Welcome to your Friday version of TMA. It’s a public vacation the place I’m from, so it’s a shorter briefing than normal. Barring a barrage of new cars (tariffs? shh!) revealed on the New York Worldwide Auto Present, it’s been a comparatively quiet week, however not and not using a little bit of drama.
“You understand, they are saying cash can’t purchase happiness. And… yeah, OK… I suppose that’s true. God is aware of I’ve tried. However it could actually purchase a Cybertruck, and that’s fairly sick, proper? …Proper?? Fuck, I’m so alone.” That’s what a reasonably practical 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, nicely, 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 had been in operation at downtown intersections in Redwood Metropolis, Menlo Park and Palo Alto however had 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 talking on Seattle crosswalks.
— Mat Smith
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Its video is nice, it lastly does stills nicely and it’s cheaper than its rivals.
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Bodily editions of the enduring shooters Doom and Doom II are on their approach, and the spotlight is one thing known as the Will It Run Version. This comes with a sport field that really runs the unique Doom itself. All it’s a must to do is join a controller because the field additionally has a port. It’s an costly gimmick: The copies value $666 and are being saved to a restricted run of 666. As a result of hell. There’s additionally the same old 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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