oh boy there are some stories today you won't believe these stories there are
stories and we're going to tell you about them and let me just say when Apple opened pre-orders for the
Vision Pro this morning demand was so high it seems to have exceeded available
Supply shipping estimates for each of the headsets three storage options have
now moved from February 2nd to mid-march but if you're sad you'll have to wait an
extra month for your face MacBook maybe don't be since the device is shipping
without a Netflix app of any kind literally unplayable what we supposed to
do not chill we're not just talking about a native Vision OS app mind you
back in September Apple claimed nearly all iPad and iPhone apps can run on
Vision OS unmodified but Netflix has confirmed to Bloomberg that they're not
making theirs compatible at all despite the process sounding much easier than
well buying a Vision Pro and Netflix isn't the only app absent from the
platform Bloomberg also was told by YouTube it will not allow its iPad app
to work on Vision Pro while a person familiar with spotify's plans said their
app wouldn't show up either and according to Mac stories many other
popular apps have also manually opted out of making their existing apps usable
on the platform but no one is saying why leaving us to assume the only logical
explanation is that they're all making their own $3,500 headsets this music
looks amazing Amazon is planning to launch a
paid subscription for its Voice Assistant later this year according to
leaked internal documents and sources we leak these sources everywhere they have
a tentative and very original name for the upgraded version of Alexa they're
calling it Alexa plus apparently Miss
plus will have more chat GPT style features to give it better
conversational and reasoning skills so you can get better input on what
specific toilet paper you should order with same day shipping chat gbt doesn't
even use toilet paper same day wiping even better than that the upgraded
assistant will allegedly be able to tell the difference between when you are
finished speaking and when you're just pausing so it doesn't cut you
off the the plus model could launch as
soon as June 30th but there are some roadblocks for starters while the new
assistant is a better conversationalist it's not very good at assisting it gives
overly long answers makes factual errors
and frequently hallucinates like a toddler on acid on top of those pretty
severe issues there's also reports of internal conflict at Amazon with some
employees feeling they shouldn't charge for the upgrade it's almost like
customers already paying Amazon's multitude of other subscriptions might
not want another one okay guys this is too many too many features don't buy it
tsmc says it anticipates further delays in getting their second Arizona Fab up
and running initially projected to be up and running in 2026 chairman Mark louu
now says it will probably take until 2027 or even 2028 when we won't exist my
Tyler's doing acid by then once again blaming all those gosh darn skilled
workers were apparently non-existing just as he did when the company
announced a similar delay for their other Arizona factory making things even
worse the Chip's output by Factory 2 may end up less advanced than planned tsmc
wanted their first factory to produce 4 nanometer chips while the second factory
made chips using three nanometer Tech but now the company says that 3
nanometer capability is dependent on funding promised by the US government
through their chips act however tsmc hasn't received their promised Grant yet
instead the Biden Administration gave first funding to BAE Systems Bay systems
a military supplier that makes chips for fighter jets which are admittedly a lot
sexier than computers and phones however even if tsmc can make a 3
nanom Fab this delay could mean the factory is a whole generation of silicon
Tech behind before it even opens its doors the Arizona chips are going to
feel so old when they hear Taiwanese chips saying all this new slang they
don't understand they're going to be like sweet
dude that's not based at all now it's time for quick bits brought to
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premium while you're there let's just get these pesy equip pits out of my pocket so they're ready to uh what
they're gone what are we going to do our show is
dependent on the quick pits how are we going to finish if there's
no in my other pocket it's all good Mark the Zach Zuckerberg has announced that
meta will be pursuing the creation of an artificial general intelligence
presumably so so he can have member of his own kind to talk to on this planet
part of Zuckerberg's vision is to make meta's theoretical future AI relatively
open source similar to their Lama llm
rather than solely controlled by a few Elite companies who know Jiu-Jitsu this
of course raised concerns with the general public having access to tools
roughly equivalent to human intelligence right now the general public isn't
intelligent at all at press times Zuckerberg was quoted as saying grow my
children move fast and break things BMW
will be introducing general purpose humanoid robots from figure at a
manufacturing plant in South Carolina figure CEO Brad Adcock whose name is a
complete
sentence I'm a professional it's hard when the whole room is
crying says that they're planning to ship their first figure 01 robot within
the year however these Bots will likely start with one task before expanding
their repertoire mostly repetitive unappealing task like stacking pallets
or unpacking boxes so hard to read when there's tears in your eyes there's
plenty of room to expand because these robots can apparently learn complex
actions like how to make a pot of coffee just by imitating videos of humans just
nobody let it watch Westworld that's what you want okay I'm
installing Adcock right now A janitor's house that was being
used as office space has been converted into an assistive smart home the Council
of the English city of Sunderland undertook the project to allow
occupational therapists and technologists as well as their customers and partners to have a space to train
with assist of technology and to try out ideas to maximize Independence for
clients they even use the space to help make gaming more accessible to kids
after all being differently enabled shouldn't Bor you from normal childhood
activities like being bullied in fortnite this the council decrees
Microsoft has made an AI reading tutor available for free Reading
Coach that's the name generates stories for users to read while being equipped
with guard rails to keep things appropriate users can make choic choices
to alter the story's plot to help make learning more engaging while
personalizing the experience by learning what words the learner is commonly
mispronouncing there's even a reward system that unlocks new elements and
characters that can be used to generate new stories and if that sounds too good
to be true that's because you're still going to need a Microsoft account to
access it they got your kids they got them now and a handheld AI powered skin
cancer detector has been approved by the FDA in an encouraging example of AI
That's being used for something other than pumping the internet full of detrus
the Derma sensor device actually identified skin cancer 96% of the time
and correctly ruled it out 97% of the time in the FDA study which is great
news for the one in five Americans who will get some type of skin cancer by age
70 but just in case the story made you feel too good I'm obligated to add that
the Derma sensor will be available to doctors through a subscription of $200 a
month per five patients or 400 bucks a month for unlimited use but think of the
time savings though you know oh yeah and those three out of 100 people pranks
it's a it was a prank bro I'm not sorry about giving you even more Tech news if
you come back on Monday but if you don't come back you just don't get Tech news
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