you come here on the day my daughter is to be married and ask me for Tech news
well I don't even have a daughter so what
now Microsoft published a blog post yesterday titled opening a billion doors
with Xbox and the post now has a fairly
generic image of the Xbox UI on a bunch of devices but as spotted by Tom Warren
at The Verge it's different than the image that was originally included which
depicted an Xbox console next to a TV
showing an Xbox user interface with a search tag for steam now hold on hold on
just just calm down this doesn't mean that Xbox consoles are going to play
Steam games this is probably just a mockup for the Windows Xbox app and the
Xbox console and TV are just in there
because the next gen Xbox is rumored to basically be a Windows PC in all but
name wait that makes the Steam on Xbox thing seem more likely okay and then uh
there's also the fact that Microsoft VP of Next Generation Jason Ronald told The
Verge back at CES that the company's goal is bringing the best of Xbox and
Windows together and I don't think he was talking about the Ubisoft connect PC
app okay it would still seem weird for Microsoft to be chill with steam
encroaching on its territory especially as pre-orders open for the first Steam
OS gaming handheld that isn't the steam deck the Lenovo Legion go s but are Xbox
consoles even Microsoft's territory anymore when they're giving away console
exclusives like candy to a baby is that how that phrase goes discuss so Steam
games on Xbox would be cool other companies are doing less cool things
Plex just locked its coolest free feature remote streaming behind a Plex
pass subscription meaning that either the server owner or anyone streaming
from that server will have to have a pass Plex also hiked the price of the
Plex pass for the first time in 10 years
I mean Kudos where Kudos are due for Holding Out for a decade I guess and
they're also allowing anyone to purchase a lifetime Plex pass for the current
price of 120 bucks before they increase the price on April 29th and they're
introducing a remote watch pass for two
bucks a month or 20 bucks a year that only gives you remote streaming if you
don't want all the other Plex pass stuff so yeah it still sucks but it seems like
Plex tried to make it less sucky at least they aren't pulling a Discord
who's bringing ads to its mobile app even for Nitro subscribers after
introducing them on desktop last year under the name of quests so that you
feel like a fantasy hero for agreeing to watch a commercial in exchange for a hat
for your avatar I'd love to explain the economics of this exchange to link think
and see what he thinks it's about attention you know Impressions
clicks yeah but hey at least Discord
isn't pulling a meta who's giving Instagram users the option to just have
ai write all their messages and comments because it takes way too much brain
power to come up with s tier remarks like this is so
fire speaking of AI Apple has been hit
with a federal lawsuit accusing the tech giant of false advertising concerning
its delayed Apple intelligence features like the sorely needed but still delayed
AI upgrade for Siri the plaintiff Clarkson Law Firm claims that Apple
cultivated a clear and reasonable consumer expectation that Apple
intelligence features would be available when the iPhone 16 lineup launched which
they were not as of last week some Apple product pages still promoted the
enhanced Siri assistant as if it was available now when it was called out in
social media posts Apple added a disclaimer to their product pages saying
saying that the better more special Siri is coming later I mean I know girls take
a long time to get ready but we are going to be so late trust me it'll be
worth it another lawsuit is the last thing Apple needs according to a report
from the information the company is losing more than1 billion dollar a year
on its streaming service Apple TV plus and they better keep losing money okay
because I will have my sever season 3 no spoilers I haven't seen it yet stop it I
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in the description quick blits what is that it sounds like something an idiot
would come up with I don't want to put them back in okay my mouth is so dry at
GDC or the game developers conference Microsoft introduced DirectX Ray tracing
1.2 an update to the company's widely used tool set that they say could boost
path tracing performance by up to 2.3
times thanks to added support for opacity microm maps and Shader execution
reordering those are those are definitely cool words uh the tldr is
these are essentially features that were previously available only on NVIDIA
cards when game devs chose to implement
them but now any Game Dev using directex will have access to them meanwhile at
NVIDIA's similarly named but different GT Team Green was spotted selling RTX
509s and 80s out of a food truck which
is one way to foil scalpers and confuse anyone looking for schwarma big screen
the makers of the Beyond high- five VR headset have revealed the big screen
Beyond 2 which is lighter than the original with better lenses added eye
tracking and an adjustable ipd for anyone who can't reposition their eyes
at will I know I I can't imagine despite
costing over ,000 big screen says they
already sold more Beyond two headsets in a single day than the Beyond one sold in
the first 6 months probably because everyone got really excited by seeing
Linus's face map turned into a desk pad in their launch video that could be me
neurotech company synchron showed a paralyzed man equipped with the
company's brain computer interface using it along with an apple Vision Pro
headset and NVIDIA's Hollow scan technology to turn on smart devices by
looking at them including a dog feeder and a robot vacuum to clean up the mess
frankly he's a bit too powerful at this point we may need to calm down with this
synchron also announced they're working on Kyro which the company calls the
first cognitive AI brain Foundation model which is trained directly on
neural activity instead of text or images the AI won't really be able to do
anything but it'll have so many thoughts a 10 on the neuroticism scale the gpus
will just be constantly underload for no reason Tesla has issued a recall of
nearly every cyber Tru out there to fix
a little issue where the decorative piece of stainless steel trim above the
Windows has been flying off it's not really dangerous and if it hits you you
probably deserved it anyway are you even American the issue is caused by the glue
the issue is caused by the glue used by Tesla being prone to what the company
calls environmental embrittlement because there's so many snowflakes in
the environment these days you go to Tar the truck outside the environment and
then the front uh trim won't fall off hopefully cybertruck owners bring in
their vehicles soon or it's going to be a race to see who will destroy the most
Tesla vehicles first gangs of anti- Elon vandals or Tesla's own manufacturing
defects and MSI has launched a foolproof promotion in collaboration with
Taiwanese retailer Taiwan original price house if you collect nine of these lucky
dranken figurines and bring them to the store you'll get a free RTX 580 hey
that's fun so how do you get the lickes well a randomized figurine comes bundled
with MSI's Vanguard launch edition RTX 50 gpus so either participate in the hot
Market that has suddenly sprung up for these little guys or uh buy nine get one
free but the market for Tech news is as hot as ever so you'll want to come back
on Monday for more or you're going to be left behind holding nothing but your
lucky dragon that's not a very Riley
joke I'm disappointed in myself