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But they haven't been very forthcoming about what kind of hardware.
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The company did hire engineer Ahmad Abbas back in February,
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who previously helped design the Apple Vision Pro.
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Midjourney is also continuing to develop AI models
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to generate video and 3D environments.
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maybe the hardware will be a headset that generates 3D worlds?
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Or maybe it's an orb.
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Back in January, Midjourney CEO David Holtz replied to a pondering my orb meme on Twitter by saying,
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we will make the orb.
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We will, we will make the orb.
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What does that mean?
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I don't know,
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but stay tuned for orb.
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The best way to stay tuned is to literally stay tuned
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by coming back on Monday for more tech news.
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Just kidding. I made a horrible mistake.
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We're not actually uploading anything on Monday.
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Not a talk link, not a regular tech link.
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It's a holiday. So believe it or not, we're taking a holiday.
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We're taking a day off.
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So come back on Wednesday for more tech news, please.
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Four score and seven years ago,
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there was no tech news.
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But if there was,
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it definitely wasn't included in any YouTube videos.
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They were making videos about the Spanish civil wars,
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I don't know.
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Being poor.
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AMD has confirmed the existence of its Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor,
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the successor to the Z1 Extreme,
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powering gaming handhelds like Lenovo's Legion Go
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and the Asus ROG Ally X.
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According to Digital Trends,
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in a joint briefing with Microsoft at the IFA 2024 conference,
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AMD said they're targeting a release date
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of early 2025 for the Z2 Extreme,
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which would presumably arrive inside of new handheld devices,
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not floating down from the sky with little parachutes
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after being shot out of an air cannon.
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I don't know who keeps putting that idea in the script.
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It's very stupid.
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No specs for the chip were given,
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but AMD exec Jack Huynh said he wants to play Black Myth Wukong
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for three hours instead of the 45 minutes current handhelds can muster.
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And Jack, he gets what he wants.
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Team Red also said they're working with several partners,
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which could include Valve.
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The Steam Deck did not use a Z1 chip,
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but it did use AMD chips.
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So we may see the Z2 Extreme power the Steam Deck too,
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or, Valve might follow Acer,
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who went with a Ryzen 7 8840HS in their recently announced handheld
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and energy drink from 2010, the Nitro Blaze 7.
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Intel was having a great week following its reveal of Lunar Lake
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as a compelling answer to Qualcomm's Snapdragon X series laptop chips.
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But then Intel had to go and mess it up
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by announcing it's outsourcing the production of Lunar Lake's successor, Arrow Lake,
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to external partners.
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It's not a great look,
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as the plan has been to manufacture Arrow Lake on the Intel 20A node for years.
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But don't worry, Intel found a good way to spin this.
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You see, they've had early success on Intel 18A,
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which enables them to shift engineering resources from Intel 20A earlier than expected.
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We're giving up on our own technology
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and outsourcing production to our competitors,
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but that's a good thing.
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We went for coffee with them.
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And they're really, they're not so bad.
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They're good guys.
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The news is inviting speculation
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about whether CEO Pat Gelsinger really is the chosen one,
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prophesied to bring balance to the fabs.
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According to Reuters,
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it's also making Qualcomm consider trying to acquire different pieces of Intel,
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like a Vulture planning which giblets is gonna pick off a half-dead antelope
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dragging itself across the Savannah.
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That's a gruesome image.
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Who put this in here?
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This is a kid's show.
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This is, kids gotta learn.
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Death is a part of life.
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That's tech news, baby.
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The Internet Archive has lost its attempt to appeal the final ruling
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from its March 2023 court battle with the Association of American Publishers,
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in which the archive's operation as a nonprofit digital library was found to be copyright infringement.
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Publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, and Penguin, Random House
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sued the Internet Archive in 2020 over its controlled digital lending system.
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In the recent appeals decision, the judges ask,
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is it fair use to scan copyrighted physical books
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and distribute as many digital copies as you have physical copies for free?
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As if you're some kind of library or something?
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No!
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You buy your books like the Founding Fathers intended.
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I don't know, we're Canadian.
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I don't know the amendments.
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Okay, that was close.
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Except, like other libraries,
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the Internet Archive does buy books,
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which, as author Malcolm Harris points out on Twitter,
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means they're not really taking sales away from individual authors.
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