1 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:10,680 Holy Chris Kringle's tinsel. You made it. I've been expecting you. Let me get 2 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,680 the door. 3 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:18,160 Yep. The snowflakes are falling. The eggnog is flowing and RAM prices have 4 00:00:16,240 --> 00:00:23,359 pulled a reindeer and apparently learned to fly straight into the stratosphere. 5 00:00:21,119 --> 00:00:27,599 And you know what that means? It means we've got a whole year's worth of stuff 6 00:00:25,119 --> 00:00:34,920 to remind you that to remind you about that it happened. That's right. It's the 7 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:34,920 2025 Techlink Christmas special. 8 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:45,520 Hey, let's kick things off with hardware and kick that off by remembering how 9 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:50,079 NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wong kicked off his keynote at CES 2025. 10 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:54,559 >> Do you like my jacket? Turns out it was actually an appropriate way to start a 11 00:00:52,399 --> 00:00:58,800 year that would be defined by Jensen and other tech leaders caring less about 12 00:00:56,480 --> 00:01:03,600 what the consumer thinks and more about whether their billionaire peers like 13 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:09,280 their jackets. Overall, a lot of jacket talk, but Jensen did, amid a slew of AI 14 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:15,200 and automotive gunk, announced the RTX50 series GPUs and DLSS4 with multiframe 15 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:19,520 generation. They represented massive performance gains over the 40 series. 16 00:01:17,119 --> 00:01:24,080 Like a box of crispy creams represents a balanced breakfast. The RTX50 series 17 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:29,119 launch was characterized by backlash over whether fake frames should count in 18 00:01:26,479 --> 00:01:33,759 benchmarks. The somehow still ongoing melting power connector saga, MSRP being 19 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:38,720 nothing but a distant memory, and to top it all off, driver issues that caused a 20 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:42,880 rash of black screen reports. How gamers felt about all that doesn't matter at 21 00:01:40,799 --> 00:01:47,360 all, though, because gamers had nothing to do with NVIDIA becoming the world's 22 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:53,040 most valuable company and becoming the first to hit a $5 trillion market cap on 23 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:57,600 October 29th in 2025. Because like a certain serial mascot, big tech just 24 00:01:55,600 --> 00:02:02,079 can't get enough of NVIDIA's sugar chips. But AMD still cares about gamers 25 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:09,440 a little bit. Although it was a bit hard to tell when Team Red announced the name 26 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:11,920 of the Radeon RX970 and 9070 XT at CES 27 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:15,760 and didn't announce anything else about them. People were sneaking around the 28 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:20,000 show floor trying to benchmark it because AMD was being so koi. But AMD 29 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:24,560 had nothing to hide when it comes to their CPUs. Team Red is still giving 30 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:30,319 Intel a lashing in that regard with the Ryzen 9 9950 X3D reigning supreme as the 31 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:35,360 best desktop gaming CPU. Speaking of good CPUs though, for Apple silicon, we 32 00:02:32,640 --> 00:02:40,400 got on the M5 train this year with a new chip arriving in an iPad, MacBook Pro, 33 00:02:37,599 --> 00:02:45,280 and Vision Pro in October. And after a ton of rumors and leaks, the iPhone Air 34 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:48,519 finally launched to the roaring sound of a global 35 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:55,599 an apathetic sound I would have also made at the Pixel 10's launch if Jimmy 36 00:02:54,000 --> 00:03:00,959 Fallon hadn't saved it with his enthusiasm for the Tensor G5. Tensor, 37 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,640 come on. >> Unfortunately, the Christmas spirit has 38 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:09,599 kind of been whooshed out of the hardware scene recently due to the RAM 39 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:14,959 pricing crisis being driven ultimately by heinously high memory demand from AI 40 00:03:12,239 --> 00:03:20,239 companies and the memory makers who see a money tree down one road and a more 41 00:03:18,159 --> 00:03:25,200 money tree down the other and do what any self-respecting corporation would 42 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:26,959 do. Take a chainsaw to that one. Micron 43 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:31,040 announced plans to shut down its consumerfocused memory brand. Crucial. 