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An Xbox gaming handheld is being planned by Microsoft
to launch later this very year. According to fairly reliable Xbox Insider,
and no big deal if you say his name with a Southern accent, Giz Corden.
It's Giz Corden. According to Corden's sources,
the handheld will be an Xbox branded device made by a manufacturing partner.
Kind of like how Lenovo made an officially licensed SteamOS device, the Legion Go S.
That handheld was apparently so good it made this laptop mag writer
want to buy Valve's first party Steam Deck instead.
Which is maybe Microsoft's end game. Giz also says the company plans to launch
a proper first party Xbox handheld in 2027,
along with a premium Series X console successor.
Corden elaborated on the Xbox two podcast,
saying that there may not be any developer kits for this round of consoles.
Game devs will just need a set of specs to target
because this Xbox will essentially just be a PC
in a TV friendly shell, as opposed to normal PCs,
which when placed near a television can erupt into hissing and growling.
The news of upcoming Xbox hardware could reassure some fans worried
about former Xbox exclusives being published on other platforms,
like Forza Horizon 5, which will launch in April on PlayStation 5
with a Microsoft account login requirement,
because that went so well for Sony's PC games. That'll show them,
that'll show those dirty PlayStation fans that their parents should have bought an Xbox instead
when they were children, so they'd form a ridiculous social attachment to the brand I like.
Speaking of branding, specs and images have leaked
of NVIDIA's Blackwell powered pro workstation card
called the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell.
As with the card's predecessor, the RTX 6000 ADA generation,
the 6000 means this is NVIDIA's flagship pro model,
but this time they threw a pro in there too, in all caps, just to be sure.
It's only for pros, stop looking. Video cards found the images after Twitter leaker
Harukaze leaked specs, which led Mark Brown to find a listing
from card manufacturer, LeadTech. Great job everybody,
but gamers are probably more interested in the leaked specs
for the RTX 5050, 5060, and 5060 Ti,
which were posted by other Twitter leaker, whose name I will always pronounce as Copete 7 Kimmy,
because it pleases me. Unfortunately, these specs for these low to mid rangers
likely won't please low to mid gamers,
which is a half hearted diss I already regret. We're talking specs that barely improve
on their predecessors, if at all. But with a launch expected sometime in the next few months,
NVIDIA still has time to add a qualifier to the name,
RTX Fun 5050, don't take it too seriously.
Following reports that Apple has delayed its LLM powered Siri upgrade indefinitely,
some, like Mac rumors contributor, Aaron Parris,
wondered if Apple would pull ads that specifically advertise the feature,
since it's not a thing.
Turns out Apple would, they took down the ad shortly after Parris tweeted about it,
leaving no evidence of any false advertising.
Except for, as pointed out by Snazzy Labs, aka Quinn Nelson,
this whole section of Apple's iPhone 16 Pro page
full of false advertising. Yeah, the text there makes it sound like Siri
can do advanced AI assistant stuff right now,
instead of saying that at some future point, she'll be able to do them about two thirds of the time.
And the remaining 33% she'll hallucinate and book your grandma a flight to Siberia.
But those two thirds times, what the fuck, magical.
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I put the hat back on for the quick bits, because it was, I mean, it was just sitting there and I was like, stick to the bit.
And so I, you know what, it's fine, it's okay.
Scammers selling fake hardware online is nothing new,
but the problem seems to be affecting seemingly legit listings on Amazon even more these days.
As evidenced by this supposed Ryzen 7 9800 X3D
purchased by YouTube channel Hardware Busters, that turned out to be a 14 year old AMD FX4100
with a sticker on it. That sticker was really on there though, so.
So be careful out there. If you're shopping for the Ryzen 99950 X3D,
which will supposedly launch this Wednesday for 700 bucks,
maybe, who knows. Turns out that battery demolishing update
for the Pixel 4a was pushed by Google to prevent battery overheating risk,
which was bad enough that Australia issued a formal recall of the devices.
Although in the age of software updates, a recall often just means an urgent notice to update,
which is the case here. But all Google said when they first issued the update
was that it was necessary to improve the stability of the battery's performance,
which doesn't sound nearly as dire as phone could explode.
But hey, why do we need to know why a tech giant is fundamentally altering something
about a device's performance? It's their phone, we just gave them some money to use it.
Speaking of borked Google things, owners quote unquote of second gen Chromecast
and Chromecast audio devices were frustrated to be met
with untrusted device errors this week, leading some to worry the Google graveyard
had come for their dongles as it shall for us all.
But nope, it was just a glitch and Google's working on a fix.
Just be glad the issues weren't the result of a massive cyber attack,
like the one Elon Musk said was responsible for stability issues experienced by ex-users this morning.
They don't want you to tweet. Better tweet even harder
and Grock writes the funniest best tweets ever,
so subscribe to that. Some DVDs released by Warner Brothers
from the years 2006 to 2008 have been found to go bad
due to a manufacturing defect known as disk rot,
which is way more biologically related terms
than I'm used to using when speaking about optical disks, which I do each morning when I wake up.
The issue was investigated by Chris Bumbray
of movie news site Joe Blow and Warner Bros has now stated they're working
with consumers to replace defective disks. So you might wanna check your DVDs
if you have any of that released from 2006 to 2008,
especially because you probably got some good ones in there. The prestige, the departed, children of men,
the devil wears Prada, pans labyrinth, step up,
that's all one year because movies used to be good. And the Compal Infinite is a laptop with a screen
that rolls outward to expand itself horizontally,
as opposed to vertically, like the Lenovo Thinkbook plus Gen 6.
The Infinite even won an IF design award,
which doesn't mean much because they've gotten the same award
for a number of other cool products that never came to market. You want a real innovative screen type product?
ASUS just launched monitors with built-in air purifiers
so you don't actually have to go touch grass to get fresh air.
Take that, mom. Here's something else you can touch, your mouse or phone or whatever
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