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2023-10-11 Watch Out, Apple... [5v72vj2nFN0].txt
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a competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT
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didn't think anyone would actually agree to the pause.
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and slurp everything up inside for free.
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in which case it's fine.
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which is now so pervasive,
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you can use it in freaking Microsoft Paint.
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He's going to jail.
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who accused Google of anti-competitive behavior
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concerning the Play Store way back in August 2020,
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after three years of dramatic tension.
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it's because Epic went through this whole song and dance with Apple already,
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only to pretty much lose.
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Android phone's files directly within Windows File Explorer.
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after absorbing Rihanna's entire corpus of work into her network-attached storage.
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they're called electromagnetic vortex cannons.
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why don't you hop on a vortex cannon
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and surf some electromagnetic waves back over here on Monday?
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and I could show you this trick where I blow a smoke ring and then blow a smoke pirate ship through it.
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Hahahaha
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+
Bam! You're not ready!
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Apple's expected to unveil the iPhone 16 lineup in early September,
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but I don't think anyone was expecting this leaked image of the iPhone 16 Pro
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in a color that can be charitably described as russet?
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He actually posted the three other, much more safe for the dinner table colors in July,
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strangely omitting the fourth one, presumably out of embarrassment.
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It took him two weeks to muster the courage to finally be honest with the world.
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Fine! It's a poop iPhone, okay?
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that could be described as rose or bronze,
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maybe indicating a color that looks different in separate environments with unique lighting?
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and I can't stress this enough,
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they're called electromagnetic vortex cannons.
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What, we're just not gonna use them?
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Hey, why don't you hop on a vortex cannon
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and surf some electromagnetic waves back over here on Monday?
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There's gonna be tech news,
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and I could show you this trick where I blow a smoke ring and then blow a smoke pirate ship through it.
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They'll make time.
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into combat.
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Oh my.
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Plus, War Thunder's in-depth customization allows you to fine-tune your vehicles to adapt to any battle because you deserve to have the tank you always wanted.
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Click the link below to start playing on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox,
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and you'll get some extra goodies too.
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How do you summon Quick Bits?
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Easy.
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You just go psst, psst, psst, psst, psst.
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Wait, no, that's cats.
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Zeno's Paradox style.
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Ask them Total Pies.
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Comment if you're nerdy enough to get that reference.
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has now gone up for pre-order in select regions,
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hoping to entice foolish gamers into buying what looks like a Steam Deck,
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thanks to its dual touchpads,
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but is actually an $800 Windows handheld with a 120-hertz OLED screen,
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I doubt Microsoft is going to succeed at patching every method for bypassing the hardware requirements,
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but I'm happy to have them try.
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That means less time for them to program more ads into Windows 11.
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Just kidding. They'll make time.
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Procreate, the company behind the popular art app for iPad,
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has pledged to never add AI to their products
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This is despite the existence of the 2010 song Never Say Never by Justin Bieber
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but the hackers still had to put in some effort.
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But do you know how much effort our sponsor, War Thunder,
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had to put into their free-to-play vehicular combat game
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to make it so, so historically accurate?
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Neither do I, but it seems like a lot.
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Especially since the game allows you to pilot 2,000 different vehicles into combat.
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We're talking planes, tanks, boats.
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Oh my.
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Plus, War Thunder's in-depth customization allows you to fine-tune your vehicles to adapt to any battle because you deserve to have the tank you always wanted.
|
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Click the link below to start playing on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox,
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and you'll get some extra goodies too.
|
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How do you summon Quick Bits?
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Easy. You just go psst, psst, psst, psst, psst.
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Wait, no, that's cats.
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Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake S desktop CPU lineup is expected to arrive in October,
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a little fuller than anticipated.
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Zeno's Paradox style.
|
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Ask them Total Pies.
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Comment if you're nerdy enough to get that reference.
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+
The Zotac Zone, has now gone up for pre-order in select regions,
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hoping to entice foolish gamers into buying what looks like a Steam Deck,
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thanks to its dual touchpads,
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but is actually an $800 Windows handheld with a 120-hertz OLED screen,
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When you strip it down to the basics,
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technology is just humanity's ongoing mission
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to make some things hot and other things not hot.
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Ovens?
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-
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Graphics cards?
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Not hot.
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despite explicit reassurance from Microsoft
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it's unclear whether Google even knows what rules and laws Google is currently breaking.
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They don't even know which chat apps they already have.
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That's why they keep replacing their old podcast app with a new podcast app.
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-
Yay.
|
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-
Thanks, Google.
|
64 |
In a new story straight out of a B-movie science fiction plot,
|
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Canadian scientists are teaching an AI scientist how to independently conduct its own experiments
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and write its own research papers.
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The idea is to study an AI agent,
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allowing it to explore and test novel ideas.
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So far,
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most of its ideas are middling quality suggestions for tweaking AI development.
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Less like a scientist and more like a burnt-out undergrad
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with a C's-get-degrees philosophy towards learning.
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It's basically the high-tech equivalent of hiring the boss's son for a do-nothing job and for some reason
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giving him top-level admin access and just letting him go to town.
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What do you mean you deleted System32, Kyle?
