shall I compare the tech news to a summer's day why would I do that they
they have nothing in common at their unpacked event this morning Samsung
unveiled the Galaxy s24 s24 plus and s24
Ultra packed with new features powered by Galaxy AI which as we'll see in most
cases actually means Google AI these companies are showing so much PDA it's
making me a little uncomfortable the S 24s all support Wi-Fi 7 and are powered
by the slightly tweaked snapdragon 8 gen 3 for Galaxy promising 53% better R
tracing performance and the twitch streamer that Samsung referred to as
Pokemon said she's excited about that because Ray tracing is one of the main
reasons she's a PC Gamer even though consoles have it too and you're talking
about gaming on a phone anyway it doesn't matter the s24 ultra has a peak
brightness of 2600 nits beating the
iPhone 15 Pro and pixel 8 Pro and making
this Samsung guy say it's perfect for him since since he loves gaming outdoors
I love gaming Outdoors myself there's just something about the squinting and
the sweaty end or cold fingers that really works for me I want to fight a
bear as for camera upgrades interestingly the s23 10x optical zoom
has been cut in half the s24 can only do
5x optical zoom and 10 times at Optical
quality although it is the first Samsung phone with five times optical zoom on 8
K video and it can still do pretty good digital zoom up to 100 times which Mr
Beast was very excited about he's always
excited just loves life Samsung built the s24 ultra with a titanium frame
because that went so well for the iPhone 15 Pro added brand new stronger Corning
Gorilla armor and is offering the phones in a range of gender neutral colors
thank goodness I do not want to seem like a py then there's the new AI
features presented with the tagline epic just like that which has to be written
by AI the s24 lineup supports real-time
translation in voice calls and text messages and in the latter it can even
translate your tone if you don't make words good generative edit can replace
parts of a photo and fill outside the edges using Google's image and 2 while
instance slow-mo will insert AI generated frames to your existing video
if you want to see what your skateboard trick would look like if you were dreaming or hi on something Galaxy AI
features use some on device processing powered by Google's Gemini Nano model or
extra Cloud processing if you enable it using Gemini Pro which can summarize
text in notes voice recorder and Samsung keyboard that's not all Google helped
Samsung with on January 31st the Galaxy s24 series will be the only phones other
than the pixel 8 and 8 Pro to support Circle to search which lets you Circle
anything in any app to Google it with Google l
Galaxy phones starting with the s24 series will also now get 7 years of
security and OS updates just like pixels plus now that Samsung's Quick Share
works with every Android phone it's definitely the airdrop of Android now
Samsung and Google why are you guys together all the time and why did
Samsung announce they're making a smart ring OMG Samsung's going to propose I
couldn't think of a cuter Tech Giant couple but that may get off to a rocky
start it's otherwise been a bad week of news for Google who are reportedly
laying off hundreds of employees from their ad sales team for at least the
last few months the company has been moving staff away from serving its
largest advertising clients as it increasingly automates those Services
through AI powered products like performance Max essentially Google is
replacing many of its former Salesforce with the AI created by Google's own
Engineers which has got to make the water cooler talk a little awkward award
perhaps trying to avoid further negative attention Google also quietly updated
its incognito mode disclaimer in a canary build of chrome to inform users
that the company is in fact collecting their information while they're in
incognito mode and they always have been in the aftermath of a class action
lawsuit in not Google's fault but definitely Google's problem news a
recent study by German researchers has confirmed that Google search results are
indeed getting worse as are all other search engines because they're
absolutely swamped with SEO spam worse
Google's attempts to address this flood of informational sewage seems to have
only a minor temporary impact but there was one bright spot in Google's week so
far turns out that the noticeable slowdown on YouTube for ad blocker users
wasn't a punishment from Google but a bug within ad block and ad block plus
itself after their recent update I guess we'll chalk one up for the little guy
the massive International conglomerate little guy the Supreme Court has
declined to hear either epic or Apple's
appeal in their longtime legal dispute over Apple's iOS store rules meaning
that the case is mostly over and the lower courts ruling stands I say mostly
because now apple is seeking $7 73.4
million from epic in order to cover its legal fees and apple needs the money
considering how it was overtaken by Microsoft as the world's most valuable
company just last week despite Apple selling the most phones out of any OEM
in 2023 basically broke I mean Tim Cook
hasn't left his office he's just sobbing as a refresher the Lower Court
ruling wasn't totally in Apple's favor however and they will be forced to relax
their anti- steering policies for the US App Store and allow app developers to
direct users to Alternative payment methods however according to Apple's
newly revised App Store guidelines Apple will still take a commission on those
sales 12% for members of the App Store Small Business program and 27% for
everyone else thus while this doesn't eliminate App Store fees given the sheer
number of developers involved it does make them harder for Apple to collect
and enforce it'd be like if instead of lowering taxes the government just
banned the IRS from snooping snooping
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some achieve quickness others have quick bits thrust upon them this episode's all
about the modified quotes with the US presidential election coming this year
openai has announced new rules intended to prevent its AI tools from being used
to propagate political misinformation including Banning chat Bots intended to
impersonate government officials or political candidates though considering
that open AI has also banned AI girlfriends and its own GPT store is
still packed to the rafters with Robo wuss it's not entirely clear how well
enforced these new rules will be open AI has likewise silently deleted language
from its terms of service Banning military use of chat gbt so I'm
personally looking forward to this November when an AI powerered hatsun
Miku gets voted into the White House in a l slide and immediately declares war
on someone it's going to be the cutest War you've ever seen how I make of this
huh that's who name Dell's pretty cool cam memory technology they announced a
few years ago was adop Ed as a new standard by the jedc solid state
technology Association last month under the name LP cam 2 and modules were
unveiled by Micron last week the new standard allows for the benefits of
faster lpddr memory without soldering it
directly to the motherboard and it requires much less space than the
existing sodim standard I feel bad for
sodim being replaced but it kind of had it coming with a name like that
Executives of Fujitsu have fin finally acknowledged that the company should
help compensate the victims of the British post office Scandal where over
900 Postal Service contractors were falsely charged with theft and fraud
between 1999 and 2015 due to errors
caused by the buggy Fujitsu accounting
software Fujitsu has also admitted that the company knew the software was
defective even as it helped the Royal Male prosecute hundreds of innocent
people leading to imprisonment bankr repy and at least four suicides postal
workers traditionally hold a place of trust and respect in British society and
many children grew up watching classic stopmotion cartoon Postman Pat little
did they know that the show would end with poor Pat doing hard time after he
gets framed for high crimes and misdemeanors by a malfunctioning
computer I had never heard of this story before today and it's wild non-profit
organization fairly trained has launched a new certification program for AI model
models that respect relevant copyright similar to the fair trade label on
coffee and other similar Goods fairly trained was founded by stability ai's
xvp for audio Ed Newton Rex cool name
who reportedly left the company over concerns that they were exploiting
creators in order to acquire the Fairly trained stamp of approval generative AI
models must have clear permission to use all of the copyrighted material they're
trained on wow now if only we had some way to tell which Jon models are
gluten-free non- GMO and organic it's none of them and will IM is launching a
Serious XM podcast and co-hosting it
with an AI because of course he is will.
i.m is so 3008 that he has already transcended
mortal concerns like how to spell names without periods in the middle of them
naturally his AI co-host name is spelled QD period Pi but pronounced cutipie
again of course the AI is powered by Williams AI app FYI which stands for
Focus your ideas what tremendous advice from the
writer of the 2005 Masterpiece My
Humps and you better write a comment promising to come back on Friday for
more Tech news we won't have an AI co-host as far as you know but seriously
there's no AI here um there isn't m