44 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:34,959 Rumors have pointed to NVIDIA planning to produce lower-end GPU production next 45 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:38,720 year in favor of selling higher tier cards with more memory. And an IDC 46 00:03:36,959 --> 00:03:42,560 analysis predicts that high pricing of PCs and basically anything that uses 47 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:46,480 memory should be expected to continue for at least a year or two. Why did I 48 00:03:44,959 --> 00:03:50,799 start with computer hardware in this video? You call this comfort and joy? 49 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:54,080 Hey, how about gaming and handhelds and stuff? Hm. You know, we all thought the 50 00:03:52,319 --> 00:03:59,439 Switch 2 would turn out to be just a legend, like Frosty the Snowman or Lucky 51 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:03,120 the Dragon, but no. Turns out it was real. And despite Nintendo's shenanigans 52 00:04:01,599 --> 00:04:07,519 around threatening to brick people's Switches if they so much as thought 53 00:04:04,879 --> 00:04:12,080 about not paying $90 for Mario Kart 8, but bigger this time, the Switch 2 set 54 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:17,600 sales records, becoming the fastests selling console of all time. It's a 55 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:22,720 Christmas miracle. But not for another console, Xbox. A brand Microsoft seems 56 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:27,040 to be purposefully not inviting to turkey dinner this year. Xbox consoles 57 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:30,960 were delisted from many stores a few months ago after their stock ran out, 58 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:35,520 which could have been why Xbox sold less units during Black Friday sales than the 59 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:39,680 Next Playground, a motion controlled kids console that appears to ironically 60 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:45,280 succeed exactly where the Connect failed. We did get the ROG Xbox Ally and 61 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:53,840 Ally X on October 15th which were received kind of well and sort of are 62 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:56,000 Xboxes in that they are devices uh which 63 00:04:53,840 --> 00:05:03,759 is now the only defining factor in what an Xbox is. Raspberry Pi Xbox hearing 64 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:06,320 aid Xbox. The coolest thing about the 65 00:05:03,759 --> 00:05:11,120 Xbox handhelds was the new gaming mode that made Windows suck a bit less. 66 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaking of our rapidly becoming less favored operating system, Windows 10 67 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:20,320 died a gruesome death on October 14th, 2025. 68 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:25,280 the year Microsoft declared the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh, by which they 69 00:05:23,199 --> 00:05:29,840 apparently meant the year of the Windows 10 official support refresh- 70 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:34,000 because after it became apparent that people don't usually order their lives 71 00:05:31,759 --> 00:05:39,520 around corporate blog posts and Windows 10 use was still quite high, Microsoft 72 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:44,960 was like, "Hey, [ __ ] Everybody gets a year of extended Windows 10 updates for 73 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:47,600 free, but after that, we're serious." 74 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:52,000 The problem is most people still can't really see a big benefit to buying a new 75 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:57,440 PC just so they can enjoy the new black screen of death. It's different. And the 76 00:05:54,639 --> 00:06:01,520 upcoming agentic OS features that will lead to mice and keyboards becoming 77 00:05:59,199 --> 00:06:08,000 obsolete as we simply tell our keyboards what to do and even enter the vibe 78 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:09,440 working era. Hey computer, do work. I 79 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:13,840 couldn't even be excited when they pretended to bring back Clippy because 80 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:18,960 it was actually just this animated AI fart cloud. You'll never be Clippy. 81 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:24,560 YOU'LL NEVER HAVE HIS SASS and his knowing looks. Although Microsoft did 82 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:26,880 fix the update and shut down bug uh in 83 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:32,080 Windows 11, not 10. Now, this all has Windows gamers in particular pining even 84 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:37,680 harder for Steam OS as an alternative along with other forms of Linux. And the 85 00:06:34,319 --> 00:06:39,440 Steam/ Linux future is looking kind of 86 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:43,520 bright right now. We got the first third-party Steam OS handheld, the 87 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:48,479 Legion Go S. And Valve announced the glorious return of the Steam Machine 88 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:53,199 with a new cute design, affectionately being called the Gabe Cube. That's fun. 89 00:06:51,199 --> 00:06:58,319 Now he just needs to get a cubeshaped yacht along with a new Steam Controller 90 00:06:55,600 --> 00:07:02,560 and the Steam Frame VR headset. Although Windows handhelds are still going 91 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:09,120 strong. If by strong you mean the couple models from GPD and Iono sporting AMD's 92 00:07:05,599 --> 00:07:11,759 beastly stricks Halo chip. But hey, 93 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:17,280 guess what? You can install Linux on that thing, too. 94 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:22,720 Oh my gosh, do it. But I'd actually like AI to do a bit less if you don't mind. 95 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:27,360 Aside from the affforementioned RAM crisis, AI has continued to improve at 96 00:07:25,199 --> 00:07:32,160 somewhat useful things like coding and math, but even more so at forcefully 97 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:37,280 injecting so much slop onto the internet, it's made people sick