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when I say it's time for Tech news I'm not screwing around it's time right

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after I finish this little thing that I'm uh what what is this valve might be

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working on something like a Steam OS

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powered set toop box to compete with the NVIDIA Shield according to a Reddit post

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from the user cool be ho 3K featuring an

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impressive level of research and reasonable speculation he's a cool be ho

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in my book but this mysterious device is also tied to Chrome OS in some way see

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kolbo 3K spotted a change to the steam

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deck kernel made by a valve employee working on a device that includes the

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Chrome OS embedded controller a chip that handles some background tasks in a

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Chrome OS device that's making some people think that instead of a steam box

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running Steam OS it could be a chrome

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box with special steam integration after

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all Chrome b s already have official support for some Steam games the device

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is associated with a platform code named AMD lilac which geekbench listings

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indicate means some kind of ryzen 58540

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U configuration so whatever this thing is it'll have some gaming chops leading

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some to speculate that maybe this device isn't a box at all it's the rumored

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steam VR headset code named

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Deckard just want to point out that would still be kind of a box you

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strapped your face a lot of different boxes in the world it's fine for the

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third day of open AI the company gave to me

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Sora yep open AI has officially released a public version of The mind-blowingly

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Realistic video generator they first showed off in February although they

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didn't give it to me cuz I don't have a chaty BT Plus or Pro subscription if you

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do then they gave it to you wow but only

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after they gave it to professional Ultimate Frisbee player Marquez Brown

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Lee who used it to fake himself making an amazing catch this guy you know he's

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really gone downhill you know when it comes to the

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to the frisbees anyway open AI says they are releasing the turbo version of Sora

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complete with a new interface with a variety of controls and features like

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remix which will let you tweak specific parts of an existing generated video and

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combine which can bleed two clips into each other there are a boatload of Sora

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Clips out there now so we can see that it's still really good at aerial

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landscape shots and surprisingly good at

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slow motion because the janky AI movements seem less alien in that Medium

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but of course Sora will also make videos with a bunch of Errors especially when

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there's lots going on and we'll definitely pop a second phone into the

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hand of marquez's AI clone only to

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vanish it a second later unless you're

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going to tell me he's a pro magician too which is frankly too many things to be a

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pro at although I guess he made up for it with the with the app thing it's

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better now they fixed a bunch of it stop Reddit the so-called front page of the

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internet is tired of living in the shadow of the Googles and the open AIS

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of the world so they're announcing Reddit answers a new AI powered search

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interface that will bring up curated summaries of relevant conversations and

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details from across Reddit presenting it in sort of a perplexity AI style

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generated report now you might say okay well I can just search Google and add

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Reddit to the end that's exactly the

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problem that was Reddit that was being in press interviews Reddit

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Representatives spoke about how a major way that people use the internet now is

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just searching for Reddit posts their

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massive repository of posts by real humans looking for information from

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other real humans has become increasingly important as large swaths

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of the internet slide downward in quality like loosened chunks of Earth

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sliding off a cliff into an ocean of AI slop of course Reddit is not immune from

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this announcing a number of unpopular changes in recent years but reddit's

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point is that maybe if you want to search

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Reddit you could search on Reddit and maybe if you want to keep your loved

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now it's time for quick bits but first I have to tell you that it's but do I have

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to Google has apparently achieved two significant breakthroughs in Quantum

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Computing which the tech giant shared while unveiling their new Quantum

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processor Willow this morning the first breakthrough is that Willow broke the

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quantum error connection threshold Google was able to exponentially

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decrease the system's error rate by increasing the number of cubits involved

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holding Quantum information stable for an average of an hour we can only manage

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like 10 minutes max the second breakthrough is taking 5 minutes to run

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a benchmark that Google says would take one of the fastest supercomputers in the

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world 10 septian years to complete and

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by that point I think you'd be ready for an upgrade NVIDIA is now being

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investigated for anti-competitive Behavior by China in a move that some

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analysts are characterizing as retaliation for the US government

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imposing restrictions on the export of NVIDIA chips to the country and while

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the US has ramped up such restrictions recently they're also investigating

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NVIDIA for antitrust now both sides are going to have to put their sunglasses on

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and puff up their chests and say this is my investigation well I have a warrant

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this is not going to be pretty freaking Pat gilinger is tweeting through the

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pain of being ousted as Intel CEO congratulating new Intel board members

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once they get appointed and helping fellow Pat and Industry analyst Patrick

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Morehead to correct misinformation about Intel's yields on the 18a process node

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being horrible Pats together strong you

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know what they say post firing Ginger tweeted that he's very proud of The

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Foundry team and is even publicly praying for them to stay strong I don't

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know how likely this is but science says there's a slim chance Pat could actually

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tweet himself back into the CEO's office I mean Sam mman did it Tik Tok has filed

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for a temporary pause on the law that would see the company banned if its

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owner bite dance doesn't sell it to someone else since with just over a

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month left to go until the deadline and a new presidential Administration coming

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in we should just pause everything and you know until we figure out what the

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hell is going on Tik Tok seems to think president Trump might save them as he

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implied he will do but in a Sunday interview with Meet the Press Trump

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implied he might still want bite Dan to sell Tik Tok saying the government has

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the right to ban it quote if you can prove that the Chinese companies own it

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which they do I I think it's more about the Chinese government controlling

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things you can't have Chinese companies okay and Ubisoft has released patches

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for Star Wars Outlaws and Avatar frontiers of Pandora which fixed the

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crashing issues caused by Windows 11's 24 H2 update players might still run

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into some performance issues but at least they can play while Assassin's

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Creed Origins Odyssey and Valhalla are still properly borked while Microsoft is

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partially to blame for the Ubie issues ask yourself why the original AC games

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with Desmond weren't affected why did they drop that storyline may have helped

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this whole situation we can't know but I can know what would help me you coming

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back here on Wednesday for more Tech news that is the next time at which Tech

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news happens I don't know why it skips days I only know that the Desmond modern

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day storyline gave me a greater context that made those games more interesting

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that's all I know