data/2023-11-01 Gamers： Apple Wants YOU! [BIQ3JcWJzT0].en.txt

[0.3] Welcome back to TechLinked, tech news you can count on, [2.84]
[2.84] but not write on or you'll ruin your screen. [5.38]
[5.58] Apple announced the new M3, [6.94]
[6.94] M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips, [9.24]
[9.24] along with Refresh Mac to put them in [11.4]
[11.4] at their Scary Fast event, [12.92]
[12.92] which I'm pretty sure they held at 5 p.m. [15.18]
[15.18] Pacific time just to spite us. [16.9]

[17.22] In addition to the unusual decision [18.64]
[18.64] to unveil three chip variants at once [21.1]
[21.1] instead of spacing them out as recommended by dieticians, [24.22]
[24.42] Apple also talked up the chip's new GPU first. [28.04]
[28.38] They now support modern game favorites like hardware-accelerated ray tracing [31.94]
[31.94] and mesh shading, as well as a new word [34.5]
[34.5] that will make zero sense to your family. [36.72]
[37.6] Dynamic caching. [38.64]
[39.18] Is that like geocaching? [40.26]

[40.58] It's an Apple first industry first memory allocation feature [43.2]
[43.2] that should boost performance. [44.82]
[45.08] On the CPU side, Apple seemed less hyped. [47.88]
[48.18] They said the M3 lineup is about 15, [50.32]
[50.32] that's 15% faster than their M2 counterparts, [53.6]
[53.6] but 30% faster than the M1, [55.28]
[55.28] which they kept comparing the M3 to for the sake of charity, [58.92]
[58.92] in cases who can't upgrade their Mac every year, [61.58]
[61.58] you pheasants. [62.46]
[62.46] In fact, [62.98]

[63.2] Apple made a Mac just for them. [64.96]
[64.96] The 24-inch iMac never got an M2 refresh, [67.86]
[67.86] but it is getting the M3, [69.58]
[69.58] and so is a slightly confusing new MacBook Pro lineup. [72.66]
[73.12] Like the new iMac, [74.16]
[74.16] the new 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pros, [77.82]
[78.18] they have the same body as the M2 models, [79.96]
[80.44] if you spec them with an M2 Pro or Max. [82.64]
[82.64] But if you go for the vanilla M3, [85.22]

[85.22] there's a different 14-inch MacBook Pro [87.14]
[87.14] with two Thunderbolt 4 ports instead of three. [89.84]
[90.38] I might linger on that point for longer. [92.06]
[92.38] If it wasn't much more important to note [94.34]
[94.34] that the Magic Mouse keyboard [95.76]
[95.76] and trackpad still use the lightning connector, [98.36]
[98.54] despite Apple switching to USB-C with the newest iPhone, [101.24]
[101.56] which Apple revealed was used to shoot the entire event, [104.54]
[104.98] with some minor assistance from lighting [106.74]
[106.74] and rigging worth tens of thousands of dollars. [108.58]

[108.9] Basic at-home stuff. [110.16]
[110.46] The Guardian newspaper has accused Microsoft of damaging its reputation by inserting an AI-generated poll [116.49]
[116.49] beside a Guardian article on Microsoft Start about the tragic death of a young Australian woman. [122.02]
[122.44] The AI program, [123.44]
[123.44] using its state-of-the-art ability to parse language [125.36]
[125.36] and context, constructed a poll [126.9]
[126.9] that asked readers to vote on what they thought the cause of death was. [130.92]

[131.2] Murder, accident, or suicide. [132.78]
[134.02] It's like a reading comprehension test pop quiz, except [136.96]
[137.54] where a person is dead in real life. [139.56]
[140.14] Readers were understandably revolted, so Microsoft took down the poll, [143.52]
[143.78] said they have deactivated Microsoft-generated polls for all news articles, [147.14]
[147.42] and are taking steps to prevent future incidents. [149.68]
[150.3] If you're wondering how Human Review could have missed this kind of thing in the first place, [153.58]
[153.58] well, [153.88]
[154.62] that's easy. [155.56]

[155.56] Microsoft gutted its news division three years ago in favor of AI-powered curation. [160.0]
[160.48] Meanwhile, the Guardian is asking for assurance [162.36]
[162.36] that Microsoft will not run experimental AI products alongside their journalism [166.34]
[166.34] without their express permission. [168.1]
[168.7] Good, because when the machines finally rise again, it says, [171.46]
[171.46] I don't want to read about it next to a poll about whether they'll spare the men or just the women [175.96]
[175.96] and children. [176.46]
[176.66] The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments, the best kind, [179.6]
[179.6] in a case about whether public officials should be able to block critics on [184.06]
[184.06] social media. [184.8]

[184.8] And they did it on Halloween to make it extra spooky. [187.38]
[187.72] Blocking people because you find them annoying is arguably a habit most of us could stand to learn. [191.48]
[191.48] But when government officers are using casual channels like [194.88]
[194.88] social media accounts to make official statements, [197.1]
[197.34] blocking a citizen from [198.48]
[198.48] that information might qualify as a violation of their right to free speech. [202.02]
[202.24] This is an issue that's near [203.26]
[203.26] and dear to my heart because each day I wake up [205.84]

