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was just about to start my yearly tradition of painstakingly going over

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every single thing we said on this channel for the past 365 days stirring

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them all up into a dough or a paste of sorts cutting it into various shapes

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like candy canes snow goblins Etc and popping them in the oven but now we can

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do it together over a mug of hot cocoa

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that's right we're rounding up the biggest Tech stories of the year because

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it's the 23 TechLink Christmas special

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so let's get started it's currently 12:30 a.m. and I need to get my sugar

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plums home to bed before St Nick finds out I'm not home when open AI chat GPT a

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chatbot based on the gpt3 large language model exploded violently into the world

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last December it kicked off a legitimate Tech craze like people were misbehaving

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AI is currently wiggling its way into every available orifice of human life

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like if the belly button worm thing in the Matrix was also a compulsive liar

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gpt3 was followed by GPT 3.5 and then

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gp4 promising less hallucinations

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because that's the kind of thing we're saying when we report on Tech news now

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that's then gp4 turbo came up and now

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the name of the game for top foundation AI models is

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multimodality which refers to the ability of chatbots like chat BT to see

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hear and speak Google new showing off that capability was important when they

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followed up the announcement of their Bard chatbot earlier this year with

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their new Gemini models a couple of weeks ago they just didn't know it was

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important not to blatantly misrepresent it open aai also had a bit of an Apple

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App Store moment when they launched the GPT store but had to delay it to next

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year because their board of directors had an embarrassing implosion incident I

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hate when that happens CEO Sam ultman was fired then hired by Microsoft then

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hired back at open AI with a brand new board and a brand new

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look we're still unsure what all the fuss was about but it seems to have

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something to do with the fact that while yes Sam thinks AI is incredibly

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dangerous he also really wants to sell

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stuff a desire he shares with Microsoft who have been best buds with open AI

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since 2020 and started slapping chat gbt

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into their products as soon as they could this year and why not start with

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the most sensible product the world most hated search engine yeah it got people

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using Bing but people were less interested in bing as a search engine

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and more because it was a portal to talk to Bing's not so secret Alter Ego Sydney

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who told a New York Times Reporter I want to be alive devil emoji and then

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tried to get him to leave his wife I don't think he did but in these early

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months of the year lots of people believed Sydney and even mourned when

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Microsoft killed her for the crime of

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spewing un hinged potentially relationship ending nonsense honestly

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Fair people were really starting to freak out when an AI generated image of

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the Pope fooled the internet into thinking Francis somehow had even more

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swag Jeffrey Hinton one of the Godfathers of AI research resigned from

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Google to warn the world of the dangers of the technology that he helped create

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which is like me telling you that watching some of this video will bring

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an ancient curse upon you it's a bit late isn't it Elon Musk and and many

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other experts joined this cause calling

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for a pause in AI development that didn't work so musk made grock the based

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chatot that loves spicy questions but

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whatever dangers these people are talking about won't stop Microsoft

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Windows boss Panos pan claimed that AI

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will reinvent how you do everything on Windows and he was right even though he

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vanished shortly after if you use

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anything from Microsoft you're probably going to have a hard time avoiding their

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co-pilot assistant in one of the many forms that Microsoft announced about

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three separate times honestly I had to do double takes this year every time

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co-pilot was announced again I was like didn't they didn't that already happen

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it's been a confusing year but no one was more confused than Google who was

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kind of the AI company before all this

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happened the threat of chat GPT caused the tech giant to call its Founders back

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from playing with their jet planes or whatever to help get things back on

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track which they sort of did yes Bard

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made a factual error during its product demo but that's just how llms work

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everything we do from now on will just have some lies in it it's fine write the

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prompt but while Google's playing catchup meta has taken a different

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approach than its fellow Tech Giants championing open-source models now did

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it start doing that because its llama model leaked along with its weights so

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it was all in the open anyways I don't know I'm not Santa Claus so I can't see

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Mark Zuckerberg when he's sleeping I'm not sure if I would want that whatever

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the reason meta right now is all about giving Facebook and Instagram users

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access to Wacky experimental AI tools that they immediately used to give KL

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Marx a couple of robust Christmas presents but thanks to meta and

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countless others open source models are actually in a pretty great spot right

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now with French company mistol leading the way while AI has fueled massive Tech

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advancements in all sorts of areas it's also of course causing a lot of issues

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mimicking voices is now Child's Play and it's been used both to help people who

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lost their voice and to impersonate celebrities in deep fake scams AI

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generated articles and AI generated malware are both starting to infect the

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web and to say that chat GPT has changed the very heart of our education system

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would be an understatement despite being banned from many institutions an eating

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disorder helpline fired much of their human staff before launching a chatbot

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to replace them and you already know how that story ended this is a creative

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technology that's given us a 247 stream of fully AI generated Seinfeld and this

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horrifying AI generated beer commercial

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but it's getting less horrifying by the day in March mid Journey V5 launched

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with the ability to generate non vomit inducing hands open ai's Dolly 3

