hi welcome back to TechLink don't ask NVIDIA has announced
that it plans to launch its new NVIDIA app out of beta before the end of this
year now users with some combination of the NVIDIA control panel the GeForce
experience app and the RTX experience app already on their PC may be
experiencing some apprehension but the new app is actually intended to unify
the features of all three apps and in the darkness bind them into a single
streamline experience we've had three yes what about fourth
up NVIDIA has also added a handful of
new features such as a toggle for g-sync multim monitor support for RTX HDR and
Driver roll back back heck yeah the app allows users to sort their games the way
they want and the new UI allows users to customize the font and colors in case
neon green on black just doesn't jive with your particular brand of Dyslexia
but NVIDIA is not the only one bringing cool new features out of beta AMD the
Perpetual Ash to NVIDIA's Gary launched
fluid motion frames 2 alongside the rollout of its
24.9 adrenaline driver AF mf2
demonstrates substantial performance gains and fixes the first version's
notorious input lag issue it also comes with improved geometric downscaling just
in case you're the kind of psychopath who likes watching movies in a super
tiny window rather than their native size I need to make room for Subway
Surfers a pair of students at Harvard have released a paper on an experiment
they conducted where they ran facial recognition software through a pair of
meta smart glasses the glasses would then automatically cross reference that
face with social media and compile a profile on the person including name
biographical information personal associations and even sometimes
addresses the students filmed themselves approaching strangers in public places
greeting them by name and claiming to have met them previously through a
shared event or organization while the system was occasionally
inaccurate this is a clear demonstration of how such technology could be used for
harm by a malicious actor just think about the last time somebody who knew
your name occupation and birth date stopped you on the street literally
never happened to me and I'm vaguely famous I'd probably assume I was the
jerich who forgot my old acquaintance and their snazzy glasses how could I
forget those the student group has committed to not releasing the tool that
they showed everyone that they had but meta won't even commit to not training
their AI using smart glasses photos a feature that can notably be set off
accidentally using common keywords such as look meta much like a giant
irradiated squid Kaiju seems determined to use every tendril of its organization
to violate our privacy in new and horrible ways previously known only to
science fiction and ELD horror but Mark looks great doesn't he who cares if he
made a deal with cthulu Microsoft is rolling out voice and vision
capabilities for its AI assistant co-pilot as well as enhanced reasoning
which would be a big deal if it wasn't for the fact that most Microsoft AI
Innovations are actually just open AI innovations that were already rolled out
several weeks ago it's been 28 years but
despite the odds Microsoft is still trying to make clippy happen with an
assistant that has a friendly human-like voice that dynamically responds to the
user's emotions and makes interjections like cool and huh to give the impression
of active listening it's as good a reminder as to try to call up your
actual friends and make plans this weekend you may be lonely but please
don't be making small talk with lobotomized Cortana lonely if it was
Sydney it'd be a whole another thing but she's gone according to Microsoft AI SAR
Mustafa sulan we're just a year away
from everpresent highly capable AI assistants but he kind of has to make
big claims like that given how crowded the field of AI development has gotten
with deep pocketed Tech Giants Gemini live Google's own in enhanced voice mode
is now freely available to all Android users while NVIDIA just announced its
own GPT 4 class open- Source AI model
with weights already available and training code coming soon I didn't see
that coming honestly at this point Taylor Swift could surprise drop a new
AI assistant next week and it' only be a little weird it'd be more weird if I
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here quick bits uh I'll tell you eventually Indie app developer Christian
selig best known for the now defunct Apollo app for Reddit has now had Juno
his thirdparty YouTube app for The Vision Pro shut down most likely at
Google's request while selig probably saw this coming the closure means that
there is no longer a YouTube app for the platform YouTube claimed that a native
app for Vision Pro was on its road map back in February but that the company
was focused on ensuring a great experience in Safari an experience that
continued to suck for several months afterwards what are the odds that we get
an official YouTube app on meta Orion
before we get one on the Vision Pro Mark looks really good I can't
stress this enough I cannot tell you how good his curls look after that cthulu
deal AMD's new flagship x870 and x870
motherboards are now available and that's fine the x870 non could be
considered a downgrade for some use cases since it has the same single
Promontory 21 die configuration as last
gen's lower tier b650 mobos and on top
of that some PCIe Lanes will need to be dedicated to accommodating USB 4 which
is great provided you can take advantage of USB 4 more objectively bad is that
many x870 motherboards do support Wi-Fi
7 but don't have the hardware to go above Wi-Fi 6E speeds because once again
tech specs don't actually mean anything and are purely Vibes based Reddit has
changed its settings to stop users from protesting last year when the API
changes were announced redditors protested by turning subreddits private
or only showing not safe for work content right it was a bit of a
Minefield for a second there Now setting a subreddit to private or changing a
safe for work subreddit to not safe for work requires reddits permission VP of
community Laura nestler told The Verge that the change has been in motion since
at least 2021 but it was accelerated by
last year's events the official Reddit post says protests are still allowed
just not ones that actually impact the site you know protests Reddit can ignore
you have the right to protest in your own basement it's the only King joke
I've made in this episode and California has updated its consumer Privacy Act to
protect individuals neural data preventing Tech firms from collecting
sharing or selling info collected from your nervous system a similar law
protecting brain data was passed in Colorado earlier this year unfortunately
this is necessary because the dark future is approaching and someone has to
stop the corpos from trying to download your Consciousness while you scroll a
brain dance I never played cyberpunk so I don't know what I just said but it felt
cool and okay fine I'll tell you why I'm dressed this way it's Riley week on Flo
plane so I guess that means that I've dressed like a king I'm the king of flow
plane I got to make videos like however I want so watch these
clips got to get the blood up the core issue with Star Wars today as I see it
is that it's struggling to change itself how is your Tim Cook impression so good
I don't know the ship is not moving
shoot the ship what does being a minimalist actually mean I'm going to be
so loud I'm going to be so disruptive Bing Bong how is Riley's
mom you keep my mom's name out you so
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