Xbox Game Pass is Microsoft’s ultimate Trojan Horse. On its face, it’s a relatively benign game-as-a-service subscription. Pay the monthly fee and get access to a broad library of games. You can play on Xbox or play on PC. And if you’re fine with playing cloud streaming games, you 2024-02-15 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
How did Nvidia go from gaming company to AI darling worth a total market cap just behind Apple and Microsoft? Plus how did a South African based company dethrone Netflix as top streamer ...
2024-02-14 23:06:31 +0000 UTC View Post
How did Nvidia go from gaming company to AI darling worth a total market cap just behind Apple and Microsoft? Plus how did a South African based company dethrone Netflix as top streamer on the African continent? And Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a video of his views comparing the Vision Pro to ...
2024-02-14 22:17:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Nvidia demos Chat, an AI chatbot, running locally one of the company’s RTX series GPU. Google Meet announces, “Companion Mode” which helps you reach your teammates when dialing in ...
2024-02-13 22:55:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Nvidia demos Chat, an AI chatbot, running locally one of the company’s RTX series GPU. Google Meet announces, “Companion Mode” which helps you reach your teammates when dialing in on mobile devices. And Memorizer is an iOS app that combines a bit of Goodreads with a bit of Trakt and some Ye...
2024-02-13 22:15:29 +0000 UTC View Post
We do a rundown of the top four launch bugs on Samsung’s S24 smartphone. Plus the IEEE Spectrum has a report on how piezoelectric transducers can use a phone’s screen for both haptic...
2024-02-12 22:57:36 +0000 UTC View Post
We do a rundown of the top four launch bugs on Samsung’s S24 smartphone. Plus the IEEE Spectrum has a report on how piezoelectric transducers can use a phone’s screen for both haptic feedback and a speaker. And Funimation announces that subscriber’s digital copies of shows and movies will g...
2024-02-12 22:13:36 +0000 UTC View Post
That tech is like 100 years old! Wait what tech? THIS tech. Here are five big tech news headlines from 1924.
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- Jan-Michael Hökenschnieder
2024-02-12 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
How does a small business navigate social media? How does Sam Altman plan to reshape the global semiconductor industry? And why is X pivoting towards video?
Earthquake!!! M...
2024-02-09 22:57:28 +0000 UTC View Post
How does a small business navigate social media? How does Sam Altman plan to reshape the global semiconductor industry? And why is X pivoting towards video?
Earthquake!!! Meh, I Give It a 4 - GDI 4703 starts at 33:34
The Great Debate returns. Are you a call or text p...
ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros/Discover have agreed to a deal for a mega sports streaming service coming this Fall. Plus Singapore-based Brilliant Labs announced a pair of lightweight AR gla...
2024-02-08 22:58:45 +0000 UTC View Post
ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros/Discover have agreed to a deal for a mega sports streaming service coming this Fall. Plus Singapore-based Brilliant Labs announced a pair of lightweight AR glasses called Frame, with a multimodal virtual assistant named Noa. And Google is changing the name of its AI-pow...
2024-02-08 22:15:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Steve Jobs was many things. A businessman, inventor, and thinker. He melded together his eclectic life experiences to fashion his philosophy of technology design. It’s something he encapsulated in a 1977 brochure slogan for Apple computers; “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Jobs ...
2024-02-08 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Why is Xbox looking to bring some of its exclusive titles to other platforms? And Apple and scientists at UC-Santa Barbara released an open source multimodal large language model that ca...
2024-02-07 22:53:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Why is Xbox looking to bring some of its exclusive titles to other platforms? And Apple and scientists at UC-Santa Barbara released an open source multimodal large language model that can let users edit images using natural language.
You've Got to Fight, For Your Right to PODCAST! -...
2024-02-07 22:16:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Some owners of the Apple Vision Pro report forgetting their passcode which can disable the headset if a passcode is entered in too many times. Plus Forbes is reporting High school applic...
2024-02-06 23:02:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Some owners of the Apple Vision Pro report forgetting their passcode which can disable the headset if a passcode is entered in too many times. Plus Forbes is reporting High school applicants that utilize ChatGPT for personal essays, often hire human editors to de-AI them. And Mozilla introduces a...
2024-02-06 22:17:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Allison is here to explain everything you need to know about wireless charging standards. Plus Amazon and Reach, the UK’s largest publisher, reach a deal to allow access to customer da...
2024-02-05 22:59:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Allison is here to explain everything you need to know about wireless charging standards. Plus Amazon and Reach, the UK’s largest publisher, reach a deal to allow access to customer data for targeted advertising. And Meta’s Oversight Board ruled that a maliciously edited video of US President...
2024-02-05 22:19:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Five SECRETS of the Apple Vision Pro, or at least things you might not have known.
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- Jan-Michael Hökenschnieder
2024-02-05 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
We get hands on time with the Apple Vision Pro and share our thoughts. Plus Apple releases big numbers in its Q4 earnings call. And what happened to all the music on TikTok?
We get hands on time with the Apple Vision Pro and share our thoughts. Plus Apple releases big numbers in its Q4 earnings call. And what happened to all the music on TikTok?
From Game Show to Vision Pro - GDI 4698 starts at 37:30
The Friday quiz is back. How well do y...
2024-02-02 22:19:16 +0000 UTC View Post
What is the Kids Online Safety Act and why is it such a contentious issue? Plus Google is bringing generative AI to Google Maps. And why is Tim Cook betting so much on the...
2024-02-01 22:57:33 +0000 UTC View Post
What is the Kids Online Safety Act and why is it such a contentious issue? Plus Google is bringing generative AI to Google Maps. And why is Tim Cook betting so much on the success of the Apple Vision Pro?
Are You an Elder Millennial? - GDI 4697 starts at 33:09
Theatremonkey put together this GDI monthly highlight reel for January 2024.
2024-02-01 17:01:18 +0000 UTC View Post
This past week, a Hong Kong court ordered China’s largest property developer, Evergrande, to liquidate its assets to pay creditors. This is on t...
2024-02-01 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Blizzard gets a new president, Johanna Faries. Scott explains what her appointment means in a newly merged Microsoft Activision Blizzard company. Plus Universal Music Group, says negotiati...
2024-01-31 23:11:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Blizzard gets a new president, Johanna Faries. Scott explains what her appointment means in a newly merged Microsoft Activision Blizzard company. Plus Universal Music Group, says negotiations have broken down with TikTok over royalties. And US lawmakers grill social media CEOs over the use of the...
2024-01-31 22:16:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Is Netflix’s pivot to more traditional TV fare like dramas and reality shows a threat to traditional linear TV? Plus Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headset...
2024-01-30 22:56:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Is Netflix’s pivot to more traditional TV fare like dramas and reality shows a threat to traditional linear TV? Plus Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headsets. And TikTok’s effort to separate US data from China by putting it and a US-version of TikTok’s algorithm in an Oracle...
2024-01-30 22:17:29 +0000 UTC View Post