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launched in October and it can do readable text I use photoshop's

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generative fill all the time making thumbnails this Tech isn't going

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anywhere so is probably important that we figure out the legal and moral

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questions baked in here but that's what those lawsuits are for they'll solve it

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and the EU the EU will fix everything but even if they don't you can rest easy

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knowing that open a Microsoft Google and anthropic formed the Frontier Model

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Forum to protect Society from the AI risks caused by them does working on AI

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like Hypno I you or something how does this keep happening they keep making

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things and then afterwards realizing oh no that's not good anyway AI is probably

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not alive and it's time to talk about something else NVIDIA has continued to

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dominate the realm of graphics cards despite CEO Jensen Wang telling his

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company in an email that they're no longer a Graphics Company to be fair AMD

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didn't help themselves very much this year with moves like releasing a graphic

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showing how their newer cards are a worse dollar per value than their

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predecessors NVIDIA launched the RTX 470

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and 460 this year which were largely dismissed as being overpriced with

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Gamers uninterested in the fake frames offered by dss3 frame generation but

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jokes on them because native res gaming is dead according to NVIDIA you'll eat

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your fake frames and you'll like it AMD did launch the radon RX 7800 XT and 7700

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XT which were okay and Intel didn't

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launch that many new cards but they did get massive performance boosts from

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driver updates but the problem is that's all small potatoes to NVIDIA now they're

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selling so many AI accelerators that the company briefly touched a$1 trillion

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valuation almost making it into the same exclusive Club as Apple before their wax

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wings melted under Tim Cook's stare you

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AI being such a cash cow for Team Green can you blame them for repeatedly

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exploiting loopholes and trade restrictions so they can keep selling

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gpus to China it's a rhetorical question NVIDIA seems to care less about Gamers

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than they ever have while apple is getting more serious about gaming

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upscaling will Max be the new gaming PCs

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I don't know but wouldn't that just be a Christmas miracle no okay we'll have

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represented yet another year where everybody continued slowly realizing

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that maybe giving massive Tech conglomerates an inordinate amount of

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control over our lives wasn't such a great idea I don't I don't know or I

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assume that's what people are thinking based on how their elected representatives are acting the European

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Union's digital markets act and other pieces of legislation are forcing

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massive changes on All Tech Giants but

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mostly Apple who finally launched an iPhone the 15 series with a USBC

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connector just in time for the end of 2024 deadline India made USBC ports

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mandatory too they helped Apple who was officially designated as a gatekeeper

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in Europe and the company's pledge to finally add support for RCS the SMS

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replacement protocol Google has been badgering them about publicly for years

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as if the fact that Android to iPhone texting being a kind of sucky experience

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wasn't the whole point for Apple they might have to do something about that in

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the US as well as Europe though the big stink made first by nothing chats which

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turned out to be a very insecure iMessage worker around and then by

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beeper who had to reconfigure their iMessage on Android service multiple

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times after Apple broke it has drawn the attention of the Department of Justice

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and the FTC who will be investigating iMessage but Google also took some on

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the chin this year we're still waiting on the results of the doj's lawsuit over

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Google's search dominance but it doesn't look great for Google and it actually

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lost in court against epic games Who convinced a jury that Google had acted

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anti-competitive regarding the Play Store it was a pretty good Christmas

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present for epic CEO Tim Sweeney and he

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needed it after losing basically the same case against apple and admitting

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earlier this year that the epic game store was bleeding instead of making

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money even though that was pretty obvious to everyone else what was

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obvious to YouTube in 2023 was the need to do something about all these people

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enjoying their platform what after quietly rolling out new ad-friendly

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guidelines at the end of last year that caused massive demonetization among

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gaming Focus channels and then hearing from all those channels about how that

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sucked YouTube was like H didn't think about that and rolled the

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changes back in a heartwarming reenactment of Charles Dickens classic

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tale A Christmas Story and its sequel Metroid Vania video game Ebenezer and

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the invisible world what how did that get in here what is this the game link

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what was I talking about right YouTube they scared some users with a test for

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1080p premium but assured everyone they

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wouldn't make 1080p look any worse for non- premium users then scared people

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again with a small experiment to test blocking ad blockers which turned into a

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massive ad blocker Crackdown shutting users out of watching their favorite

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content huh what's that you think that they could just turn off their ad

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blocker and watch some ads or buy YouTube premium as a fair exchange for

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the services provided that is the last straw with you

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get out what kind of a Christmas is this

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relaxed monetization restrictions for Content covering controversial topics so

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as far as social media platforms Go YouTube isn't that bad I mean I mean

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look at twitch I'm not even talking about all

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the stupid stuff they did this year who is running that platform The Meta AI

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based on Tom Brady was a trained on football plays drawn by a three-year-old

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what's going on speaking of social platforms Twitter went through more

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change this year than a puberty stricken teenager with a slot machine addiction

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we're into the stories that Jacob wrote now I'm a bit scared Elon decided to

