phones phones phones oh my God phones
Samsung unveiled some new ones at their unpacked this morning you'd be forgiven
for missing them though given how much the presentation focused on AI features
like ask about this video on YouTube
which you you wouldn't use for TechLink videos because they'd miss that whole
phone's bit at the start you can't Samsung's new flagship lineup is the
$800 Galaxy s25 $1,000 s25 plus and
$1300 s25 Ultra in brand new colors
including a few shades of blue that Samsung says are inspired by the
Brilliance of AI which everyone knows is blue all three phones sport 12 GB of RAM
and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite S so's under the hood which have apparently
been customized to make their battery life so good Samsung instructed viewers
to watch videos up to 31 hours do it
unfortunately although the ultra gets upgraded cameras its included S Pen has
been downgraded and no longer includes any Bluetooth functionality which
allowed owners of previous Galaxy Ultra phones to use it as a remote camera
shutter and many other so-called air actions Samsung told Android police that
not many people were using the Bluetooth functionality and people also just use
Galaxy ring and Galaxy watch for handsfree photo capture and I have to
admit making your customers Buy another product to keep using a feature they
like is much simpler than Samsung just leaving the Spen alone but tell you what
Samsung's going to make it up to you with their new health feature that somehow measures your antioxidant index
although I think a microplastics index would be more useful at this point what
still not happy have you seen the Crocs inspired case yet nothing okay well the
one thing that is for sure a cool announcement is the new kids features
for the Galaxy watch 7 LTE turning it into a standalone kids watch so parents
can call message and track their little babies you know making sure they're not
pre-ordering things if you must though
it seems like Samsung's own website is the place to do it or maybe wait a bit
because Samsung also teased the Galaxy s25 Edge which will soon arrive to
challenge this year's other phones that will be super thin for a good reason
Google was kind of Samsung's co-presenter today as another detail
about the Galaxy s25 series is that Google's Gemini will be the default
assistant now even though at any given moment I would much rather prefer to
speak with Bixby well if that's true for you good news Samsung told Android
authority that gemini or Bixby could be
activated depending on the situation which I think is cool because I like the
idea that whichever assistant pops up in my phone is the one that just beat the
other in a wrestling match down there so somewhere Galaxy 25 and pixel 9 users
will also gain the ability to share images files and YouTube videos to the
real time voice mode Gemini live which
will apparently be crucial for finding out if you just took a good photo I
think my dog looks cute but AI help H is
this a good photo just look at it but Gemini is also getting a pretty big
upgrade with the ability to complete multi-app tasks like find activity that
conform to certain criteria and text them to my friend which friend surprised
me some performance data for NVIDIA's RTX 590 has leaked courtesy of video
cards with a z showing that in various 3D Mark tests the upcoming Flagship
achieves a roughly 30% lead over the RTX
4090 and more like a 40ish per versus
the radon RX 7900 XTX and I'm telling
you this because it felt kind of weird to leave it out today but it sounds like
proper reviews of the 5090 will be starting to go live at 6:00 a.m.
tomorrow morning so you might as well ignore what I just said and cross your
fingers that NVIDIA isn't lying when they promise anyone looking to buy the
new RTX 590 that it won't melt power
plugs this time although watching all that go down was fun to watch for the
rest of us yeah you know what we're going to go for those mid-range cars
from AMD which should be dropping any day now and by that I mean 2 months from
now yeah AMD Z David McAfee announced on
Twitter that the RX 970 and 970x XT will
go on sale in March even though retailers already have the Cards in
stores hm waiting until all the RTX 50
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te01 yeah yeah I think now the vibe's
right for quick bits open AI has announced the Stargate project a new
company that will build 500 billion dollar worth of AI infrastructure in the
US it was also announced at a White
House Press Conference with President Trump even though the government isn't
funding it the money's coming from a number of other firms including mgx
Oracle open AI of course and SoftBank although Elon Musk has his doubts
replying to open ai's announcement tweet to interject they don't actually have
the money and also open AI is not really
open has anyone noticed that oh you're
going to take that Sam Alman hit him back I genuinely respect your
accomplishments and think you are the most inspiring entrepreneur of our time
oh oh man you you got him good speaking of Elon
hundreds of subreddits are discussing whether to ban all links to Twitter SLX
and some dozens have already done so over musk performing what really looked
like a Nazi salute two times at Trump's
inauguration was it a Nazi salute I don't know but the Nazis liked it unlike
the last major Reddit wide protest of the site's updated API rules back in
September Reddit the company is apparently going to let things be
telling our that banning links to certain sites is up to the subreddits
and I didn't write a last sentence for that one YouTube has announced new
features for premium subscribers including highquality 256 kilobits per
second audio on music videos and faster playback speeds on mobile we're talking
up to four times but at that point you might as well ask the AI what's going on
there's also a new YouTube Premium Plus Google one subscription bundle that lets
you save a bit of money but it's in the US only so what do I care Apple has
enabled Apple intelligence by default in the newest builds of macOS 15.3 and iOS
18.3 which is just meant to be helpful I mean users must not know about the new
features and that's why they're not using them and anyways Apple paused
those AI notification summaries that were telling people that shark NATO was
real so this is fine and have you been practicing piano but you're just not
getting any better let a robot spider massage your fies this is a robot
exoskeleton developed by Japanese researchers as a way to help those with
fine-tuned motor skills like musicians who have experienced a sealing effect
they're just so good they can't get any better until they allow an electronic
face hugger to yank their fingers around I feel better already and you'll feel
better if you come back on Friday for more Tech news
or or at least I will