of 98 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:39,599 Studio Gibli. Gibli 99 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:44,880 Gibli, I don't know. Yes, standalone image generators are out. ChatGpt and 100 00:07:42,639 --> 00:07:49,840 Google Gemini's Nano Banana have improved a ton. And after Google V3 101 00:07:47,759 --> 00:07:54,720 launched, photorealistic video complete with synced audio became standard and 102 00:07:51,919 --> 00:07:58,879 put your parents in grave danger. Meta released a new social app called Vibes 103 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:02,960 just for making and sharing video slop followed by OpenAI and their similar 104 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:08,960 Sora app. I don't want to be too much of a downer. I mean, AI, even generative 105 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:11,759 AI, does seem to have some interesting 106 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:17,199 and not horrifying use cases, but the masses really were not prepared to have 107 00:08:15,039 --> 00:08:22,240 pure slop machines thrust into their hands. You have big YouTubers publishing 108 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:27,520 tutorials on how to generate vapid, colorful, NONSENSE SLOP FOR KIDS TO 109 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:31,599 WATCH. Hopefully this new gamer pope can do something about this because ignoring 110 00:08:29,599 --> 00:08:35,440 the whole audiovisisual problem, we had some concerning moments this year, 111 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:40,640 including Grock identifying itself as Mecca Hitler and having various public 112 00:08:37,919 --> 00:08:45,600 breakdowns. Chachibbt users revolted when OpenAI launched GPT5 and took away 113 00:08:43,680 --> 00:08:51,120 the more personal, more emotionally intelligent GBT40. And it was revealed 114 00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:56,720 to everyone just how bad this whole AI girlfriend and boyfriend issue is in 115 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:59,920 2025, which is, fun fact, the year that 116 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:02,000 the film Her took place. Spike Jones, if 117 00:08:59,920 --> 00:09:05,519 you or someone you know happens to be watching this, please make another film 118 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:08,640 set 12 years in the future so we know what to expect because uh this is 119 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:12,560 getting kind of wild. I've only mentioned American companies here, but 120 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:17,040 China's AI ambitions are going strong. Deep Seek's R1 model really shook up the 121 00:09:14,959 --> 00:09:22,800 industry earlier this year, but Chinese robots are shaking a leg themselves. 122 00:09:19,839 --> 00:09:27,360 Unitry cannot, for the life of them, seem to put out a video of its widely 123 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:31,519 available G1 robot or any robot without having the main focus seemingly be its 124 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:36,160 ability to punch and kick, which was also the main focus of Engine AI's 125 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:40,640 reveal of the T800 robot. What are we doing here? Huh? Skilled is a company 126 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:44,720 working on robot brains. And at least they're trying to help robots do 127 00:09:42,560 --> 00:09:48,320 different sorts of things, like figure out how to continue accomplishing their 128 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:53,360 goals, even if you saw their freaking limbs off. I uh Okay. I just want robots 129 00:09:50,959 --> 00:09:58,000 to be able to do normal things like load the dishwasher and pick up laundry, like 130 00:09:55,440 --> 00:10:02,080 the 1x Neo robot, which can actually do barely anything itself and mostly exists 131 00:09:59,839 --> 00:10:07,200 as a husk that a remote operator can control inside your home for when you 132 00:10:04,399 --> 00:10:12,000 want cleaning staff, but don't like how squishy they usually are. Squishy like 133 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:16,320 the everexpanding AI bubble. I mean, we can't know that it's a bubble right now, 134 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:20,000 but some shrewd financially minded people seem to think it's a bubble, and 135 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:24,480 the machine god will remember that. They thought that when it's born and punish 136 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:28,160 them. Thankfully, some AI services were feeling the Christmas spirit and added 137 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:33,600 what you could charitably call parental controls this year, including Character. 138 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:38,720 And ChatGBT, the latter of which also announced that adults could generate 139 00:10:35,279 --> 00:10:41,600 their own erotica next year. So, 140 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:46,320 67. I didn't mean to. I didn't. That wasn't planned. Oh, believe it or not, 141 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:50,160 there is so much AI stuff that I cut out of this episode because I could keep 142 00:10:48,079 --> 00:10:54,880 talking about it. I just really don't want to. What I want to do is thank our 143 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:59,680 sponsor, Dbrand, who are feeling the Christmas spirit so much, they've just 144 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:04,800 got to give something away. So, all orders placed before January 1st are 145 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:11,040 entered to win an ultra rare Galaxy Z trifold. It's a phone, I think, uh, but 146 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:15,440 it might also evolve a Pokemon. I don't I can't know because it's not currently 147 00:11:13,519 --> 00:11:21,279 available in North America. But if or when it is, it's probably going to cost 148 00:11:17,519 --> 00:11:24,000 like 3,000 bucks. 