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Susan Ettlinger
The PC gave us computing power at home, the Internet connected us, and mobile let us do it pretty much anywhere. Now, generative AI lets us communicate with technology in our own language, using our own senses. But figuring it all out when you're living through it is a totally different story. Welcome to Leading the Shift, a new podcast from Microsoft Azure. I'm your host, Susan Ettlinger. In each episode, leaders will share what they're learning to help you navigate all this change with confidence. Please join us, listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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Unnamed Tech Commentator
Oh, how can I help you? Oh, you're looking for tech news? Yeah, sure, that's in the other file. 1 second the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 might allow Switch 1 consoles to be used as a controller and second display in essentially the same way that the Wii U gamepad was used until Nintendo forced the low selling console to commit Sudoku out of shame. Sudoku? That is not the right word. Somebody's got this rumor comes from Xstasis, who has provided some fairly reliable leaked info in the past. But if you still think it sounds a little too out there, consider that Nintendo's tried this using previous consoles as controllers thing multiple times. You could use a 2DS or a 3DS as a controller for Super Smash Bros. For Wii U if you had the 3DS version of the game. And nintend Nintendo released an attachment and a cable that will let you use a Game Boy advance as a controller to play Game Boy games on the GameCube Gaming gamers Gam Gam games entirely. We'll have to wait to see whether this leak is as legit as the virtual game card system Nintendo officially announced at their direct this week, which basically lets you treat digital games like physical game cards. Sort of. The feature will let you eject a digital game and then digitally load it on another console that you're also signed in on. And then you can also lend your games to members of your family group for 14 days. While it's not nearly as flexible as the game sharing features on, say, Steam, it's a whole lot better than Nintendo not letting you share games at all and then suing you for tweeting a Mario picture if you ask. Regardless, the Switch 2 is probably gonna sell like hotcakes, and at least one large US Retailer has told Insider Gaming they're worried about not having enough Switch 2 stock at launch. Me, I'm not worried about that. I'm worried about the Legend of Zelda movie that Nintendo confirmed is coming out on March 26, 2027 starring Chris Pratt as link. That's a joke. Hopefully. What would he even sound like? Chris will just do the Mario voice again. Hey, you gotta save another princess. Looks kinda the same, to be honest. Reviews are up for the laptop version of Nvidia's RTX 5090 GPU. And even if you don't like that, it's called a 5090. Despite having less than half the cores of the desktop version, reviewers including PCMag have confirmed it's the new fastest mobile GPU. I thought if AMD sold enough 9070 XTS it would make that not true. But here we are. Yeah, despite Team Red's Mid Ranger knocking its launch out of the park, people are still telling their moms to buy the green ones. German retailer Alternate was even briefly selling one of the defective RTX 5090s with a lower amount of ROP units for the truly desperate. And while initial reports this week of shelves at Micro center being filled with unsold 5090 stock kind of made it seem like gamers were finally drawing the line at paying $3,719 for a graphics card, turns out those cards sold out too. Gamers. What are we doing? What would gamergam Gam think? Google has apparently solved the component quality issue that caused the company to delay the launch of its mid range Pixel 9, a smartphone directly after officially revealing it. This is for you, but not right now. Google has now confirmed release dates for the phone which will launch on April 10in the US, Canada and the UK April 14 in much of Europe, April 16 in some Asian countries. Except Japan. Don't ask when. Google literally can't even think about Japan right now. I'm so busy. As for why they delay the release, in a statement given to press, Google started right out with rumors and speculation regarding this delay are false. Okay, we didn't say anything. They are false. Jeez. Unless you speculated that the 9A was delayed due to a passive component not meeting Google's rigorous quality standards for device longevity. And so Google just wanted to fix the small number of affected units. I mean, if you guess that, then fine, I guess I'll tell you about our sponsor now, Sharge, they make stuff that sharges your devices, but their new disc is a pocket sized M2 SSD enclosure. You okay? Sharge, what are you doing? Turns out it actually makes sense because not only can the disc reach read Write speeds of 10 gigabits per second, with its built in data cable, you can pass power through its two USB C ports to provide charging and storage at the same time. What? And they gave it a super thin and light aluminum minimalist design with an optional magnetic ring mount. You're gonna have to check out the charge disc plus at the link below. Oh, oh, you. You want the quick bits now? Oh, okay, those are way in the back. One sec. What am I doing? YouTube says they're running a small test where they're turning off notifications for channels a user is subscribed to if the user hasn't recently interacted with that channel's notifications. Now, that may sound very dumb to you, but the problem is sometimes people don't manage their own channel specific notifications. And then they're like, oh, why am I getting so many YouTube notifications? And then they go and they turn off all notifications from the YouTube app entirely. And then YouTube has to tell investors that you're not engaging. See where they're coming from. YouTube has to protect you from yourself. Not protecting YouTube. YouTube says channels that upload infrequently won't be affected. So don't worry. HBOMberguy will be fine. Asus has unveiled its first AMD B580 motherboard with the company's 600 watt GCHP PWR connector, which is positioned in line with the top PCIe slot, so compatible GPUs can slot in and receive power without needing a flimsy cable like your GamerGam Games PC from the 1950s. The board uses Asus's BTF design, which means all the cables you do need are plugged in to the back of the motherboard. And it's also featuring the company's updated Q release system to protect from repeated GPU insertions so your card won't be damaged. If you start every gaming session by pulling it out and blowing on it, sometimes it helps. Meta had a great idea this week. Hey, why don't we add a new feed tab in Facebook that only displays content posted by your friends? The company says the feature will bring the magic of friends back to Facebook because along with your friends, the magic has been taking a little bit of a break. It's kind of surreal to see Meta being like, yeah, we know we've been the ones destroying our own platforms with AI slop, but what if you didn't have to deal with all of that garbage, which we will continue to encourage? That's innovation. And shortly after OpenAI showed off ChatGPT's upgraded image generator, people discovered it was particularly good at creating and modifying images to look like stills from a studio Ghibli film. Ghibli don't think so. That's fun. If you're one of those people, though, maybe take a break because CEO Sam Altman says their GPUs are melting, so OpenAI is adding temporary rate limits on image generation. Also, anime image filters have been around for a while, and this one is making Studio Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki cry. Please, please come back for more tech news on Monday or you'll make me cry. I won't let you see though, unless you come back, which will actually prevent me from crying. So.
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