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Sure, we could sit and think about how messed up the world is and how every

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waking moment of human existence involves some pain. Or hear me out here,

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we could just do some tech news. Yeah. What do you say, J? Can there be a

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campfire? No. It's dangerous. It's paper. Intel unveiled its second

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generation neuromorphic chip yesterday, the Loihi 2, which about 10 times faster

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than its predecessor. Neuromorphic. James, do you know what that means? I

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can guess. Brains change in the chip.

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Okay, of course, Intel isn't the only one making processors inspired by human

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brains. These days, they're found in all sorts of devices, including flagship

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smartphones. But Intel's new chip is special because it's one of the first to

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use the company's Intel 4 process with extreme ultraviolet or EUV lithography,

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something that almost every other chip manufacturer has been using for some

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time, but now Intel's doing it. And like you still clap for the last kid across

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the finish line on track and field day, you know, great. It's like you you made

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it and that's what counts. Now, the Loe Heath 2 isn't going to go in your gaming

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PC. It's designed for researchers. And to make their job a bit easier, Intel

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has also released an open-source software framework called Lava. So,

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hopefully those sciency people can make our electronics a bit smarter without

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burning themselves. It's all very Hawaiian sounding. Yeah, well, it is.

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It's a volcano, which is why the lava Thank you. I could have worked that in.

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PC enthusiasts have been chomping at the bit to catch a glimpse of the rumored

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graphics card collaboration between ASUS and Noctua. And now images of the fabled

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card have appeared online. They were spotted in a Facebook post by the

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Vietnamese branch of ASUS. And yep, it's

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a uh it's an RTX 3070 with with brown fans. You excited? You guys like this? I

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love it. It's brown. It won't look good next to anything. It's it's tan. I will

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say it is a thick boy. It looks like it'll take up a full four PCIe expansion

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slots. But if Noctua's CPU coolers are anything to go by, we could expect this

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thing to be hiding some big old heat pipes under that cooler and fans that

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run as quietly as physically possible because GPUs should be seen, not heard.

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Like back in your cage, like my parents told me. I didn't see any stricts

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branding on there, but if they don't end up using that, it's a bit of a shame that one of ASUS's gaming brands got an

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owl mascot. You seen it? No. Noctua uses an owl, too. They love owls. So, who

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knows when this thing is coming out? And more importantly, who cares because

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it'll be way too expensive and you won't be able to get it. Keep watching our

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videos, though. And Facebook is still dealing with the fallout of a slew of

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Wall Street Journal reports covering the company's research into the effects of

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Instagram on teens. Facebook's head of

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safety, Antiggony Davis. That's a name, huh? Nice. It's fun. But she was grilled

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by members of Congress yesterday and was asked by Senator Blumenthal if Facebook

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would commit to ending Finina. Will you commit to ending Finina? Leading to many

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okay boomer reactions before the senator clearly explained that he knew what

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Finina was. It's short for fake Instagram and is a term for kids

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secretary accounts. Facebook may not be able to do anything about Fininaas

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without adopting the kind of ID verification scene in China and I don't

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think we want that. But what they can do, and what they did, is publish

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heavily annotated slides from the studies the WSJ reported on in an

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attempt to show everyone what they really say. You didn't see the real

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ones. These are the these are the ones that are most important. Sure, use of

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their platforms was correlated with lower well-being, but that's not

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causation. That's it's basic science. We should listen to Facebook here, the

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bastion of rationality, connectedness.

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That's how you do. We need each other. Yeah. Cooperation, guys. Quick bits.

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Give them a try. And if they're too quick, well, you'll just have to speed

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up. The USB implementers forum continues to not understand how to name things

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good. They just released the spec for USB power delivery 3.1, which will

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enable Type-C cables that support charging at up to 240 watts. To make

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this nice and simple, they released a table with seven different logos and

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labels so customers can simply look at a cable's packaging and easily understand

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what it's capable of after only a few minutes of googling. Pre-orders for the

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modular and easily repairable Fairphone 4, much anticipated by tech enthusiasts,

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have finally launched with the base model going for

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€579 or €671. And it's too bad that US price

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doesn't actually matter at all because this fair phone is only launching in

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Europe and the UK. I can only imagine it's because the launch of a phone that

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might reduce waste and protect the environment would be met with heavy

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protests all across the greatest country in the world. America, don't be mad.

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Look, we I don't make fun of America that much on this show. Give me this

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one. Corsair has launched their first gaming monitor, the Xenon

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32QHD165, because you want to grab potential customers with a real catchy

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name. It's a 32-in 2560x440p IPS monitor with a 165Hz

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refresh rate. We haven't had nearly enough monitors that make this kind of

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compromise between resolution and speed. So, I definitely would be more excited

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if it didn't remind me of Intel's workstation processors. Xenon stupid.

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It's come on all the names. There's so many names. Like we could list them.

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Enreel has launched their latest smart glasses that actually look like

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something a normal person would want to buy for once. The Enreal Air does not

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have any cameras, unlike Facebook's recent collab with Rayban, but it does

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have little 90 Hz screens in the lenses that can apparently project a virtual

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130in screen. I bet watching movies on this thing is something someone want

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Earth wants to do. They probably exist somewhere. And in an attempt to avoid

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paying the EU's $5 billion antitrust

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fine, Google argued that the most searched term on one of their biggest

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search competitors, Bing, was actually

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Google, proving that if they do have a monopoly, it's through no fault of their

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own. That information comes from SEO company ARFs. And I mean, it does make

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sense. I'm not if I'm going on Bing, that's what I'm doing. But it's also we

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only have an awfully good cuz we're the best. I feel like Microsoft keeps

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forcing Bing into everything like a like a pushy parent. Like maybe Bing doesn't

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want to grow up to be a search engine. I don't know, Microsoft. Maybe ask Bing

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how Bing feels for once. I don't know. This episode feels like it's over. So

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come back on Monday for more tech news. They will distract from the pain for a

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little