1 00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:07,640 oh well hello there looking for some 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:11,599 company on this fine Christmas day well you're welcome to a mug of hot coco 3 00:00:09,639 --> 00:00:16,400 what's that you're also looking for someone to round up the biggest Tech 4 00:00:13,679 --> 00:00:22,519 stories of the year it's a Christmas miracle because this is the 2024 tling 5 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:27,960 Christmas special let's begin let's start off with a classic story 2024 had 6 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:34,840 a pretty good run of major Tech Hardware launches NVIDIA launched the RTX 40 7 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:37,719 Super Series at CES did Gamers hate them 8 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:42,640 like them here's the fun part it doesn't matter because NVIDIA's AI accelerator 9 00:00:40,399 --> 00:00:49,280 products drove the company to a 2 trillion then $3 trillion valuation for 10 00:00:46,719 --> 00:00:53,520 the first time and now NVIDIA regularly trades places with apple and Microsoft 11 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:58,320 as the most valuable company in the world I think they take turns there's a 12 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:03,879 system Google is not allowed after announcing its spatial Computing headset 13 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:09,240 last year Apple launched the Vision Pro in February for 14 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:11,439 $3,500 and it was never heard from again 15 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:16,439 I'm being hyperbolic of course but why shouldn't I be it's Christmas besides 16 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:23,079 the usual things like iPads iPhones and Macs Apple updated the Magic Mouse with 17 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:27,200 USBC but put the port on the bottom 18 00:01:23,079 --> 00:01:28,840 again which is [ __ ] insane but okay 19 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:34,159 and they made up for it Anyway by surprise launching an incredibly 20 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:36,680 powerful yet teeny tiny new M4 Mac Mini 21 00:01:34,159 --> 00:01:42,040 that starts at only 600 bucks in contrast Qualcomm continued to Hype up 22 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:46,560 the launch of their Snapdragon X Elite ARM-based laptop chips making bold 23 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:53,439 claims about their performance would this be Windows PC's Apple silicon 24 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:59,960 moment well Snapdragon X promised the 25 00:01:53,439 --> 00:02:02,200 world and delivered perhaps Luxembourg 26 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:07,719 small a small part of the world like the laptops were fine great battery life 27 00:02:05,079 --> 00:02:12,640 some compatibility issues it didn't match the hype though and enthusiasm for 28 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:19,000 the devices was also hindered by Microsoft's co-pilot plus PC branding 29 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:24,440 and their headline AI records everything you do feature recall which creeped 30 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:30,519 everyone out as the verges Tom Warren puts it it was a massive own goal to 31 00:02:27,879 --> 00:02:37,800 make things worse for Qualcomm laptops with AMD's ryzen AI 300 and Intel's core 32 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:39,800 200v chips also had excellent battery 33 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:45,319 life with none of the compatibility issues Qualcomm did just secure an 34 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:50,519 initial win in its Court battle with ARM so hopefully we'll get to see whether 35 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:53,159 the Snapdragon X Elite Gen 2 is any 36 00:02:50,519 --> 00:02:58,720 better now that's not to say Intel and AMD had a stellar year either Intel was 37 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:04,280 plagued for most of the Year by instability issues in its 13th and 14th 38 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:10,040 gen desktop CPUs which it eventually figured out how to fix in October then 39 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:14,120 both the ryzen 9000 Series and Intel's new aerol Lake desktop chips were 40 00:03:11,959 --> 00:03:19,680 criticized for bringing very little gaming chops to the table and in AOL 41 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:22,360 Lake's case actually performing worse 42 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:26,120 than its predecessor apparently an update is coming next month that will 43 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:30,319 boost performance but even if that doesn't work I can't stay mad at Intel 44 00:03:28,439 --> 00:03:37,560 right now because the little Elves and the graphics Department delivered the 45 00:03:32,159 --> 00:03:39,360 ark b580 a banging GPU for 250 bucks if 46 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:42,959 you somehow managed to find it at that price because it's sold out everywhere 47 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:49,080 and that's the best Christmas present a PC Gamer could ask for next