WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.640 Microsoft announced a generative AI feature called Copilot for, I think, the fourth time at their 00:00:06.640 --> 00:00:12.960 September 21st event, which they aptly named the September 21st event. Yet they neglected to 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:18.720 invite Earth, Wind, and Fire. I'm Riley Murdoch. This is TechLink, and you could actually use 00:00:18.720 --> 00:00:26.320 Copilot for Windows 11 on September 26th, the same day that Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:31.760 expansion comes out. Now do you play with that or your new Microsoft-assigned mandatory best friend? 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:37.680 They're not happy about it either. After announcing GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and 00:00:38.400 --> 00:00:46.400 Windows Copilot back in May, this new Copilot for Windows, with a fancy new logo, is as significant 00:00:46.400 --> 00:00:53.280 as the PC was to the 80s. The web in the 90s, mobile in the 2000s, and cloud in the 2010s, 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:59.200 said Microsoft CEO and totally unbiased person, Satya Nadella. He has zero biases. He's like 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:04.240 the gray people from Futurama. And while we know that Copilot is available now to Windows insiders, 00:01:04.240 --> 00:01:09.680 we don't know when OpenAI's newly announced Dolly 3, which will be integrated into a number 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:14.960 of Microsoft products, will be available. But it sounds exciting. OpenAI claims the updated 00:01:14.960 --> 00:01:20.160 image generator has gotten better at listening more carefully to every word in your prompt, 00:01:20.160 --> 00:01:25.440 not just the least boring ones. Illustrated in this example image of Little Red Riding Hood 00:01:25.440 --> 00:01:36.800 bartering with steampunk Wilford Brimley. And Dolly 3 will be able to generate text, 00:01:36.800 --> 00:01:42.400 as illustrated by this depressed avocado talking to its natural predator, a spoon. 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:47.520 Dolly 3 will be coming to Bing, so you can contextually update your prompts to create 00:01:47.520 --> 00:01:52.160 amazing, completely novel images, like brown-haired people putting on helmets. 00:01:56.160 --> 00:02:00.800 Microsoft also announced updates to their line of surface products. There's a sequel to the 00:02:00.800 --> 00:02:05.600 Surface Laptop Studio, a revolutionary device that dared to ask the question, 00:02:05.600 --> 00:02:10.000 what if a MacBook Pro was also an iPad? For those looking for a more affordable device, 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:14.960 the Surface Laptop Go 3 keeps costs down by stopping at, what if a MacBook? 00:02:15.600 --> 00:02:18.640 I'm kidding, of course. The laptop Go 3 has a touchscreen. 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:25.280 For anyone doing business, and no one else. The Surface Go 4 for business features a new 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:30.400 processor inside the same body as the Go 3, and there's also a new Surface Hub 3 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:34.560 that features new hardware upgrades and can be purchased as an entire unit, 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:40.240 or a modular little cute little pack that can be inserted into existing Hub 2S models. 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:47.760 It's for business. Yes, we pre-installed Candy Crush, you're not supposed to open it. 00:02:47.760 --> 00:02:53.760 And that's it, which is apparently why former Surface Lead, Penos Panay, left. Microsoft 00:02:53.760 --> 00:02:58.800 started cutting staff and pulling back on more experimental devices like the Surface Headphones 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:03.040 and the Surface Pro X, which I'm sure some people wanted more of. 00:03:03.040 --> 00:03:08.240 Panay is now allegedly being hired by Amazon to replace their retiring hardware chief, 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:14.960 Dave Limp. If you're wondering why he's retiring, his original name was Dave Normalwalk. 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:23.760 Unity Technologies has revealed the updating pricing scheme they were forced to create 00:03:23.760 --> 00:03:28.800 after their first updated pricing scheme got similar critical reception to Jared Leto's 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:34.160 seminal art piece, Morbius. It's unite in time. And just like that one, this one got a re-release. 00:03:34.160 --> 00:03:39.040 For those unfamiliar, Unity announced they'd be introducing a runtime fee that would be charged 00:03:39.040 --> 00:03:44.400 to developers whenever their Unity-based game was downloaded, after a certain threshold for 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:49.840 revenue and install count was reached. Under the updated scheme, Unity personal subscribers 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:55.440 will not be charged to any fees, and the revenue cap on games made with that plan will be increased 00:03:55.440 --> 00:04:02.320 from $100,000 to $200,000, which is the amount of money you make when you make $100,000 twice. 