Sky News. And with short-form content now more prominent, the “infinite scroll” format is under the spotlight as one of social media’s most powerful weapons. The government is currently carrying out a consultation on implementing an Australian-style social media ban for under-16s. It is looking at options including restricting infinite scrolling, which it says “drives addictive or compulsive use”. Sir Keir Starmer said children are being pulled into “a world of endless scrolling, anxiety and comparison”. So how does the infinite scrolling feature play into this? Dr Regehr tells Sky News …

Man Discovers Infinite Money Glitch at GameStop

Published by José Betancourt

Selling your used gear and games at GameStop has long been a convenient way to carve a little off the price tag of your next purchase. Sure, you’ll almost certainly get more money on eBay, but who wants to spend all that time and effort? Now, a YouTuber who goes by the handle RJCmedia discovered a pre-owned game promotion at the chain that turned out to be too good to be true. In a January 17 video, as spotted by Dexerto, the YouTuber discovered what he characterized as an “infinite money glitch” in which he bought a Nintendo Switch 2 gaming console — only to sell it back alongside a pre-owned game purchase for roughly $50 more. “If you buy a Switch 2, you can trade it for more than you paid for it,” he exclaimed in the video. The YouTuber took advantage of the exploit — not valuing all the time he spent, of course — by traveling to several stores over two days, netting a profit of $150. I Found The GameStop Infinite …

Was ‘Infinite Jest’ Right About Everything?

Published by José Betancourt

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what’s keeping them entertained. Today’s special guest is our Daily writer Will Gottsegen, who has written about the last device you’ll ever need, a new “weapon of mass destruction,” and the cattle ranchers taking on the White House. Will is a newfound Infinite Jest convert and a longtime Hyperion reader. He recommends watching Sans Soleil, any movie with Ethan Hawke, and the animated series Pantheon—an overlooked show that “should be mandatory viewing for sci-fi fans.” — Stephanie Bai, associate editor Best novel I’ve recently read: I’m way late to Infinite Jest, but—Infinite Jest. It was right about everything. “The Entertainment” is real, and it’s called Instagram Reels. Conventional wisdom, as the character Don Gately comes to understand, is true, and we would do …

From infinite scroll to infinite worlds: How AI could rewire Gen Z’s attention span

Published by Jenni Sidey

Sign up for Big Think on Substack The most surprising and impactful new stories delivered to your inbox every week, for free. Members of Gen Z have grown up hearing that our attention spans are shrinking and that our lives will be defined by the eight-second scroll and an endless stream of content. The narrative is that we’re so addicted to the instant gratification of platforms like TikTok that we’ve lost the capacity for deep, sustained focus. But what if the next wave of artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t designed to feed that addiction — but to fundamentally change it? What if the future of AI demands young people’s attention, curiosity, and creativity in ways we haven’t experienced before? As the co-founder of Chima, an applied AI research lab, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the emerging concept of “world models,” AI systems that can generate interactive, dynamic environments from a simple prompt. Google DeepMind’s Genie 3, for example, can create a navigable, consistent 3D world from a single sentence, while Fei-Fei Li’s new …

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 is here: Cheaper AI, infinite chats, and coding skills that beat humans

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Anthropic released its most capable artificial intelligence model yet on Monday, slashing prices by roughly two-thirds while claiming state-of-the-art performance on software engineering tasks — a strategic move that intensifies the AI startup's competition with deep-pocketed rivals OpenAI and Google. The new model, Claude Opus 4.5, scored higher on Anthropic's most challenging internal engineering assessment than any human job candidate in the company's history, according to materials reviewed by VentureBeat. The result underscores both the rapidly advancing capabilities of AI systems and growing questions about how the technology will reshape white-collar professions. The Amazon-backed company is pricing Claude Opus 4.5 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens — a dramatic reduction from the $15 and $75 rates for its predecessor, Claude Opus 4.1, released earlier this year. The move makes frontier AI capabilities accessible to a broader swath of developers and enterprises while putting pressure on competitors to match both performance and pricing. "We want to make sure this really works for people who want to work with these models," …

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