up Tech 48 00:03:46,519 --> 00:03:53,319 giants like apple Google and Microsoft have had a pretty great time the last 49 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:56,720 few years reaching record valuations building little walled fortresses so 50 00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:01,000 it's hard for anyone to compete with them hiring thousands of people firing 51 00:03:59,319 --> 00:04:06,040 them against it's like a fun game they play but this year governments around 52 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:13,280 the world were like ah no oh hold on particularly the European 53 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:17,600 Union their digital markets act came into force in March and its primary 54 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:24,040 purpose seemed to be to fill Tech company's stockings with fines you were 55 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:29,720 very good this year comparatively still getting a fine though in January Apple 56 00:04:26,919 --> 00:04:34,120 complied with the dma adding support for for third-party Payment Systems browser 57 00:04:31,919 --> 00:04:40,080 engines and what they called app marketplaces for the first time but they 58 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:42,680 were not happy about it requiring all 59 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:49,600 apps on alternative stores to pay Apple royalties and be notorized and vetted by 60 00:04:46,199 --> 00:04:51,840 Apple anyway with a new per install core 61 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:56,080 technology fee that for many developers actually made it more expensive to 62 00:04:53,520 --> 00:05:01,080 distribute outside the Apple App Store some accused Apple of malicious 63 00:04:58,199 --> 00:05:07,400 compliance and indeed the EU charged apple with breaching the dma rules in 64 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:09,440 June how many fines is that we lost 65 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:15,120 count we just love giving them out it's taking a while but the EU is slowly 66 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:20,080 forcing Apple to open up their ecosystem Apple even approved the epic game store 67 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:24,919 to launch on iOS after epic complained to the EU because they were rejected 68 00:05:22,280 --> 00:05:30,319 twice over in the US the Department of Justice sued Apple for monopolizing 69 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:36,720 smartphone markets but while Apple has weathered the regulatory attacks Google 70 00:05:34,039 --> 00:05:41,120 ain't looking so hot after losing their Court battle with epic games over the 71 00:05:38,639 --> 00:05:46,360 Play Store last December the tech giant also lost to the Department of Justice 72 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:51,560 in August of this year for monopolizing the market with Google search and could 73 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:56,639 be forced to sell off the Chrome browser as a result that giant leak of Google 74 00:05:54,720 --> 00:06:02,000 search related documents from earlier in the year showing that results heavily 75 00:05:58,919 --> 00:06:04,479 prioritized big Brands over small ones 76 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:08,400 probably didn't help and then the UK and Canada sued Google too because at this 77 00:06:06,319 --> 00:06:12,720 point it's like why not everyone's doing it and the Federal Trade Commission had 78 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:16,880 a Christmas candle lit under their butts this year they took all sorts of pro 79 00:06:14,840 --> 00:06:21,599 consumer action including opening an investigation into personalized 80 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:26,319 surveillance pricing adopting the click to cancel Rule and proposing a ban on 81 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:30,880 the sale of sensitive location data I mean it felt like the government was 82 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:33,639 actively trying to hand off a corpo 83 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:39,120 dominated cyberpunk dystopia which wouldn't be in the Christmas spirit at 84 00:06:35,319 --> 00:06:42,039 all meanwhile the AI industry was doing 85 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:47,240 the opposite video generation took off this year open AI unveiled the 86 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:51,840 groundbreaking Sora model in February and waited until December to publicly 87 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:56,240 release an upgraded version that was necessary because competitors had nearly 88 00:06:54,039 --> 00:07:01,520 caught up with sora's capabilities including Chinese models like 10 cents 89 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:06,759 Han Yuan which can generate a realistic dancing guy in a ghost costume no 90 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:13,000 problem and that's why we need AI for that stuff open AI also launched its 91 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:15,400 faster GPT 40 model with advanced voice 92 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:21,360 mode kicking off a fun little debate over its auditory resemblance to Scarlet 93 00:07:17,919 --> 00:07:24,199 Johansson 2024 solidified the idea that 94 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:29,800 