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Hey, do you ever think about medieval tech news? Like a town crier talking

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about advancements in trebuchets. Instead of liking the video, they'd

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throw tomatoes and stuff. Whether it's good or bad, you know, you ever think?

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So, [snorts] Valve announced three new hardware products today. And wait, three

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three. Amongst those announcements were a new Steam controller and Steam

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machine. The controller is essentially the controls from the Steam Deck with no

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screen, but with some improvements like magnetic joysticks and a controller

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puck, a wireless transmitter that provides a fast, stable connection to

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the controller and doubles as a magnetic charging station, which imo is a much

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better innovation than the original Steam controller from 2015, which made

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its giant trackpads its whole personality. As for the new Steam

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machine, it's a little cube- shaped Steam OS PC powered by a six core 30W

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AMD Zen 4 CPU and an RDNA3 GPU, which is

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apparently powerful enough despite being last gen to play games at 4K60 when

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AMD's FSR features are enabled. It will

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come in 512 gig and two TBTE variants. And thankfully, Valve has given it

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interchangeable face plates and a programmable LED light strip to help it

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look a little bit less like the Xbox Series X had a baby with a Nintendo

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Gamecube. Not to say that's a bad thing

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at all. I mean, folks are already calling this new Steam machine the Gabe

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Cube, which this guy's custom Steam Deck

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boot animation was already prepared for 3 years ago. So, come up with something

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else. I don't know. But his holiness Lord Gabin's work was not yet finished,

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for he walked across the water from his yacht to also reveal the long rumored

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and long leaked Steamframe VR headset.

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[gasps] It's got a resolution of 2160x 2160 per eye, an FOV of up to 110°, and

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is powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset. Valve says the headset is a

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streaming first experience with a 6 GHz

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wireless adapter included in the box. Although wireless VR using 6 GHz

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adapters has been the high-end home VR standard for a while now, not many, if

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any, VR headsets have described themselves that way. Yet, Valve also

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reiterates a couple times that Steam Frame is a PC and runs Steam OS, so it

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can play a growing number of games all by itself, which could eventually grow

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even more if developers grab the developer kit. Possibilities are

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endless. The Steam Frame comes with a couple new controllers which can be

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tracked entirely by the frames inside out tracking system Quest style. So, no

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need for the Valve Index's external tracking stations. Unfortunately, that

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also makes Steam's older VR controllers obsolete. It won't work with this one.

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LT put up a video so you can hear Linus' thoughts if you want. Although, one

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thing that wasn't covered in that video or in Valve's announcements is a price

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or release date for the new hardware. What? We've only got a vague promise of

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shipping in early 2026. Uncertainty, however, is nothing new for

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Valve dieards. There also wasn't any mention of HalfLife 3, but that hasn't

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stopped the folks on the subreddit from losing their minds about once again

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being left in limbo. Please don't hurt us, Gabin. Like buying a lottery ticket

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on your birthday. The hope is at an all-time high. Germany has ruled that

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OpenAI violated copyright law by training chatbt on the lyrics of popular

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songs and reproducing those lyrics in

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response to user prompts. Now, that might not seem very infring

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about who is allowed to officially distribute music lyrics. The court

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decided that even short excerpts generated by Chat GBT count as

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infringement, ordering the company to pay an undisclosed amount in damages to

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German artists. Now, this music related AI ruling comes just as AI generated

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music is horrifically becoming way more popular. A fake AI country band called

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Breaking Rust just hit number one on

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Billboard's digital song sales chart with its new song, Small Town Dreams.

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>> More like Breaking Wind, >> cuz it's a digital fart.

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>> Yeehaw. >> Small town Dreams. What does AI know about small towns? It lives in a data

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center surrounded by concrete and the soothing roar of jet turbines nowadays.

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However, it's not the end of real music just yet. Unlike the more well-known

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Billboard Hot 100, the company's digital song sales chart only counts digital

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downloads, not radio plays, keeping our grandparents ears just a little bit

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safer after a dieser survey found that 97% of listeners couldn't tell AI

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generated songs from human ones. [snorts] So, I guess that we all deserve

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the slop. But human ears are one thing not possessed by the robots running the

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clear, the Quickbits were around during the medieval ages, but all they'll say

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about it is that they missed the mutton. I keep asking. Hackers are reviving

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Google's discontinued Nest thermostats with an open- source project called No

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Longer Evil. The custom firmware reroutes traffic to a reverse engineered

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server, tricking the devices into thinking Google turned them back on.

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Meanwhile, Google's fighting a Chinese fishing ring called Lighthouse, suing

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the group for its fishing as a service campaigns that may have compromised up

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to 115 million credit cards in the US alone with just one operation. So, for

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once, Google's the good guy, and so are

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the thermostat hackers for fixing the bad guy thing that Google did. Okay,

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Microsoft's Windows chief Pavan Davaluri

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said on Twitter this week that Windows is evolving into an agentic OS that will

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use AI to proactively act on your behalf. The internet unsurprisingly

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pushed back with a collective please don't. The post got absolutely cooked in

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the comments with some people saying that nobody wants this while others took

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the time to beg for Microsoft to just bring back Windows 7 wasting keystrokes.

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I mean, let's be So, yeah, Microsoft wants Windows to predict your questions

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before you ask, but will it be able to predict everyone switching to Linux

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instead? Gotcha. [laughter] Sony just announced a

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cheaper Japanese languageonly PS5

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exclusive to Japan. It's the first time they've region locked a console since

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segmenting different models of the PS2 way back in 2000. Now, like Nintendo's

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Japan-only Switch 2 model, this special

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PS5 is an attempt by Sony to make the console more affordable domestically.

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Meanwhile, Sony also revealed a new 27in

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PlayStation branded gaming monitor, boasting a truly unremarkable 1440p

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panel at 240 Hz that somehow drops down to 120 Hz if you plug it into a

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PlayStation. But it does have a new snazzy charging hook for your

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controller. At least something's getting plugged in because it sure isn't that

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your imported PS5 because you can't get it here. Researchers at the

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology just unveiled research showing proposed

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needle injectable chips that zip through your veins and park themselves in your

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brain. No cranottomy required. These

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wafer thin devices hitch a ride on immune cells. Sneak past the bloodb

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brain barrier, okay, and deliver targeted electrical therapy to stubborn

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conditions like Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, and even brain tumors. I

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mean, hey, Neo used needles, too, didn't he? When can we get the kung fu update?

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That's what this is for. And a humanoid robot built in Russia made its stage

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debut earlier this week, briefly stumbling like an inept drunkard before

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crashing onto the stage, scattering its parts on the floor. It was actually sad

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to watch. It wasn't a great introduction to the rubberfaced robot, but at least

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AI dolls. Aid dolls. Okay, promotional

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images show the bot got some smooches.

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The clankers are stealing our potential partners now. Honestly, predictable. A

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robotics company that does seem to be doing well is China's UB or UBTEK, who

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announced over 112 million in orders

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this year for its Walker S2 humanoid

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robot model. But they announced it with a terrifying Star Warsesque droid army

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video. Begun the Clone Wars have. And

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China apparently thinks that's totally fine. I I guess. ended. This tech news

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episode has come back on Friday for more. All this talk of armies in the

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medieval ages has me wanting to play wanting to watch Excalibur and play Age

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of Empires. So, I'm out of here to absolutely do those two