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When you look back at your life and see how much tech news you absorb through these,

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do you think you'll have any regrets? Because now's the time to do something about it.

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Okay, we're doing it. Google is wisely rebranding both its Bard Chatbot and Duet AI for Workspace as Gemini,

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the name of the language model most strongly remembered for its heinously deceptive demo.

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Good choice. But the tech giant says you shouldn't be surprised if Gemini still refers to itself as

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Bard for a while, presumably because it's inherited its creator's proclivity for bulls***.

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It's also Sydney on weekends. But the new Gemini Advanced, a paid tier powered by the flagship Gemini Ultra 1.0 model,

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might do a bit better. Early impressions seem to broadly agree that Gemini is indeed a chatbot,

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but one that is noticeably worse than GPT-4.

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YouTuber AI Explained found out the jail breaks cited as one reason for Gemini's delayed rollout

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still work, although fellow creator Fireship thought Gemini was better at Bukowski-inspired

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poetry. So I don't know, maybe it's just a more artsy chatbot.

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Maybe you just need to kind of like get down on its level a little bit.

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I'm not like other bots. Gemini Advanced can be accessed through the new Google One AI Premium subscription

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for 20 bucks a month, the same price as ChatGPT+, but at least Google's plan also gives you the

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standard Google One benefits and Gemini integration into Gmail and Drive.

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But the most interesting part of this story might be that Gemini can replace Google Assistant on

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Android with a pop-up overlay that can read what's on your screen and connect to Google's other

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services. If you have the new app, which is only available in the US right now, not here in Canada,

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even worse, Americans can install two Gemini apps, since the chatbot's also available in the

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regular Assistant app. There's not many of us up here, Google, just ship the extras.

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That's all right, we got Timbies, that's good enough. The Timbits are always there.

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Sony, the parent company of anime streaming platforms, Funimation and Crunchyroll,

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and a few other companies, I guess, is merging those two services together, and in so doing,

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deleting digital copies of content users purchased from Funimation.

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The move follows multiple instances of Sony removing content that users had

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purchased from the PlayStation Store, like a kid sneaking the Brussels sprouts his mom just bought

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into the garbage. Now, some of the codes for these digital copies were included with physical

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Blu-rays or DVDs of anime dubbed and released by Funimation, so customers may still have access

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to their content if they didn't lose the disks. But Funimation had promised access to customers

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digital copies forever. And if I thought that was true, why would I keep the disks instead of

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using them as eyes for my Halloween robot costume? Think Sony or Frisbees. To add insult to injury,

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the new service formed by Funimation and Crunchyroll's merger, called Crunchyroll,

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is getting a $20 price hike to $100 per year. For what? The privilege of having Sony steal

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my vegetables? Or am I going to get my nutrients? Instagram and Meta's Twitter competitor Threads

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will no longer proactively recommend political content, because toxic social media discourse

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should be centered around which AI-generated influencer is hotter, or more importantly,

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which of their fake dogs is cuter. The two platforms are following in the footsteps of Facebook,

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which had already minimized the prevalence of political content in its newsfeed and reels.

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If you still somehow manage to stumble onto a politics-related Instagram or Threads account,

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you can follow it and see the divisive partisan tripe it posts in your feed if you're some kind

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of masochistic sicko. And creators who specialize in said tripe and are concerned with the new rules

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maybe affecting their engagement can check whether that's happening under account status in their

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profile settings. Threads and Instagram boss Adam Massari said back when the Twitter-like

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first launched that the platform would specifically not prioritize news content,

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so this isn't coming completely out of left field. But I can't help but wonder if the solution to

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social media's measurably negative effect on mental health is something other than sealing

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your platform off into an even tighter bubble. It's gonna burst. And then all of the moms and

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aunts are gonna shoot out.

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I was wondering what a quick bit was? It's me. It's me.

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Cablemod issued a voluntary recall of its angled adapters for NVIDIA graphics cards back in December,

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but now the US Consumer Product Safety Commission has made it official. It turns out that the

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male connector can become loose and overheat, resulting in melting and potentially fire.

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Note that while all angled adapters are affected, angled cables are fine. Stick them wherever you

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like champ. Okay. The failure rate of these cables is only estimated to be 1.07%, but they've also

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caused around $75,000 in damage so far. They're NVIDIA graphics cards and they're on fire.

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It adds up fast. The FCC has officially deemed unsolicited robocalls using AI-generated voices

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illegal under existing law, specifically the 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

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The decision means that the FCC will now be able to fine anyone who tries to contact you

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about your car's extended warranty in the sultry tones of Frank Sinatra. And that sucks.

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This will also give attorneys general additional options to prosecute telemarketers that violate

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these regulations, as well as scammers that pretend to be your recently kidnapped grandson who

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desperately needs you to buy him $3,000 and best buy gift cards. Although that could be real or

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not. I mean, you don't... You know what's real if he's asking for Reebucks. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

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is seeking up to $7 trillion in investment to increase the world's chip building capacity and

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solve AI chip scarcity. Sounds like the marketing pitch for this. A real steal for just 13 times

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last year's global chip sales. Altman is talking to the governments of the US and the United Arab

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Emirates, as well as industry partners, to try and achieve the princely sum. In more humble news,

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NVIDIA has created a new business unit to tackle the $30 billion custom AI chip market,

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also known as the only AI chip market NVIDIA hasn't cornered yet. I'm sure things will change

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when Sam Altman raises enough money to buy Apple twice. And he'll be able to give vision pros to

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all the children. It'll scan their eyeballs and give them crypto. Brilliant Labs, a tech startup

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from formal Apple executive Bobak Tavengar, that's what we're going with, has launched Frame,

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open source smart glasses that pair with their AI-powered NOAA app. While the spectacles can

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answer many questions, based on their design, most users will simply ask for the location of

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the nearest craft brewery, or for the date of the next Decemberists concert. Included with the

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glasses is something called Mr. Power, which is actually a mobile charger and not, as I had assumed,

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the name of mail enhancement pills you could buy at a gas station. And we've gotten a teaser of

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what Lenovo has in store for the Mobile World Congress this year, an invisible laptop. Well,

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I mean, not invisible, just see-through. So depending on what you're watching, you can really

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horrify everybody else at the coffee shop. The display is fully transparent, with no visible

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bezel to speak of, so you can really appreciate the handprints on both the front and the back of

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your screen. Don't worry about making eye contact with anybody through the display, though, because

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you'll just be too busy trying to find the stupid non-corporeal buttons on its stupid glass touch

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keyboard. And so are you. So bring your fully corporeal self back on Monday for some more tech news.