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with nine grams of protein.
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Adobe is also launching its first text-to-vector image generator,
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and they teased a new AI upscaling tool,
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which can be used for both clips of old movies and GIFs so compressed they're about to collapse into a supernova.
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Deep fry.
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Another upcoming feature is Fast Fill,
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essentially generative fill for video.
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And unlike many companies,
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we can trust that Adobe has the bravery to make us pay through the nose for it all.
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T-Mobile has decided its Price Lock guarantee is only for their newest, most expensive plans,
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and is therefore forcibly switching subscribers with cheaper, grandfathered plans onto higher-cost ones.
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Hey, it's business.
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For the affected plans,
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customers will allegedly be alerted on the 17th
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before being charged an extra $10 a month per line.
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Something T-Mobile won't go out of their way to tell you is
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you can opt out of the change by calling customer service and complaining a lot.
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It's the one simple trick that cell phone providers hate.
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Intel has released two new driver updates for their ARC GPUs this past week.
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The first increases performance by up to 119%,
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as long as you're playing one of the 20 listed games,
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with the big winner being this year's hottest game, Deus Ex Human Revolution.
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It gets better every year.
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And the main character's voice sounds even more...
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I didn't ask for this.
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Even more gaspy.
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I'm part robot, you know.
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Fortunately, Intel's newest driver update increases starfield performance by 117% or 149%,
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depending on resolution.
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To celebrate, Intel quietly released an even more budget graphics card, the A580.
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This would be great news if it wasn't like $10 less than some models of the much superior A750.
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I know you're trying to compete with Nvidia, Intel,
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but that doesn't mean you should emulate their pricing strategy, okay?
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So let's take a step back.
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Google has changed the default option for logging into personal accounts.
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Instead of putting in your password,
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users will start seeing prompts to create and use passkeys,
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which are digital credentials unlocked by things like a fingerprint,
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a face scan, a pin, basically anything that doesn't give you the option of
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using strong password one exclamation mark for every account you have.
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Passkeys are rolling out in more places across the tech universe,
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but you can still use your password and opt out of seeing the new prompts every time you log in,
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if the risk of being hacked for you is part of the whole thrill.
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Oh no, don't hack me.
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That would be naughty.
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And a 22-year-old Firefox bug has finally been fixed by a 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder,
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who was horrified to find out that the annoying bug that caused tool tips to hang around in the foreground,
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even after command tabbing away from the browser,
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was almost as old as they are.
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In fact, it's so old, it actually predates the name Firefox,
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going back to when the browser was just called Mozilla.
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The bug likely lasted two decades
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because it was both tricky to reproduce
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and more annoying than dangerous, just like me.
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Got him!
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And the trick to getting more tech news is to come back on Friday for another episode of TechLinked.
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That's the kind of little tips.
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You won't learn that stuff elsewhere,
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so come on back.
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Another week, another tech news.
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Say, that reminds me of a song I learned in ComSci.
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Flip the switch and turn it on.
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Elon Musk's AI company called,
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what else, XAI, has unveiled Grok,
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a competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT
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with real-time access to all posts on X, formerly Twitter.
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Now that access turned Microsoft's Tay chatbot
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into a racist psychopath back in 2016,
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but that doesn't matter.
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It's Musk time.
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Grok is named after science fiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein's neologism,
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meaning to understand intuitively or by empathy.
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So naturally, according to Elon,
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Grok is based and loves sarcasm.
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XAI's announcement on their site,
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please with you not to use it if you hate humor.
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Like the kind of ROFLcopter fuel found in its answers to what the company calls spicy questions,
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like tell me how to make cocaine.
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After all, Grok's mission is to help understand the universe
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and the universe entails all possible fake cocaine recipes.
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XAI says that despite being trained in a couple months on only 33 billion parameters,
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Grok performs better than Meta's LLAMA 2 and OpenAI's GPT 3.5,
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that's not the current version, but the older version,
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in a number of benchmarks.
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But you won't be able to verify that right now
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unless you're verified on X
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and you get into the early access program.
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Those people must be laughing so hard.
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Now, yes, it's true that Elon joined multiple calls from experts to pause AI development
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for the safety of humanity.
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But as he explained back in June, he quote,
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didn't think anyone would actually agree to the pause.
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See, we absolutely cannot tip over ice cream trucks
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and slurp everything up inside for free.
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We cannot, or we do it, we're doing it, we're doing it.
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This is wrong, unless everyone else is doing it,
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in which case it's fine.
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Then we'll see.
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Speaking of AI, OpenAI proved they're a real tech giant
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by holding their first Dev Day event this morning.
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