when you look back at your life and see how much Tech news you absorbed through
these do you think you'll have any regrets because Now's the Time to do
something about it okay we're doing it Google is wisely
rebranding both its B chatbot and duet
AI for workspace as Gemini the name of
the language model most strongly remembered for its heinously deceptive
demo good choice but the tech giant says you shouldn't be surprised if Gemini
still refers to itself as barred for a while presumably because it's inherited
its Creator's proclivity for bull it's also Sydney on week but the new Gemini
Advanced a paid tier powered by the flagship Gemini Ultra 1.0 model might do
a bit better early Impressions seem to broadly agree that Gemini is indeed a
chatbot but one that is noticably worse
than GPT 4 YouTuber AI explained found
out the jailbreaks cited as one reason for Gemini's delayed roll out still work
although fellow Creator fireship thought Gemini was better at Bowski inspired
poetry so I don't know maybe it's just a more artsy chatbot may you just need to
kind of like Get Down on its level a little bit I'm not like other Bots
Gemini Advanced can be accessed through the new Google one AI premium
subscription for 20 bucks a month the same price as chat GPT plus but at least
Google's plan also gives you the standard Google one benefits and Gemini
integration into Gmail and drive but the most interesting part of this story
might be that Gemini can replace Google assistant on Android with a popup
overlay that can read what's on your screen and connect to Google's other
services if you have the new app which is only available in the US right now
not here in Canada even worse Americans can install two Gemini apps since the
chat bot's also available in the regular assistant app there's not many of us up
here Google just ship it ship the extras it's all right we got timmies that's
good enough the Timbits are always there
Sony the parent company of anime streaming platforms FUNimation and
Crunchyroll and a few other companies I guess is merging those two Services
together and in so doing deleting digital copies of content users
purchased from FUNimation the move follows multiple instances of Sony
removing content that users had purchased from the PlayStation Store
like a kid sneaking the Brussels sprouts as Mom just bought into the garbage now
now some of the codes for these digital copies were included with physical
Blu-rays or DVDs of anime dubbed and released by FUNimation so customers may
still have access to their content if they didn't lose the discs but
FUNimation had promised access to customers digital copies forever and if
I thought that was true why would I keep the discs instead of using them as eyes
for my Halloween robot costume think Sony or frisbees to add insult to injury
the new Service formed by Funimation and crunchy rolls merger called crunchy roll
is getting a $20 price hike to 100 bucks
per year for what the privilege of having Sony steal my vegetables or am I
going to get my nutrients Instagram and meta's Twitter competitor threads will
no longer proactively recommend political content because toxic social
media discourse should be centered around which AI generated influencer is
hotter or more importantly which of their fake dogs is cuter the two
platforms are following in the footsteps of Facebook which had already minimized
the prevalence of political content in its Newsfeed and reals if you still
somehow manag to stumble onto a politics related Instagram or threads account you
can follow it and see the divisive
partisan tripe at posts in your feed if you're some kind of masochistic sicko
and creators who specialize in said tripe and are concerned with the new
rules maybe affecting their engagement can check whether that's happening under
account status in their profile settings threads and Instagram boss Adam masseri
said back when the Twitter like first launched that the platform would
specifically not prioritize news content
so this isn't coming completely out of left field but I can't help but wonder
if the solution to social media's measurably negative effect on mental
health is something other than sealing your platform off into an even tighter
bubble it's going to burst and then all of the moms and aunts are going to shoot
out mom no now it's time for quick pits
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was it's me it's me cable mod issued a
voluntary recall of its angled adapters for NVIDIA graphics cards back in
December but now the US consumer product safety commission has made it official
it turns out that the maale connector can become loose and overheat resulting
in melting and potentially fire note
that while all angled adapters are affected angled cables are fine stick
them wherever you like champ okay the failure rate of these cables is only
estimated to be 1.07% but they've also caused around
$75,000 in damage so far they're inidia
graphics cards and they're on fire it adds up fast the FCC has officially
deemed unsolicited rooc calls using AI generated voices illegal under existing
law specifically the 1991 telephone consumer protection act the decision
means that the FCC will now be able to find anyone who tries to contact you
about your car's extended warranty in the sultry tones of Frank Sinatra and
that sucks the Summer Wind check your
Kia this will also give Attorneys General additional options to prosecute
telemarketers that violate these regulations as well as scammers that
pretend to be your recently kidnapped grandson who desperately needs you to
buy him $3,000 in Best Buy gift cards although that could be real or not I
mean you don't you know what's real if he's asking for vbucks open AI CEO Sam
Altman is seeking up to7 trillion dollar
in investment to increase the world's chip building capacity and solve AI chip
scarcity sounds like the marketing pitch for this a real steal for just 13 times
last year's Global chip sales Alman is talking to the governments of the US and
the United Arab Emirates as well as industry Partners to try and achieve the
princely sum in more humble news NVIDIA
has created a new business unit to tackle the $30 billion custom AI chip
Market also known as the only AI chip Market NVIDIA hasn't cornered yet I'm
sure things will change once Sam Alman raises enough money to buy Apple twice
and he'll be able to give Vision Pros to all the children it'll scan their
eyeballs and give them crypto brilliant Labs a tech startup from formal Apple
executive Bobak tavangar that's what we're going with
has launched frame open- source smart glasses that pair with their AI powered
Noah app while the spectacles can answer many questions based on their design
most users will simply ask for the location of the nearest Craft brewery or
for the date of the next Decemberists concert included with the glasses is
something called Mr power which is actually a mobile charger and not as I
had assumed the name of maale enhancement pill you could buy at a gas
station and we've gotten a teaser of what Lenovo has in store for the Mobile
World Congress this year an invisible laptop well I mean not invisible just
see-through so depending on what you're watching you can really horrify
everybody else at the coffee shop the display is fully transparent with no
visible bezel to speak of so you can really appreciate the handprints on both
the front and the back of your screen don't worry about making eye contact
with anybody through the display though because you'll just be too busy trying
to find the stupid non-corporeal buttons
on its stupid glass touch keyboard
W Lenova why you're better than this and
so are you so bring your fully corporeal self back on Monday for some more Tech
news