No one's buying NVIDIA's new RTX 4060 Ti.
Swish for the good guys. US retailer Micro Center only ordered
a handful of cards for each location and decided against opening early
in response to what they describe as zero consumer interest in the GPU.
In Japan, when two retailers in Tokyo's popular Akihabara district, I'm sorry I haven't been to Japan guys,
opened for launch, they were met with a crowd filled
with customer, not one customer per store,
just one literal guy. Meanwhile, European retailers are already selling
the card below MSRP, presumably due to low demand.
Adding insult to injury, Intel cut the price of its ARC A750 to exactly half the price
of the 4060 Ti, making it a way better value proposition
for 1080p gaming and AV1 encoding. And your wallet.
Poor Jensen Wang must be crying all the way to the bank
as the company's stock exploded by almost 30%
due to their AI chip market. Yeah, while a small fisher lambasting team green
were trying to rip us off, Enterprise Wales are sucking down their overpriced krill
and asking for seconds, launching an NVIDIA toward a $1 trillion evaluation.
It's Jensen's damn leather jacket. It's too powerful for one man to possess.
An eating disorder helpline has decided to fire their six paid staffers and 200 volunteers
and replace them with a chatbot. But before you get mad, you should know
that the chatbot's name is Tessa. So, oh, does that not change anything?
Anyway, NEDA, NEDA, NEDA, the National Eating Disorders Association
has operated a helpline for 20 years. But after the small staff organized a union vote
to get the organization to expand staffing, NEDA's board chair told the employees
that they were ending the helpline program and transitioning to all Tessa all the time on June 1st.
That's soon. A NEDA spokesperson told Vice that Tessa
is not a replacement for the helpline. Of course not.
They're just ending the helpline and using the chatbot in its place.
What a mouthful to say. I wish there was a word for that. It's repli...
It's on the tip of my tongue. Replicoid.
Suffluent? Unethical.
Helpline staffers are concerned Tessa won't be able to replace the experience
of talking to a human and Dr. Fitzsimmons Kraft who led the team that created Tessa agrees.
What could a professor of psychiatry at Washington University's medical school
possibly know of mental health treatment? It's Washington.
They can't even decide on their last name. And Sony's streamed their PlayStation showcase
on Wednesday and made the bold decision to showcase very little of the PlayStation.
All Xbox. Really? No. We got a gameplay reveal trailer for Alan Wake 2
coming to PS5 and PC. Bungie decided to revive their marathon IP
which were a series of three single player FPS games.
Only now instead of that, it's a multiplayer only team based PVP extraction shooter
which makes perfect sense to someone. Please Larry.
Seemingly inspired by Bungie's bravery, Square Enix decided to revive Nintendo's
very much alive Splatoon IP. A series about squid and octopus people
shooting ink all over the place as the same game
but with generic anime protagonists shooting foam all over the place this time.
Then, seemingly inspired by that small bit of Nintendo plagiarism,
Sony formally announced they are reviving
the Wii U game pad as a screen sandwich between two halves of a DualSense controller.
Genius. This Project Q, worst name ever,
will allow you to remotely play games on your PS5 over Wi-Fi,
something that must be popular among Sony staff and probably no one else.
QN on maybe? Some think this could eventually be part of some
counter move to Xbox cloud gaming by Sony since the company is currently overhauling
its cloud gaming offering. Perhaps to make the clouds more foam like.
Foam stars coming soon. We're stuck on Splatoon. Quick bits.
Quick bits. Quick bits. Quick bits.
Elon Musk's Neuralink has received FDA approval to stick brain implants into the brains of living humans
which the company announced on Elon Musk's Twitter. I mean, all Twitter's Elon Musk's Twitter.
Elon claimed in December that Neuralink was six months away from sticking a chip in some guy
and after an investigation into Neuralink's staff complaints about the needless deaths of 1500 non-human animals
and an investigation into the company for the possible unsafe transport of hardware
contaminated with infectious pathogens, Elon's prediction came true for once.
Is there anything he can't predict other than everything else? Several marriages, I think.
Open AI's much more Boy Scout-y CEO, Sam Altman,
was in the news yesterday after he threatened to cease operating in the EU due to proposed AI regulations.
Obviously, Mr. Altman stands in stark disagreement with AI leaders like Sam Altman, the CEO of Open AI,
who a week ago urged the US Congress for AI regulations
acknowledging AI's potential impact on jobs. Yet, just today, Mr. Altman seems to have changed his mind
on the EU's regulations saying Open AI has no plans to leave.
It seems Mr. Altman was able to convince Mr. Altman to change his mind.
Mr. Altman, that is. Yes, of course. We all love Mr. Altman.
Scientists have discovered a new antibiotic to treat a drug-resistant superbug
called Ancinotobacter baumaneili.
Sinotobacter baumaneili.
That sounds like a Vietnamese sandwich. They're derp, they're derp.
Their deep learning model is able to narrow over 6,000 novel chemical compounds
to 240 perspectives that were then tested in the lab.
Nine of those were potential antibiotics with one showing strong suppression
of the deadly superbug. Of course, none of this would have been necessary
if we just stopped giving bacteria capes. No capes.
Or twisty mustaches. HP, the company known for preventing customers
from using third-party ink, is doing it again. But with a fun new twist,
their best-selling printers offer a time-limited offer for HP+, which gives six months of free ink
and an extended warranty, but will lock your printer into only working
with HP inks, even if you cancel after. The thing is, these HP products
have the EPET Ecolabel, which prohibits this behavior.
All in all, HP+, is a bad value proposition. I mean, it doesn't even have any original programming.
Nothing. They just licensed Disney stuff. And McDonald's China is celebrating
the year of the chicken, McNugget, with a giant nugget that plays Tetris.
Did I put a T on the end of that? It's a sad Tetris. It's a, whatever.
For a limited time, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the worldwide release of the McNugget,
you can buy an officially-licensed handheld version of the popular puzzle game for a mere 30 Yuan,
or $4.25. Or you could before they instantly sold out.
Of course they did. Gamers can't resist cheeky nuggies. Give me those Tendies, baby.
Just like you won't be able to resist coming back on Monday for more tech news.
And if you bring me Tendies, I'll teach you how to grow facial hair from somewhere other than your neck.
Here's a hint. Genetics. Hot parents, guys.