welcome to the show that's all about staying up to date on advancements in
Tech it won't stop AI from taking over but at least we'll know when to start
helplessly watching as it all happens where's the popcorn Google held their
annual i o developer conference today and made several announcements related
to Ai and while we've all memed about Google getting leapfrogged by everyone
from open AI to your jobless uncle in his basement Google spent some time
talking about how to prevent AI from ruining everything something that sounds
kind of important Google will be launching Bard in 180 countries which is
basically all the ones that matter sorry North Korea and the Vatican in your face
principality of Sealand Google also showed off AI Integrations in its entire
workplace Suite so you'll soon be able to use text prompts to draft emails
draft data tables generate visuals for slideshows and all kinds of boring work
stuff you don't want to do the future is here and for some reason it still
involves an ungodly number of memos and spreads sheets I thought we would have
dealt with that by now Google has made substantial improvements to vertex its
personalized AI product for corporations and even teased a version for individual
users called project Tailwind is that a
reference to that cool animated series
project Tailwind is a notebook that learns from your documents and acts as a
tutor and research assistant again that sounds cool but as I alluded to earlier
a major in emphasis of the announcement was Google's focus on an ethical
approach to AI including integrated tools to help users spot and
contextualize online misinformation metadata tagging for AI images and
guardrails against undisclosed deep fakes which sounds
genuinely good what is the strange emotion about the
future of technology I hope probably heartburn in terms of Google's
Hardware announcements it's all pixels all day oddly they spend more time
discussing a feature that lets you make the poop emoji into your phone's
wallpaper than they did talking about the pixel 7A because bluntly it's one of
Google's best-selling product lines and they already know we're going to buy it
what most people are probably not going to buy is the much anticipated pixel
fold which starts at eighteen hundred dollars that's a lot of money to pay for
a phone whose primary features include 300 increase in breakability and the
option to take a selfie with the back camera pros and cons they're so it's
it's hard although it's important to point out Google says the pixel fold has
the best foldable camera system with the best zoom on a foldable which is also
the thinnest foldable on the market all claims that we'll have to wait until
June to verify so for now all we can do is take them at face value a pretty face
it's probably true lastly Google showed off the new 11 inch pixel tablet which
can be set to hop mode and double as a nest Hub when you pop it on the included
magnetic charging dock magnets how do they work it's got a magnet in it it's
also got Chromecast built in so you can cast your phone to your tablet and then
presumably you could cast from your tablet to your TV and maybe if you're
lucky cast back from your TV onto your phone it's a paradox and that's how I
spent my Saturday the tablet's only 4.99 so I suggest buying three and taping
them together for a super duper extra big pixel fold just an idea and the
Indian government has apparently banned 14 messaging apps many of them open
source citing National Security concerns specifically that concern is the
possibility that separatist insurgents in the Jammu and Kashmir regions are
using them to communicate I know I said those wrong the Indian government has
long restricted these same regions to only 2G cell service on the same grounds
of restricting separatist organization efforts now as your friendly
neighborhood Canadian Tech reporters we're not going to comment on the
legitimacy of the Indian government's actions we will however point out that
there was a natural disaster somewhere in India on 88 of the days in the first
nine months of last year and that's shutting off nearly every single
accessible form of communication to the general public is very likely to lead to
people not existing anymore because they're dead
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quick bits are like a Disneyland day pass because you only get to go on your
five favorite rides and there's some guy who keeps talking the whole time am I
the guy are you the guy fossil is dropping
support for watches made by Misfit the company fossil acquired in 2015. users
can no longer log into the companion app or website meaning they can't even set
the time making it less a watch and more like an unnecessarily expensive bracelet
so which some people buy fossil didn't even
announce anything and users who contacted customer service were only
offered a 30 discount to buy a Fossil watch which is amazing considering that
you can get a 25 discount just by signing up for their email oh did I say
amazing I meant insulting
Spotify purged thousands of AI generated songs from its platform though not
because they embarrassed Drake by sounding better than anything he's released in years oh
who wrote that me that was nice better than Drake the
songs in question were made by a proprietary AI startup called boomi
Universal Music accused some songs of using Bots to inflate audience numbers
and Spotify eventually reinstated the songs which was a massive release to
tens of AI music enjoyers what a relief
there are dozens of us Roku the we have
Android TV at home company announced a
home security starter kit today that costs only a hundred dollars though it
doesn't include cameras it does include two entry sensors and a hub with a
built-in siren which is almost as good are you trying to seduce me
the company also announced Roku OS integration so that if you do buy a
camera you can watch it from the comfort of your Roku TV which is perfect for
when you've already curled up in a blanket and would literally rather die
than leave your warmth cocoon to get up and do a 360 Sweep with your actual eyes
researchers in Italy have developed what they're calling the world's first fully
edible battery for some reason what you've never heard of a potato that's so
embarrassing but unlike a potato this battery is
rechargeable much smaller and relatively
low carb some of the components include edible seaweed activated charcoal and
Beeswax yum yum yum in the future Technologies like this
could be used in toys for children since for years swallowing batteries has been
the biggest fad diet amongst Rich of suburban babies
oh no and Customs officials in Hong Kong have arrested two men for suspected
smuggling after being caught hauling 70 gpus and more importantly over 600
pounds of live lobsters authorities claim that the combined value of silicon
and shellfish was worth over 76 thousand
dollars which is surprising because the gpus are nearly a decade old and only
retail for 160 dollars each and the lobsters don't even support Ray tracing
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