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Whoa! Sorry, I was just up in the sky getting tech news.

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From God? Didn't even put it on tablets or anything, I just had to memorize it.

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Xbox has revealed some details about its next-gen console in a surprise update from President

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Sarah Bond, who promised an Xbox experience not locked to a single store or tied to one

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device. That's why they're working closely with the Windows team, to ensure that Windows is

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the number one platform for gaming. Okay, just hold up.

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Back up for a second. What are we talking about here? New Xbox consoles with Steam and the Epic Game Store?

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But then she mentions Windows. Are the next Xbox consoles just PCs?

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Well, Bond also announced a multi-year partnership with AMD to co-engineer a portfolio of devices,

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including our next-generation Xbox consoles in your living room and in your hands.

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Okay, that sounds like they are indeed making next-gen,

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Xboxes. But what does that even mean when they're telling us that anything with an internet

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connection is an Xbox? I wish they'd just come out and say what an Xbox is.

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Do we need to go over how you can't use the word you're defining in the word's definition?

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What is an Xbox? This is an Xbox. Okay, but what is that?

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An Xbox? YAH! This lack of clarity leads to some outlets like Xbox Era calling this official confirmation

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that native handhelds are indeed planned after all.

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But I don't see how you can think that when Microsoft called the ROG-Xbox Ally X an Xbox.

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I mean, they even reused the same graphic of the Ryzen processor from the ROG-Xbox Ally reveal

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in the new video supposedly talking about native Xbox handhelds.

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I can't make head or tail of this yappin'. If you wanna try your hand at figuring out

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what Microsoft has been smoking lately, this Chad Redditor aggregated

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all the next gen Xbox developments that have happened since the 2023 leak.

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So activate your Sherlock brain and give it a go. Multiple reports of Switch 2 owners

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being banned from Nintendo's online services have popped up this week,

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as gamers tried to use the popular MiG Flash microSD adapter cartridges

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that allow you to play Switch games without modding the console.

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Whether those be pirated copies or backups of games you've legitimately purchased.

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MiG Flash was just updated to support playing Switch 1 games on Switch 2

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but seems like Nintendo was ready and waiting to ban a bunch of people,

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all of whom insist they were only playing their own backed up games.

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But can we trust random Redditors? After all, this one called BS on the whole thing.

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They've been playing on the MiG Flash and they're not banned. Oops, scratch that, they got banned.

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They were so mad they went and stole nearly 3,000 Switch 2 consoles

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from the back of a truck in Texas. You can't ban all of them, Nintendo.

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That was a joke about that Redditor. We don't know.

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The mysterious new owner of the most popular game mod hosting platform, Nexus Mods,

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has been revealed by who else? Redditors. You guys are getting extra representation

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and tech link today and honestly, it's about time. Anyway, turns out Nexus Mods

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is now owned by a company called Chosen, a gaming startup accelerator

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whose website says we partner, we amplify, we conquer.

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Uh, I don't like that. But if you actually read the rest of the site,

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they try to differentiate themselves from normal Corpo investor people

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and it does sound like there's some humanity and gaming passion involved,

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but what do I know? Just in case, keep your pitchfork in attack position.

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After the cat was out of the bag, the Chosen team addressed community concerns

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in a pinned comment underneath founder Dark Ones Post

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explicitly saying they won't sell mods, charge a download fee,

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or claim ownership of the mods, they won't revoke lifetime premium licenses,

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and generally, things will apparently largely stay the same,

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although they did admit to never having made a Skyrim mod

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and that's all I needed to hear. Pitchfork, volley, fire!

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Sorry, sorry, I had to get the quick bits from the other guy.

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Valve's updated Steam Performance overlay and the latest Steam Client beta

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can now differentiate between traditional frames and frames generated by DLSS,

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FSR, or XCSS, colloquially known as fake frames.

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The overlay also now has metrics for CPU, GPU, and memory, which is cool,

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but I'm gonna be turning this on and only looking at the top left

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because I wanna enjoy those extra frames and be mad about it the whole time.

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Donald Trump is once again extending the already extended deadline

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for TikTok's owner BiteDance to agree to a sale

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or have the social media app banned from the US,

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although it seems like there is perpetually also a third option to extend the deadline.

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June 19th was going to be midnight on the TikTok doomsday clock,

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but every time that minute hands gets close, wouldn't you know it, midnight keeps moving.

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Is this a daylight savings thing? Are the farmers pranking us?

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Google has added another test in Search Labs.

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Users who opt in can now try using live voice interaction in AI mode.

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So you can talk to Gemini while it Google stuff for you?

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That could be useful if you get more results than they show in this demo.

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There's just like little cards. But something that's way more useful

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is the new ability to directly upload video files for Gemini to analyze.

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Maybe if you put in the recent Xbox videos and you can ask Gemini if it knows

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what the hell an Xbox is. Honda of all companies just successfully launched

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and landed its own reusable rocket shocking the space industry.

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The 20.6 foot rocket reached an altitude of 889 feet

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in the Japanese town of Taiki before gracefully returning to Earth,

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extendable legs, and all. Honda, you dog!

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You had this in the bag the whole time? Why didn't you tell anyone? I mean, it turns out they did, kind of.

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In 2021, they said they were looking into doing space stuff, but no one cared.

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No one ever asks how Honda's doing. And Generalist, a company founded

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by an ex-Google DeepMind researcher, has shown off their robot hands being really good

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at general purpose tasks, like flicking small items into bins

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and putting boxes together all while dealing with that same damn hockey stick again.

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Please, sir! The robot switches hands while zipping a backpack

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without missing a beat and deals with even more abuse.

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Oh my God, stop! I'm trying to work! But what's more impressive?

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That or Australia approving lab-grown meat,

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specifically Quail, that a company called Forged

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has turned into luxury food items, like a Quail candle that melts

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so you can dip stuff in it? Robots?

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Meatwax. I don't know, but you better meatwax me back here

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on Friday for more tech news.

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Honestly, that's just hitting me now how weird that sounds.

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You don't have to meatwax anything if you don't want to.