Tech news I dabble you I just just put my
fingers in you know just like put my little things in I just bathe my entire
body in it every day you know just whatever can you believe like lonus just
pays like Apple's Vision Pro reviews are
out right now from those apple deemed worthy the consensus on the device seems
to be that while the future may not be here it's definitely somewhere
nearby they can smell it the vision Pros displays are reported ly crisp as a
granny smith and its pass through mode has minimal latency which will hopefully
minimize injury when you decide to live in this thing full time to get your
money's worth 3500 at 1.3 lb or roughly
the weight of a prehibernation hedgehog it's a relatively heavy headset have you
ever held a hedgehog have you ever strapped one to your face not more than
once it's a heavy headset and that's not including the wearable battery the hand
eye control interface is really impressive but perhaps unsurprisingly
its floating intangible keyboard is next to useless despite how it looked in
early demos eyesight the vision Pro's digital representation of the user's
eyes on the external display is deep in
The Uncanny Valley and attempting to hold a conversation or host a dinner
party with the headset on will earn nothing but your spouse's
contempt reviewers are also pointing out that the Vision Pro still lacks any real
killer apps at a time when Apple is not
exactly making friends with third party developers through their iOS and app
rule changes in the EU though as much as Apple's wal Garden approach might
alienate potential devs that's got to be part of the appeal for some consumers a
polished AR headset that will easily slot into your existing network of
accounts and devices just like marrying your high school sweetheart we are meant
to be together Barbara Forever Barbara
Barbara Diablo streamer Elon Musk announced on Twitter this week that
neuralink has played placed its first brain computer interface in a human
subject it's happened according to musk initial results show promising neuron
Spike detection and the patient is recovering well and that's great to hear
especially considering who the patients are in these early human trials
individuals who are quadriplegic due to spinal cord injuries or ALS it would
usually be nearly impossible for a company to convince Regulators to allow
them to perform experimental non-essential brain surgery on an
otherwise healthy patient however neural Link's first planned implant apparently
called telepathy is intended to allow recipients to communicate directly with
a computer which can then decode that message and interpret how the user
intends to move which has obvious potential to improve the lives of people
with significant physical limitations similar implants from other firms have
already been used to bypass damaged neurons and allow paralyzed patients to
regain some control over their existing limbs on the more sci-fi of things musk
likewise said that the implant might also one day allow users to control
almost any device just by thinking sounds cool but I personally dread the
day when I can accidentally butt dial my mom by way of a particularly Vivid
nightmare or even worse a sexy nightmare General Motors is jumping on the plug-in
hybrid train the exact same train they jumped off of back in 2019 when they
killed the highly efficient pH Chevy Volt turns out the Vault wasn't a bad
idea just an idea before it's time because nobody knew what a fev was back
in 2018 when we were all listening to Drake and dinosaurs roamed the
Earth however it turns out there are a significant number of North American
drivers who really would like to spend less on gas but can't justify the jump
to Pure battery electric due to its limited range this has left dealerships
with a surplus of EVs and carbon reduction quotas they can't hope to meet
right now those dealers in turn have put pressure on GM to bring back plug-in
hybrids GM has likewise backtracked on
its decision early last year to kill the Chevy bolt with a B the light and
efficient battery electric car that made up over 80% of GM's EV sales in 2023
this is a trend that extends far beyond GM BMW is expanding both its EV and phv
lineups and Mazda will also be debuting its first plug-in hybrid this year with
the cx90 Lamborghini isn't planning on a fully electric vehicle until 2028 but
they launched their first plug-in hybrid in 2023 which they'll be following with
a phev version of their Urus SUV this
year Urus and you know gas prices are bad when the Lamborghini owners jump
ship I'm under the impression you buy a Lamborghini specifically to burn gas now
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these after lunch so I just get a quick bite a quick but you get it today the
Senate Judiciary Committee held a major hearing on the issue of child safety and
exploitation online where they questioned the CEOs of Discord snap meta
Tik Tok and the website formerly known as Twitter you know the bad boys of tech
leading up to the hearing companies tried to get ahead of any accusations
snap came out in support of the kids online safety act and swore not to enact
endtoend encryption in order to continue scanning messages for child abuse
imagery which is how that kid got caught for the plain joke meta reiterated its
support for app level age verification Tik Tok pledged to spend $2 billion in
2024 on protecting us users and Twitter
promised to hire back around 6% of those 1500 content moderators they fired he
really cares about this issue raising the bar after lowering it into the
ground a listing for NVIDIA rumored 6 GB
edition of the RTX 3050 recently surfaced on a site for Australian
retailer ech that can only be described as disappointing if true the listing
which has since been removed shows a concerning drop in cacor of 20% compared
to the base model which already had an advantage of two additional gigabyt of
RAM earlier rumors indicated that the new card would either maintain core
count or see a drop of just 10% but
maybe NVIDIA is just trying to let us down gently so by the the actual launch
we won't be disappointed to find it's just a single fan duct taped to a box of
Lunchables at least it's Pizza it's not the worst rumor out there today though
that goes to Intel who are reportedly planning a refresh of their Raptor Lake
refresh Raptor Lake the refreshening
even refresher New York's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against City
Bank claiming it has failed to protect customers from hacks and scams and
refuse to reimburse millions of dollars in Lost funds by law US Banks must
reimburse customers any funds stolen via unauthorized electronic transactions but
Citybank claims they are exempt because there was no indication their clients
were being deceived however one woman informed the bank after simply clicking
on a suspicious Link in a text City Bank told her not to worry about it and 3
Days Later scammers transferred $40,000 out of her account if only she had
indicated she had been deceived rather than overtly stating it it's supposed to
you're supposed to kind of walk like go around it you know it's like flirting
I've been deceived I don't believe you PayPal also known as Elon musk's first
stepchild announced it's cutting 2500
jobs affecting both existing workers and job listings he's not even involved with
that any any anymore but we have to make a joke we were too nice to him during
the neurolink story fellow fintech company block who owns square cash app
and afterpay announced it's laying off around a thousand people because cutting
jobs is the newest Strat in the tech Corp meta as an extremely thin Silver
Lining you can know that these layoffs aren't coming cheap Google expects to
spend $700 million on Severance this
quarter but it only cost me 10 bucks to watch the whole first season on Apple TV
plus why is Google so bad with money it's a classic Jacob pun best show I've
seen in a while though by the way I endorse it and car rental company Europe
car said a massive leak of 50 million customer records posted on a hacker form
were actually generated by chat GPT showing that at least AI dos out
misinformation to upstanding citizens and criminals alike however Europe car
may be in the misinfo business too Troy hunt the security researcher behind have
iin pone.com responded to the story with a strong claim that this kind of data
fabrication doesn't need generative AI at all it's just on everyone's brains
all the time right now thanks to stories like this one about yet another lawyer
getting caught citing a non-existent court case thanks to chat G PT or this
one about an alarm clock on Kickstarter that displays AI generated poems to tell
you the time in the least efficient way possible especially because it gets both
the time and basic English words wrong so you have to check an actual clock
anyway it's going to change everything meanwhile all you have to do is check
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