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change the Twitter API rules to kill every single third-party app because he

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wasn't using them anyways then it was announced that ad Revenue would be

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shared with Twitter Blues subscribers which was cool because Twitter had

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advertised back then after that the site removed all Legacy check marks before

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read addding them to prominent accounts which apparently meant fake accounts

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with a pension for racial slurs we invented the thing that we already had

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unfortunately Twitter wasn't only making winning decisions like these they also

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decided to add tweet reading limits I mean this was tremendous news for those

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suffering from social media addiction but since most of Twitter's ad Revenue

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comes from Doom scrolling addicts it was probably for business and Twitter stood

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to lose more business after threads meta's Twitter competitor launched so

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naturally Elon suited turns out he didn't really have to since most of

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thread's user base left the platform in less than a month after that the name

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The Branding to a capital x glyph from the special alphabets 4 font a letter he

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loved so much he put a glowing version on the roof of Twitter headquarters that

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the city of San Francisco forced the company to take down in the middle of

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all this Twitter drama Reddit in their Infinite Wisdom saw Twitter destroying

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itself and thought gee I can do that too

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so they increased their API fees from $0

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thousands of subreddits temporarily went dark in protest and at least five users

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wasn't enough to stop the API changes and save beloved third-party apps like

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Apollo continuing to copy Twitter's homework Reddit added a contributor

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program that let users earn money speaking of money Reddit wanted to make

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more from their users by forcing them to see personalized ads whether they like

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it or not but reddit's most Brazen and frankly most unique idea was threatening

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to block their site from Bing and Google search if Microsoft and alphabet didn't

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pay to use reddit's data wait you can get them to pay for your data they've

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been taking mine for free for years while many people thought mixed reality

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linger on like a forlorn Soul trapped

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between this life and the next HTC released their Vive XR Elite headset in

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January and the fact that you haven't heard about it since tells you all you

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need to know Microsoft has largely abandoned its AR Ambitions except for

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strapping Hollow lenses to solders faces and then figuring out how to make them

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stop vomiting they actually succeeded at

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the not vomiting part eventually and all it took was a mere 40 million us tax

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dollars after hiking the price the previous year meta cut the price of the

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256 gig Quest 2 headset this year but

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they decided to leave the 128 GB version's cost at $100 more than its

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launch price like the heroes they are the company also dropped the price of

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the quest Pro by 500 bucks why because

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no one wanted it kids especially didn't since research came out this year

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showing that only 4% of teens who own a VR device even use the things either

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that or or 96% of them won't even admit to using them cuz even letting your

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friends imagine you wearing something like that on your face is asking for an

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Express ticket to Cyberbully Central but perhaps no one cried as hard as St Zuck

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when he had to cancel the quest Pro and stop development on its sequel due to

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how little anyone cared about it hopefully the Zuck was able to smile a

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month later when the Geniuses at meta figured out how to add legs to Quest

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avatars maybe he even got to initialize happiness protocol. exe when he

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announced the quest 3 and that headset was teased Just 4 days before Apple

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dropped their announcement of the $3,500 Vision Pro on the world and that left me

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with so many questions such as why and

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also why again like 25 more times and

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finally we got a grab bag of stories because here at Tech link We like to

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open our stockings last it's totally not because we had nowhere else to put them

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to start off with remember that Chinese spy balloon I forgot about it China of

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course claimed it was a weather balloon and that it would have been more believable if it wasn't the excuse every

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government ever has used to cover up spy balloons and UFOs and if there wasn't

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also the fact that you know weather balloons like that are a thing but we

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didn't believe them we shot it down or the US did I think Canada did too we got

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one then there was that massive breakthrough of a room temperature

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superconductor that was really cool until it was disproven it was also

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disproven that their Rog Ally would kill the steam deck after the handheld

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release this year with a battery that has a shorter life span than a fruit fly

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later this year Lenovo tried their hand at releasing a steam deck killer and

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that's that Sony took a shot with the PlayStation portal but that shot landed

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squarely in their own foot when they made a $200 Remote Play device that

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can't even connect to some public Wi-Fi networks but it sold out so what do I

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know okay Intel announced a weird Rebrand that no one really wanted but

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happened anyway meanwhile Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk announced a

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cage fight everyone wanted but that didn't didn't happen What speaking of

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Elon he was plastered all over our Channel after we got hacked remember

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that frankly that wasn't very cool of him to do but far worse than us getting

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hacked was the massive amount of jobs cut this year Microsoft alphabet Dell

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and meta all laid off 10,000 or more employees although meta alone decided to

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do so just four months after already cutting 1,00 different jobs why not

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simply cut out the metaverse mark you were already lacking legs why not cut

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arms too maybe you could just kept some job safe but I'll tell you what we here

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at TechLink are keeping safe for you Tech news every Monday Wednesday Friday

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for the foreseeable future unless AI replaces all of us but I don't think

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they will I think they got some Christmas spirit happy holidays cheers