at Google's launch event for their new pixel devices yesterday the company had
the courage to do a live AI demo after
using pre-baked videos at the last one causing this poor guy to probably want
to demo whoever made him stand up there praying for help from the demo Spirits
we'll get back to him for now look it's the new pixel phones there's the pixel 9
for 800 bucks 100 more than the pixel 8
the pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL they split
it into two sizes for 1,100 bucks respectively and the pixel 9
Pro fold for $1,800 they've all got this flat-sided
design whose turn it is to be the premium look but they do also have
notable upgrades 12 and 16 gig memory configurations underd display ultrasonic
fingerprint readers that are 50% faster than the pixel 8s not on the fold though
satellite SOS and the brand new tensor
G4 chip which is reported barely an upgrade over the G3 and still well
behind Qualcomm and Apple's phone chips
oh man look at that big old camera bump though epic there's lots of new AI stuff
but first the new pixel watch 3 has bigger and brighter displays 24-hour
always on display battery life and 36 hours on battery saver and New Pulse
detection that calls Emergency Services when it can't find your pulse so make
sure it's got good contact with your wrist or you'll constantly be swatting
yourself that's what they said to save people right I don't feel so good call
the SWAT team then there's the pixelbuds
Pro 2 smaller lighter with better noise
cancelling thanks to a new tensor A1 chip that runs 90 times faster than the
speed of sound that's Mac 90 is it
actually running like a like a man now
of course the phones have ai in them Magic editor lets you reimagine parts of
the photo with text prompts and the add me feature removes the need to ask a
disgusting fleshy stranger to take a photo of you and your friends in
honestly one of the most useful Phone features I've seen in a while ah what
else did they put AI into ah the new pixel weather app it can adapt to show
you what you prefer to see when you first open your weather app
which probably the weather
call notes will transcribe and summarize a phone call if you tell it to pixel
studio is an AI image generator app and
pixel screenshots seemed at first to be just an app to look at only your
screenshots which was weird but then I was like oh you choose to screenshot
stuff you want to remember and then the AI can help bring it up when you need it
it's like Windows recall except not stupid Google's also upgrading Gemini
adding the chat gbt voice mode es Gemini
live and promising that it will actually be a useful assistant for real this time
working securely with your data across apps unfortunately this is where they
had that live demo goof and gives me the information I'm looking
for oh looks like we had a little demo issue let me try one more time but they
eventually got it working to the extreme joy of someone in the audience there we
go all right
thank you demo spirits who are you cheering for the demo Spirits reviews of
AMD's ryzen 9000 Flagship processors the
950x and 9900x are live and while the
chips are indeed more powerful than the ryen 5 and 7 models launched last week
they haven't really done anything to wash a distinct Taste of me from PC
Enthusiast mouths it's salty but it's
also bitter Best of Both Worlds while the chips are definitely better in
professional apps that use AVX 512 instructions their comparative
performance in other use cases like gaming is just okay thankfully it looks
like AMD's prepping a ryzen 5 5500 X 3D
spotted by haruk Kazi 5719 on Twitter
which could be the most affordable chip yet equipped with 3D vcash the essential
mineral Gamers crave another rumor claims that AMD will release BIOS up
dates that will increase the TDP of the 9600 X and 9700x from 65 to 105 Watts
which should also make Gamers happy that info comes from a saucy tweet from Chile
dog on Twitter look we're not proud about relying on vague tweets for this
but when the new ryons are this disappointing sometimes you got to dig
deeper down to find some sunshine R I
feel like earth scientists would disagree sometimes the sunshine is is
under the ground that's where plants come
from meta shut down a research tool
called crowd tangle today despite strong opposition from government officials
researchers and journalists most tech Giants upset maybe one of those groups
but all three that's talent crowd tangle allowed the study of how information
spreads on Facebook and Instagram that made it useful for identifying
misinformation and security threats notably during elections news of the
shutdown upset the European commission and even inspired a bipartisan Coalition
of US senators and members of Congress to write a letter kindly asking Mark
Zuckerberg to maybe not do this 3 months before a presidential election consider
it Executives at meta have responded to the outcry by saying crowd tangle wasn't
meant for research yeah when Facebook sent people to personally train
academics like Alice marwick on how to use crowdtangle for for research I was
just like was just like a bit you know I was just
like we were joking we're just having fun you took it way too seriously now
meta has introduced a replacement tool called meta Content Library but it's not
as good not only does it produce less usable data but researchers now have to
apply to use it and then wait for approval meanwhile journalists from
commercial organizations meaning most journalists are ineligible
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which is so far leading to a good many edgy photos of Taylor Swift flying into
the Twin Towers but I'm I'm also not complaining about finally getting to see
Baro Obama in waiting years grock 2 is
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Pikachu I didn't know you played like that you can come around my crib anytime
anyways I'm sure this will bring all the advertisers back valve has confirmed
that they are adding third-party device support to Steam OS starting with the
Rog Ally valve designer Lawrence Yang gave a statement to The Verge after
support for extra Rog Ally Keys was spotted in the patch notes of the
Linux-based operating system though he noted that third party support isn't
quite ready yet the company is also
still working on making it possible to dual boot Windows on your steam deck
perhaps by the time valve gets dual boot working Microsoft will have done the
same for Windows 11 which is what we actually want zuda ludicrous wacky
cousin now the open source AMD GPU
implementation of NVIDIA's Cuda was taken down last week but not by NVIDIA
it was actually AMD who funded the development of zuda who sent a takedown
request to developer Andre Yanik while
Yanik said AMD gave him permission to release the code in an email apparently
they changed their mind the company's legal department now claims the email is
not legally binding oh what you thought the words that someone wrote to you
meant something it was clearly just a bit an open- source project has gone
viral for its ability to generate realtime deep fakes deep live cam
apparently only needs a single image of a person's face to successfully make you
look like that person in live webcam video tools like this have existed in
the past but they couldn't do it with a single image so the results aren't exact
but they do a pretty good job matching poses expressions and even the lighting
captured by your webcam illustrator Corey Brickley reminds us that it's time
to establish code words with your parents because your face and voice are
no longer enough to verify your identity this has been the latest episode of
man-made Horrors beyond my comprehension and I'm just kidding there's more mit's
computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory has launched the
AI risk repository which contains more
than 700 AI risks the project was
prompted by concerns that AI implementation was outpacing the spread
of the knowledge of the risks associated with said implementation risks like
needing to establish code words with your loved ones probably that's number
568 coincidentally in their quest to spread information about the many
threats of AI the repositories creators found that one of the least addressed
threats is misinformation sure we may not understand AI but thanks to AI we
don't understand anything so but if we
did understand something it would be that you should come back on Friday for
more Tech news I mean it's how the weekend is meant to be
started did you guys hear about that attack news oh cool let's let's hang out
laughs an existential dread