Tech news comes and Tech news goes I try to make it stay for a while but that
never works I I can't I can't control it
it doesn't listen the Humane AI pin the
first in a coming wave of small AI powered devices has launched and now
everyone's upset Tech reviewers are upset that the AI pin is expensive
requiring a $700 purchase plus a $24 a
month T-Mobile 4G LTE subscription separate from your phone plan it's
incredibly slow to respond and doesn't actually do what it's supposed to half
the time it overheats regularly makes you look like a weirdo in public and
that's only scratching the surface but Defenders of the AI pin are also upset
because the tech reviewers just don't get that it's not meant to replace your
smartphone you shouldn't compare the AI pin to a smartphone you should compare
it to the first iPhone because both of them sucked at lunch listen Humane head
engineer Ken Kenda admits that the Revolutionary AI device his company just
launched is frustrating sometimes occasionally the AI simply won't listen
and has to be sent to its room but that doesn't mean you should write the pin
off why don't you watch Hume YouTube videos where they try to explain what
the this thing is at the very least it might humanize Humane CEO and co-founder
former Apple designer Imran chodri see
he's not sad all the time okay now's the part where I say to be fair the AI pin
is an attempt to create a new category of device which always comes with
Growing Pains humaine has posted a road map of upcoming features and to be
honest the idea of using just my voice for a bunch of things which currently
require grabbing my phone sounds great but this ain't it Chief now to wait a
couple weeks for the rabbit R1 to launch so we can do this All Over Again Apple
announced that iPhone owners and repair shops will be able to fix their devices
with used parts from other iPhones and not have to deal with a shameful error
me message for installing a part that wasn't genuine I can't believe you've done this
Apple has specified that the used parts affected by this update including face
ID and touch ID sensors screens batteries and cameras still have to be
genuine Apple Parts thirdparty components will not work correctly this
is because of Parts pairing Apple's practice of requiring an iPhone to
validate whether a part is genuine which Apple Hardware executive John turnis
convincingly called not evil okay to be
clear Apple's announcement is unquestionably great news for repair
heads just don't let Apple die hards know that their devices have become more
open they don't seem to like that here's a little something for everyone though
Mark muad God Emperor German says that
new Max will be coming out later this year powered by Apple's new M4 chips
which will pack extra AI smarts and come
in three flavors code named Donan Brava
and hyra I'm assuming because Apple's running out of synonyms for Ultra the
Apple M4 mucho grande haven't use that one if you use it you owe me royalties
like it or not a bunch of other noteworthy AI news occurred this week
starting with the launch of yudo an AI music generator created by a team of
former Google deep minders together with the also very good sunno V3 which
launched a few weeks ago we're basically having a SORA moment for AI music except
these tools are actually available meaning it's easier than ever to make a
50s pop ballot about how your friend soiled himself at work it is a banger or
if you prefer a sad girl Indie song about software license terms we couldn't
do these things before other models released this week include mixol 8x2 2B
which French startup mistol dropped as a 281 GB torrent file and Gemini 1.5 Pro
which is now available to developers through Google's vertex AI platform open
AI released a new version of GPT 4 Turbo
but didn't initially describe what was different about it other than saying
it's majorly improved Sam Altman chimed
in to clarify that it's significantly smarter and more pleasant to use to be
specific though it's more good and less bad open a eventually did post Benchmark
results showing that it's kind of better at math I don't know maybe the two
researchers just fired by the for-profit nonprofit for allegedly leaking
information no more we should ask them before they start their own company and
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because they're fast they're made out of quick line and if you touch them they
cause severe irritation my life is pain
Discord has shut down the servers for Nintendo switch emulators suyu and
sudachi and completely disabled the Discord accounts of their lead
developers the platform claims there was a court-ordered injunction for the Tak
down of materials on those servers likely because both suyu and sudachi
started life as Forks of Yuzu the emulator Nintendo sued all the way to
hell and that's not the only bad news for suyu
enthusiasts all right according to someone claiming to be a suyu developer
the emulation project is dead or rather
it's no longer a thing that's beautiful I hope that's what my kids say about me
at my funeral Intel has decided to discontinue boxed versions of of their
13th gen core K series CPUs something
that may seem like a surprising move seeing that boxed 12th gen chips are
still alive and well but it makes a bit more sense when you consider that all
the discontinued skews are based on the same silicon that's being used in the
newer better 14th gen K series chips
essentially the 12th gen chips are like your dog and 13th gen is a kid okay hear
me out I think Jacob wrote this one a dog can't replace a kid but a newer
better kid can not sure you just get rid of the old
one and call the new one by the old one's name no one knows the difference
everyone wins except the older kid Instagram is taking a bold new step in
the fight against unsolicited dickpics
by introducing a feature that proactively scans images sent as DMS for
nudity and then blurs it now this feature will be on by default for users
under 18 but it's also an option for grown adults who don't want every app to
turn into a hookup app we have LinkedIn for that the feature will also gently
prompt users to reconsider if they
appear to be trying to send a nude image according to meta the feature isn't just
to Shield our poor innocent eyes from unexpected dangl but also to undermine
blackmailers who use nudes to encourage unsuspecting users to send them
potential extortion material beware she
might say boobs in BIO but that is just her siren song Calling unwary Sal to
dash themselves upon the Rocks it's dangerous out there Google has announced
that they will be making several AI editing tools for Google photos
available for free to all users including magic editor Magic Eraser
photo unblur and portrait light the features were previously exclusive to
pixel users and Google one subscribers while free users had a limited number of
uses every month the Magic Eraser feature will be particularly useful if
you're looking to gradually delete yourself from all of your loved ones
photos and Gaslight them into believing you never existed it's at least one use
case and Microsoft has apparently been pushing fullcreen popup ads to Windows
10 users encouraging them to switch to Windows 11 despite the fact that many of
their computers aren't even eligible to run Windows 11 a fact that the ad itself
acknowledges Windows 10 you can't get it
but pretty nice huh official Windows 10 support will soon be ending of course
and continued security updates for the next year will cost $61 per device the
upgrade to Windows 11 is free you just need to buy a whole new computer but you
don't need anything to come back on Monday for more Tech news if the
internet gets shut off just you know sit in front of your monitor and imagine
what the tech news would be like