you know Tech news isn't all fun in games and giving yourself little
electric shocks for fun it can have real consequences like finding out how good
robots are getting so always do the tech news with a partner if you don't have I
I count as a partner you're good Microsoft's edge browser has been caught
stealing people's Chrome tabs in broad daylight when The Verge reporter Tom
Warren started up his PC after updating Windows he was meant by Edge
automatically opening with all of his tabs open which doesn't seem that weird
except that he had those tabs open in Chrome his default browser ah sorry bub
defaults changed and Tommy's not alone
there have been a slow and steady buildup of reports from users
complaining about their Edge browsers just going ahead and importing browser
data from chrome without permission one person that this happened to even
uninstalled Edge and deleted all of its app data from Windows only to have it
pop up having imported everything again after an update and this time it was
angry got a bit of a single white female situation you didn't mean to do that did
you turns out Edge has a little known
feature that allows it to pull data from other browsers so when Microsoft decides
to push another update that autol launches the app it'll take longer for
users to realize that isn't their Grandma at all it's the wolf grandma
what great cookies you have privacy researcher Zach Edwards pointed out that
when reinstalling Windows a screen appears giving you the option to disable
this feature but it clearly nudges you towards keeping it on but if you missed
that you can also disable it in edges settings who knows if that'll stick
though that's half the fun speaking of browsers the company behind the unusual
Arc browser they're called the browser company to make things less confusing
has launched Arc search an iPhone exclusive app with an AI powered feature
called browse for me because laying on the couch with your phone like this is
just yeah exhausting AI assisted search is nothing new but instead of making you
go back and forth with a chatbot Arc search will actually read six web pages
and generate a summary web page for you complete with embedded YouTube videos
and verified quotes which probably could
do with some more verification afterwards since generative AI is
involved but I can't deny it looks pretty convenient but as with other AI
powered tools heralded as the future of web browsing this one sparking concern
about how Publishers get compensated when their content is scraped by a bot
instead of a squishy human who can be lured into clicking a shiny ad for hot
cheese sauce ads like that don't work on robots they hate that stuff it gunks up
their gears ah what are we going to do
how do we sell cheese to robots how
Apple may have spit in the eu's face with their iOS changes announced last
week but Amazon's coones apparently aren't as large the e-commerce giant has
announced it's cancelling its $1.4 billion agreement to acquire irot the
company behind Roomba and did you know there's a mopping Roomba called Brava
with three A's pretty cool this is what
Isaac azimov had in mind opposition from European regulators and an active
investigation by the FTC cooled Amazon's lenium cleansing Jets unfortunately the
same day the deal was cancelled iroot announced an operational restructuring
plan involving 31% of the company's 1130
employees being laid off while its co-founder and CEO Colin angle is
stepping down take a good look Europe you did this Europe Euro while there
were concerns that the acquisition would lead to Amazon favoring its own products
on its Marketplace because they have done that many times before others have
pointed out that iroots products are struggling while losing ground to many
chinese-made competitor products none of which have names that are nearly as
simultaneously quaint and nonsensical a Roomba
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answer to what
question indeed last week Apple
announced its proposed changes in response to the EU digital markets act
to A Chorus of jeering and booze because the company still wants to review every
app on offer on iOS and they even added a potentially punishing new core
technology fee for developers when asked about Apple's half-ass plan EU internal
Market commissioner tiar Breton didn't comment on Apple directly but told
Reuters that company proposals that fail to go far enough will be met with strong
action it's like how when your mom doesn't say she'll punish you if your
room is messy just that the house it better be clean when she gets home it's
a scary home to live in NASA has officially announced the end of the
engine genuity helicopters mission on Mars according to NASA Ingenuity or
Genny to its friends is still functional in the sense that it's upright and
capable of communicating with NASA control back on Earth but it likely
damaged one or more of its rotor blades meaning that it's permanently grounded
over the course of 3 years jinny managed 72 flights through Mars's ultra thin
atmosphere far beyond the original five test flights that NASA scientists
expected tragically despite over 2 hours of total flight time this little
helicopter was still unable to complete its ultimate goal and rescue Matt Damon
some say he's still up there growing taters Kraken wise fossil has officially
thrown in the towel and will no longer be making SmartWatches leaving them to
an assortment of non-tech products none of us here care about they're basically
dead to us it's a big deal but it also really really isn't fossil was possibly
the biggest partner for Google's we OSS platform but despite launching nearly a
decade ago fossil SmartWatches still only made up 2% of the Smartwatch market
now this isn't coming out of nowhere fossil's last Smartwatch was a refresh
of the fossil Gen 6 back in late 2022
and they hadn't really said much since it's like having your girlfriend ghost
you for over a month the eventual breakup text isn't that much of a shock
Canon the Japanese camera and printer company plans to start shipping chip
making machines that use a new technology called Nano imprint
lithography sometime this year the tech
involves stamping chip designs onto silicon as opposed to etching them using
euv lithography the technique used by industry leader asml Canon says their
stamping method which sounds suspiciously like a printer is
significantly cheaper and uses up to 90% less power than the way the Dutch
company does it but at this point we don't care if they're literally drawing the chip designs on with a pen we need
chips to get cheaper and for that to happen we need more chips and the Dutch
have stood in our way for too long Europe speaking speak of Japanese W's
the Japanese government will no longer require companies to submit certain
official documents in the form of CD ROMs mini discs and floppy discs a media
format that is the same age as Mark wallberg and also apparently the quarter
pounder okay since 2022 Japan's Ministry
of economy trade and industry has been begging the other various branches of
the government to modernize their submission protocols which apply to
important sectors throughout the Japanese economy including aircraft and
weapons manufacturers unfortunately this isn't
an issue exclusive to Japan many elderly planes and medical devices still require
floppy discs and the US government only stopped using floppy discs to coordinate
nuclear launches back in 2019 truly
proving the power of nostalgia we have to move on and I know you have the power
to come back on Wednesday for more Tech news you're capable of so much
especially clicking that Mouse on a video you got this