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:08.880 Any Unity-made game that makes less than $1 million in a year will also not be charged the fee. 00:04:08.880 --> 00:04:14.480 Developers also now have the choice of being subject to the fee or paying 2.5% of their gross 00:04:14.480 --> 00:04:20.880 revenue instead. And Unity found the sense to not make the fee retroactive. It won't apply to games 00:04:20.880 --> 00:04:25.520 created using current versions of Unity unless they update to the new version when it launches 00:04:25.520 --> 00:04:31.520 alongside the runtime fee policy in January. Rami Ismail, one of the policy's largest critics, 00:04:31.520 --> 00:04:36.720 has given careful approval of the changes, so it sounds like Unity is doing right by the 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:42.560 indie dev community. Uh, fingers crossed, I mean, we'll see. Frankly, it's honestly just refreshing 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:48.480 for a company's executive to actually say in the blog post, I am sorry. Like that just, 00:04:49.760 --> 00:04:56.080 it doesn't happen, so well done. I'd like to ask for a moment of silence for these quick bits. 00:04:57.040 --> 00:04:59.840 No, nothing bad happened. I just want a break from talking. 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:10.000 YouTube announced a few AI-powered features at its made-on YouTube event, including Dream Screen, 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:14.480 an art-generating green screen effect to compete with TikTok, which has had a similar feature 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:19.520 for months because literally everyone somehow ships AI-powered features faster than Google, 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:28.160 the AI company. Generative AI tools in YouTube Studio will soon help creators spark video ideas 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:33.440 and draft outlines personalized for their specific channels, generate translated audio 00:05:33.440 --> 00:05:38.960 dubs of their videos, and they can find backing songs simply using a description of the video, 00:05:38.960 --> 00:05:42.400 which in our case would probably bring up a ton of songs about clicking affiliate links. 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:44.000 What do you want down there? 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:52.480 They didn't pay us for that. Microsoft may finally succeed in buying Activision Blizzard King, 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:56.800 according to reports. After the UK blocked the deal from going through, the country's 00:05:56.800 --> 00:06:02.320 competition regulator now says the new deal has addressed their previous concerns by agreeing 00:06:02.320 --> 00:06:08.480 to sell Activision's cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft, who will be free to port cloud versions 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:18.400 of Activision Blizzard games to any platform. The deal hopes to close by October, 00:06:18.400 --> 00:06:22.480 so Phil Spencer should have time to give his mom the ultimate Christmas gift. 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:30.800 Criticisms have been levied against the build quality of the newly launched iPhone 15, 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:35.360 and not even Tim Cook pretending to be a normal guy in an Apple store stopped them. 00:06:39.440 --> 00:06:46.080 Hi everyone, it's me, Normal Guy. Some users have claimed the 15s aren't as durable as the previous generation, 00:06:46.080 --> 00:06:49.120 and others have said the phones have uneven coloring. 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:57.440 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 00:06:57.440 --> 00:07:03.360 titanium frame, but they didn't mention a fingernail can permanently scratch Apple's new 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:07.680 durable, fine-woven cases. Well, there's a simple fix for that. 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:15.280 Buy your mama nail trimmer. Restricted military documents have wound up on the War Thunder Forum, 00:07:15.280 --> 00:07:21.360 yet again, they cannot stop. This time, the documented question is the flight manual 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:27.680 for the Lockheed F117 Nighthawk, including information like sensor locations, firing 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:32.400 angles, and engine specifications. Moderators quickly deleted the thread, 00:07:32.400 --> 00:07:38.880 but this is at least the 10th time that an overheated War Thunder player has tried to prove 00:07:38.880 --> 00:07:43.840 a point by leaking sensitive military information. What does this keep happening? 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:49.920 National security, winning this argument with Buttmuncher 69. Stop it. Just stop. 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:54.800 Luckily, the document isn't technically classified, merely export restricted, 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:58.320 so fingers crossed no one's getting court-martialed over this one. 00:07:58.320 --> 00:08:02.480 And a new study from the University of Colorado, Boulder, has broken new ground 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:08.720 in using coffee grounds for 3D printing. Soon, we may be able to reframe our crippling bean 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:14.960 addictions into a virtuous environmental push to reduce plastic waste by mixing the dry, refined 00:08:14.960 --> 00:08:20.880 coffee grounds with xanthan gum and cellulose powders, and then using the research team's 00:08:20.880 --> 00:08:27.200 open-source printer adapter to create all kinds of biodegradable doodads. Even coffee cups. 00:08:27.200 --> 00:08:33.200 That sounds dangerous. Soon, all will be coffee, and coffee will be all. 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:39.840 I don't want that. Don't hail the bean. Who summons the bean, Lord? 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:44.080 But all we can do is ask you to come back on Monday for another episode of TechLinked, 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:49.120 made entirely from coffee grounds. We're gonna try it. We're gonna see how it goes.