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oh well hello there looking for some

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company on this fine Christmas day well you're welcome to a mug of hot coco

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what's that you're also looking for someone to round up the biggest Tech

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stories of the year it's a Christmas miracle because this is the 2024 tling

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Christmas special let's begin let's start off with a classic story 2024 had

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a pretty good run of major Tech Hardware launches NVIDIA launched the RTX 40

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Super Series at CES did Gamers hate them

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like them here's the fun part it doesn't matter because NVIDIA's AI accelerator

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products drove the company to a 2 trillion then $3 trillion valuation for

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the first time and now NVIDIA regularly trades places with apple and Microsoft

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as the most valuable company in the world I think they take turns there's a

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system Google is not allowed after announcing its spatial Computing headset

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last year Apple launched the Vision Pro in February for

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$3,500 and it was never heard from again

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I'm being hyperbolic of course but why shouldn't I be it's Christmas besides

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the usual things like iPads iPhones and Macs Apple updated the Magic Mouse with

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USBC but put the port on the bottom

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again which is [ __ ] insane but okay

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and they made up for it Anyway by surprise launching an incredibly

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powerful yet teeny tiny new M4 Mac Mini

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that starts at only 600 bucks in contrast Qualcomm continued to Hype up

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the launch of their Snapdragon X Elite ARM-based laptop chips making bold

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claims about their performance would this be Windows PC's Apple silicon

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moment well Snapdragon X promised the

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world and delivered perhaps Luxembourg

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small a small part of the world like the laptops were fine great battery life

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some compatibility issues it didn't match the hype though and enthusiasm for

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the devices was also hindered by Microsoft's co-pilot plus PC branding

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and their headline AI records everything you do feature recall which creeped

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everyone out as the verges Tom Warren puts it it was a massive own goal to

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make things worse for Qualcomm laptops with AMD's ryzen AI 300 and Intel's core

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200v chips also had excellent battery

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life with none of the compatibility issues Qualcomm did just secure an

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initial win in its Court battle with ARM so hopefully we'll get to see whether

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the Snapdragon X Elite Gen 2 is any

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better now that's not to say Intel and AMD had a stellar year either Intel was

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plagued for most of the Year by instability issues in its 13th and 14th

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gen desktop CPUs which it eventually figured out how to fix in October then

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both the ryzen 9000 Series and Intel's new aerol Lake desktop chips were

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criticized for bringing very little gaming chops to the table and in AOL

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Lake's case actually performing worse

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than its predecessor apparently an update is coming next month that will

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boost performance but even if that doesn't work I can't stay mad at Intel

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right now because the little Elves and the graphics Department delivered the

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ark b580 a banging GPU for 250 bucks if

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you somehow managed to find it at that price because it's sold out everywhere

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and that's the best Christmas present a PC Gamer could ask for next up Tech

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giants like apple Google and Microsoft have had a pretty great time the last

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few years reaching record valuations building little walled fortresses so

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it's hard for anyone to compete with them hiring thousands of people firing

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them against it's like a fun game they play but this year governments around

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the world were like ah no oh hold on particularly the European

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Union their digital markets act came into force in March and its primary

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purpose seemed to be to fill Tech company's stockings with fines you were

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very good this year comparatively still getting a fine though in January Apple

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complied with the dma adding support for for third-party Payment Systems browser

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engines and what they called app marketplaces for the first time but they

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were not happy about it requiring all

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apps on alternative stores to pay Apple royalties and be notorized and vetted by

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Apple anyway with a new per install core

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technology fee that for many developers actually made it more expensive to

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distribute outside the Apple App Store some accused Apple of malicious

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compliance and indeed the EU charged apple with breaching the dma rules in

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June how many fines is that we lost

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count we just love giving them out it's taking a while but the EU is slowly

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forcing Apple to open up their ecosystem Apple even approved the epic game store

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to launch on iOS after epic complained to the EU because they were rejected

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twice over in the US the Department of Justice sued Apple for monopolizing

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smartphone markets but while Apple has weathered the regulatory attacks Google

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ain't looking so hot after losing their Court battle with epic games over the

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Play Store last December the tech giant also lost to the Department of Justice

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in August of this year for monopolizing the market with Google search and could

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be forced to sell off the Chrome browser as a result that giant leak of Google

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search related documents from earlier in the year showing that results heavily

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prioritized big Brands over small ones

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probably didn't help and then the UK and Canada sued Google too because at this

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point it's like why not everyone's doing it and the Federal Trade Commission had

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a Christmas candle lit under their butts this year they took all sorts of pro

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consumer action including opening an investigation into personalized

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surveillance pricing adopting the click to cancel Rule and proposing a ban on

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the sale of sensitive location data I mean it felt like the government was

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actively trying to hand off a corpo

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dominated cyberpunk dystopia which wouldn't be in the Christmas spirit at

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all meanwhile the AI industry was doing

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the opposite video generation took off this year open AI unveiled the

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groundbreaking Sora model in February and waited until December to publicly

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release an upgraded version that was necessary because competitors had nearly

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caught up with sora's capabilities including Chinese models like 10 cents

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Han Yuan which can generate a realistic dancing guy in a ghost costume no

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problem and that's why we need AI for that stuff open AI also launched its

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faster GPT 40 model with advanced voice

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mode kicking off a fun little debate over its auditory resemblance to Scarlet

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Johansson 2024 solidified the idea that

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if AI is going anywhere it's going in search Google's AI overviews launched

