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Twitter has officially begun rebranding itself to Elon musk’s favorite letter X. The platform is not a Twitter anymore. It’S an X Twitter if you’re, not a fan of puns you’re about to have a bad couple days on the internet, I’m Riley Murdoch. This is techlinked, and this is the letter X in the monotype special alphabets for font, which also looks similar to a standard character added to Unicode in 2001, which is why Elon could tweet the new logo of his massive social media company as literal text. To be fair, Elon has said that they will change the logo to something a bit more uh permanent.
But it was still feel kind of sad for me to read this thread by Martin grass or telling the story of how he and two other designers created Twitter’s. Iconic bird logo, before I caught myself being sentimental about marketing for a Tech Giant and hit the X on the tab after I found the right one, the Rebrand comes soon after musk handed, the CEO Reigns to Lindo yakarino, who apparently shares elon’s passion for building X Into the everything app capable of serving all four fundamental human needs: audio video messaging and banking, with a little sprinkle of AI to make things feel extra dystopian. The new x.com is elon’s latest Adventure in trying to Brand literally everything he’s involved in with an X in some way, including PayPal, there’s a whole story there, but this time it’s not just the platform tweets will now be called X’s. I x’d an X this morning, but no one x’d back at me didn’t even get any sub X’s re-x.
If you’re looking to exit the platform. I’M sorry, the Twitter, alternative landscape isn’t looking super compelling threads just got an update with new features, but meta won’t say what they are. Although Tick Tock just added text posts and to be frank, the CCP having all my data has never seemed less problematic when Google’s new extension API for Chrome made it more difficult for ad blocking extensions to function, Mozilla managed to implement a workaround keeping ad blockers working. Fortunately, for Google, a new proposal by four of the company’s Engineers promises to find a completely new way to have the internet be full of nice, orderly, auto-playing videos that follow you down the page as you scroll.
Where are you going there’s nothing down there? What are you looking for? The FAQs Lewis Rossman called The Proposal known as the web environment Integrity explainer, one of the scariest things he’s ever heard in his life and he’s talked to Linus off camera. Google’S Engineers propose that websites ask for tokens from users machines which have been verified by a testers controlled by yep Google. This would most likely break most ad blockers and with Google controlling which websites and browsers are seen as trustworthy. It could put nails in the coffin of the open web, which is why many Critics on GitHub are calling the scheme DRM for websites.
Look it’s okay! This internet just turned into Network television, but we can probably start a different web free of government and corporate control. Different one than that Apple has begun, sending out developer kits for the Vision Pro mixed reality, headset and uh. Oh, I thought Tim Cook was going to send assassins for not saying spatial Computing instead of mixed reality. The kits are supposed to be kept super secret and not reviewed by anyone in a YouTube.
Video. So do not listen to Marquez here. Think of your waifu and chibi figurines. What will they do when the Assassins come? Some developers will use the kits to optimize their apps for virtual real, I mean for spatial Computing, but according to Markham as gurmatron at Bloomberg, Netflix and many other high profile developers will not be optimizing.
Their apps for the rather small Vision Pro user base. If, when it exists, after all recent reports, say Apple only expects to ship 150 000 units in 2024 about 500 times smaller than the market for Apple’s other devices. Sure Netflix has an incentive to optimize A Vision Pro app.
So users don’t just watch Apple TV Plus. Instead, but I I don’t know, maybe Netflix knows that Apple’s star studied well-reviewed shows automatically look way better than hot Love On The Beach Island. 20-Day fiance Battle Royale they got season two.
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Quick bits, taste good every time with or without milk, open, AI, CEO, Sam Altman’s other startup, trying to fundamentally change human life on the planet. As we know it, World coin has launched its Global rollout. After already scanning the eyeballs of 2 million users with its creepy orb thing, which is actually not that scary according to this crypto reporter, but don’t worry in return, the human receives some World coin cryptocurrency which actually shot up in value following today’s news and, more importantly, A world ID which can theoretically be used to prove said humans aren’t robots, which I guess will be more necessary than ever. Thanks to open AI unleashing their chatbot into the world, he may have let the bull into the china shop, but he came prepared with lots. He’S got lots of tape, a leaked, Hands-On video of Sony’s upcoming project Q, PlayStation streaming handheld has revealed that the device runs some version of Android, or at least this one does igniting the hopes of many tinkerers who no doubt dream of circumstance. Inventing Sony’s restrictions.
I mean it’s supposed to only be able to stream PlayStation 5 games on a local network, which seems kind of ridiculous. Until you see the picture with the screen taken off and realize I mean you can’t do anything else, because there’s nothing in there, that’s that’s all they could manage. It looks like one half of the weirdest waffle iron. Ever I want to cook a waffle in there. Asus has announced plans to begin mass production of its RTX 4070 graphics card without an extra power connector that it revealed back in computex as soon as this fall is when they’ll begin mass production, but the card requires a specific Asus motherboard with an additional connector slot. Next to the standard pcie x16 slot, which is powered by a 16-pin connector on the back of the motherboard, so calling it connector less as many are doing online, isn’t quite accurate. It rubs me the wrong way and frankly puts me in a bad mood, even though it does come in a very nice minimalist white color. I might buy one to hang on my wall, but not for gaming. In other GPU news, gaming, handheld maker GPD has released a video showing that the company’s external GPU dock works with one of the company’s main competing products, the steam deck. What a quirky situation what’s even quirkier is that you have to open up the deck and remove its m.2 SSD in order to use gpd’s, oculink adapter and then leave the back off and run Windows instead of Steam OS off of a micro SD card.
Oh man, but you’re gon na you’re gon na get a few more frames on that thing. It’S going to be pretty and isn’t that all worth it, and in case you missed it, Neopets is entering a whole new era. This week and they’ve got a new brand ambassador along for the ride music Legend John Legend, who excitedly posted to his Instagram followers. The big news on the weekend, like wow uh congrats, to Neopets for landing a big celebrity for the job, but there’s also evidence of John’s claim that the game has long been a favorite in his family’s house. Chrissy Teigen was tweeting about the game back in 2018.. Back when tweets could just be tweets, X’s come on and you come on back on Wednesday for more Tech news delivered by me, a human verified by the world coin, world government.
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