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Ice cream?
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Quick bits?
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very hot.
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Asus has accidentally hinted at the release of AMD's Ryzen 9000 X3D chips
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on the new site for Asus' upcoming 800 series motherboards.
|
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We say accidentally because in addition to the X3D chips being mentioned in the metadata of the site,
|
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Asus specifically put Ryzen 9000 X3D into the site's URL.
|
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No release date has been given for the 9000 X3D CPU series,
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but the 800 series motherboards should be launching in the next few weeks.
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AMD also has an event planned for October 10th,
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so that's another option.
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Or instead of speculating,
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we can just wait for Asus to launch their next website.
|
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A new version of Nvidia's RTX 4070 is hitting shelves,
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Team Green has partnered with MediaTek to not only bring their newer,
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better G-Sync Pulsar to new monitors,
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but to also integrate G-Sync into MediaTek's widely used display scaler chips.
|
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That means that the monitors won't need one of Nvidia's proprietary G-Sync modules,
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reducing cost.
|
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I mean, AMD's FreeSync is also still an option,
|
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which, despite what Nvidia's marketing might have you believe,
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probably because it'll be super expensive.
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But can you put a price on a technological trend that already died once?
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Thrice.
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Honestly, attempts for 3D, it just comes back every 20 years.
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It's literally a 20-year cycle.
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Like, 80s.
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It's like my dad.
|
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And Twitch launched its new Dropins collaboration feature,
|
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designed to make it quicker and easier for streamers to join each other's live streams.
|
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Twitch then immediately fumbled this unambiguous win by making it impossible to opt out.
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When you strip it down to the basics,
|
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technology is just humanity's ongoing mission
|
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to make some things hot and other things not hot.
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+
Ovens? Hot.
|
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+
Graphics cards? Not hot.
|
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A recent update from Microsoft has left certain dual-boot devices
|
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that run both Windows and Linux unable to boot,
|
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despite explicit reassurance from Microsoft
|
|
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it's unclear whether Google even knows what rules and laws Google is currently breaking.
|
58 |
They don't even know which chat apps they already have.
|
59 |
That's why they keep replacing their old podcast app with a new podcast app.
|
60 |
+
Yay. Thanks, Google.
|
|
|
61 |
In a new story straight out of a B-movie science fiction plot,
|
62 |
Canadian scientists are teaching an AI scientist how to independently conduct its own experiments
|
63 |
and write its own research papers.
|
|
|
65 |
It's an artificially intelligent scientist.
|
66 |
The idea is to study an AI agent,
|
67 |
allowing it to explore and test novel ideas.
|
68 |
+
So far, most of its ideas are middling quality suggestions for tweaking AI development.
|
|
|
69 |
Less like a scientist and more like a burnt-out undergrad
|
70 |
with a C's-get-degrees philosophy towards learning.
|
71 |
An AI did, however, do something very unexpected.
|
|
|
80 |
It's basically the high-tech equivalent of hiring the boss's son for a do-nothing job and for some reason
|
81 |
giving him top-level admin access and just letting him go to town.
|
82 |
What do you mean you deleted System32, Kyle?
|
83 |
+
Ice cream? Not hot.
|
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+
Quick bits? Very, very hot.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Asus has accidentally hinted at the release of AMD's Ryzen 9000 X3D chips
|
86 |
on the new site for Asus' upcoming 800 series motherboards.
|
87 |
We say accidentally because in addition to the X3D chips being mentioned in the metadata of the site,
|
88 |
Asus specifically put Ryzen 9000 X3D into the site's URL.
|
89 |
No release date has been given for the 9000 X3D CPU series,
|
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but the 800 series motherboards should be launching in the next few weeks.
|
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+
AMD also has an event planned for October 10th, so that's another option.
|
|
|
92 |
Or instead of speculating,
|
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we can just wait for Asus to launch their next website.
|
94 |
A new version of Nvidia's RTX 4070 is hitting shelves,
|
|
|
105 |
Team Green has partnered with MediaTek to not only bring their newer,
|
106 |
better G-Sync Pulsar to new monitors,
|
107 |
but to also integrate G-Sync into MediaTek's widely used display scaler chips.
|
108 |
+
That means that the monitors won't need one of Nvidia's proprietary G-Sync modules, reducing cost.
|
|
|
109 |
I mean, AMD's FreeSync is also still an option,
|
110 |
which, despite what Nvidia's marketing might have you believe,
|
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is basically the same as G-Sync.
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|
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Samsung says the Odyssey 3D will be available by the end of the year,
|
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but they haven't revealed the price,
|
121 |
probably because it'll be super expensive.
|
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+
But can you put a price on a technological trend that already died once? Thrice.
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|
123 |
Honestly, attempts for 3D, it just comes back every 20 years.
|
124 |
It's literally a 20-year cycle.
|
125 |
+
Like, 80s. It's like my dad.
|
|
|
126 |
And Twitch launched its new Dropins collaboration feature,
|
127 |
designed to make it quicker and easier for streamers to join each other's live streams.
|
128 |
Twitch then immediately fumbled this unambiguous win by making it impossible to opt out.
|