I wish I could prepare you for what you're about to hear I really do high
doses of tech news can overwhelm the senses and trigger a catonic state ah
you'll be fine NVIDIA fueled by rabid demand for its AI accelerators briefly
hit a$2 trillion market cap for the
first time this morning joining an exclusive Club occupied by Apple and
Microsoft who immediately started talking about how their neighborhoods
really going downhill but axios notes that in nidia's climb can't go on
forever the companies that want all those expensive NVIDIA gpus to power
their fancy new AI features like Microsoft and Google recently reported
earnings that disappointed their own investors because as cool as it is to
give everyone free access to a bing that doesn't suck when something is free it
means users don't pay for it and that is
financial advice you can take that one to the bank where they'll ask you to
leave come on it's a joke joke NVIDIA could also soon face competition as
companies continue developing their own custom AI chips Microsoft just made a
$15 billion deal with Intel on that front although NVIDIA doesn't seem too
worried about that the company listed its top competitors as Huawei AMD Amazon
Microsoft and broadcom in its annual report which I assume had the Thanos
meme as an attachment but in a sign that NVIDIA hasn't forgotten that some people
play games on its gpus it also launched to Beta for the NVIDIA app a supposed
replacement for and merging of GeForce
experience and the NVIDIA control panel on Windows it doesn't require you to log
in unless you care about potential account-based rewards and overall seems
like a much better option than splitting Graphics settings across two separate
apps some of them just like feel like a control panel thing you know I only hope
that NVIDIA doesn't pull a Windows and keep their old control panel around
while they make the new settings app more and more garbage for fun Google has
paused its Gemini chatbots capability to generate images after widespread
complaints about how hesitant it was to create images of white people sure
there's no real reason why drawing a hypothetical pope of color would be
problematic but I'm not sure the same could be said about depicting your
average racially diverse platoon of German soldiers Circa 1943 they were
trying to correct historical injust es Gemini would even refuse to generate
anything if asked about white people specifically leading to increasingly
creative prompts asking for pictures of a medieval Knight or someone eating a
mayo sandwich on White Bread which I'm not going to lie I would eat it's all
you eat sure call me out like that in
some cases the model also refused to specifically depict Latino people who
I'm sorry to report are no longer diverse in their blog post Google
explained that when they added Gemini's image generation feature 3 weeks back
back when it was still barred rip they tuned it to ensure that it represented a
wide range of types of people to avoid
the real documented phenomenon of AI models waiting images of white people
more heavily than images of non-white people causing a prompt for something
like black Tech News host to give you
this and if you didn't know I'm white uh
it's not open AI does something similar but it seems like they've managed to do
so without turning all the dials up to 11 if you want to test how well open-
Source image generator stable diffusion did version 3 was just released in early
preview while its diversity quotient is still unclear it seems to have largely
caught up with mid journey and Dolly in terms of depicting shapes and pets the
most important so hopefully Google Tunes up their AI models a bit better because
with Chrome's new help me write feature AI generated schlock is going to be just
a right click away okay shapes pets and
one day Hispanics Reddit has confirmed leaks
from last week that it would go public but because it's Reddit they had to do
so in a quirky way that's kind of charming as long as you do it in the
right sub the company filed its initial public offering yesterday to be listed
on the New York Stock Exchange as riddit
ticker symbols are usually just your company name but cuter interestingly in
addition to offering stocks to your standard institutional investors Reddit
says they'll also offer them to its top users including moderators as determined
by their Reddit Karma proving that it's
not worthless it's worth the chance to
lose your money gambling Reddit also confirmed a leak claiming it had struck
a Content licensing deal with a major AI company which turned out to be Google
who will have direct access access to reddit's API for a rumored 60 million
bucks a year now if your Reddit data being collected to train AI rubs you the
wrong way Reddit points out in their filing that well everyone was already
doing that anyway including open AI whose CEO Sam Alman is Apparently one of
reddit's biggest investors which isn't doing much to dispel the notion that he
has a plan to take over the world through the power of shrewd Investments
and scanning everyone's eyes into the crypto ball that that'll help I'm sure
now we have your eyes leave my balls alone
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sweeping Across America in happier Apple news the company has announced iPhone 15
batteries Live Twice as long as they initially thought if you renounce the
corrupt so-called European union and swear fty to the Divine fruit ah okay
the last part's optional Apple retested the batteries found in all iPhone 15
models and they now claim the phones can maintain at least 80% of the their
original capacity for 1,000 charging Cycles previously they said it was 500
they found the lightning cable of Youth however no one knows why the result has
changed so massively did Apple change how they test did they initially
underestimate the lifespan to avoid a repeat of the iPhone 14's battery gate
class action lawsuit did Tim Cook beguile the batteries with his Southern
Charm who's to say Tim Apple you Saucy
MX I know you can last for longer
and if you know what's good for you you will Canada's University of waterl will
be removing &m branded vending machines
from campus after it came to light that the machines may have been covertly
collecting customers facial recognition data the story was blown wide open when
a waterl student posted a strange error message from the machine to Reddit
reading inv Venda vending.flv
question of hey so why do the stupid M&M
machines have facial recognition adaria vending Services says that the
technology acts as a motion sensor that detects faces and activates the
purchasing interface but does not collect user data okay but maybe this
glorified snack dispenser doesn't need to know whether or not I have a face
ever thought of that if slender man wants a stickers that's his own damn
business which is what I call myself at home us space exploration company in
intuitive machines has successfully landed its Odus spacecraft near the
moon's South Pole making it the first privately developed spacecraft to
successfully land on the lunar surface and the first us-based craft to land
there since 1972 The Landing was delayed
by an additional 2 hours due to the discovery that the Lander's laser rang
finders were malfunctioning meaning that it would be unable to accurately measure
its altitude and velocity which are important factors in not slam in face
first into the moon luckily controllers back on Earth were able to upload a
software patch that allowed the Lander to use a Doppler liar from NASA to help
it land instead presumably odsis will stay where it is for the next 10 years
and spend the 10 years after that slowly journeying home where upon arrival it
will murder everyone who hit on its wife if you're not laughing you you
should read more and in commemoration of Doom's 30th Anniversary husk Varna will
be adding support for the game to their Nara line of robot
lawnmowers uh so you'll be able to spend your summer mowing down demons and also
dandelion what is you literally play it on the little like 3in screen or
whatever with a DI with a dial okay support will begin on April 9th which is
about eight days late for this sort of thing and it will end on September 9th
when it's just about time to pack your devil Destroyer back in the shed it may
seem like a strange Alliance but nowadays most people who played the OG
Doom when it was first released are now middle-aged dads blowing off steam by
beheading weeds so it's something for
them and we'd really like it if you steam ahead to the next episode of
TechLink this coming Monday for more Tech news did we make a steam BL off
steam Oh I thought it was about to steam like the game well okay