the iPhone 15 pro and pro Max have had a
heck of a launch week with users and reviewers alike testing the phone's new
titanium construction and the scores are not looking great they really should
have paid attention in class I'm James strive this is techlinked and this is
the repairability score awarded to the iPhone 15 lineup by iFixit 4 out of 10
matching the iPhone 14 score after I fix
a downgrade it from a 7. you see the 14 added the ability to open up from the
front or the back but Apple still heavily limits user repair through
software kind of like inviting your friend over to stand in your entryway
but proceed no further I value your friendship this much I get cookies
similar to many early iPhone 15 Pro owners iFixit found the titanium shell
scratches really easily something also discovered by a YouTuber Jerry Rigg
everything shortly before he cracked the glass back of the 15 Pro Max about two
seconds into his bend test it might be time for iphoneers to consider switching
to the pixel 8 Pro when it launches on October 4th Google is now promising
seven years of software updates which should really extend the life of your
phone as long as it doesn't pull a pixel 7 and have its buttons randomly fall off
I mean you barely use them redditors can now earn real money based on the amount
of Karma and gold they receive on eligible posts validating the oceans of
Blood Sweat and Tears excreted by millions of users who have spent years
toiling in the fake Internet Point fields
this work it's hard not to draw comparisons between the new Reddit
contributor program and Twitter's recent rollout of AD Revenue sharing for
Twitter blue I mean X premium subscribers if only because social media
platforms paying users living wages for post written while on the
literal is a fairly new thing unlike blue Shack's redditors won't have
to front eight bucks a month to get paid but they will have to verify that they
meet certain eligibility requirements like being over 18 living in the US and
having an account in good standing they can start farming dollar dollar bills on
eligible contributions which don't include posts with sexually explicit
content or content related to violence drugs Farms gambling scams crypto or
otherwise and of course donations to chair the worst of the bunch
references to the new program were actually first spotted by Android
authority back in July when Reddit announced a phase out of Reddit coins
and gold shortly before launching more nft avatars which have somehow survived
the crypto collapse yes they're still cringe but it's Reddit so it doesn't
matter NVIDIA envisions a future where games are mostly rendered from AI
generated frames as opposed to frames produced with traditional rasterization
at Native resolution because they look better anyway like how any picture
pre-2022 pales in comparison to the anime waifu's mid-journey creates for me
to pretend to cuddle with oh that's so good now the cuddling's real the AI
rendered games comment comes from NVIDIA's vice president of Applied deep learning research Brian Catanzaro who
told digital Foundry that in cyberpunk 2077's latest update the LSS 3.5's frame
generation and Ray reconstruction features result in real Ur better
looking frames despite being the result of an upscaling process Brian went so
far as to suggest that in the far future dlss 10 will enable a completely neural
rendering system which won't use rasterization at all whether he made the
comments as a cope for the fact that AMD's Radeon RX 7900 XT can power the
7680 by 2160 240 hertz display on
Samsung's latest super ultra wide Odyssey Neo G9 while the RTX 4090 cannot
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ransomware group is claiming that all of Sony's bases are belonging to them as
they have breached quote all Sony systems end quote everyone the proof of
the hack posted by the group is apparently not particularly compelling according to
cyber security experts but we'll know for sure sooner or later as the group
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Kim's back open AI has released an update for chat CPT that allows the
chatbot to see hear and speak removing one of the last things really throwing a
wrench in our romantic relationship it already has that sweet nothings
extension you can now audibly talk to it in a
conversational style as well as include images in your prompts so it knows what
the hell you're talking about if your parents told you to use your words a bit
too much now you can show Chachi PD a picture of your barbecue to troubleshoot
why it won't work if you'd like to hear that it's Infested by Gremlins
standard answer the update gives chat GPD the tools it will need to go against
meta's planned sassy chatbot for teens but it's left me missing our old much
worse AI assistance like alxe a chat GPT
play despacito Getty Images who has previously sued AI art generators for
using its copyrighted images in their training data has now announced their
own AI art generator because this is a way of things built by NVIDIA and
reportedly trained entirely on licensed images Acclaim Getty is so confident in
they're offering to get sued on your behalf it's like the 30 minutes or free
guarantee but if the driver was explicitly willing to go to jail to get
your pizza to you on time I don't care
if it's a school zone I am nothing
he also says that images generated this way will not be added into the library
thereby preventing the lossy jpeg problem of training in AI using their
own output that threatens to turn all future AI art into an uncanny valley
soup or hellscape awesome it's great head of AMD's Radeon
division Scott hurtwoman has announced his departure from the company after
seven years following the launch of the RX 7800 XD and 7700 XT herkeland was
known as a friendly and approachable face willing to engage with the community via his socials herkelman said
goodbye to the Radeon team saying he will miss every single one of them
fighting shoulder to shoulder in the trenches together that was my
interpretation of his tone and Tesla has released a new video ostensibly
showcasing the new capabilities of their neuro net trained Optimist robot first
unveiled two years ago though I don't see it taking on the Decepticons anytime
soon some have speculated that parts of the video look like CGI but it's equally
possible that they simply fast forwarded sections to make the robot look less
like a concussed toddler slowly sorting blocks which would explain why its human
assistant appears to move uncannily fast
ori's got a lot of coffee in another scene the same robot also demonstrated
its ability to balance on one leg through some big inner yoga hopefully
labeled namaste
and you should Nama stay tuned for Wednesday when we'll be back
and for another episode labeled Tech link yeah I like that one James
went off script there