Tech news H you better believe we got some of that we've got all of it in fact
please take some on your way out we're running out of space Apple has been the
most valuable publicly traded company since 2011 when it usurped the oil giant
Exxon Mobile but copertino might be in for some usurping themselves by their
longtime rival and overall nerdier company Microsoft after Chasing Apple's
lead for over a decade the tech Giants Market cap crossed the $3 trillion Mark
twice this month and right now it's sitting at 3.01 trillion compared to
Apple's poultry 2.9 trillion the week
that SAA nadela celebrates his 10year anniversary as CEO of Microsoft and
that's apparently for a good reason the Milestone is being treated by the tech
media as an opportunity to ask how nadela was able to stay winning a big
part of the answer is continual investment into Cloud infrastructure as
that Tech was taking off and having quick enough feet to sidestep the type
of scandals and controversies that plagued Microsoft's Tech Giant Brethren
Cambridge analytica I've never heard of
her Microsoft has obviously invested
heavily in AI while Apple has taken things a lot slower but could Apple
catch up later this year when they've said they'll reveal some big AI news I
don't know Microsoft has a pretty big lead and they continue to push into the
AI sphere just today today they announced an AI infused partnership with
semaphore a News website founded by Veterans of BuzzFeed news the New York
Times and Bloomberg Media Group in 2022
which kind of makes sense because I've never heard of it the partnership will see semaphor journalists using AI tools
to search news sources across multiple languages but still write the Articles
themselves which sounds like a much better use of Microsoft AI than a poll
in the sidebar asking readers to vote on the woman in the story's cause of death
see Sach wasn't involved with that at all the demand for RTX 490 gpus in China
is driving up prices in other Asian countries despite NVIDIA releasing the
Chinese exclusive 490d variant to comply
with us export regulations a Black Market has grown for the original full
fat nond D it probably tastes like the
delicious milk I love it's gotten so bad
that retailers in places like Taiwan Singapore South Korea and Vietnam have
stopped selling the graphics cards individually and are putting them inside
of pre-built systems in an attempt to stop scalpers but someone in Taipei
allegedly still made a profit spending
$91,000 on 20 prebuilds and selling
their gpus to China's AI segment where the 490s are being used as alternatives
to NVIDIA's more expensive and also more heavily regulated a100 and h100 cards
allegedly the 490 Black Market is so efficient Chinese AI startups can
reportedly receive product in just 3 to 4 days and that makes sense a consumer
card like the 490 is much easier to get a hold of than one of NVIDIA's
Enterprise AI cards especially with how serious the US has been about
controlling the export their export just last week the United States blocked a
shipment of 24 A1 100s to the Australian
subsidiary of a Chinese company out of fear the cards would end up in China now
the Aussies have to Jerry r their own AI using chicken Salt fairy bread and
huntsman spiders ah it's the same as my Grandma's old recipe
for viite the Vision Pro has now been
thoroughly analyzed by the revered knowledge keepers of our time redditors
in a post one redditor was disappointed by the small field of view and
Reflections in the lenses which are both apparently normal according to Apple a
true being of culture decided to comment M on that same post lamenting the lack
of support for the thinking man stimulation 3D porn now for some reason
that comment was deleted but not before we learned in the replies that you can
disable one of your hands in the vision proos accessibility settings let me know
in the comments if that makes sense to you cuz I I don't get it at least for
the field of view issue there may be a solution using the headset without its
light seal According to some users this increases the fov by 15° at the expense
of making Tim Cook cry that is not right
no that's especially cruel when the poor man is still dealing with part one of I
fixit's Vision Pro tear down where they detail the tech that makes the weird
eyesight feature on the outside of the headset work not only is it apparently a
repair nightmare but removing a certain component will squish together the eyes
on the external display and after seeing that I may never sleep again but it's
not all bad news for the video Vision Pro the platform May Inspire devs to
make more interesting AR apps that could even benefit meta's Quest headsets
imagine watching Formula 1 races from every angle or even motivating yourself
to finally vacuum your disgusting floor just to get all the imaginary gold coins
down there you won't ever see it cuz you'll live inside the headset but at
least you know then that it's okay now it's time for quick bits brought to you
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thankfully we've come up with a formula unfortunately I can't tell you what it
is Samsung's head of customer experience
Patrick chome has claimed there's no such thing as a real picture to defend
the Samsung Galaxy's generative edit feature in an interview with tech radar
CH states that since you're reproducing what you're seeing with sensors quote it
does doesn't mean anything end quote and if you used AI to even optimize the zoom
quote there is no real picture full stop sh also compared the generative edit
feature to adding filters to photos on Instagram if I'm following here that
means my mom may be an AI but we're
still working through what he said honestly wouldn't be that surprising a
first ofit kind AI Heist cost a multinational company $25 million using
sophisticated deep fake technology yeah
it's pretty wild after sending a fishing message to the company's Hong Kong
Branch scammers were able to convince a worker to give up the funds by jumping
on a video conference call featuring the company's Chief Financial Officer and
other employees except the only real
person in that call was the victim who then transferred large sums of money to
five different local bank accounts the scam was uncovered a week later likely
when the CFO never showed up to the the employees's house after promising a
rousing game of catch bamboo lab has removed their A1 3D
printer from sale and issued a recall due to issues with the heatbed cables
apparently less than 0.1% of printers
sold have the problem but the company doesn't know why the problem exists
which isn't a great situation to be in bamboo lab is recommending people stop
using their printers until they can figure out the cause they tried to
consult an expert detective but unfortunately Mr Monk as played by Tony
shaloo has solved his last case in the TV movie Mr Monk's last case and he's
tired of telling people he's retired Japan's slim moonlander is still
technically alive but might not be for much longer the spacecraft solar panels
caught some rays during the tail end of the lunar day but it must now survive a
full lunar night which lasts for 14 Earth days and features temperatures as
low as negative 208° F or 130° C but
even if slim can't survive it may live on in spirit its Precision Landing
technology will be used in future lunar missions hopefully that will be some
comfort to slim as it spends 2 weeks rattling its little jimmies in the moon
cold and a YouTuber has managed to build
a functioning 16-bit CPU inside
Microsoft Excel complete with its own memory output and a custom Assembly
Language computer Enthusiast inkbox posted a
video detailing how they made this Excel processor with a blazing fast clock
speed of 3 Hertz 128 kiloby of RAM and a
16 color output display it's a gamer's dream inkbox of CPU also doesn't use any
Visual Basic scripts or plugins it is pure XL the way nature intended now
inkbox can get any desk job he wants and
you should want to come back on Wednesday for more Tech news we don't
know what we'll report on yet but oh
boy it's going to be good