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and promptly recommended eating rocks open aai revealed their search Ambitions

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with search GPT which is now just chat

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GPT search and Reddit announced its AI powered answers feature because most of

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your Google searches end up on Reddit anyway hey remember those beautifully

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designed AI assistant devices the Humane

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AI pin and the rabbit R1 they

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launched and crashed look can you blame

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them there's a lot of money going into AI right now and we need to sell

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something I guess it's just phones for now since iPhones have apple

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intelligence and Google and Samsung are putting their own AI features in phones

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too yep generative AI trained on massive

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data sets scraped from the entire internet is coming along all right it

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sure would be nice to figure out where that leaves the idea of copyright

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because while companies like open Ai and perplexity are embroiled in a ton of

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plagiarism accusations and copyright lawsuits most of them are still in

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progress leaving us in this kind of limbo where stories come out about

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multiple AI companies training models on YouTube videos without permission and

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even pirated movies and nothing happens YouTube's like oh

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what oh hey that's against to don't do

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that new studies continue to show how

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gen AI models can deceive people published by the very people building

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them and with AI generated SEO content

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flooding the web there's Rising concern that as the old internet is disappearing

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it's being replaced by industrial grade slop but look AI can be used for good

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stuff too like this company that works with college professors to generate $25

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digital textbooks based on Old course notes so students don't have to pay

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through the nose for a heavy physical version of a barely changed yearly

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Edition I guess AI can feel the holiday

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spirit after after all there's something else you don't have to pay through the

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these quick bits might be a little jumbled up because I think someone may

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have dropped a little special eggnog in my hot

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cocoa which is especially concerning because I'm the only one here what else

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happened this year ah YouTube really had it out for ad block or at least it

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seemed like they did reports of slow video buffering were initially

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attributed to YouTube early in the year but eventually found to be caused by a

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flawed update from the developers of ad block

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plus no YouTube actually began a harsh

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Crackdown on ad blocking apps in April despite still promoting them on the

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Chrome web store old habits die hard I

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guess don't I know it in June the developer of sponsor block said YouTube

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was experimenting with serers side ad injection which was reportedly to blame

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for some ad block users seeing black screens instead of ads on YouTube videos

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but wait if YouTube doesn't want to block ads why' they introduce the jump

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ahead feature for YouTube premium which is pretty much designed to skip ads also

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you see ads when you pause YouTube videos now Merry Christmas Microsoft

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really thinks you should be upgrading to Windows 11 before Windows 10 loses

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official support next October so tell you what they'll you with a full screen

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ad every time your PC boots up okay just

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trying to help yeah despite Microsoft's efforts Windows 11 market share is

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barely budging no doubt that's partially because some people who would want to

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upgrade need to buy a new PC to do so

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thanks to Windows 11's non-negotiable TPM 2.0 requirement but many others are

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probably just hesitant to go along with it when Microsoft's releasing things

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like recall which was pulled from release uh fixed and is now slowly

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rolling out again despite still not working properly speaking of not working

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properly the list of issues with the Windows 11 24 H2 update is longer than

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Santa's at this point and the OS comes along with lovely baked in ads you have

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to go turn off what's the matter guys why don't you want to upgrade are you

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okay enter a bright Hope on the horizon

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Steam OS no you can't get the modern

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version on desktop yet but valve has confirmed they adding support to Steam

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OS for third-party gaming handhelds they

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dropped new branding guidelines with powered by Steam OS labels and signs

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point to Lenovo announcing a Steam OS powered handheld of their own at CES in

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a couple weeks so why not put it on my gaming PC too valve hello they never

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answer even though it's Christmas 2024 also saw the launch of the PlayStation 5

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Pro with Sony's own pssr upscaling Tech

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and a $700 price tag not that it hurt

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sales much apparently it's doing all right we didn't get an upgraded Xbox

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series X which is fine by me because I don't even want to know what they'd add

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on to that name Xbox series XS actually

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I'd go for that Xbox Chief Phil Spencer

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said they might make an Xbox handheld

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but that'd be years out the same can't be said for the Nintendo switch 2 which

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has sprung so many leaks in recent weeks

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I think she's about to blow Nintendo's bound to reveal the switch 2 soon they

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were going to do it this year but decided to hurl lawyers at the

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developers of the Yuzu and ryujin switch emulators instead forcing them both to

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shut down don't worry about the lawyers they're fine and to top things off here

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are some other things that happened Australia passed a social media ban for

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kids under 16 it's still unclear how that'll be enforced or where kids will

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get their skibby RZ speaking of which a law was passed to ban Tik Tok from the

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US unless parent company bite dance sells the app to someone else but

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they've got a hearing with the supreme court on January 10th which I'm sure

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will fix everything in October SpaceX

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caught the Starship booster in midair with the giant robot arms of its launch

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Tower remember that that one's just cool back in June SoftBank demoed another

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heart warming use case for AI a filter

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that makes angry customers sound calm on the phone I'm sure it'll be very

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appreciated by any customer service agents that haven't been replaced by AI

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yeah well guess what scientists are building processors with literal brain

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cells inside so I guess the old biological organisms get to take the

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machine job this time as a Christmas

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present and there's my present to you

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I'm not going to lie I think I missed a few things things but I have to go to

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sleep now or St Nicholas is going to skip right over my house so farewell

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2024 and cheers to another year full of tech news because it just keeps

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coming it doesn't stop