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American alcohol related joke would be great here but I pretty much only drink Guinness about three times a year so I won't it would have been good though some Canadians even floated the idea that since it accounts for 90% of of America's electricity Imports Canada could shut off the power a pretty dumb idea but oh it might have worked after it was announced that the Mexico tariffs would be paused for a month for entirely unrelated reasons outgoing prime minister Justin Trudeau announced Canada's tariffs would be delayed as well in return for Canada taking various measures to secure the border which includes reinforcing it with new Choppers okay sorry sorry for context the Vibe of Trudeau saying Choppers instead of helicopters is like if you put a hat on backwards and try to do a kickflip with the kids at the skate park and he didn't use slang in the French version of the Tweet so why Canada will commit to deploying many more choppers and I will commit to deploying this segue to our 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product briefs convert insights into research reports and more Kickstart your digital workspace with Meo today using our Link in the description you definitely can't put a tariff on the quick bits many have tried Choppers took him out open AI has answered Google's deep research feature for Gemini with their own version also called Deep research they tried generating some other names but chat GPT was grumpy that day chat GPT deep research uses open ai's top end three reasoning model and like Google's version promises to perform multi-step complex research on the internet so you don't have to you just have to write a prompt and then apparently answer a bunch of questions chachy PT will ask you hey I ask the questions around here the lines are beginning to blur as evidenced by Deep research getting the highest score ever on an AI Benchmark ominously called Humanity's last exam it's normal what everything's normal the battery performance update for the pixel 4A that Google rolled out last month is a bit of a mess according to Hector Martin a developer that did some digging even if users redeem the free battery upgrade offered by Google the 4a's new firmware which is the only firmware available now that Google wiped the older versions kills battery life anyway and if you want the 50 bucks in cash instead you have to provide personal identification or your social security number want the $100 Google store credit sure you just can't use it for anything that's on sale the cherry on top is the evidence that this update was thrown together by a potentially inexperienced Google engineer on their personal machine I don't see what the big deal is guys just buy a new phone there's no tariffs anymore YouTuber Emily the engineer published a video documenting the process of Jerry rigging a 3D printer to print a tattoo on the leg of her friend Dan something he apparently wanted her to do despite being advised again it by nearly everyone he asked but they did add a panic button to stop the process just in case the machine got any crazy ideas I really didn't think that tattoo artists would be the profession that AI comes for next but at least they'll never take my job he said far too confidently and remember that story about the consumer drone that punched a hole in the side of a plane just trying its best to fight the California wildfires turns out the pilot of that drone was none other than Peter aaman the co co-founder of Treyarch one of the game studios that spits out a Call of Duty game every couple years aaman pled guilty to unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft and will cover the damage to the plane and complete 150 hours of community service I never wanted to admit this but turns out video games do cause violence but you know what doesn't Tech news so come back here on Wednesday for more I mean if anything it should make you less violent as you learn how fruitless it would be in the the face of the robot apocalypse well see you later"}