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shall I compare thee to the tech news or

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is that not appropriate because you're a person and not an abstract concept

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you're both wow I mean to happy for you

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Microsoft plans to restart a nuclear power plant to feed its incredibly power

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hungry AI data centers the plant in question is the 3M Island facility in

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Pennsylvania which is the subject of a Netflix documentary because it underwent

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a partial meltdown back in 1979 in the

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worst nuclear power accident in US history on the one hand seems kind of

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dangerous on the other hand co-pilot keeps saying it's hungry and we still

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don't know what it eats okay it's not actually nearly as bad as it sounds

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firstly because the Meltdown happened in TMI unit 2 which has been in the

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decommissioning process since 1979 and is mostly cleaned up already TMI unit 1

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is an independent facility that wasn't impacted by the accident but was retired

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for economic reasons in 2019 that's the

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facility that will be rebooted by Microsoft's partner Constellation Energy

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as the crane clean energy center because

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the massive amounts of power required to run AI are leading Tech Giants to seek

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out clean sources of energy the fact is that meltdowns are extremely rare we've

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learned a lot about how to stop them and the only waste nuclear power plants

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create is water vapor and a tiny amount of radioactive material because if we're

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going to screw up Society by creating an AI slot power dystopia we might as well

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not screw up the planet doing so I just hope the 3M Island plant doesn't need

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pieces like the control panel that's being removed for the sake of historical

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preservation I hope this new plant on the 3M Island doesn't interfere with the

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salad dressing production totally different Island oh way more miles

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involved it's a salad dressing joke guys

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AMD is continuing Tech's proud tradition of just being the worst at naming things

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AMD plans to take its Hawk Point laptop chips which launched as the ryzen 8040

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series earlier this year and rebadged them as the ryzen 200 series according

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to a webo post from a so far reliable leaker named Golden Pig upgrade this is

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an especially perplexing move coming after AMD already launched the ryzen AI

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300 series of laptop chips but I guess

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having a product to confuse customers with just before Intel launches their

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core 200 series processors is more important than adhering to Traditional

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Values of sequential ISM speaking of fun branding Golden Pig upgrade also posted

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details about AMD's upcoming high performance laptop chips code named

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stricks Halo these will be branded as ryzen AI Max 300 so named because

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they'll require one uranium Rod's worth of power each to turn on that's just

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what it costs Qualcomm was reportedly considering the idea of acquiring

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certain parts of Intel a couple weeks ago and according to the Wall Street

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Journal Qualcomm actually approached Intel about a possible takeover the

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balls on these guys I mean Intel's been in a rough spot but they've recently

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laid out very specific plans for recovery and Qualcomm has been gunning

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for Intel's spot in mainstream laptops it's kind of like having your teenage

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brother ask you to be his twitch mod for a reasonable wage paid in Roo can I buy

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milk with that in game Roblox

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milk it's also kind of intrigued because the day before the journal's report

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Qualcomm announced plans to lay off 226

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workers in California in the coming months after laying off 1,200 less than

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a year ago well how else I supposed to afford Pat do singer he takes a modest

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salary he's a a million bajillion dollars he's a good man he looks like it

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analysts speculate that the company's Snapdragon X Series Laptops

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underperforming may have something to do with this meanwhile early impressions of

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Intel's lunar Lake laptops indicate they match or exceed the performance and

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battery life of qualcomm's competitors but Qualcomm wanted to shoot their shot

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and hey game recognize game I probably

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didn't use that correctly I don't even know what the game refers to he's a

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at the link in the description they call me Riley the kid and I'm the quickest

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bit in the west none of that was accurate they call you Riley the

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rizzler Microsoft has launched the Windows app which is a Windows app that

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runs Windows and Windows apps I promise

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I'm not having a stroke the Windows app is likewise available for iOS macOS and

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web browsers as a replacement for the Microsoft remote desk toop app much like

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its predecessor the Windows app allows users to connect remotely to another

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computer which is using Windows however it also includes the option of

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connecting to a cloud-based Windows OS the app is currently in preview for

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Android and you know what that means the Windows phone is back so not really

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though you can pretend Apple has finally launched their apple intelligence

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features to the public sort of the iOS 18.1 public beta is out but anyone can

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download it if they want and use the features or at least the features that

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are out now many of the features won't be here until 2025 but you can use the

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ones that are out now as long as you have an iPhone 15 Pro or 15 Pro Max but

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that didn't stop Apple Store Geniuses from chanting AI at the iPhone launch a

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i a i in case you were wondering my

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favorite replies to this tweet were am I an ult and just put the phone in the bag

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man how excited are we I just want I just need a phone Sony is allegedly

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making two separate system on chips for the PlayStation 6 generation leading to

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some speculation that there might be a

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handheld somewhere anyone the juice was

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squeezed by renowned leaker Kepler L2

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Kepler isn't sure if there will actually be a handheld or if it'll be an Xbox

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series X slx2 console tier situation but

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the leer believes one of them will be affordable speaking of unaffordable Sony

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has announced a highly limited PS5 Pro

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bundle featuring a PS1 colorway for the console's 30th anniversary and that's

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actually available for the normal PS5 as well unlike the normal PS5 Pro this

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bundle actually comes with a vertical stand and a matching $200 dual sense

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Edge controller but still no disc drive

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why because you Anker has put out a recall for three lithium ion power Banks

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due to a manufacturing defect that may result in spontaneous combustion while

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only a small number of these power Banks were affected uh batch manufactured

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between January 3rd and September 17th of this year Anker also had to recall

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another power bank and their A332

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speaker phone back in June for similar fire related reasons so I guess the only

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thing you can Bank on is explosions check our new sources for the specific

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models and users are advised to put the Power Banks in a safe nonflammable

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location and not to throw them away unless you've got some kind of grudge

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against the garbage man the way he looks at me from the window or I'm in the

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window what I hate him and science is

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once again messing with forces it doesn't understand as researchers

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discovered that light may be able to leave a cloud of atoms before it

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actually entered said Cloud huh these

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alleged scientists made a bunch of atams really cold and then shot them with

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laser beams to excite them and I don't like how sexy that sounds but even worse

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they found that when the laser light is at certain frequencies Atomic

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excitations can occur before the light enters the atomic Cloud now apparently

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this doesn't break any physical laws but that doesn't mean I like thinking about

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it and not just because of all those sexed up atoms did you write this of

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course you wrot it I expected a lot more about like the time breaking to time

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space continuum no sexy jokes but you

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know what would be sexiest of all if you come back on Monday for more Tech news I

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won't bring it up again though we can just pretend that this whole

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conversation didn't happen I'll just just okay don't make it weird