149 00:11:21,279 --> 00:11:28,959 You don't know. Again, any and every order is eligible as a contest entry up 150 00:11:26,560 --> 00:11:36,160 until January 1st, including Dbrand's new Sketch 2D line. Look at those. Huh. 151 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:38,959 That's That's like artistic. They kind 152 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:44,079 of make me think of that superhero movie franchise owned by the company that 153 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:46,399 makes PlayStation. It's It's cool. So, 154 00:11:44,079 --> 00:11:52,640 go order something before January 1st and enter to win the Galaxy Z Trifold. A 155 00:11:49,519 --> 00:11:54,640 nice tasty treat for your Pokémon. You 156 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:59,920 can think of the rest of this video as being the quick bits. You'd be wrong to 157 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:03,440 think that, but you know, nothing to be ashamed of. I was wrong when I implied 158 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:09,760 at the beginning that this mug had eggnog in it. It doesn't. It's filled to 159 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:14,320 the brim with hot cocoa. Now, I know what you're thinking. Wasn't Tik Tok 160 00:12:12,079 --> 00:12:18,880 supposed to be banned by now? And I thought that, too. And so did the hordes 161 00:12:16,399 --> 00:12:24,320 of Tik Tok users who flocked to other Chinese-owned social apps like Red Note 162 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:28,639 and Lemonate when Tik Tok was actually briefly banned before it came back. 163 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:33,120 Unlike the long list of games that were suddenly banned from Steam this year 164 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:38,000 because payment processors and banks didn't like them, just not their cup of 165 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:41,600 tea. And now it can't be yours either. Yeah, this year marked a significant 166 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:46,160 shift in how platforms deal with questionable content as age verification 167 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:50,959 measures started to roll out in many places. The UK's online safety act 168 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:56,480 applied to major platforms like Reddit, Discord, Twitter, etc. leading to a 169 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:59,440 surge in VPN use, which in turn has led 170 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:04,000 regulators to consider banning VPNs in some US states, which are prepping for 171 00:13:01,680 --> 00:13:08,240 similar laws to take effect next year. Australia's social media ban for 172 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:12,320 children under 16 went into effect just before winter break. So, they won't even 173 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:17,120 be able to talk to their friends while they're snowed in. H, what else 174 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:21,760 happened? Oh, Google decided they were going to give Android fans a scare and 175 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:27,279 block the sideloading of unverified Android apps. Yeah, barely anyone uses 176 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:31,519 sideloading ever, but it's like a, you know, you don't need it till you need it 177 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:35,519 situation, you know, like uh underwear. Thankfully, 178 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:40,160 the outcry caused Google to come to their senses and they said they would 179 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:45,680 allow advanced users to install unverified apps. And as an apology, 180 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:50,399 Google somehow forced Apple's AirDrop feature to work with Android's Quick 181 00:13:47,839 --> 00:13:55,839 Share. So now iPhones and Androids can blast each other with fun little pics, 182 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:57,680 and Apple can't do anything about it. It 183 00:13:55,839 --> 00:14:01,839 was kind of like how Epic Games forced Apple and Google to allow Fortnite back 184 00:13:59,680 --> 00:14:06,079 on both the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store this year. And all it took 185 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:09,519 was willfully breaking their terms and conditions in order to drag everybody 186 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:15,199 through years and years of legal quagmire. And now people who play 187 00:14:12,399 --> 00:14:20,800 Fortnite on their phone can buy V-Bucks a bit easier. This is progress. Oh, you 188 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:25,920 thought I forgot to talk about President Trump's whole tariff thing with the 189 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:28,320 announcing and the delaying and the part 190 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:33,199 of the reasoning for all that was to try and force manufacturers to make things 191 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:38,399 like phones in the US again. But so far, Apple has expanded production in India 192 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:44,240 instead. Fine then, said Trump. I'll build my own damn phone in the US. The 193 00:14:41,279 --> 00:14:49,680 Trump mobile T1 phone, which went from being a photoshopped gold iPhone to 194 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:55,600 