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let's grip it or lose it baby lint also posted the designs in their Discord so people could 3D print them which they did and boy howdy do those ever look like VR controllers made of extruded plastic the Roy controllers are likely to pair with valve's decked VR headset which has been described in prolific leaks by Lynch and is expected to foro the index's tracking base stations in favor of meta Quest style Inside Out tracking that is interesting but perhaps not as exciting as the also leak designed for something code named Ibex aka the steam controller 2 aka the steam Duke I new valve still had some innovation in them good job make it chunkier Google is turning normal Texton websites into links to its own search results within the Google app in an obvious Cry for Help while being sued for favoring its own services in multiple jurisdictions the feature spotted by Barry Schwarz of search engine round table is called page annotations and was rolled out by Google about a week ago as a new way to get more info by modifying website owners Pages for them and steering users away from the site they're currently using we're helping Google's own example shows an annotation turning the first two words of an article describing Osaka Castle into a link to a Google search for the very same thing which is a bit like dumping the water cooler on your coach while he's swimming Labs gotcha website owners can opt out of the feature by filling out a form all you've got to do is enter the URLs that you represent in a comma separated list including all variations of the domain and then wait 30 days for it to take effect wait you don't want links we links lus a group of artists given Early Access to open AI Sora video generator for the purpose of testing leaked the tools API key on the model hosting platform hugging face briefly giving anyone the ability to summon hyper realistic videos of Sheba inu's riding surfboards in space or cats riding surfboards in space those really are the two main ones in a blog post the group going by PR puppets decried open AI using hundreds of artists to perform bug testing and experimental work with no compensation beyond the chance to enter a competition to have their Sora created films screened pretty good they now feel like they were lured into artwashing making it seem like open AI cares about the Arts as something other than refined fuel that its Advanced hallucinator can burn to make more AI slop in a statement open AI basically said well nobody made you sign up to test it and the company will quote continue to support artists through grants events and other programs just not this one anymore open AI obviously cut off access to Sora when they discovered the leak but some managed to generate a few rather uninteresting videos of some dudes running down an alley and a cat yawning couldn't you have given it a pirate hat or something that would have been art and and make him wear rain boots yeah it's good I mean not that he would need them if you checked out our sponsor vessie who says their shoes are waterproof yet feel comfortable right out of the box which is much better than plastic bags wrapped around your feet trust me I would know and trust me again when I say that VY shoes are godsent here in Vancouver where the rain seems to be still holding a grudge against all of us I don't know what we did and right now you can step into perfectly dry comfort with vess's Black Friday sale enjoy up to 40% off select waterproof Styles at vessie decom stay dry and save big by shopping now before the best deals slip away at the link down below little a little smaller part parts of news cute tootes just just an idea tsmc has shown off its plans to upgrade its chip on wafer on substrate or cowos technology to support much bigger interposers and up to 12 stacks of hbm 4 memory by 2027 this will allow chip designers to build processors the size of a human Palm not mine like a real one like bigger uh it's not quite the same as those wafer scale chips from cerebras but it's about what you do with it you know in other chip news Intel's chips act funding has finally been finalized at $ 7.86 billion pending the company achieving certain Milestones it's a little less than the original 82 billion but the government threw in an extra free Bill if Intel gives them some extra secure processors here's a tip Intel make them better than the last gen ones just an idea I mean a processor that doesn't work is pretty secure Microsoft has clarified that it is not training AI on your documents after a bit of public confusion over a feature called connected experiences in Microsoft 365 which is what they call office now and which shares the same logo as co-pilot for some reason I really hope Microsoft figures out at some point that branding is important bring back clippy and in other AI news Microsoft is no doubt one of the massive corporations that owns too many game studios according to a tweet from Elon Musk therefore his solution is that xai is going to make games great Again by starting an AI game studio with Blackjack and hookers no wait sorry no wait it really is just that isn't it awesome Beyond any concerns I may have about the abundance of procedurally generated mobile zombie games that we already have I think the thing that stands out most about this is I just don't get the logic behind xai which is owned by the world's richest man and is now worth like $50 billion not counting as a massive Corporation well they have a bigger bank account but it's like two people like now that gaming handhelds are all the rage it's time the market got a little more wacky with the designs a patent file by Samsung and spotted by 91 mobiles describes a handheld that takes a page from the company's zones book and then folds it in half so that the two ends with controller buttons meet they're kissing and then there's this 10-cent 3D one a concept device powered by lunar Lake which basically looks like an Rog Ally but with a massive 11-in screen between detachable controllers which looks perfect for getting in some reps while gaming you can finally stop playing Beat saber and researchers in Hong Kong have published a paper detailing a way to deliver different taste experiences through a prototype electronic lollipop or as the researchers call it a miniaturized portable gustation interface Microsoft is that you designed for mixed reality the device Alters its own taste using iono foris sending ions to transport flavor chemicals through a biologically safe hydrel the flavors on offer include Citrus Cherry milk green tea passion fruit grapefruit and durian huh as long as I only taste it and I don't have to smell it then I'm okay and you know what I would like to smell you coming back on Friday to get more Tech news from me that'll be the Thousand first episode which is kind of special in its own way I guess it's another it's also an episode it's also a number"}