apple is reportedly scaling back production of the Vision Pro due to
several unforeseen issues but I don't get how they didn't see this coming the
headset has a transparency mode I'm Riley Murdoch this is techlinked and you
might assume this production reduction is in response to low demand given the
vision Pro's 3 500 price tag but that
would presuppose a Darth of people willing to buy overpriced things they
don't need and that describes almost everyone except me no the cause here
according to inside sources who spoke to Financial Times is the complexity of the
headset design leading to difficulties in manufacturing enough of the vision
Pro's Cutting Edge micro OLED displays Cutting Edge components are a lot like
Farms during the 1930s Dust Bowl they have disastrously poor yields we don't
often get the chance to compare Tech to Farms 100 years ago so that was exciting
we gotta sell it all I always wanted to be a fun Apple's original Target was the
production of a million units by 2024 but now they're likely looking at less
than four hundred thousand which is actually a hundred thousand fewer than
analysts projected that Apple would sell in its first year showing once and for
all that analysts do not have precious like Paula treadise from Dune part 2
coming to theaters November 3rd 2023 made their knives chip and shatter I'm
very excited these production issues have apparently pushed back plans for a
budget version of The Vision Pro and by budget we obviously mean like Elon
musk's Dorito budget I assume that he eats a lot he's healthy now die earlier
and eat well so the Dorito joke stands Intel plans to expand path tracing
support to integrated graphics and in short path tracing is an upgraded and
more Hardware intensive form of Ray tracing using additional data to more
accurately simulate the physics of Light which sounds great if you want the fan
on your high powered gaming PC to more accurately simulate a buzz saw your
neighbors can hear it but they know you're having a good time if you'd like to experience the difference path
tracing is already available as a mod for some older less GPU intensive games
like Quake 2 it's exactly as brown as you remember but shinier now but hold on
Intel isn't talking about putting this Hefty new feature into big beefy
graphics cards they're talking about putting Ray tracing's buff Big Brother
into comparatively lightweight integrated gpus Intel is presenting new
research on hyper-efficient new methods for computing light simulation massively
reducing GPU load perhaps soon the world's grandmas will be able to take
full advantage of photorealistic real-time Graphics while playing saying
Bridge online on their Chromebooks they got a Discord server and everything
gamer grandmas rise up in your
in your home at me
and tick tock's parent company bite dance is threatening to start publishing
books please no believe it or not but
many people on the internet can and do read this strange phenomenon means that
book talk a subset of tick tock that acknowledges the existence of the
written word has become a Powerhouse when it comes to popularizing otherwise
obscure novels earlier this year bite dances nascent publishing ARM eighth
note press started approaching self-published writers in the romance
novel genre they're like thirst traps but with letters this might be an
interesting opportunity for aspiring authors but it's also raised its share
of concern among the openly literate specifically that bite dance might use
tick tock to squeeze out user-driven viral book recommendations through
promoting its own Publications traditional Publishers have struggled
with viral marketing but maybe the people who brought you an unending feed
of bubble gum pop dance Trends and five second strip teases are going to be the
one to make the case for spending multiple consecutive hours staring at
words on an unmoving screen no cap on God for real for real and now for quick
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quick bits should I get five rabies shots really small ones meta's new
Twitter competitor threads launches tomorrow fortuitous timing given that
Twitter is currently even more broken and unusable than usual either it's a
complete coincidence or Zuckerberg flicked out his tongue and smelt blood
the new site was visible for a few hours earlier today and it does essentially
look like Twitter as imagined by Facebook beyond the logo which looks
like a hair you found in your food the decade old GIF hosting service giphy cat
see I'm trying to please both of you we'll be shutting down September 1st
after which all content will be deleted giffy cat's parent company Snapchat
doesn't seem to have a plan to Archive any of the site's material Beyond
telling users to download their memes while they still can and please share
your memes with those who need it give me cat has been running poorly for the
past few months with users experiencing failed uploads extensive downtime and
complete silence from the site's service team giphy cats integration into
Snapchat might also break a huge number of gifs linked Elsewhere on the web
rendering users conversations like bike dances upcoming novels essentially
unreadable China has restricted exports of two metals crucial in chip production
gallium and germanium which is a big deal since it's not like you can pop
down to the Walmart and pick some germanium up they're always out of stock
they might have geraniums though I'm allergic China produces most of the
world's supply of Gallimimus and Geronimo so the US is considering
retaliation in the form of restricting Chinese companies access to us-based
Cloud infrastructure which could severely limit China's ability to keep
up in the AI arms race trade War
what is it good for well it's it's probably an okay standing for a real war
probably so if from the war region of
France it's just sparkling trade dispute Google obviously wants everyone to talk
about their upcoming phones so we could show you fresh leaked photos oh they
just leaked of the pixel 8 Pro showing its slightly tweaked rear camera design
and a sticker with a code named Zuma uh
seemingly confirming the phone will feature Google's next-gen tensor G3 chip
but we could also tell you about more interesting news like the fact that the
ultra repairable designed for longevity fairphone 4 is finally available to buy
in the US thanks to a partnership with Marina Morena a company that makes a d
Googled privacy focused Fork of Android yeah we ain't scared of the big man hack
the planet and a new bot service called
Jolly Roger allows users to get back at telemarketers by wasting their time with
Meandering rambling conversations like an elderly relative this sounds amazing
in fact one of the Bots personas is an old man who just woke up from a nap who
uses employees like telling the telemarketer they sound like a former
High School classmate rambling on about needing coffee frequently asking them to
repeat their name and asking them to start over again
yes the bot otherwise just allows the telemarketer to talk occasionally
interjecting and uh-huh okay or do
this all seems like good fun but just wait until the telemarketers are all Ai
and they're just talking to each other forever in an unending Loop finally we
will have removed all human involvement from the very worst form of human
interaction we'll be free those guys
will just keep the economy going on their own and the best form of human
interaction happens when you come back on Friday for more Tech news
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