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Google has revealed what is going to be the successor to Chromebooks. Google

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Books. Mhm. They're going to come out this fall

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running Google's Androidbased aluminium OS. But don't worry, that's just the

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code name. They're going to have a different name for it by the time it launches. They got the same crack

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branding team on it as the one that came up with Google Book. Google Book. I'm

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Riley Murdoch. This is TechLink. And the Google book announcement comes ahead of

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Google IO, the company's annual dev conference. This year's theme, even more

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AI. I mean, Google VP John Mletus says

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the Google book will run native Android apps with no emulation cuz it'll be

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running an OS built on the Android stack. Something that many of us were

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very excited about because I guess we assumed that Google wouldn't stuff it

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full of AI bloat. I don't know why we thought that. Google was showing this

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kind of stock Google book imagery in a lot of the presentation, but they didn't

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actually give any details on hardware.

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Apparently, it's going to be a very similar situation to the one with Chromebooks. Mletus says Google is

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working closely with major OEMs from Acer to Lenovo to ensure premium

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quality. and Intel, Qualcomm, and MediaTek are all on board on the

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processor side, meaning that both x86 and ARM support is baked in to Aluminium

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OS right out of the gate. Google similarly did not go into a ton of

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detail about aluminium OS, but they did talk a lot about magic pointer, which

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summons Gemini whenever you wiggle your cursor. So you can wiggle it over a

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table of data to turn it into a chart or wiggle it over an image of a Japanese

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storefront to get a translation. According to Google, the magic pointer

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is so important because pointing is really at the core of a lot of the

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interactions we have. I thought it was human connection, but no, actually I

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just this is this is the core of a lot. I just kind of go around,

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but it's where the Facebook poke came from. After months of waiting, the Trump

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phone is finally here. Asterisk asterisk

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on basically everything in that sentence. People who put down a $100

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pre-order deposit for the Trump phone have been freaking out this past week

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after Trump mobile updated its terms and conditions on April 6th. This led to

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people posting a lot of demonstrably false information on social media. posts

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went viral claiming that the terms and conditions said that the phone would not

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arrive, that people would not get their deposits back or refunded, that 600,000

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pre-orders of the phone were confirmed. According to The Verge, however, that

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claim of 600,000 pre-orders is just I that came out of nowhere. Someone made

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that up. And the terms and conditions do have a lot of weird language in there

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about how Trump might not release a phone. Uh just because you've gave us

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$100 doesn't mean we're going to release a phone. I don't know. However, they do

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very explicitly promise refunds if the phone never ships. Who knows if they're

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going to honor that, but it's in there. The general vibe on the internet for the

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past week and a half has been that the Trump phone is dead, which is a totally

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fair thing to think. I thought it was dead a long time ago. But even more

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reporting from The Verge has surfaced evidence that the Trump phone is more

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real than it's ever been. It got FCC approval back in January and PTCB

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approval in March, which is reportedly one of the final steps before a phone

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actually launches. And sure enough, Trump Mobile stated this morning that

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the phone is going to ship this week. Now, that said, the affforementioned

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terms and conditions also say delivery will come in no specific time frame,

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which could put it anywhere between now and the eventual heat death of the

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universe. But the important thing is that we should all keep doing our best

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to figure out what is going to happen with this phone. I mean, stability of

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the stock market, you know, inflation, wars happening, that's all that's fine.

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We got to figure out what is up with this yellow colored phone. Meta

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employees across the US have begun to organize protests in response to the

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company's new mouse and keyboard tracking software. The push back comes

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after last month's announcement that the tool would be logging employee activity

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in order to train the AI agents that met a plan to use to replace those same

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employees. The company then announced that 10% of staff would be laid off on

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May 20th to help fund $135 billion in AI spending.

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So the fallout has triggered unprecedented worker organizing at Meta

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with a movement now spreading to the UK through a tech workers union. So, I

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guess congratulations to Zuckerborg for finally achieving Meta's goal of

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bringing people together. This news comes during a rough stretch for the

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cursed puppet that is the Zuckerorn as Meta stock dropped nearly 9% after Q1

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earnings showed a loss of 20 million active users across their platforms and

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an impending $3.7 billion penalty as

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part of the ongoing New Mexico lawsuit. Honestly, in moments like this, I kind

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of feel sorry for Zuck. But then I remember that he's actually a lizard 95%

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back to my screenplay. You think it's weird if I call the protagonist James

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Quick Bits. I hardly know her. Spotify

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suffered a global outage Tuesday afternoon with more than 15,000 users

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reporting problems. The rest of them didn't even notice. Coincidentally, on

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the same day the company rolled out a flashy new feature celebrating and

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recapping your entire listening history, not just this past year, some users

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reported that their music had cut out, but the ads kept playing. Different user

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decided to go analog, listening to records to pass the time. Luckily,

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Spotify fixed the issue and it's working again now. Almost got a bit

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introspective there, listening to an artistic work in its entirety. Don't

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want that. The EU has announced that it is working on expanded child safety

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legislation intended to crack down on social platforms for addictive features.

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The commission said the move is necessary because these platforms have

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failed to protect children from harm. Enforcement is however where the EU will

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struggle as their age verification app was called a fundamentally illconceived

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disaster by security experts which incidentally is what my local paper

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called my high school jazz band's decision to incorporate Roman candles

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into our pep rally performance. It looked really cool though. Amazon

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announced Tuesday it's rolling out 30inut deliveries to dozens of US cities

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starting with bits of Seattle and Philadelphia. Its most aggressive push

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yet into quick commerce. The company is using smaller dark facilities tucked

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into neighborhoods close to where customers live. Knowing Amazon, I think

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those dark facilities might be where they keep employees trying to unionize

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or just take more than a 5-minute break. Apple released iOS 26.5 this week

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alongside a warning to update immediately since it patches over 60

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security flaws and many of them are serious. As usual, Apple's keeping the

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specifics vague in order to give users a head start before attackers reverse

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engineer the patches, I guess. So, you should probably go get the update,

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unless you've always dreamed of being a silent partner in a Bellarussian crypto

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mining operation. And Chinese robotics company Unitry debuted the GD01, a 9 ft,

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500 kg manned Mecca that could be yours

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for only $650,000. The demo showcases a pilot controlling

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the bot as it stomps happily along before proceeding to knock down a brick

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wall. Why are all of their demos so

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violent? They just accept it. They're just like, "Well, if we make robots,

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they're going to kill us." So, it was just like that's what But that's not

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all. It also transforms and crawls backwards on all fours like the girl

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from the ring. They one upped it for this one. The cockpit doesn't rotate

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though. So, in that form, the pilot would stare helplessly at the clouds. A

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great design for anyone who values a nice sunset over surviving a giant robot

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fight. I certainly hope you survive long enough to come back on Friday for more

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tech news. I'm sure we'll have some more quantifiably questionable and

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refreshingly quenchable quality stories.