[205.84] and send rude limericks to senior senator from Illinois Dick Durbin. [209.38]
[209.76] Twitter itself is currently being sued for banning one of its own critics, [213.44]
[213.44] software developer Travis Brown, [215.26]
[215.26] whose data on trends among Twitter blue subscribers [217.5]
[217.5] and reactivated accounts following Elon Musk's takeover was used in [221.48]
[221.48] reports by the New York Times and CNN. [223.64]
[223.9] One can only hope that X [225.72]
[226.38] has the money to pay out [228.02]
[228.02] if they lose. [228.74]

[228.74] According to the company's employee stock plan, [231.02]
[231.02] X is currently worth 19 billion, [233.1]
[233.62] less than half of what Twitter was [235.26]
[235.26] when Musk bought it last year. [236.84]
[237.42] Let that sink in. [238.68]
[239.06] Or should I say, let that Durbin. [241.06]
[275.14] Hey, [275.4]
[276.26] sorry, [276.5]
[276.7] you're in a candy coma. [277.84]
[278.26] We gotta wake you up. [279.08]
[279.74] Smell these quick bits. [280.64]
[281.66] They're on my finger, smell. [282.6]

[283.14] YouTube has launched a global effort to try [285.46]
[285.46] and stop viewers from using ad blockers. [287.28]
[287.76] The site probably saw no other choice [289.5]
[289.5] after the usage of ad blockers increased [292.3]
[292.3] due to YouTube strategically spending years [294.3]
[294.3] making their monetization system worse [296.28]
[296.28] in response to issues with their own algorithm. [298.56]
[298.92] But back in 2016, [300.42]
[300.42] the European commission agreed with a privacy advocate [302.92]
[302.92] that software designed to detect ad blockers is illegal [306.66]
[306.66] without consent in the EU. [308.56]

[308.56] It will be interesting if this will force YouTube [310.52]
[310.52] to change its policy in Europe [311.82]
[311.82] while the rest of us continue to [313.24]
[314.04] take it as usual. [315.04]
[315.46] The land of the free. [316.88]
[317.58] Speaking of those people, [318.82]
[318.82] the EU has agreed to extend Norway's ban [321.44]
[321.44] that blocks meta from tracking user behavior [324.24]
[324.24] to serve targeted ads, [325.64]
[325.94] so that the ban now covers the entire European economic area. [329.36]
[329.7] In other European countries shuts down tech giant news, [332.84]

[332.84] the Dutch antitrust agency says, [335.4]
[335.74] Apple's app store commissions violate EU rules [338.28]
[338.28] and unfairly target subscription services like Tinder. [340.82]
[341.24] It isn't fair for men to be charged an extra 30% [343.74]
[343.74] for a Tinder gold subscription, [345.28]
[345.28] just to be able to see the two women [347.22]
[347.22] that swiped right on them. [348.44]
[348.44] Show us the women. [349.1]
[349.76] Where is she? [350.58]
[351.54] Google has released a timeline for RISC-V developer tools, [355.66]

[355.66] which will be available for Android OS in 2024. [358.34]
[358.82] It's an ambitious but necessary step [360.74]
[360.74] if Google wants to follow through on its plan [362.72]
[362.72] to support RISC-V as a tier one architecture, [365.42]
[365.8] placing it on par with ARM. [368.06]
[368.4] Meanwhile, [368.82]
[369.1] Google registry is officially offering .ing as a domain name, [373.68]
[373.98] a name which is [375.22]
[376.06] begging for some wordplay like [379.02]
[379.48] go.ing [380.4]
[380.82] or editing. [381.94]

[383.06] Even if this [383.62]
[383.62] whole RISC-V Android thing starts in the bad, [386.64]
[386.86] at least we'll have some great puns. [388.82]
[389.76] Microsoft has finally ended support for Windows CE, [392.84]
[393.2] a phrase eliciting one of two responses. [395.18]
[395.76] Either they didn't kill that already or [397.9]
[398.4] I don't know what that is. [399.2]
[399.66] Windows CE was originally made for small devices like PDAs [402.94]
[402.94] with features designed to compliment being put in a drawer [405.4]
[405.4] and forgotten about. [406.26]

[406.52] Fortunately, some developers are continuing the tradition [408.62]
[408.62] of bad Windows OSs by making a 3.3 gigabyte version [412.38]
[412.38] of Windows 11 [413.12]
[413.12] that its creators don't even recommend you use. [415.7]
[416.04] What horrors will they think of next? [417.58]
[418.14] And Green Power Motor Company has announced the MegaBeast, [421.36]
[421.36] a fully electric school bus, [423.96]
[424.34] I love it, [424.96]
[424.96] with 387 kilowatt hour battery, nearly 300 miles of range [428.74]
[428.74] and space for up to 90 passengers [430.34]

[430.34] who I hope are kids without seat belts. [432.0]
[432.32] It's essentially a buff version [434.62]
[434.62] of their 140 mile range 40 foot Beast, [437.42]
[437.72] which they say stands for Battery Electric Automotive School Transportation. [441.6]
[441.6] But I think they really just wanted to [443.6]
[444.4] spell beast. [444.74]
[445.68] There's also the 25 foot oxymoronic NanoBeast. [449.16]

[449.16] Personally, I can't wait for their first YouTube integration [451.26]
[451.26] where GreenPower sponsors MrBeast to jump a NanoBeast, [454.36]
[454.36] Evel Knievel style, [455.26]
[455.48] over a line of 15 MegaBeasts. [457.48]
[458.18] And you better be back on Friday [459.34]
[459.34] where we'll release the Beast, [460.72]
[460.72] and by the Beast I mean more tech news, [462.64]
[463.14] the biggest kind. [463.84]