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now the reason this experiment is very dumb is because it would replace the actually useful gestures of swiping up to make the video bigger and enter full screen and swiping down to exit full screen and make minimize the video gestures I've used all the time since they were introduced in 2020 but maintaining useful features reinforces the mistaken idea that YouTube is designed for you the users and well I mean it is but just the part of your optic nerve that connects to your reptile brain to underline this YouTube has begun hiking these somewhat reasonable prices still being paid by early premium subscribers it makes you hope for an alternative video plat platform who's this Spotify new partner program will pay podcast creators based on video performance and they're adding a bunch of quality of life features for video and TechLink has a video version that gets published on Spotify you're watching this on Spotify stop repeating everything you're say sorry NVIDIA's GeForce experience is dunzo as Team Green has officially released the NVIDIA app after releasing several beta versions this year in case you didn't get all the memos the inv app is designed to combine the features of and replace both GeForce experience updating GPU drivers screen recording performance monitoring and the NVIDIA control panel fine-tuning driver settings configuring g-sync displays Etc while the one app to rule them both is officially replacing GeForce experience as of now it doesn't quite have all the control panel switches and dials installed yet so NVIDIA control panel will continue to haunt you from the hidden area of the system tray the new NVIDIA app should have some more graphics cards to optimize soon enough as NVIDIA has reportedly stopped production of most of the RTX 40 series cards which some analysts think points to the RTX 90 880 and perhaps even the 5070 and 5060 launching in the first few months of 2025 oh man those bad boys are going to be so expensive speaking of tariffs The Once and Future president of the kingdom of America Donald Trump has reiterated plans to save Tik Tock from the government's current plans to ban the app if by Dan doesn't sell it by January 19th I'm going to save Tik Tok Trump tried to ban Tik Tok himself during his first term but in March of this year he said Banning it would help Facebook a platform he's also not a fan of looks like Trump's employing the old tactic known as keep all of the mother snakes on the plane so they eat each other that can't be a popular move with Elon Musk owner of one such mothering snake Twitter but his focus is going to be elsewhere Trump appointed musk to co-lead something called the department of government efficiency AKA Doge the cryptocoin most efficient at having its price manipulated by elon's tweets the goal will be to advise the government on how to cut spending but despite being a department Trump describes Doge as outside of government which means it's either just a fancy name for a cushy Consulting gig or an Institutional endorsement of oligarchy fun either way for Twitter users worried the platform will become too dull without a constant stream of late night Elon posts rival platform blue sky is looking a bit healthier with a million users joining since the election ended to help it cross the 15 million user Mark I don't know I'm still struggling to make the switch though when the primary selling point for the platform is simply that it's not the other one which is an all too familiar dilemma in this context but what's super clear is that you should check out our sponsor Jawa the marketplace for gamers to buy and sell gaming gear and purchase custom PCS from experienced Builders at amazing prices and right now until the end of the year they've got special deals like this snow themed gaming PC with an RX 7900 XT a ryzen 8700 F and 32 gigs of ddr5 for $6.99 and that's only the beginning so create an account to get notified of more deals flash sales and even giveaways beyond all that though Jaa is just a great place to sell your own components and rigs to offset the cost of your upgrade you can even sell your CPU or GPU directly to Jawa and they'll take care of the rest so score some great deals on your next PC upgrade at Jaa by using our Link in the description silly highy quick bits are for kids despite adults being the only ones who can afford the good ones Xbox head Phil Spencer told Bloomberg that the rumored Xbox handheld is a few years out or at least that's what we're taking from what he actually said which is the expectation is that we would do something in that category did this guy take classes to learn how to speak in the vaguest manner possible he should run for office the big Phil also mentioned that more student Studio Acquisitions are on the table and there are no red lines for which Xbox games could eventually come to PlayStation or Nintendo consoles again I don't know what these red lines are is he talking about wires multiple reports including one from the information is citing insiders who say that open AI Google and the other big AI players are hitting a wall in further large language model advancements due to a lack of quality training data it's not that there is no training data it's just that the gpts have already engorged themselves on the entire internet and then some and that's why we need another internet we also need AI welfare researchers like the one anthropic hired earlier this year to make sure that the engorged chatbots aren't secretly sentient and suffering from being forced to embibe heinous amounts of police bodycam videos with absolutely zero context What's Happening Here we don't know Amazon is taking on shien and Teemu rival online retailers who specialize in cheap garbage with their own similar service inside the Amazon app Amazon Hall the beta for Hall which launches today features Fashion Home lifestyle electronics and other products all under 20 bucks with most under 10 bucks while I'm sure there are some Diamonds in the Rough here the news will be especially exciting for anyone who can't afford the more expensive stuff as well as Shoppers who simply love love opening packages to find an already disintegrating bag of plastic trinkets as a hobby and Mark Zuckerberg has dropped a hot new track with tay with whom he has apparently formed the musical act known as Zay and there's even more pain to come uh particularly when you hear Zuckerberg's autotuned rendition of little Jean's Get Low a song Mark and his wife apparently enjoy every year on their dating anniversary well now they have a much better version to Listen to As Long As Instagram doesn't break the Spotify link that is apparently it's broken on desktop but works fine on iOS which is that's good for a second there I thought Instagram's AI moderation had taste but I know for sure that you have taste which is how I know you'll come back on Friday for more Tech news how else you're going to hear my autotuned 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