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Hey, thanks for waiting a whole week for fresh tech news while I was away.

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I thought I had another week before I would be assaulted by wacky CES news

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about sentient toilets or something, but apparently that's starting now, so strap in.

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LG has unveiled a bendable 45 inch OLED monitor

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at the apparently unprecedented resolution of 5120 by 2160.

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In their press release, unveiling the monitor, LG says it's set to be unveiled at CES next week,

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where it has somehow already won three CES 2025

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innovation awards. I was expecting CES news to be more 3D printed sandwiches

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and less time paradoxes, but sure, let's roll with it.

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Turns out those CES innovation award winners were actually announced in November.

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That's how I found out about Zeiss getting an award for their holographic transparent camera,

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which has already been pre-ordered by Wonder Woman to go with her invisible jet.

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Nope. An order that was placed in 1942.

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No, stop it. The camera is apparently sensors built into the frame

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of a window reconstructing an image from the ambient light that hits it,

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which sounds just bonkers, but so does LG announcing a microwave

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with a built in 27 inch display. So you can easily check on your food,

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maybe keep gaming while you wait for your hot pockets,

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or if it's anything like LG's actual TVs,

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get great product recommendations served directly to your kitchen.

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Hot food and hot deals? No, destroy it.

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AMD was also expected to unveil their next gen GPUs at CES,

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which were named the RX 8000 series at some point,

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but multiple leaks now indicate that instead of an RX 8800,

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AMD will be announcing the RX 9070,

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skipping a generation number and copying NVIDIA's naming convention.

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AMD pulled a similar stunt with their CPU names, apparently having learned brand strategy

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from the people behind popular movie franchises, Transmorphers, and Magic Wizard School,

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starring Hermione Grinder.

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Bench Life claims the RX 9070 will actually launch at the end of January.

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Fingers crossed that NVIDIA and AMD's plans to stockpile graphics cards

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before those tariffs hit pays off. Intel, a resurgent player

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in the desktop graphics card space, is expected to unveil another gaming focused card,

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but apparently they're also prepping a battle mage powered Arc Pro GPU

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with 24 gigabytes of memory, which is a lot, but hopefully not enough

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to remember Hermione Grinder, the top student at Chogboards.

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Sorry, that didn't help.

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You're a special boy with magic powers.

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Sorry, I'm so, okay, no, stop. OpenAI took the mask off on Friday

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and announced plans to transition into a mostly for-profit organization

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with a bit of non-profit on the side. Previously, the capped profit ARM of OpenAI

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was controlled by the non-profit ARM, which was controlled by a board of directors

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who didn't care about profit at all as long as robots took all our jobs.

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But now the for-profit ARM will become a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation

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required to balance the interests of shareholders

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and the public, and the non-profit

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will have shares in that company. I mean, it's so much more simple

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for the purposes of more money.

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This is exactly what Elon Musk was trying to prevent

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when he filed an injunction against OpenAI in early December,

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a filing that just received public support from a non-profit, ooh, irony maybe,

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called ENCODE, who even had one of the Godfathers of AI,

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Jeffrey Hinton, on board. I'd never heard of ENCODE before,

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but apparently they're run by young people concerned about where AI is heading.

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While Elon is an old guy, just mad that this is happening after he left.

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This is not right to do without me.

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Quick bits. They're here and then they're gone.

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Like most things. YouTube is testing a new floating action button

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in the Android app, kind of like Google's I'm Feeling Lucky button.

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It just starts playing a random video to distract you from those pesky thoughts.

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They actually started testing this a year ago with a simple black play button,

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but in the more recent tests spotted by nine to five Google, the button now says play something,

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play something, anything. Also, I love how nine to five Google's example

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of the something is a video by nothing.

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Is this what you want? iOS 18 appears to enable a feature

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called Enhanced Visual Search by default,

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which lets you identify landmarks in your photos, but requires sending some photo data to Apple.

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As pointed out by app developer Jeff Johnson, Apple says they do this privately,

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but it's a weird move for a privacy-focused company

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like Apple to just decide that you're probably okay

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with Apple seeing your photos in this scenario.

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I mean, that what happens on your iPhone stays there, billboard was all the way back in 2019.

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Things have changed. You can't just walk around not knowing

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that that's the Arc de Triomphe. Oh, it's like a big door.

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Embarrassing. NVIDIA's VP of robotics, Deepu Tala,

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told the Financial Times this week that the chat GPT moment for robotics

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is just around the corner. But NVIDIA would say that a gold rush is imminent

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when they're the one selling shovels and shovel accessories.

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Oh yeah, that puppy needs a scope.

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But they might not just be advertising their services. There have been many advances in robotics recently.

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Researchers at Stanford and Johns Hopkins just demonstrated surgical robots

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learning to complete tasks simply by watching videos for the first time.

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The training data was mostly TikTok ASMR. I mean, it turns out robots get the tingles too.

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And Meta has figured out they should probably use some of their immense wealth to do something

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about the software update that has bricked some users Quest 2, 3 and 3S headsets for weeks.

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While they initially said owners would simply have to buy a new device

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if theirs was out of warranty, this week the tech giant indicated

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some users might be considered for a free replacement

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regardless of warranty status. I mean, what else can we expect

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from the company that thinks it's a good idea to flood Facebook and Instagram with AI bot accounts

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so you can have even more fake friends you never see in real life?

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Speaking of which, you can see me again on Wednesday and I'll give you more tech news.

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It'll be New Year's Day. So maybe we can turn over a new leaf in our friendship,

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which is real.