Welcome to your Friday version of TMA. It’s a public vacation the place I’m from, so it’s a shorter briefing than traditional. Barring a barrage of latest automobiles (tariffs? shh!) revealed on the New York Worldwide Auto Present, it’s been a comparatively quiet week, however not with out a little bit of drama.
“You recognize, they are saying cash can’t purchase happiness. And… yeah, OK… I assume that’s true. God is aware of I’ve tried. However it may well purchase a Cybertruck, and that’s fairly sick, proper? …Proper?? Fuck, I’m so alone.” That’s what a reasonably lifelike AI voice clone of Elon Musk was saying to pedestrians at crosswalks in Palo Alto. An AI Mark Zuckerberg joined him, with each billionaires’ voices mimicked to say, properly, the issues a variety of us are considering, whether or not it’s the invasive AI push, billionaires wielding energy over authorities or different bleak, beige real-world variations of Black Mirror premises.
They have been in operation at downtown intersections in Redwood Metropolis, Menlo Park and Palo Alto however have been gone, sadly, by Saturday.
Nobody’s staked a declare to the prank — however there are most likely many individuals in Silicon Valley able to pulling it off. Extra lately, an AI clone of Jeff Bezos was speaking on Seattle crosswalks.
— Mat Smith
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Panasonic S1R II digicam assessment
Its video is nice, it lastly does stills properly and it’s cheaper than its rivals.
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The $666 version of Doom features a recreation field that, itself, performs Doom
The true bodily version.
Bodily editions of the enduring shooters Doom and Doom II are on their manner, and the spotlight is one thing referred to as the Will It Run Version. This comes with a recreation field that really runs the unique Doom itself. All it’s important to do is join a controller because the field additionally has a port. It’s an costly gimmick: The copies price $666 and are being stored to a restricted run of 666. As a result of hell. There’s additionally the standard particular version content material inside, together with a soundtrack (on cassette), buying and selling playing cards and a handheld cacodemon handheld console that additionally performs Doom.
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