Microsoft announced a generative AI feature called co-pilot for I think the
fourth time at their September 21st event which they aptly named the
September 21st event yet they neglected to invite earthwind and fire what I'm
Riley Murdoch this is TechLink and you could actually use co-pilot for Windows
11 on September 26th the same day that
cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty expansion
comes out now do you play with that or your new Microsoft signed mandatory best
friend they're not happy about it either after announcing GitHub co-pilot
Microsoft 365 co-pilot and Windows
co-pilot back in May this new co-pilot
for Windows with a fancy new logo is as
significant as the PC was to the 80s the
web in the 9s Mobile in the 2000s and
cloud in the 2010s said Microsoft CEO and totally unbiased person Satia nadela
he has zero biases he's like the gray people from from Futurama and while we
know that co-pilot is available now to Windows insiders we don't know when open
ai's newly announced Dolly 3 which will be integrated into a number of Microsoft
products will be available but it sounds exciting open a claims the updated image
generator has gotten better at listening more carefully to every word in your
prompt not just the least boring ones Illustrated in this example image of
Little Red Riding Hood bartering with steampunk Wilford Brimley would you like
to buy a diet tretis a diet tretis yeah
it's a treat and Dolly 3 will be able to
generate text as illustrated by this depressed avocado talking to its natural
predator a spoon dolly3 will be coming to Bing so you can contextually update
your prompts to create amazing completely novel images like
brown-haired people putting on helmets how do you use your heart out Starfield
I didn't even know that could be a thing Microsoft also announced updates to
their line of surface products there's a sequel to the surface laptop Studio a
revolutionary device that dared to ask the question what if a MacBook Pro was
also an iPad for those looking for a more affordable device the surface
laptop go 3 keeps cost down by stopping at what if a Macbook I'm kidding of
course the laptop go3 has a touchcreen so for anyone doing business and no one
else the surface go4 for business features a new processor inside the same
body as the go3 and there's also a new Surface hub three that features new
hardware upgrades and can be purchased as an entire unit or a modular little
cute little pack that can be inserted into existing Hub 2s models and if you
use either of those for pleasure we will hunt you down it's for business yes we
pre-installed Candy Crush you're not supposed to open it and that's it which
is apparently why former surface lead penos pan left Microsoft started cutting
staff and pulling back on more experimental devices like the surfice
headphones and the Surface Pro X which I'm sure some people wanted more of pan
is now allegedly being hired by Amazon to replace their retiring Hardware Chief
Dave limp if you're wondering why he's retiring his his original name was Dave
normal walk before he was married he was Dave skips everywhere Unity Technologies
has revealed the updating pricing scheme they were forced to create after their
first updated pricing scheme got similar critical reception to Jared Leto's
seminal artpiece morbius it's uniting time and just like that one this one got
a re-release for those unfamiliar Unity announced they'd be introducing a
runtime fee that would be charged to developers whenever their Unity based
game was downloaded after a certain threshold for revenue and install count
was reached under the updated scheme Unity personal subscribers will not be
charged any fees and the revenue cap on games made with that plan will be
increased from $ 100,000 to $200,000 which is the amount of money
you you make when you make $100,000 twice little tip for you any unitym made
game that makes less than $1 million in a year will also not be charged the fee
developers also now have the choice of being subject to the fee or paying 2.5%
of their gross revenue instead and unity found the sense to not make the fee
retroactive it won't apply to games created using current versions of unity
unless they update to the new version when it launches alongside the runtime
fee policy in January Ramy is mail one
of the policy's largest critics has given careful approval of the changes so
it sounds like Unity is doing right by the Indie Dev Community fingers crossed
I mean we'll see frankly it's honestly just refreshing for a company's
executive to actually say in the blog post I am sorry like that just it
doesn't happen so well done and now it's
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break from talking very tiring YouTube announced a
few AI powered features at its made on YouTube event including dream screen an
art generating green screen effect to compete with Tik Tok which has had a
similar feature for months because literally everyone somehow ships AI
powered features faster than Google the AI
company whatever I'm not bothered generative AI Tools in YouTube studio
will soon help creators spark video ideas and draft CFT outlines
personalized for their specific channels generate translated audio dubs of their
videos and they can find backing songs simply using a description of the video
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that Microsoft May finally succeed in buying Activision Blizzard King
according to reports after the UK blocked the deal from going through the
country's competition regulator now says the New Deal has addressed their
previous concerns by agreeing to sell Activision's cloud gaming rights to
Ubisoft who will be free to Port Cloud versions of Activision Blizzard games to
any platform they're just like roped in a random other developer and be like
will you do the cloud okay fine I'll do the cloud games whatever the deal hopes
to close by October so Phil Spencer should have time to give his mom The
Ultimate Christmas gift unlimited hearts in Candy Crush cuz you know she's
playing it criticisms have been levied against the build quality of the newly
launched iPhone 15 and not even Tim Cook
pretending to be a normal guy in an Apple Store stopped them thought for
sure that would do it some I'm normal hi everyone it's me normal guy
some users have claimed the 15s aren't as durable as the previous generation
and others have said the phones have uneven coloring and when you're buying
them to basically be jewelry that's an issue Apple has indicated that
fingerprints might temporarily alter the color of the iPhone 15's titanium frame
but they didn't mention a finger nail can permanently scratch Apple's new
durable fine woven cases well there's a
simple fix for that buy your mama a nail
trimmer restricted military documents have wound up on the War Thunder Forum
yet again they cannot stop this time the
document in question is the flight manual for the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk
including information like sensor locations firing angles and engine
specifications moderators quickly deleted the thread but this is at least
the 10th time that an overheated War
Thunder player has tried to prove a point by leaking sensitive military
information why does this keep happening H National Security winning this
argument with butt muncher 69 stop it
just stop luckily the document isn't technically classified merely export
restricted so fingers crossed no one's getting Court marshaled over this one
and a new study from the University of Colorado Boulder has broken new ground
in using coffee grounds for 3D printing
soon we may be able to reframe our crippling Bean addictions into a
virtuous environmental push to reduce plastic waste by mixing the dry refined
coffee grounds with xanthan gum and cellulose powders and then using the
research team's open- Source printer adapter to create all kinds of
biodegradable doodads even coffee cups
that sounds dangerous soon all will be coffee and coffee will be all I don't
want that all hail the bean who summons
the bean Lord but all we can do is ask
you to come back on Monday for another episode of TechLink made entirely from
coffee grounds we're g to try it we're gonna see how it goes