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I was going to start you off with a joke about how this isn't the tech news it's

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actually just the intro to the tech news but then I decided that would be a

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little to meta speaking of which meta

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connect 2024 was today and Mark Zuckerberg dropped some big news there

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was the official reveal of the quest 3s basically a cheaper version of the quest

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3 shipping on October 15th the 3 s's starting price is $200 less than the

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three but with most of the same features a brief live demo showed off the 3 s's

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pass through and judging by the bystander one seat over its ability to

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make people nearby uncomfortable thanks Mark a crucial aspect of VR that's what

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meta is about it's tradition in AI news

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Mark revealed llama 3.2 the company's

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first quote opensource multimodal model

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uh open source here means you have to request access to it and also it isn't

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currently available in the EU it's that kind of Open Source meta's AI stud

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studio will now let influencers create virtual speaking AI versions of

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themselves something Zuck demonstrated by ignoring a real man to instead chat

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with the man's AI clone this is what are we doing here guys just because Mark has

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gotten an unfathomable Riz upgrade doesn't mean I have to be okay with this

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it's creepy in meta smart glasses news multimodal video AI is being added to

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the rayan meta smart glasses So Meta AI can give you realtime help even

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referencing objects that you passed and are no longer in view finally Zuck

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revealed the Prototype Orion holographic

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AR glasses which create a similar effect

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to the quest 3's pass through but in a much smaller form factor because it's

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not actually pass through you're just actually seeing the

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World Imagine what if you could see but

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also it Su what if the real world but with ads the glasses can be controlled

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with your voice hand and eye tracking or a wrist-based neural

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interface because why not Zuck said all of this while wearing a shirt that read

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Zuck or nothing in Latin some claim it's a reference to the phrase Caesar or

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nothing but come on a billionaire who has all of our personal data comparing

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himself to one of History's Greatest dictators that's it's a bit scary maybe

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he just likes Nerf and dead languages CH

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I don't get it Nerf do you get that Nerf or nothing chat gpt's advanced voice

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mode is rolling out to all paid subscribers this week the advanced voice

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feature uses GPT 4 o so it can now

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detect emotion and if you're using your camera to prompt it with visuals it can

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respond to non-verbal cues like body language but open aai also says they've

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added custom instructions memory five new voices and improved accents you mean

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like this one it's not even an apple story it can

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also apparently say sorry in over 50

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languages which will be handy after AI technology accidentally destroys human

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civilization sorry everybody the roll out comes with one major caveat the

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feature is not available in the EU and several closely related countries namely

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Iceland lickstein Norway Switzerland and the UK while open AI didn't specify the

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reason for this exception in their announcement the most likely answer is

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the EU AI act which among other things restricts AI systems that are capable of

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inferring the emotions of a natural person oh man AKA human being from

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workplaces and schools the intent of the prohibition is to prevent invasive

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surveillance like an AI system that makes sure fast food workers look happy

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or else but for now it appears to be blocking this relatively benign feature

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from expanding to Europe in GPT adjacent news Microsoft apparently plans to fix

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that tricky AI hallucination problem with what else more AI the company has

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released a preview of their new correction tool as part of their Azure

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AI content safety API correction is a

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service that Flags AI generated text that might contain a factual error then

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cross references it with a document known to be trustworthy in order to fact

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check it like a natural person might one researcher o Keys says that this might

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cause additional problems because the factchecking model itself may also

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hallucinate and introduce errors and trying to eliminate hallucinations from

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generative AI is like trying to eliminate hydrogen from water so let's

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just keep using it I guess Marquez Brown Lee AKA MKBHD Tech reviewer YouTuber and

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noted frisbee Enthusiast released his new panels app which offers access to a

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curated collection of wallpapers for mobile devices these wallpapers are free

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at lower resolutions but can be downloaded at full resolution for a

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subscription of $12 monthly or $50 annually which comes out

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to around four bucks a month the launch sparked immediate backlash some of which

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was sort of Justified brownley acknowledged Community concerns about

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the kinds of permissions the app was requesting which included usage data and

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user location and promised to fix the issue embarrassingly though with a

