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Whoa. Oh, sorry. I was just up in the sky getting tech news from God.

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Didn't even put it on tablets or anything. I just had to memorize it.

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Xbox has revealed some details about its nextG console in a surprise update from

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President Sarah Bond, who promised an Xbox experience not locked to a single

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store or tied to one device. That's why they're working closely with the Windows

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team to ensure that Windows is the number one platform for gaming. Okay,

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just hold up, back up for a second. What are we talking about here? New Xbox

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consoles with like Steam and the Epic Game Store. But then she mentions

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Windows. Are the next Xbox consoles just PCs? Well, Bond also announced a

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multi-year partnership with AMD to co-engineer a portfolio of devices,

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including our next generation Xbox consoles in your living room and in your

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hands. Okay, that sounds like they are indeed making nextg Xboxes. But what

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does that even mean when they're telling us that anything with an internet

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connection is an Xbox? I wish they'd just come out and say what an Xbox is.

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Do we need to go over how you can't use the word you're defining in the words

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definition? What is an Xbox? This is an Xbox. Okay, but what is that?

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An Xbox? This lack of clarity leads to

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some outlets like Xbox Era calling this official confirmation that native

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handhelds are indeed planned after all. But I don't see how you can think that

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when Microsoft called the ROG Xbox Ally X an Xbox. I mean, they even reused the

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same graphic of the Ryzen processor from the ROG Xbox Ally reveal in the new

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video, supposedly talking about native Xbox handhelds. I can't make head or

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tail of this yapping. If you want to try your hand at figuring out what Microsoft

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has been smoking lately, this Chad Redditor aggregated all the nextgen Xbox

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developments that have happened since the 2023 leak, so activate your Sherlock

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brain and give it a go. Multiple reports of Switch 2 owners being banned from

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Nintendo's online services have popped up this week as gamers tried to use the

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popular MIG flash micro SD adapter cartridges that allow you to play Switch

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games without modding the console. Whether those be pirated copies or

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backups of games you've legitimately purchased. Mig Flash was just updated to

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support playing Switch One games on Switch 2, but seems like Nintendo was

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ready and waiting to ban a bunch of people, all of whom insist they were

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only playing their own backed up games. But can we trust random Redditors? After

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all, this one called BS on the whole thing. They've been playing on the Mig

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Flash, and they're not banned. Oop, scratch that. They got banned. Uh, they

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were so mad they went and stole nearly 3,000 Switch 2 consoles from the back of

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a truck in Texas. You can't ban all of them, Nintendo. That was a joke about

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that Redditor. We we we don't know. The mysterious new owner of the most

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popular game mod hosting platform, Nexus Mods, has been revealed by who else?

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Redditors. You guys are getting extra representation in Techling today. And

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honestly, it's about time. Anyway, turns out Nexus Mods is now owned by a company

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called Chosen, a gaming startup accelerator whose website says, "We

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partner, we amplify, we conquer." Uh, I

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don't like that. Uh, but if you actually read the rest of the site, they try to

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differentiate themselves from normal corpo investor people, and it does sound

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like there's some humanity and gaming passion involved. But what do I know?

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Just in case, keep your pitchfork and attack position. After the cat was out

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of the bag, the chosen team addressed community concerns in a pinned comment

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underneath founder Dark1's post, explicitly saying they won't sell mods,

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charge a download fee, or claim ownership of the mods, they won't revoke

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lifetime premium licenses, and generally

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things will apparently largely stay the same. Although, they did admit to never

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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

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performance overlay in the latest Steam client beta can now differentiate

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between traditional frames and frames generated by DLSS, FSR, or XSS,

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colloquially known as fake frames. The overlay also now has metrics for CPU,

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GPU, and memory, which is cool, but I'm going to be turning this on and only

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looking at the top left because I want to enjoy those extra frames and be mad

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about it the whole time. Donald Trump is once again extending the already

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extended deadline for Tik Tok's owner Bite Dance to agree to a sale or have

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the social media app banned from the US. Although it seems like there is

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perpetually also a third option to extend the deadline. June 19th was going

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to be midnight on the Tik Tok doomsday clock. But every time that minute hands

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gets close, wouldn't you know it, midnight keeps moving. Is this a

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daylight savings thing? Are the farmers pranking us? Google has added another

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test in search Labs. Users who opt in can now try using live voice interaction

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in AI mode. So you can talk to Gemini while at Google stuff for you. Uh that

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could be useful if you get more results than they show in this demo. There's

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just like little cards. But something that's way more useful is the new

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ability to directly upload video files for Gemini to analyze. Maybe if you put

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in the recent Xbox videos and you can ask Gemini if if it knows what the hell

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an Xbox is. Honda of all companies just successfully launched and landed its own

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reusable rocket, shocking the space industry. The 20.6 ft rocket reached an

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altitude of 889 ft in the Japanese town

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of Tiki before gracefully returning to Earth. Extendable legs and all. Honda,

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you dog. You had this in the bag the whole time? Why didn't you tell anyone?

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I mean, it turns out they did kind of uh in 2021 they said they were looking into

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doing space stuff, but no one cared. No one ever asks how Honda's doing. And

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General, a company founded by an ex Google DeepMind researcher, has shown

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off their robot hands, being really good at general purpose tasks like flicking

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small items into bins and putting boxes together, all while dealing with that

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same damn hockey stick again. Please, sir. The robot switches hands while

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zipping a backpack without missing a beat and deals with even more abuse. Oh

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my god, stop. I'm trying to work. But what's more impressive? That or

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Australia approving lab grown meat, specifically quail that a company called

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Forged has turned into luxury food items like a quail candle that that melts so

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you can dip stuff in it. Robots. Meat

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wax. I I don't know. But you better meatwax me back here on Friday for more

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tech news.

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Honestly, that's just hitting me now how weird that sounds. Um, you don't have to

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meatwax anything if you don't want to. I Hey, um