hey guys I'm Riley I go on the internet where Tech news going to make me lose my
mind up in here up in here so you don't have to Apple finally launched the
Vision Pro and while even the most positive reviews from media Outlets
earlier this week had a tinge of cynicism early Impressions from
customers who just got their $3,500 headsets for the first time are mostly
positive in an uplifting example of post-p purchase rationalization My Fit
fly my cost sunken after all they Now
using what Tim Cook called tomorrow's technology today a phrase rendered false
as soon as it's uttered and which also doesn't explain why the vision Pro's
Persona avatars look so much worse than
meta's photorealistic codec avatars yeah
yeah those aren't available yet on Quest but the demos look so much better okay just let me have this speaking of which
meta took the opportunity to piggyback off the Vision Pro launch with an update
for their Quest headsets you know the ones that are a fraction of the cost The
Quest 2 3 and pro now support playing
back stereoscopic spatial video recorded on an iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max something
Apple May regard as morally wrong and there's a couple new pinch gestures
because Apple's patent on basic human hand stuff fell through the quests can
also now use gam pads in the browser for cloud gaming but on the other hand the
Vision Pro now has an unofficial YouTube app thanks to Christian selig the
developer of the Apollo Reddit app and no those two things aren't related like
this segue to our next topic ai ai news
is a dime a dozen these days but Google Amazon and actually Apple made some
noteworthy announcements this week Google's barred chatbot can now use the
tech Giant's own image 2 model to generate images although it declined to
generate an image for cnet's article on this story but did generate an image of
itself as a blonde cyborg so thanks for
that this Tech is going to change everything the fure Google is also
adding generative AI chat to Maps which looks like a genuinely useful way to get
info about a place that doesn't involve digging through an endless slideshow of
photos as long as that info isn't hallucinated nonsense causing you to
show up to an Indian restaurant in a sombrero but at that point the wrong
restaurant thing is the least of your problems I just love the culture
meanwhile Amazon announced Rufus a chatbot rolling out in beta that will
help customers shop on the platform overrun by products named I cannot
fulfill this request it goes against open AI use policy yeah AI stuff is
still a mess but that's only because Apple hasn't come in to fix it yet that
all changes this year according to Tim Cook himself during the company's
earnings called yesterday Tim said they're putting a tremendous amount of
time and effort into Ai and they're excited to share the details later this
year now he's either talking about the company's research getting llms running
on iPhone Hardware or an Android version of you that will treat your mom better
than you ever did you haven't even bought her an iPhone yet you pathetic
insect she birthed you ungrateful Rich
reviews for the Samsung Galaxy s24 s24
plus and s24 Ultra are also out with
reviewers praising the lineup's new complimentary AI features like Circle to
search and on device translation but the hardware is where some are finding flaws
which makes sense given that in at least one area the phone's actually got a
downgrade the Ultras stuck with a 5x optical zoom instead of 10x as if on Q
insteps the frustratingly named company nothing with its first major product
announcement I can remember since they thought they had solved iMessage on
Android that lasted for like a day we just didn't think it was that
complicated anyways all of a sudden they launched the nothing phone 2A yesterday
which has been rumored since December a pixel a serieses more budget friendly
alternative to the $600 nothing phone 2
the company didn't reveal the 2a's price design or release date but just knowing
it's out there makes me feel a bit better and that's not
nothing I won't apologize $600 for
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there on Wi-Fi company Morse micro has
published a record-breaking real world demonstration of their Halo based
microprocessors showing that they create Wi-Fi networks capable of maintaining
video calls at a distance of 1.8 miles 3
km Ultra long range Wi-Fi signals
usually aren't powerful enough to load media never mind maintain a video call
but even at its farthest range the connection maintained a minimum speed of
1 megabit a second despite the test taking place in a busy populated area
this could be a GameChanger in the practicality of massive Citywide Wi-Fi
networks making your excuses to your mother about why you haven't called all
the more infeasible Tim is going to come and take her from you she deserves so
much better the browser company has announced more AI powered features for
its Arc browser and would you believe me if I told you that they actually look
kind of cool because you shouldn't but let me tell you anyway ark's instant
links feature skips the search results page entirely scanning for the best
handful of links and tabs and opening them for you immediately live folder is
a Google Alerts like feature except instead of keywords it scans the web for
Content relating to topics you like when something new comes up it throws it in a
folder and notifies you arcs browse for me results webpage generating feature is
also coming to desktop from iOS where it launched earlier this week and
altogether it seems like the browser company just really wants to knock a
chunk out of Google search business by not forcing people to deal with popups
and I don't see the problem here the FCC will be voting on whether rooc calls
using AI generated voices should be officially recognized as illegal under
an existing law from 1991 which bans the
use of artificial and pre-recorded voices in non-emergency calls without
written permission from the call recipient that was already
illegal these kinds of rooc calls have spiked over the past few years including
a recent voter suppression effort that used a fake Joe Biden the real one was
busing he's got stuff to do likely created using 11 Labs software to
discourage voters from participating in the New Hampshire primary and save their
votes for the November election which is just not how votes work they expire if
you don't use them just like milk you got one vote don't use it on that Japan
plans to introduce a new six-month residency Visa for digital Nomads in
order to make it easier for high-skilled remote workers consultants and online
content creators to live in the country despite not being employed in Japan the
government is currently taking public comment but hopes to launch the program
in March in order to be eligible you must be a millionaire but only a
Japanese millionaire making over 10 million yen a year equivalent to around
$68,000 which still it's it's a bunch
currently over 50 countries off offer digital Nomad visas most of which allow
significantly longer stays with far less stringent income requirements I mean if
you've got a visible means of support other than your legs you can just hang
out in Germany for 3 years maybe give up the anime get really into techno dance
vome to Germany you dance like you're from
here and according to a new study published in science researchers have
developed a new machine learning model that mimics the way children learn
language how did they do it well by
strapping a camera to a toddler's forehead and feeding the resulting audio
and video to an AI like a baby let'splay
like a baby IRL stream the birth rate is declining and that's a problem because
we need more physical constructs to strap the AI on to by seeing the world
through a small child's eyes or at least a small child's forehead the AI was able
to make associations between words and objects the same way a cute little human
larvae would hopefully demystifying a process that once upon a time all of us
went through but none of us remember so can you prove it what happened but I
know you'll remember to come back on Monday for more Tech news just like you
remember everything I ever say to you you're going to do great on next week's
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