hey thanks for waiting a whole week for fresh Tech news while I was away I
thought I had another week before I would be assaulted by wacky CES News
about sentient toilets or something but apparently that's starting now so strap
in LG has unveiled a bendable 45in OLED
monitor at the Apparently unprecedented resolution of 5120 by 2160 in their
press release unveiling the monitor LG says it's set to be unveiled at CES next
week where it has somehow already won
three CES 2025 Innovation Awards I was
expecting CES News to be more 3D printed sandwiches and less time paradoxes but
sure let's roll with it turns out those CES Innovation Award winners were
actually announced in November that's how I found out about Zeiss getting an
award for their holographic transparent camera which is already been pre-ordered
by Wonder Woman to go with her invisible jet
an order that was placed in 1942 no stop
it the camera is apparently sensors built into the frame of a window
reconstructing an image from the ambient light that hits it which sounds just
Bonkers but so does LG announcing a microwave with a built-in 27in display
so you can easily check on your food maybe keep gaming while you wait for
your Hot Pockets or if it's anything like LG's actual TVs get great product
recommendations served directly to your kitchen hot food and hot deals no
destroy it AMD was also expected to unveil their next gen gpus at CES which
were named the RX 8000 series at some
point but multiple leaks now indicate that instead of an RX 8800 AMD will be
announcing the RX 970 skipping a generation number and
copying NVIDIA's naming convention AMD pulled a similar stunt with their CPU
names apparently Having learned brand strategy from the people behind popular
movie franchises transmorphers and magic
wizard School starring her
grinder fck bench life claims the RX 970
will actually launch at the end of January fingers crossed that NVIDIA and
AMD's plans to stockpile graphics cards before those tariffs hit pays off Intel
a resurgent player in the desktop graphics card space is expected to
unveil another gaming focused card but apparently they're also prepping a
battle mage powered Ark Pro GPU with 24
GB of memory which is a lot but hopefully not enough to remember hermany
grinder the top student at chogborts
sorry that didn't
help you're a special boy with magic
powers sorry I'm so okay no stop open AI
took the mask off on Friday and announced plans to transition into a
mostly for-profit organization with a
bit of nonprofit on the side previously the capped profit ARM of open AI was
controlled by the nonprofit ARM which was controlled by a board of directors
who didn't care about profit at all as long as robots took all our jobs but now
the for-profit ARM will become a Delaware Public benefit Corporation
required to balance the interests of shareholders and the public and the
nonprofit will have shares in that company I mean it's so much more simple
for for the purposes of of more money
this is exactly what Elon Musk was trying to prevent when he filed an
injunction against openi in early December a filing that just received
public support from a nonprofit ooh
irony maybe called incode who even had
one of the Godfathers of AI Jeffrey Hinton on board I'd never heard of
encode before but apparently they're run by young people concerned about where AI
is heading while Elon is an old guy just
mad that this is happening after he left this is not right to do without me
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decorator today quick bits they're here and then
they're gone like like most things YouTube is
testing a new Floating Action button in the Android app kind of like Google's
I'm feeling lucky button it just starts playing a random video to distract you
from those pesky thoughts they actually started testing this a year ago with a
simple black play button but in the more recent test spotted by 95 Google the
button now says play something play
something anything also I love how 9 to5 Google's example of the something is a
video by nothing is this what you want iOS 18
appears to enable a feature called enhanced visual search by default which
lets you identify landmarks in your photos but requires sending some photo
data to Apple as pointed out by app developer Jeff Johnson Apple says they
do this privately but it's a weird move for a privacy focused company like apple
to just decide that you're probably okay with apple seeing your photos in this
scenario I mean that what happens on your iPhone stays there billboard was
all the way back in 2019 things have changed you can't just walk around not
knowing that that's the arc to Triumph oh it's like a look like a big
door embarrassing NVIDIA's VP of
Robotics Deepu tala told the financial times this week that the chat GPT moment
for robotics is just around the corner but NVIDIA would say that a gold Rush's
imminent when they're the one selling shovels and shovel accessories oh yeah
that puppy needs a
scope but they might not just be advertising their services there have
been many advances in robotic recently researchers at Stanford and John's
Hopkins just demonstrated surgical robots learning to complete tasks simply
by watching videos for the first time the training data was mostly Tik Tock
ASMR I mean turns out robots get the tingles too and meta has figured out
they should probably use some of their immense wealth to do something about the
software update that has bricked some users Quest 2 3 and 3s headsets for
weeks while they initially said owners would simply have to buy a new device if
theirs was out of warranty this week the tech giant indicated some users might be
considered for a free replacement regardless of warranty status I mean
what else can we expect from the company that thinks it's a good idea to flood
Facebook and Instagram with AI bot accounts so you can have even more fake
friends you never see in real life speaking of which you can see me again
on Wednesday and I'll give you more Tech news it'll be New Year's Day so maybe we
can turn over a new Leaf in our friendship which is real