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On you're going to be a cyborg soon accept it reviews are in for Intel's
long awaited Ark b580 gaming graphics
card and there is a consensus it's good at just 250 bucks
the card consistently outperforms the more expensive RTX 460 and RX 7600 at
both 1080P and 1440p meaning for once in
's first party benchmarks acted just like Shakira's
hips they don't lie they they didn't lie the upgraded ray tracing and xs2
upscaling worked pretty well if not quite as efficiently as NVIDIA's and
while frame generation only officially Works in one game right now
f124 it's super good while many are
celebrating the launch of a certified budget friendly Banger after Intel's
awkward launch of its first gen Arc cards NVIDIA and AMD will almost
certainly be unveiling their own nextg cards in the next couple of months
NVIDIA's RTX 50 Series was just teased in the new trailer for The Witcher 4
which NVIDIA just helpfully pointed out in in case you didn't understand what
was meant by trailer pre-rendered on an unannounced NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU oh
did anyone see that what could it mean oh leaks claiming to show a thirdparty
case for the Nintendo switch 2 have been circulating for a couple of weeks now
and I'm no longer able to block them out of my mind because freaking dbrand
posted a 3D animated mockup for their own case so maybe now we have to take
the leaks seriously or maybe we don't
because it's dbrand the other leaks show what may be
telltale signs of AI image generation or
maybe it's upscaling but either way it would be super easy to create your own
mockup and pass it off like this YouTuber switchup actually 3D printed a
model based on the leaks so you can get a feel of what the switch 2 might look
like damn it dbrand or you can get excited about much more reliable images
of lenovo's upcoming Legion go s handheld posted by chronic leaker Evan
blast it's allegedly a more affordable model without the detachable controllers
that some are speculating may run Steam OS due to the built-in steam button now
it's totally possible it still runs Windows and that's just a steam shortcut
we can't know which I'm going to say is also somehow D Brand's fault blast also
blasted over some images to the verge of a larger more proper successor to the
original Legion go with an OLED display so expect these to make an appearance at
CES next month along with an updated version of the Lenovo Legion glasses
that will let you play games on a virtual display while looking like the
guy from CSI Miami whoa is that heratio
come on take the glasses off I'm playing Elden ring Google has announced Android
XR a new operating system to power headsets and smart glasses until Google
doesn't feel like doing that anymore but unlike Project Tango and Google Daydream
Android XR is going to stick because it's part of the Gemini era which
were're already nearly 2 years into that's like 84 Google years Google
published a bunch of very proes demos of
what they hope the software will look like although to their credit they also
let a number of journalists and influencers try it out on an unannounced
Samsung Standalone headset running a Snapdragon xr2 plus Gen 2 so there must
be something real here that unit is powered by an external battery pack but
Google's also reportedly making progress on smart glasses with an embedded
display in optionally prescription lenses in all of their marketing
materials for Android X are Google can't
not mention how them caring about AR
again has been made possible by Gemini
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next build okay you're already half cyborg at this point you might as well
stick around for the quick bits for day six of open ai's 12 days of
announcements they added realtime video input to chat gpt's advanced voice mode
a day after Google beat them to the punch with their own experimental
version but open AI also added a Santa
voice just do not let your kids talk to him he's too honest he won't hold back
for day seven open AI added a projects feature to chat gbt which
collects stuff uh cool hey did you know
you can talk to the AI podcast hosts in Notebook LM now and tell them they're
not real see what happens Mozilla
removed the do not track setting in Firefox this week because really all it
does is ask websites not to track you and hardly any of them actually listen
Mozilla says it's better to use a newer setting based on the global privacy
control standard but as PC Gamer and others point out GPC simply asks
websites not to sell the data that it
already collected from you this actually lines up with other recent moves Mozilla
has made to standardize collecting and selling truly Anonymous data leaving it
Bland and tasteless I mean if you can't blackmail someone with it what's the
point Microsoft recently re-released a
preview build of recall its controversial activity history feature
for co-pilot plus PCS promising increased security and privacy and it's
already screenshotting credit cards and Social Security numbers okay Tom's
Hardware found that the filter sensitive information setting which is toggled on
by default and is supposed to block that behavior only really worked on a couple
of shopping websites to be fair it is
still in preview and Microsoft's letting people test it so they can fix this kind
of stuff by asking the AI to please stop
doing that that's what softwar Dev is now the European Union's oversight body
has confirmed that an ad campaign commissioned by the European commission
broke the eu's own data protection rules
the finding was triggered by a complaint from digital rights nonprofit Nob who
pointed out that the commission used datadriven microtar targeting in a
campaign to sway public opinion on a controversial EU legislative proposal
known as chat control the EU data protection supervisor has issued a
reprimand to the European commission but not a fine due to the risk of taking
this too far and having Europe explode due to a logical error does not compute
oh no wait it's Europe does not compute
and the 2024 game awards happened last night and while the halflife 3 rumors
were obviously incorrect there were some cool game announcements which you can
see on screen here because if I point any of them out specifically you'll
comment no mention of zenostar cross sword Chronicles road to valyria no no
mention I will tell you which game one game of the year though
astrobot probably because it was a really good game it would also be really
good if you came back here on Monday for more Tech news and watch out for any
autonomous cars on the way over wh says its cars are officially certified
against crash into emergency vehicles now which they apparently weren't before
despite driving on the road for a long time so just be careful okay