ha it's revenge of the fifth the day that I'm allowed to be honest about the
fact that Star Wars is dead because it
says look everything don't shut up about how much he loves Andor
good point Google suddenly announced the pixel fold on Thursday surprising the
whole internet the company used Star Wars day to tweet out a teaser of the
product and a frankly offensive pun giving us our first Execute order 66.
giving us our first official look at the device less than a week before Google's
i o event on May 10th of course rumors about the phone have been circulating
for months but it's great to get our first real look at the phone and its
bezels and confirm that Google is still
more of a software company the fold now has an official store page
with a banner confirming that more information about the Phablet will come
out during IO I haven't heard that word in years it's a long time and a long
time man I can't wait to hear a Google
executive probably tell us that the fold is powered by the tensor's G2 SOC has 12
gigs of RAM 120 hertz displays costs 1800 bucks and a bunch of other stuff
that John Prosser and Evan blast said weeks ago a leaked internal document
from a senior Google engineer warns that the Tech Giant and its competitor open
AI May soon face their greatest rival in
AI development at Tony shalube fan69 you
mean Tony shaloop of the of monks Fame yes I mean really it could be any of the
other 68 fans of the star of television's award-winning crime dramedy
monk so in the document engineer Lucas cernow
argues that Google and openai are being leapfrogged by Indie open source AI
researchers who are making massive strides in AI development in their
basements with gaming laptops due in no small part to the leak of meta's llama
large language model cernow urges that Google's only option is to learn from
and collaborate with what others are doing outside Google even if that means
reading a lot of AI generated monk fan
fiction and some slash fiction Grassroots AI research is also gaining
attention in the EU which is doing what it does best and developing regulations
but there's a risk that sweeping restrictions on AI could limit
Grassroots researchers ability to create questionably conscious entities in their
basement regulations could also cause the EU to risk losing the AI arms race
to the US and that's all according to an open letter coordinated by large-scale
AI open network AKA Lyon a German
non-profit AI research group oh man if I
had a dollar for every time America and Germany were fighting I would use them
as seed Capital to fund research toward building a time machine which I would
use to go back in time and prevent several key historical events that would
have supplied me the initial dollars I used to fund the machine thus creating a
potential time Paradox that would threaten the fabric of space-time
or maybe I'd buy an ice cream and Xbox had Phil Spencer gave an interview on
the kind of funny x-cast where he discussed many topics in reference to
Xbox competing with PlayStation and Nintendo in the console Market Spencer
remarked there is no world where Starfield is an 11 out of 10 and people
start selling their ps5s really demonstrating why he is the head of Xbox
his vision is so vast he can see through
the Multiverse but can he see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch
of course the reason Phil believes this elusive world doesn't exist is because
he spent years searching no it's because Microsoft lost the Xbox one generation
where everybody built their Digital Library of games and as a result Xbox
can't claw back the market share from its competitors there's just there's
just no way discussing XBox exclusive specifically he also commented on the
mediocre reception of the game redfall this sounds like a fun podcast episode
just like whipping himself Phil said game critics raided the game
double digits lower than what the Xbox team expected based on their own
internal mock reviews now since we've already established that Phil Spencer is
a higher dimensional being it's more than likely this is some 40 chess move
to convince UK Regulators that if they don't reverse their decision blocking
the Activision merger Xbox will go bankrupt leaving only two incredibly
profitable games console companies to Duke it out for world domination and if
there's one thing the UK hates it's a two-party system and that's a joke about
them having more than one party two parties first pass the post it's like
Canada so yeah look it up
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I've never told anyone this but long bits killed my family that's
why I've dedicated my life to cutting them down to size
the European Space Agency is making big moves in its future projects by
exploring nuclear-powered rockets for deep space travel and even space-based
solar Farms that will send energy to Earth with lasers what but before they
move forward they need to explain how the name of the rocket study rocket roll
stands for preliminary European reckon
on nuclear electric propulsion for space applications
sounds to me like rocket roll stands for I can't spell you guys could speak like
75 languages can't write
it's not how acronyms work Discord has announced they are changing the way
their usernames work speaking of which so that many users will probably have to
pick a new one the platform currently has a four digit tag to differentiate
users with the same username but they have decided to get rid of it to make
usernames on Discord look a lot like those on other platforms because nothing
makes you stand out quite like being the same Microsoft has announced it is
opening Bing AI access up to everyone this is a great idea no longer will you
have to wait in line for a reason to finally use the search engine you've
been purposely avoiding for years alongside this announcement Microsoft
said it will be adding more features to the chatbot like enabling charts and
graphs and Bing's answers and even allowing chat history in the edge
browser so that Bing will remember all the horrible puddles of Internet scum
and had to swim through just so you could find the conversion rate between
US dollars in Vietnamese Dong are you happy
so much dong Apple and Google have partnered to develop a set of standards
and best practices to reduce the misuse of Bluetooth tracking devices which are
these handy little devices that you both find your luggage and stock your
ex-girlfriend very useful
why did I say it like that oh boy the new specification would inform users of
Android and iOS devices when they're being tracked without their consent
which has received widespread support in the industry because
come on they're soulless corporations not monsters think of the prophets that
and no one wants to be the pro stocking guy generally bad for business
colorado-based biofire is launching a gun with fingerprint and facial
recognition that will only work for verified users though they have yet to
explain where the blue check mark will appear the gun started as a high school
science fair project beautiful rally okay and is now launching with a fifteen
hundred dollar price tag but can you really put a price on how cool you look
while you grapple with the fragility of human life
at least it works and can you really put a price on coming back on Monday for
more Tech news because I can please give me one hundred dollars