Whoa. Oh, sorry. I was just up in the sky getting tech news from God.
Didn't even put it on tablets or anything. I just had to memorize it.
Xbox has revealed some details about its nextG console in a surprise update from
President Sarah Bond, who promised an Xbox experience not locked to a single
store or tied to one device. That's why they're working closely with the Windows
team to ensure that Windows is the number one platform for gaming. Okay,
just hold up, back up for a second. What are we talking about here? New Xbox
consoles with like Steam and the Epic Game Store. But then she mentions
Windows. Are the next Xbox consoles just PCs? Well, Bond also announced a
multi-year partnership with AMD to co-engineer a portfolio of devices,
including our next generation Xbox consoles in your living room and in your
hands. Okay, that sounds like they are indeed making nextg Xboxes. But what
does that even mean when they're telling us that anything with an internet
connection is an Xbox? I wish they'd just come out and say what an Xbox is.
Do we need to go over how you can't use the word you're defining in the words
definition? What is an Xbox? This is an Xbox. Okay, but what is that?
An Xbox? This lack of clarity leads to
some outlets like Xbox Era calling this official confirmation that native
handhelds are indeed planned after all. But I don't see how you can think that
when Microsoft called the ROG Xbox Ally X an Xbox. I mean, they even reused the
same graphic of the Ryzen processor from the ROG Xbox Ally reveal in the new
video, supposedly talking about native Xbox handhelds. I can't make head or
tail of this yapping. If you want to try your hand at figuring out what Microsoft
has been smoking lately, this Chad Redditor aggregated all the nextgen Xbox
developments that have happened since the 2023 leak, so activate your Sherlock
brain and give it a go. Multiple reports of Switch 2 owners being banned from
Nintendo's online services have popped up this week as gamers tried to use the
popular MIG flash micro SD adapter cartridges that allow you to play Switch
games without modding the console. Whether those be pirated copies or
backups of games you've legitimately purchased. Mig Flash was just updated to
support playing Switch One games on Switch 2, but seems like Nintendo was
ready and waiting to ban a bunch of people, all of whom insist they were
only playing their own backed up games. But can we trust random Redditors? After
all, this one called BS on the whole thing. They've been playing on the Mig
Flash, and they're not banned. Oop, scratch that. They got banned. Uh, they
were so mad they went and stole nearly 3,000 Switch 2 consoles from the back of
a truck in Texas. You can't ban all of them, Nintendo. That was a joke about
that Redditor. We we we don't know. The mysterious new owner of the most
popular game mod hosting platform, Nexus Mods, has been revealed by who else?
Redditors. You guys are getting extra representation in Techling today. And
honestly, it's about time. Anyway, turns out Nexus Mods is now owned by a company
called Chosen, a gaming startup accelerator whose website says, "We
partner, we amplify, we conquer." Uh, I
don't like that. Uh, but if you actually read the rest of the site, they try to
differentiate themselves from normal corpo investor people, and it does sound
like there's some humanity and gaming passion involved. But what do I know?
Just in case, keep your pitchfork and attack position. After the cat was out
of the bag, the chosen team addressed community concerns in a pinned comment
underneath founder Dark1's post, explicitly saying they won't sell mods,
charge a download fee, or claim ownership of the mods, they won't revoke
lifetime premium licenses, and generally
things will apparently largely stay the same. Although, they did admit to never
having made a Skyrim mod. And that's all I needed to hear. Pitchfork volley.
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Sorry, sorry I had to get the quick from the other guy. Valve's updated Steam
performance overlay in the latest Steam client beta can now differentiate
between traditional frames and frames generated by DLSS, FSR, or XSS,
colloquially known as fake frames. The overlay also now has metrics for CPU,
GPU, and memory, which is cool, but I'm going to be turning this on and only
looking at the top left because I want to enjoy those extra frames and be mad
about it the whole time. Donald Trump is once again extending the already
extended deadline for Tik Tok's owner Bite Dance to agree to a sale or have
the social media app banned from the US. Although it seems like there is
perpetually also a third option to extend the deadline. June 19th was going
to be midnight on the Tik Tok doomsday clock. But every time that minute hands
gets close, wouldn't you know it, midnight keeps moving. Is this a
daylight savings thing? Are the farmers pranking us? Google has added another
test in search Labs. Users who opt in can now try using live voice interaction
in AI mode. So you can talk to Gemini while at Google stuff for you. Uh that
could be useful if you get more results than they show in this demo. There's
just like little cards. But something that's way more useful is the new
ability to directly upload video files for Gemini to analyze. Maybe if you put
in the recent Xbox videos and you can ask Gemini if if it knows what the hell
an Xbox is. Honda of all companies just successfully launched and landed its own
reusable rocket, shocking the space industry. The 20.6 ft rocket reached an
altitude of 889 ft in the Japanese town
of Tiki before gracefully returning to Earth. Extendable legs and all. Honda,
you dog. You had this in the bag the whole time? Why didn't you tell anyone?
I mean, it turns out they did kind of uh in 2021 they said they were looking into
doing space stuff, but no one cared. No one ever asks how Honda's doing. And
General, a company founded by an ex Google DeepMind researcher, has shown
off their robot hands, being really good at general purpose tasks like flicking
small items into bins and putting boxes together, all while dealing with that
same damn hockey stick again. Please, sir. The robot switches hands while
zipping a backpack without missing a beat and deals with even more abuse. Oh
my god, stop. I'm trying to work. But what's more impressive? That or
Australia approving lab grown meat, specifically quail that a company called
Forged has turned into luxury food items like a quail candle that that melts so
you can dip stuff in it. Robots. Meat
wax. I I don't know. But you better meatwax me back here on Friday for more
tech news.
Honestly, that's just hitting me now how weird that sounds. Um, you don't have to
meatwax anything if you don't want to. I Hey, um