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little digging it was discovered that all of the wallpapers in the app were

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stored in a publicly accessible bucket

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whoops yeah devs have come out and said that the app appears to be built from a

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template or it's simply an old app that has been rebranded based on the fact

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that the app's Twitter account is listed as joining the service in late 2021

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Marquez has confirmed however that this is just because they bought that handle

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on Twitter other complaints cuz yes there were more focused on the amount of

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ads in the free version of the app and the price of the subscription and all

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that is totally fair however the wallpapers are real art by real human

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artist artists and the app offers a 50/50 profit split which sounds great

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Until you realize that's actually even worse than the iOS app store's 3070 cut

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with developers I don't know if that's comparable I'm not in the wallpaper app

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market perhaps the weirdest thing to me personally though is the fact that a

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high proportion of the artists on the app seem to be just current MKBHD

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employees the CEO of rabbit the company behind the R1 AI not a phone device

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Jesse Lou even got a meme in he hasn't had a good Twitter post in the while

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though in mkbhd's defense you don't

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actually have to buy the app you can just ignore it and at least you didn't

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shove it into completely unnecessary custom hardware and charge 200 bucks for

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it especially when it costs way less to shove your feet into our sponsor vessie

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no too bad content delivery Network

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Cloud flare will now allow customers to block Bots used to scrape websites for

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AI training with a single click this is part of a larger Suite of tools called

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AI audit which also allows users to see which Bots are crawling their site and

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gives them more information on where they're from and how they're being used

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users can also choose to only block certain Bots and will eventually be able

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to sell access to their website like a little virtual toll booth for

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webcrawlers AI but I wanted pictures of

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Spider-Man get out of my office kasperski the Russian antivirus software

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deemed a national security concern and banned by the US government started

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deleting itself from American users PCS last week sounds expected except for the

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part where the app also automatically installed a different antivirus on the

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way out Ultra AV made by a company called Pango kasperski had told

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customers via email they'd be receiving cyber security protection from their

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trusted partner Ultra AV but they didn't mention the whole automat IC install

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thing which is kind of like coming home to find your key doesn't work and then

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having the Rando who changed your locks let you in I I'm kaspers buddy yeah you

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got me don't worry we got you good news everyone we're going to Nuke an

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asteroid scientists at the Sandia National Laboratory have been blasting

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silica with bursts of x-rays powerful enough to vaporize Rock and they say

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that we could probably use nukes to deflect asteroids that are around 2 and

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1/2 mil across this this would work by

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superheating one side causing material to vaporize and push the asteroid in the

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opposite direction just giv A little nudge out of its Collision Course with

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Earth like it won't be enough to save us from

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bigger rocks like the one that killed the dinosaurs but it's a step up from

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shooting Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis into space and getting them to figure it

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out Twitter has released its 2024 transparency report the first one since

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2021 despite the very public fight El

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musk picked with Brazil's Supreme Court he seems to be more open to government

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takeown requests behind closed doors the platform complied with 71% of the legal

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requests it received this year compared to around 30% of requests in a typical

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year under previous management meanwhile X has changed its block feature so that

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a user's public posts are now visible to people they've blocked but they just

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can't engage with them what you thought you should be able to completely block

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people you don't like that's a privilege x/ Twitter only affords to certain

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special entities like the Turkish government and Panasonic is apparently

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repurposing an outdoor air conditioning system called silky fine Mist to create

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what I'd like to call wet Holograms I'll

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explain the silky fine Mist in question is a spray of extremely small water

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droplets around 6 to 10 microns in size

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which quickly evaporate removing heat without making users feel damp well only

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a name at some point however Panasonic realized that this Mist could also be

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used as a transparent projector screen for extremely cool and cooling art

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displays unfortunately the system is heavy bulky and prohibitively expensive

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which is no good when you're trying to get a message out to a Jedi hermit hiding on tattooing we need to get more

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efficient with this how that can't fit that in a Droid Panasonic you're my only

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hope but you shouldn't hide from more Tech news come back on Friday for

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another episode it won't be scary it'll be it'll be positive everything's fine

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everything's fine out there so okay