after patching out the popular duplication glitches and tears of the
Kingdom the litigation enthusiasts at Nintendo asked themselves how do we make
ourselves less popular today and decided the answer would be sending valve a
cease and desist just pure tactics over there dolphin a widely used open source
GameCube and Wii Emulator announced this weekend that its planned steam release
is indefinitely postponed Nintendo was
arguing that if this software were released on Steam it would violate
Nintendo's copyright by allowing people to play games they legally purchased in
4k obviously you have to wait for the remaster I can
jail now as much as it hurts us to say this Nintendo's claim has a smidge more
legitimacy in this situation than we're used to as dolphin does contain the Wii
common key Nintendo's proprietary code for decrypting Wii games meaning that
steam would be on the hook for Distributing copyright infringing
materials starring pipe dwelling Italians a spokesperson for Nintendo
said that the existence of dolphin harms development and ultimately stifles
Innovation Innovations like charging you a subscription to play older uglier
games one Innovation Nintendo has allegedly not achieved quite yet is the
prevention of joy-con drift with reports that the brand new tiers of the Kingdom
Pro controllers have stick drift right out of the box dual rail drifting but
obviously drift it's cool over there the answer to
this is obviously that these controllers were never meant to be used they were
strictly for scalping on eBay today at computex NVIDIA announced Ace for games
a tool that enables ai-powered natural language interactions with NPCs finally
I'll be able to talk to the town's local cheese Monger about the finer points of
Aging cheeses and sourcing milks whilst fending off Gremlins I wanted
we could fight now I guess the service is composed of several pieces devs can
build and deploy customized language models incorporate speech to text and
text-to-speech so players can literally speak to the characters and a facial
animator that can match a character's facial expression to what the character
is saying they showed off a video that both demonstrated the AI technology and
the widest aspect ratio we've ever seen on YouTube that was the real Innovation
wide load the demonstration was fine if
by fine you mean weirdly formal speech patterns stone-faced animations and
emotionless dialogue like BioWare yes a
perfect replica of a modern Western RPG like everything AI some are worried this
technology will cost future if not present jobs in the game industry
personally I think it will create massive demand for devs that can program
new and inventive ways to stop players from bothering the cheese Monger for too
long he's got work to do he's got a family at home he makes the cheese he
doesn't want to talk about the cheese it's an intricate process something he
knows nothing about because he's AI he's not he's not and Mark German AKA Edgar Allen
posed the Conqueror germ got to take a look that's a deep cut
to take a look at meta's unannounced Quest 3 headset to see how it Stacks up
to Apple's upcoming model since German shoots like a Sherman eradicating squirm
and Vermin get ready for learning when I deliver German's sermon thank you Jacob
that was fire specifically he commented on the brand new color pass-through
cameras which offered a more lifelike experience than the quest 2's non-color
pass-through cameras which would only be lifelike in the 1940s when everything
was black and white that's why old pictures are like that it was different
back then no wonder Grandma's still grumpy German wrote that the
pass-through rendering of the real world allowed him to use his phone while also
wearing the headset the whole point of us building these things so we could use
our phone The Genius of this is you can leave the headset on forever so you
never have to deal with the embarrassing red marks it leaves on your face German
also mentioned the quest 3 is far lighter and thinner than the Quest 2 and
has much improved performance due to its second generation Snapdragon xr2 chip
comparing the headset to Apple's upcoming one German called The Quest 3
about out a fifth as much in cost while
being more than a fifth as compelling which is often how TechLink gets
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measurement we keep the original quick bit in a vacuum sealed container within
a vault and we no longer make eye contact we learned that lesson ASUS
decided to solve the burning GPU problem once and for all by announcing a
graphics card with no power cables you just look at it all the power comes from
a second PCIe connector that allows for 600 watts to be delivered to the card
pretty good the connection is proprietary and requires the use of a
compatible ASUS motherboard so if anything goes wrong you'll have to deal
with ASUS's customer support twice so
it's a bit of a trade-off a recent study has
found that AI writing assistance can affect the opinions of their human users
researcher Maurice jakesh had participants write essays about if
social media is good for society while using an AI writing assistant one
group's assistant was made to be biased towards positive opinions of social
media while another's was biased towards negative opinions jakesh found the
assigned assistance bias affected both the sa and the opinions of the
participants they shared in Attitude surveys afterward so go ahead and use AI
to help you write your English Lit essay if you're fine getting gaslit into
believing you actually enjoyed Moby Dick based on a real story
way more cannibalism in real life there's a bunch of Quakers ate each
other oh this is there's Real History we're learning something according to
the European Union Twitter has pulled out of the eu's voluntary standards
program intended to fight disinformation the eu's internal Market commissioner
announced it on the platform itself while mentioning that Twitter will be
required to combat disinformation come August 25th when the Digital Services
act comes into effect I don't believe anything I read on Twitter no thanks to
this but instead of just tweeting that the commissioner added obligations
remain you can run but you can't hide
which leads me to believe that Europe is manufacturing bureaucratic Terminators
Elon your son of a sign the form
recently surfaced internal documents show that Sony patented a handheld
device very similar to their recently announced project Q as far back as 2015
leading to the shocking Revelation that cutting a controller in half and gluing
a screen in the middle is something you can patent despite possibly eight years
of development rumors among industry insiders indicate that the handheld has
a whopping three to four hours of battery life equivalent to half a steam
deck or fittingly one whole Wii U
gamepad when did that come out again was it 2015 no
and a law firm suing a Colombian Airline
submitted a brief citing six cases that
don't exist because they were made up by Chachi PT one of the lawyers behind the
brief admitted in an affidavit that he had used the AI in his research but
worry not he double checked its work by asking it if it was lying and what its
sources were a Chachi PT a lying liar Who Lies responded that of course the
cases were real and he could find them on legal research platforms like Westlaw
and LexisNexis which of course he didn't
check if those were real those are real those are real those are real websites
but you'll want to check back on Wednesday for more Tech news if you
don't the eu's internal Market commissioner will come visit you while
you're sleeping and you don't want that
pay your taxes trust me it's not fun I
saw you think that