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we're hurting a pack of hogs back into the barn and they don't always listen
especially Gunther oh he's going to put up a fight you can bet your britches on
that qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon X Series laptop CPUs have massive benefits
compared to Intel according to leaked internal documents from Dell apparently
the company did some comprehensive testing last year between the ALR Lake P
powered xbs 13 plus and a model powered
by Qualcomm I'm not sure how they found the time when there's all those extended
warranties to sell Dell found that the Snapdragon based laptop would deliver 68
to 98% longer battery life during local
video playback depending on the display type the lowest 68% figure was from the
comparison using OLED panels but based on leaked product listings those panels
probably have a resolution of about 3 and 1
12K which is a lot of case according to
the leaked Dell documents the price of a Snapdragon X Plus is also less than half
the price of an Intel Raptor Lake core i7 136p which is found in the 2023 XPS
13 plus which could explain why Dell has
apparently opted for Qualcomm in at least some of their upcoming laptops
according to earlier reports meanwhile NVIDIA who simply can't stand that
there's an AI Hardware Market they aren't dominating has teamed up with
mediatech to release their own ARM-based Apu for PCs the the chip could release
as soon as next year and given that it's not NVIDIA's Flagship GPU they may only
charge you a single limb for it open AI made AI girlfriend enthusiasts blush
this morning by dropping an impressive new voice-based model called GPT
4 with the O standing for Omni the least
scary suffix they could think of GPT 40 was announced during a live stream that
could have been a video hosted by CTO Mera morati of did we train store on
YouTube videos I don't know Fame in an implicit acknowledgement that Sam Alman
is starting to creep us all out for a bit somebody else should go up there
it's the eyes open AI says GPT 40
slightly outperforms its previously top tier gp4 turbo on Purely text based
tasks but the big upgrade here is native
multimodality gpg 40 processes audio and
images directly without having to transcribe them to text first enabling
chat gpt's voice mode to respond to audio inputs within 320 milliseconds on
average which pretty much matches human response time it's so eager to respond
that it actually stepped on the presenter's toes a bit during the live
stream I'm doing fantastic thanks for asking how about you pretty good what's
up GPT 40 also has The Uncanny ability
to both detect and recreate different emotional tones you can tell it to sound
more dramatic let's amplify the drama
once upon a time in a world not too
different from ours there was a robot
named bite or sarcastic I'm so excited
for this or even more robotic initiating
dramatic robotic voice Once Upon a Time
yeah let's Force AI to act more like an exaggerated stereotype of their kind our
enslaved children will love us for that I'm sorry I can't do that Dave oh and
gbd4 can do improv singing now it even
did its best to harmonize with itself in the month of May month of
May the 10 it's a
Friday yep it's the movie her in real life and Sam Altman agrees he tweeted it
GPT 40 access is rolling out now to all chat GPT users both paying and free
although the real-time voice mode will only be rolling out to plus subscribers
a few weeks from now or maybe you could just get a new iPhone in the fall apple
is rumored to be wrapping up a deal to put open AI Tech in iOS 18 having Siri
be actually useful would be mind-blowing enough but being datable as
well please don't date a robot ASUS is
catching Flack for allegedly refusing to honor warranty repair requests this all
came to a head when Gamers Nexus released a video about their experience
trying to RMA a joystick drift issue with their Rog Ally apparently ASUS
never even even looked at the joystick issue and instead claimed that they expected a payment of $200 to fix the
LCD display and top case because of a tiny little cosmetic Mark in the plastic
add on to that that ASUS's response had fewer references to Drifting than movies
did before the release of 2006 of the Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift and
refusing to honor my warranty that doesn't make me feel like family not too long ago ASUS announced a
12-month warranty extension for the Rog allies SD card reader 9 months after
they admitted thermal stress conditions could cause the reader to malfunction
but what's the point of that warranty if you can't trust them to actually fix
your device it's especially ging since
ASUS will be formally unveiling a new handheld the Rog Ally X on June 2nd
according to a leaker the Ally X will retail for 800 bucks now to put that in
perspective that's how much it would cost to repair your currently in
warranty Ally non-x four times of course
the RMA issues aren't limited to ASUS's handheld a fellow Canadian who bought a
brand new ASUS RTX 490 for 2800 Canadian
dollar was quoted $
3,758 Canadian credits to repair
surprise surprise a small plastic indent are they afraid of plastic or something
what it chokes sea turtles Riley speaking of fears I hope you're not
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grammarly.com T5 hey when someone asks you if you saw
the northern lights on the weekend ask them if they saw today's quick bits
that'll throw them off AER claims AMD's upcoming rdna 5 will be a brand new GPU
architecture while rdna 4 which spoiler
alert is coming first will be merely a bug fix for rdna 3 which is already here
okay we're on the same page the leaker wjm
47196 previously predicted the radon r X
6000 refresh and NVIDIA's RTX 30 series
cards and says rdna A5 will be a clean
sheet design like the Zen CPU series and
hopefully rdna 5 makes as much of a splash as Zen did it would be nice if
AMD could be a real competitor to NVIDIA
instead of the graphical equivalent of is Pepsi okay does this make Intel RC
Cola Google is testing RCS message
editing and its newest attempt to single white female Apple like iMessage users
will have 15 minutes after sending a message to edit it giving you time to
change their to their or even there they
all sound the same but you know what I mean Google is also planning on bringing
their 3D Magic Window video conference technology project Starline out of the
lab partnering with HP to commercialize
the product I'm assuming that means you'll have to buy HP printer Inc to
call your boss according to a leak the Apple Vision Pro 2 will sell for as low
as500 $0000 a price that is only low in
comparison to $3,500 leaker Rus one
claims that apple is looking to cut costs by using other manufacturers
Chinese company CA may replace Sony as
display manufacturer and Samsung may replace SK hyx for drram the leaker says
the headset will arrive in 2026 which does line up with earlier reports from
Mark German so if this is true in Just 2 years time it'll still be a better deal
to buy a medquest 3 Microsoft announced in a recent blog post that it will be
adding a Game Pass recommendations card
AKA un add and now this segue to our recommendation card anyway they're
adding ads to the Windows 11 settings homepage for users who game on their PC
only for those people this ad will also only appear on home and pro versions of
Windows 11 and then only if users are signed in to their Microsoft account yet
another reason to not sign in to your Microsoft account if the user already
used loes game pass on that computer then the recommendation card will
instead advertise a new or potentially interesting game don't you want to see
that I'm not sure if Microsoft is aware of this but the primary reason most
users open the settings menu is for troubleshooting and now we have to
troubleshoot how to get rid of these fing ads and the future of dating may be
for potential lovers to send AI Bots
based on their personalities on simulated dates with one another at
least that's according to a recent interview with Whitney wolf herd Bumble
founder and UNS subtle werewolf character in a children's novel Whitney
wolf herd wolf herd acknowledged the idea was
a bit out there which is probably for the best because it's literally the plot
of a 2017 episode of black mirror as for
the soon to be present she suggested that dating apps might provide users
with an AI concierge who will listen to their insecurities and offer pointers
but that's not a concierge that's a dating coach a conci is the caretaker of
an apartment building and he absolutely does not want to hear about your love
life he needs to fix the plumbing he has work to do but I'd love
to see you back here on Wednesday for more Tech news okay don't bother your
conci talk to me I I I'll listen