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Some people are way too obsessed with only one thing. It's like, "Hello,

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Derek. Have you heard about stuff that isn't vintage pinball machines? We could

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be talking about the only thing actually ever worth talking about, which is tech

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news." Google search was ruled a monopoly in 2023, and the judge behind

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that ruling just issued another one to say that's uh mostly okay. Actually,

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monopolies often unfairly maligned. In

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his ruling on remedies for the case, US District Judge Amit Meta said Google

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will not have to sell off Chrome or Android like the US Department of

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Justice wanted. After much deliberation, the judge concluded a Google breakup

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would be incredibly messy, which is exactly why I tell all my friends in

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toxic relationships to stay together. Who wants the hassle? Google will also

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be able to continue paying Apple around $20 billion a year through a revenue

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sharing agreement for Google searches made through Safari. And Google can also

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continue making those payments to Mosilla, the maker of Firefox, who

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relies on those payments for about 85% of its revenue. You ask yourself if

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Firefox is worth letting Google keep passing go and collecting $200. But

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Google isn't getting off scot-free. It can continue to pay companies to preload

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their services and products, but those contracts cannot be exclusive. Other

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companies are allowed to do the same. Google will also have to share some of

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its search index and user interaction data with their competitors and offer

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search and search ad syndication to their competitors at standard rates.

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Google has released a statement which immediately praises the fact that the

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judge recognized how the advent of AI has changed the industry and Google just

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loves that. They don't love having to share data with rivals and they'll keep

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fighting on that. But OMG AI mentioned while one giant monopoly is being

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legally forced to share, another has grown sick of your sharing and are

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wondering if you could please stop. Amazon is eliminating a program that

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allowed Prime members to share their free 2-day shipping with one person,

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even if they didn't share the same address. Now, Amazon is politely telling

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those non-P Prime members to back off and get their own damn account with an

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updated customer service page saying the Prime Invitee program will end October

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1st. This announcement comes after Reuters reports that despite a big Prime

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Day push, Prime membership signups in the US did not meet last year's total or

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the company's target, which is to amass enough wealth to buy the moon. Now,

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instead of letting you share your Prime benefits with just anyone, Amazon will

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let you share your Prime benefits with up to one other adult, four children,

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and four teens who all live at the same residential address. or as Amazon puts

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it, the address you consider to be your home and where you spend the majority of

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your time. So for me, this set, it's

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it's what they project me onto. It's uh

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I'm not real. Speaking of dynamic visuals, Dolby has announced Dolby

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Vision 2. HDR formats don't usually get

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sequels, but I can give this a chance as long as it doesn't completely clown on

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the legacy of the legacy characters and then kill them. What are we What? Sorry,

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what were we talking about? Right. HDR. Dolby Vision 2 introduces content

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intelligence, an AI enhanced feature,

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uh, naturally, that will allow your TV to automatically optimize its display

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settings to provide you with the best image.

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Trust the robot. Most of these features seem benign enough. But then there's

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authentic motion, which is a motion control tool to make scenes feel more

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authentically cinematic without unwanted jutdder on a shotby-shot basis, which

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sounds a lot like another version of motion smoothing, a feature that makes

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based 24 FPS films suffer from the soap

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opera effect. So named because it makes the frames look like they're slipping

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and sliding on a soapy TV. I think Dolby

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also announced Dolby Vision 2 Max, which

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is meant to add additional premium features, but we haven't been clued into

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what those features are yet. They're probably awesome, though. Highense will

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ship the first Dolby Vision 2 compatible TVs. And French media company Canal Plus

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say they will distribute films, TV series, and live sports that have been

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mastered to the new standard. It's going to be super interesting to see how that

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French media looks in this new visual standard. I love watching French media

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news too much? Okay, we can talk about something else

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after a few more quick bits. Uh, a new PlayStation 5 digital edition hardware

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revision is reportedly set to launch in Europe soon. That makes the console

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worse because the story of human progress is a deceit perpetuated by

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charlatans. The new model that was discovered back in June 2025 via

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certification documents filed in Japan is set to launch on September 13th in

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Europe for the same price as the current digital edition. However, this new model

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will include an SSD with a smaller 825

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GB capacity instead of 1 TBTE. Now, this

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is an especially big downgrade for a console that doesn't even use discs. The

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new version of the console is supposedly being released to optimize production

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costs and avoid increasing the price again. But somehow this doesn't feel

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that different. At a press conference yesterday, US President Donald Trump

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said that a video circulating online of someone pushing a large black bag out of

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a second story window at the White House was probably AI generated. Earlier, the

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White House seemed to contradict the president by informing reporters that

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the video featured a contractor who was doing regular maintenance. Speaking more

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about AI, Trump said, "If something happens really bad, just blame AI." And

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it's a little bit scary to be honest with you. Yes, it is, Donald. On Monday,

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Tesla published part four of their master plan, and it didn't go over well.

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Uh, The Verge called the plan AI slop. TechCrunch said it was LLM generated

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nonsense. RS Technica wrote that the plan doesn't have any specifics and in

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Gadget called it a discursive mess. Those quotes are great ammunition for

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today's high school English teacher with a bone to pick with AI. Despite Tesla's

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master plan not going over well with the tech press, I am happy to know they plan

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to deliver unconstrained sustainability without compromise.

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Yes. Back in July, the Lego company announced the Lego Game Boy. Well, Sega

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fanboys, it's your turn. The French online Lego store has a listing for a

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260 piece Sega Genesis controller. On

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top of that, when you turn that bad boy around, there's a Sonic the Hedgehog

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diarama in there. Now, for now, the only way to get the set is as a gift with a

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bigger purchase, which seems crazy to me, but it probably seems fine to the

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people who usually empty their wallets for nostalgia bait like this. And you

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have to buy all three movies on Blu-ray. Sure, whatever. Give me. And if you ever

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find yourself getting nostalgic for tech news, don't worry. We'll be back on

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Friday. For now, I need to go listen to my friend tell me about pinball. What

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the heck are banana flippers? That doesn't That sounds