the day is finally here it's Microsoft's
Apple silicon moment and it's just like I imagined a real hot mess reviews of
the new Qualcomm ARM-powered Snapdragon X Elite laptops are out and by laptops I
mean laptop there are more than a dozen models on the way but the only full
reviews right now are covering the ASUS VI book S15 and rather than kicking off
the Windows on ARM Revolution with a bang I'm really hearing more of a
of a wet slap I mean like the Vivo book isn't bad notebook check noted that
whether it's running ARM native apps or emulating x86 its performance in battery
life seem comparable to Intel AMD and apple notebooks but that's not really
what Qualcomm has been promising for the past 8 months we didn't want what we
already had but with more x's in it except for Elon and that's like his
whole thing he's very happy right now there's good reason to stay on your toes
though this Vivo book features the least powerful of the four Snapdragon X Elite
variants the xie 78100 which can't even boost at all
although Windows Central notes that ASUS says this is a 45 watt version of this
chip that's 31% faster I don't know
what's going on and I'd like to speak to the manager not everyone was upset
though YouTuber Dave 2D was very excited
perhaps because he used gaming laptops for the battery life comparison but I'm
just a tech news guy how does he make the laptop float I don't know fittingly
gaming especially x86 games that must be emulated is exactly where the X Elite
struggles the most despite many promising early demos but the Vivo
book's not a gaming laptop it's a co-pilot plus PC so those fancy new AI
features like translated live captions are here although PC World notes that
some of them appear to require an internet connection uh thankfully recall
doesn't because it's been sent for a timeout to think about what it's done
along with the rest of the revieww units in the Snapdragon X lineup most of which
are reportedly just now making their way into the media's hands it might be time
to look at another Contender for an apple silicon moment that's right I'm
talking about the new risk five main board for Frameworks laptops built by
Deep Computing and look there's another risk five modular laptop from a company
called sip cede
cped cped on me I have a feeling these
aren't going to be super userfriendly though so the next apple silicon moment
might just come this fall when Apple unveils a MacBook Pro that got caught in
the big hydraulic press from the iPad ad Forbes has threatened legal action
against AI powered search company perplexity for engaging in what we used
to call plagiarism before 2023 according
to axios Forbes wrote a letter to perplexity CEO aravind serenas after the
startups new pages feature barely cited
Forbes while while lifting entire fragments and even an illustration from
an in-depth report on former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's effort to build swarms of
drones that won't form lewd shapes in the air instead of paying attention when
he speaks see that was inaccurate this
is why we need real reporters it also doesn't help that a
wired investigation found that perplexity service like all generative
AI has a debilitating addiction to making up or that the way Mr
serenas responded to complaints from Forbes journalists on Twitter was by
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you'd like some quick bits now that that is so you NVIDIA has overtaken Microsoft
to become the world's most valuable company this is terrific news for some
investors unfortunately that puts Microsoft in second place devastating
other more different investors why don't they just invest in both and they're
always winning so stupid what are they thinking this is not Financial advis but
according to reports NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wang thinks he can keep this plane
climbing NVIDIA is apparently trying to pressure Partners like Dell HP and super
micro in into buying complete server rack designs from NVIDIA instead of
building their own which would be cheaper this way NVIDIA could keep their
Crown it's like they say what goes up
could keep going up forever what are you a plane scientist former open aai Chief
scientist Ilia suver who got Sam ultman fired and then apologized and helped
bring him back has started a new AI company after leaving open AI earlier
this year it's called safe superintelligence Inc describing itself
as the world's first straight shot SSI
lab which sounds like a much better way to get to artificial super intelligence
don't bother with launching Scarlett Johansson chatbots for lonely Engineers
just go straight to the end just build that one first now don't get it twisted
this is a real company they have a website there's a URL at the top okay
these guys are geniuses their names are pronounceable in spatial Computing news
Apple has apparently suspended work on the Vision Pro 2 to fully focus on
making something human beings can afford maybe meanwhile meta has laid off some
employees as they restructure reality Labs into two groups metaverse will
handle the quest line while wearables will make things like the Ray Ban meta
smart glasses and perhaps
pants just an idea call me Zucker meanwhile AR glasses company xreal
developed a phone that isn't a phone but a companion to their glasses I mean it
looks like a phone it runs Android based OS the the pictures indicate it connects
to a cellular network and the site literally calls it the only device you
need how is it not a phone explain it to me I'm so irrationally angry about this
it's a Game Boy Google has suddenly updated the pixel 88a and 8 Pro with
official support for connecting to an external display through its USBC Port
reigniting some Enthusiast dreams of using their phone as a mobile desktop
computer some people think that would be kind of cool like why can't we do that
pixel phones have actually had support for DisplayPort over USBC and a desktop
mode baked into Android for some time but you had to go digging in the
developer options to find it now anyone with a pixel 8 series phone can plug
into a monitor and say cool before realizing they probably don't ever need
to do that again and pixel 7 users can too right right and Japanese Tech Giant
soft bank has announced it is working on emotion cancelling AI technology to make
Angry customers sound calmer when they call customer service Representatives
Japan like the rest of the world has a problem with customer harassment of
employees and that extends to call centers naturally the solution is to
cover up the issue and ignore it even worse the AI doesn't change the
words it just changes the tone so it's
not really fixing the abusive language it's just turning it into some sort of
demeaning ASMR I'll tell you what would really be
demean meaning to me though if you didn't come back on Friday for more Tech
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