if a tech newsman falls in the woods and there's no one around to hear will there
be anything for him to report H who can
say this is why I stay indoors rumors about Windows 12 requiring a
subscription swirled this week after German sight desk modder found
references to a subscription Edition in a canary Channel Windows 11 Insider
preview build that is absent in other Windows 11 builds nine way you might be
saying if you speak terrible German and you might be right while Outlets like
neowin initially supported desk moders hypothesis Windows Central the world's
Premier experts in looking outside have argued that this subscription language
isn't referring to the client version of Windows 12 but a newly discovered iot
Enterprise subscription edition of Windows 11 however the subscription
language could be a reference to new features in the future version of
Windows that will require a subscription such as the inevitable roll out of the
consumer version of the Windows 365 Cloud PC service and Windows 11 is only
going to have more AI stuffed into it I could easily see Microsoft charging to
have Bing attend meetings for you and make you sound smarter like every
plotline involving twins except Danny DeVito and arold swarzenegger I'm just
imagining them both doing impressions of the other I'm just a tiny little
guy epic gam CEO Tim Sweeney said at a
recent conference that his company will start charging non-game Developers for
their use of Unreal Engine next year which means that Tim Sweeney may have
only just realized non-game developers are using the service like for example
green screen based gaming news shows what what are you doing what stop that
what what you stop it stop good green
Unreal Engine has been free for any user to download and use since 2015 with epic
starting to take a 5% cut after any game built with it surpasses $1 million in
Revenue but that's not what the mandal glan is it's a streaming TV series that
started out promising before beginning the slow and arduous process of destroying its credibility among fans
and they didn't have to pay Tim Sweeney a cent for their virtual set pieces
Unreal Engine is being used by producers of film and TV shows vtubers with moap
setups and Coldplay who brought BTS back
as Holograms after the K-Pop group was tragically killed what they're alive
what about Tupac no
crap who are you talking to
huh anyway Sweeney admitted at unreal Fest that epic games figured out that
they had a financial problem 10 weeks before they decided to lay off over 800
people but how was Tim Sweeney supposed to know that free Unreal Engine access
giving away free games and starting then losing a massive lawsuit with apple will
cost so much money meta's new AI has been making headlines for all the wrong
reasons it came out last week that the company new AI chatbot was trained on
public Facebook and Instagram posts though they excluded posts only shown to
friends and family to respect consumers privacy meta then took all that money
they saved by trolling their own platforms for training data and passed
those savings on to celebrities and influencers by paying them millions to
use their faces and likenesses for their weird experimental fictional AI
characters but how else could they get Charles demilio to make sure our dance
moves aren't sus meta's new emu AI image
generator also couldn't avoid controversy this week Instagram
messenger and WhatsApp users have been using the new sticker generation tool to
make stickers of Elon Musk packing some dub Duong dong honos is that a real word
no it's a euphemism for breast but it's also complete nonsense
okay and then someone used it to create hot carl marks who has even bigger bonga
gongs honah HS thankfully some some more cultured
individuals have used the tool properly to give Waluigi a
gun go ahead Nintendo don't give him his own game see what happens now it's time
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handle the pressure alone makes it immeasurable pain please make it stop
just kidding I'm back Apple apparently seriously considered switching the
default search engine for private browsing on the iPhone and Mac from
Google to duck ducko The Internet's number one bird themed search engine as
part of the current antitrust case against Google search Duck Duck Go
CEO Gabriel Weinberg testified that from
2017 to 2019 they were in talks with apple because even in incognito mode
Google's browser tracking can be hard to
Duck duck. Go pitched similar proposals
to Mozilla Opera and Samsung but eventually gave up because it concluded
that Google's contract with each company was the biggest thing duck them
over tsmc and Samsung are allegedly
struggling to make large enough yields of 3 nanm nodes with the companies only
achieving 50% and 60% yields respectively that's a big problem for
Samsung because they need to get up to 70% yield if they want to get orders
from Qualcomm on the other hand this might be for the best as by some
analyses the 3 nmet node is barely worth switching to and the 3 nmet node is also
being blamed for overheating iPhone 15 Pro chips as if that phone needed any
more things to go wrong with it now the display is burning in too what happened
with this phone Apple Tim Cook likes his chips fried ratings.com has been running
an extensive burn-in test on three OLED PC monitors for about 5 months now
they've been playing CNN's 24/7 news on the two existing OLED monitors with
Samsung panels and one with an LG panel
the Samsung panels are already showing burn in though that may be due to their
higher brightness according to PC Gamer though they also point out that the
sample size of three is a bit small which is weird because my doctor is
always telling me that three is too many legs for a person to have but I know
he's just jealous of how fast I'll be able to run once I get another one I'll
find it luxury fashion house Prada has announced a partnership with axium space
to design NASA's next gen lunar space suits for the 2025 emis 3 moon mission
the aimu it's not how you say it space
suit named after how Prada acquires feathers for its hats a
u for fashion will be designed with the aim of
increasing mobility and protection on the lunar surface no word yet on whether
it will be Cerulean or the usual white
another goal is to address comfort and the human element neglected in the
design of Legacy suits and as such each axu suit will come with a safiano
leather clutch and heels No taller than 2 in when we meet the aliens they'll be
impressed first impressions are so important we were going to ignore you
but wow and Google Japan has once again
found themselves with a surplus of both money and tabs of LSD so they decided to
make a key cap that is a wearable cap
that functions as not just a single key switch but an entire
keyboard how well thanks to an internal gyroscope you can select another
character to type by turning the hat before you press it finally a reason to
turn your hat to the side that isn't a very out ofd attempt at impersonating
one of the youths hello fellow kids and
you'll be very out of date if you don't come back on Monday for more Tech news
and then the youths will laugh at you you don't want that