obviously the big news was sony's playstation 5 event which naturally i
didn't watch and absolutely hated everything about it the games looked bad
the the tim tim sweeney he he was ow geez
get out of here we need a ps4 fanboys david
david yeah
it's pretty great so sony finally took off the wraps of the physical design of
the playstation 5 yesterday but it looks like some of that rap got stuck on
something because what the frig is this i mean i guess
it's better than a weird-shaped v pizza
holder dev kit but like not really just
like microsoft's upcoming next-gen xboxes the ps5 will come in two versions
one with and one without a disk drive meaning that the lot should be four
next-gen consoles launching this fall i'm gonna get all of them but if you
wanna make your decision based on looks well the mean potential of the ps5 is
undoubtedly stronger like it's so strong in the force it's amazing sony's
announcement live stream also showed off a boatload of games like
so many and while it may be hard for pc gamers to admit frankly well they all
look friggin sweet except for
another version of gta 5. this game is approaching skyrim levels of platform
re-releases among the titles announced was the new insomniac developed
spider-man maz morales which turned out to be just an expansion for the original
game until it turned out one more time that it's actually a standalone game hey
confusing kina bridge of spirits is a pixar looking zelda-inspired adventure
horizon zero's dawn sequel is called forbidden west and is absolutely the
best freaking game ever settle down and if you're worried about all these being
console exclusives over half the games shown will be coming to pc at some point
so just hold on the night is darkest before
the dawn which is not true but it's usually like
kind of gradual brightening but it's like it's not i mean it's like a
gradient sun's coming up tomorrow
let the bottom dollar come tomorrow let's stay in game mode for a little bit
longer because the sony event wasn't the only dump of new game announcements made
this week the ign expo saw the release of trailers for werewolf the apocalypse
which looks as bonkers as it sounds middle hellsinger which looks like doom
mix with guitar here really that's amazing dual universe a multiplayer
mashup of space engineers and star citizen and void train a trippy survival game
where you build and protect a multi-dimensional train in zero gravity
yeah you know that's classic genre anyways a new star wars game called
squadrons also announced after it was unintentionally posted on xbox.com front
page it looks like a multiplayer dogfighting game but forgive us if we're
a little skeptical that ea isn't just gonna release a microtransaction heavy
abomination that spits in the original rogue squadron's face
come on ea make it good do it for porkins
moving on to the actual tech news now microsoft has said it will stop providing its facial recognition
technology to the american police forces until federal regulation can be enacted
concerning its use with the announcement microsoft joins amazon which said it
will also stop selling its facial recognition tech to police for one year
and ibm which said it's pausing all development on facial recognition
wholesale the company's decisions are reportedly based on studies ongoing
since 2018 which showed that facial recognition systems performed worse when
analyzing women and people with darker skin and obviously that's
really bad now many law enforcement agencies across
the u.s still use facial recognition tech from smaller companies but let's
hope that with the tech giants pushing for regulation we'll see less potential
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apple has removed two podcast apps from the app store in china after the apps
refused to censor their content at the request of the country's government
meanwhile zoom has added new features that will allow the company to remove or
block specific participants if they break china's speech laws so in case you
were worried about the trade war affecting apple and zoom's overseas business don't worry seems like they're
doing just fine i'm so worried about apple every day
elon musk's research lab open ai has started commercial sales of its ai
powered text generation system with reddit being one of the first customers
hoping to use the tech to automate content moderation this would sound fine
if open ai hadn't previously warned that the tech was too dangerous to release
i mean obviously they fixed it and ai text
generation is completely harmless wait
uh who wrote this zero
one google stadium is now available on
almost every Android phone after a recent update and even you can play
around with new touch controls as well which are probably horrible
if you jumped in on it early enough you may have even sneaked in some leaked
gameplay of ubisoft god and monsters which accidentally got published on the
service briefly before taking down google probably saw a big spike in
player count yeah above more than like 10. and got all excited before they took
the game down and everybody left again it's okay google snapchat has added
voice commands to the app so you can now ask snapchat to do things like make my
hair pink and uh we'll find a filter to do that that's pretty cool i wonder if
you can say his snapchat make me look like i'm on tick tock no
that's the clock app and the internet archive has ended their national emergency library program which allowed
basically anybody to borrow copyright protected digital books with no limits
after four commercial book publishers threatened to sue it was a nice thing to
do during the pandemic but you can't forget about capitalism for that long
it'll come get you
watch out and we tried to watch out for the end of this episode but we're there
already couldn't see that coming come back on monday for the tech news or
it'll come get you when you least expect it yeah