you know there's Tech news and then there's well you know like Tech news and
you're about to get one of those for sure 5G has been the fastest cellular
Network Technology since it really started rolling out in 2019 just in time
to inject it into our bodies but now China's state-owned Telecom China mobile
has announced it's rolling out something called
5.5g which sources indicate has about
another half a g xia me says their 14
Ultra flagship phone supports the tech reaching speeds of more than 5 gbits per
second while Oppo CEO Pete Lao posted a
photo of his company's find X7 Ultra with a little 5ga in the top bar that's
because the official name for 5G and a little bit more is actually 5G Advanced
according to the group of Standards bodies responsible for developing such
Tech collectively known as 3G PP which
is short for third gen and PE
PE that's only five of a
joke we're having fun it appears that Huawei started popularizing the term
5.5g last year as their brand name for
5G Advanced which is fair enough because that just sounds like the premium tier
of 5G and I don't need another monthly subscription unless it's to flow.com I'm
sorry but Americans don't have to worry about any fractional bonus G's anytime
soon as the FCC and US carriers can't
decide whether the 6 GHz Spectrum band should belong to 5G Advanced or 6G which
I think will be provided to the population as pills this time open ai's
Flagship large language model gp4 turbo
has been surpassed by another model on chatbot arena for the first time since
chat gbt dropped onto Society like a bomb being ridden by Will Smith eating
spaghetti that's how it felt the new
king of llms according to the crowdsourced chatbot Arina leaderboard
is anthropics Claude 3 Opus which launched a few weeks ago along with less
powerful Claude 3 variants Sonet and Haiku which are neck and neck with some
less powerful GPT 4 variants themselves
the upset is even more upsetting for open AI given that anthropic was founded
by former open AI employees and now they're getting another $2.7 billion
investment from am so Jeff Bezos can talk to better AIS who understand him
like no human can oh all I want is to drink their blood is that so hard but in
equally interesting AI news xai just unveiled their updated grock 1.5 chapot
which is better at math and has a larger 128,000 token context window which will
probably just make the Boomer cringe humor worse open AI announced their
testing usage-based monetization on the GPT store which could eventually provide
a revenue stream for developers of all those custom gpts that are awesome for
generating not just copyright violations but TOS violations as well open AI also
revealed voice engine a model that can replicate any voice off of a 15-second
sample some of the most amazing habitats on Earth are found in the rainforest in
typical open aai fashion though they're letting you know that they have it but
that it's far too dangerous to release until they get more investors on board
to be fair though it seems like voice engine or any of the other pretty good
AI voice cloning tools out there could easily dup something like Chase Bank
which has let customers log in using voice identification since 2018 and
haven't yet reconsidered that decision for some reason you sound weird today
anyway here's your money Apple's mysterious machine that can update
iPhones while they're still sealed in the box is real a photo of the device
called presto was published by French language Tech
site generation I thought that was a
type of pasta no that's prgo Presto is
reportedly being rolled out to Apple Stores across the US this month allowing
iPhone users to skip the annoying initial updating process and get right
to that undeserved feeling of superiority but while Presto is
undoubtedly cool it would be more cool if it worked for airpods which cannot be
manually updated at all putting your devices close together and hoping the
update happens would feel better if there was a magic box involved speaking
of updates though Google lets slip on a landing page for Android messages that
iOS support for RCS or Rich chat services will arrive this fall it looks
like they didn't mean to let that slip though Google's now taken that part of
the site down but TechCrunch confirmed it's still there in the source code when
that rolls out iPhone users you have my permission to feel Superior only the
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bits I don't know they they never let me outside the China specific GeForce RTX
490d can apparently be overclocked to
nond D levels Double D the 490d is a cut
down version of NVIDIA's Flagship 40 series cards meant to comply with us
sanctions on China that the full fat card did not comply with now a Hong Kong
based Tech and review site has shown that the Rog stxs 490d specifically is
able to be overclocked achieving performance comparable to a Founders
Edition 490 but not defeating the point
of D's Nuts Qualcomm has apparently been giving
demos to select members of the press to show off their ARM-powered Snapdragon X
Elite laptop chips gaming prowess the
company flew several influencers to the their headquarters in San Diego to give
demos of balers Gate 3 control and
redout 2 while many are calling the games playable in their coverage there
are some important caveats especially to the boulders Gate 3 demos it looks like
these machines were apparently able to achieve about 30 FPS at 1080p with low
settings but the demos are all of the prologue fight which is set in a small
area not the demanding open world of the rest of the game that's kind of like
demonstrating you can swing by standing up in the shallow end of the
pool a new GPU made entirely by a oneman
operation can run Quake at 60 frames per
second pack it up NVIDIA Fury GPU is the
brainchild of game software developer Dylan Barry who has been working on the
project in his spare time for the last four years the GPU runs off a custom
Vulcan like Graphics API and does not
feature programmable shaders Barry in tends to open source the whole project
after he sorts out some legal issues he's wanted in
Tiana apparently since the project is tangentially related to his day job he
needs to make sure he's not breaking any agreements that he signed seems like
something he should have done before doing this but but as soon as he does
that get ready to land party like it's 1996 baby it's literally that year
because that's the games you can play New York City's my city chatbot which is
intended to answer questions related to starting a business has instead been
caught freestyling and telling users to break the law to be clear the bot isn't
straightforwardly advocating a life of crime it's just hallucinating an
alternative set of laws where it's not illegal to discriminate against tenants
on rental assistance and it's totally cool to fire an employee whistleblower
in retribution for reporting safety violations don't worry though it's an
equal opportunity Merchant of chaos because it also claims that you can't
fire an employee for taking a trip to the zoo on company time or evict a
tenant for setting fire to the building so all bets are off you ask it am I
allowed to legally do this it's like hey man live your life and researchers at
eth University in Zurich Switzerland have used machine learning to teach a
quadrapedal robot called
anyal parkour the anyal which looks and
moves moves like a possessed lawnmower uses a camera and an advanced neural
network to learn how to navigate obstacles through trial and error and
murder the robot is intended to one day be used to scout unstable terrain that
might be dangerous to human workers or
terrain in which human workers could hide from it and on a scale of 1 to 10
our next episode is at least an eight so
come back on Monday for a talk linked on
Florida's social media band for kids under 14 we're taking the day off so you
can listen to what Jacob and I had to say about that as long as you're 14 or
older