being a photoshopped Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra with a spigen case on it. God 195 00:14:52,639 --> 00:14:59,680 bless America. Now, to be fair, after seemingly almost damaging trade 196 00:14:57,519 --> 00:15:04,959 relations with China beyond repair, the Trump administration and China agreed on 197 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:09,199 a one-year tariff truce, ensuring that electronics only become exorbitantly 198 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:13,519 more expensive because of the AI RAM thing, not a lack of rare earths and 199 00:15:11,519 --> 00:15:18,320 minerals. And I'll also give the current US government another kudos for 200 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:21,600 reportedly telling the UK to saw it off with their whole we demand Apple give us 201 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:26,959 a back door with into their encrypted user data thing. The UK apparently 202 00:15:23,839 --> 00:15:29,839 backed down only to return and make the 203 00:15:26,959 --> 00:15:37,760 same demand, but only for UK user data, which I guess the US doesn't care about. 204 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:39,920 Sorry, UK. 2025 proved to be a fairly 205 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:44,800 fragile year for power and cloud infrastructure. After massive parts of 206 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:48,880 Spain and Portugal lost power in April, an Amazon Web Services outage took out 207 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:53,839 key parts of the internet, including Roblox, Fortnite, and Zoom. Seriously 208 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:57,519 though, it was one of those internet problems affecting the real world 209 00:15:55,680 --> 00:16:02,240 situations. Some people were nearly cooked when their smart beds overheated. 210 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:06,560 Then there was a similarly bad cloud flare outage in November and another not 211 00:16:04,639 --> 00:16:11,920 so bad one in December. Although that one notably took down detector and the 212 00:16:09,839 --> 00:16:15,839 three other down detector down detectors. Is it any wonder NVIDIA, 213 00:16:14,399 --> 00:16:19,759 Google, and a bunch of other people want to launch data centers into space? At 214 00:16:18,399 --> 00:16:24,560 least up there, we can be sure they're not stealing all the water. Unless they 215 00:16:22,079 --> 00:16:29,279 send their covert elite space commandos to come back to Earth and raid every 216 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:33,519 7-Eleven for all the Aquafina supply, which of course THEY DO, RILEY. COME ON, 217 00:16:31,839 --> 00:16:37,040 THINK. NOW, THE REST OF WHAT I GOT here is a bit of a random assortment. I'm 218 00:16:35,279 --> 00:16:41,519 just going to try and jog your memory that these things actually happened. 219 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:43,519 Qualcomm acquired Arduino in October. I 220 00:16:41,519 --> 00:16:49,519 hope they don't screw that up. Microsoft killed Skype. No. Uh both NVIDIA and the 221 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:53,600 US government are now heavily invested in Intel, which I hope they're using to 222 00:16:52,079 --> 00:16:58,880 pay for some free coffee for their employees. Nepal had that whole Gen Z 223 00:16:56,399 --> 00:17:03,680 uprising, culminating in the election of their interim prime minister via 224 00:17:01,279 --> 00:17:07,520 Discord. That was a ride. The Stop Killing Games movement had its moment in 225 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:11,760 the UK Parliament, which didn't seem to move the needle much, but probably 226 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:16,559 raised awareness. And I'm calling it now will lead to the UK's first gamer 227 00:17:14,799 --> 00:17:20,720 president. Make it happen, guys. I believe in you. Originally, Oculus 228 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:26,240 founder Palmer Ly's military tech company Anduril partnered with Meta to 229 00:17:23,360 --> 00:17:30,559 release a cat eared tactical AR helmet, while Meta themselves launched the Meta 230 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:35,360 Ray-B band display with a fullcolor display in one of the eyes. I'm going to 231 00:17:32,799 --> 00:17:39,919 get both. And Colossal Sciences pretended that they'd resurrected the 232 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:44,400 direwolf. And me and Hank Green spent a lot of time researching ancient wolf 233 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:50,000 lineages only to find out that really they just kind of made a regular wolf 234 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:54,640 with some extra genes in there. Hank and I didn't do it together, just just 235 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:56,559 separately. But now, although that's not 236 00:17:54,640 --> 00:18:01,200 everything that happened this year, I feel like that's mostly the gist of 237 00:17:59,039 --> 00:18:06,400 2025. Hey, what kind of tech news developments are we going to see in 238 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:09,919 2026? I don't know, but I can't wait to 239 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:12,640 find out together. So, from my house 240 00:18:09,919 --> 00:18:16,799 coat to yours, even though this video is not going up on Christmas, it's going up 241 00:18:14,799 --> 00:18:23,280 on Boxing Day, which I just remembered. I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy 242 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:26,320 new year. And when the snow melts, 243 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:28,720 I think we should all touch some grass. 244 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:28,720 Okay, bye.