if AI is going anywhere it's going in search Google's AI overviews launched 95 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:35,080 and promptly recommended eating rocks open aai revealed their search Ambitions 96 00:07:32,039 --> 00:07:38,039 with search GPT which is now just chat 97 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:41,960 GPT search and Reddit announced its AI powered answers feature because most of 98 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:47,639 your Google searches end up on Reddit anyway hey remember those beautifully 99 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:51,680 designed AI assistant devices the Humane 100 00:07:47,639 --> 00:07:54,960 AI pin and the rabbit R1 they 101 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:56,720 launched and crashed look can you blame 102 00:07:54,960 --> 00:08:01,240 them there's a lot of money going into AI right now and we need to sell 103 00:07:58,599 --> 00:08:05,400 something I guess it's just phones for now since iPhones have apple 104 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:11,080 intelligence and Google and Samsung are putting their own AI features in phones 105 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:12,879 too yep generative AI trained on massive 106 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:16,720 data sets scraped from the entire internet is coming along all right it 107 00:08:15,159 --> 00:08:21,720 sure would be nice to figure out where that leaves the idea of copyright 108 00:08:19,479 --> 00:08:26,520 because while companies like open Ai and perplexity are embroiled in a ton of 109 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:31,240 plagiarism accusations and copyright lawsuits most of them are still in 110 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:36,519 progress leaving us in this kind of limbo where stories come out about 111 00:08:33,839 --> 00:08:41,360 multiple AI companies training models on YouTube videos without permission and 112 00:08:38,719 --> 00:08:49,640 even pirated movies and nothing happens YouTube's like oh 113 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:52,760 what oh hey that's against to don't do 114 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:55,360 that new studies continue to show how 115 00:08:52,760 --> 00:09:00,720 gen AI models can deceive people published by the very people building 116 00:08:57,519 --> 00:09:03,360 them and with AI generated SEO content 117 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:08,959 flooding the web there's Rising concern that as the old internet is disappearing 118 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:13,839 it's being replaced by industrial grade slop but look AI can be used for good 119 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:18,839 stuff too like this company that works with college professors to generate $25 120 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:23,040 digital textbooks based on Old course notes so students don't have to pay 121 00:09:20,839 --> 00:09:28,680 through the nose for a heavy physical version of a barely changed yearly 122 00:09:25,519 --> 00:09:30,800 Edition I guess AI can feel the holiday 123 00:09:28,680 --> 00:09:34,880 spirit after after all there's something else you don't have to pay through the 124 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:40,560 nose for our sponsor ODU because they'll help you build a website for free look 125 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:45,959 kids need vegetables and businesses need a website doctor's orders ODU is easy to 126 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:49,880 use has a simple drag and drop interface and a code-free approach plus they 127 00:09:47,959 --> 00:09:54,279 provide unlimited hosting reliable support and they'll even throw in a free 128 00:09:51,839 --> 00:09:59,519 custom domain for an entire year your business has been working real hard it 129 00:09:56,680 --> 00:10:03,839 deserves a nice website with smart color presets animated scrolling effects and a 130 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:07,519 layout that automatically adapts to all devices including mobile so click the 131 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:11,640 link in the description and create a website for free with ODU all right 132 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:16,279 these quick bits might be a little jumbled up because I think someone may 133 00:10:13,959 --> 00:10:20,200 have dropped a little special eggnog in my hot 134 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:24,600 cocoa which is especially concerning because I'm the only one here what else 135 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:29,720 happened this year ah YouTube really had it out for ad block or at least it 136 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:33,560 seemed like they did reports of slow video buffering were initially 137 00:10:31,279 --> 00:10:37,680 attributed to YouTube early in the year but eventually found to be caused by a 138 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:42,800 flawed update from the developers of ad block 139 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:45,399 plus no YouTube actually began a harsh 140 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:50,839 Crackdown on ad blocking apps in April despite still promoting them on the 141 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:53,200 Chrome web store old habits die hard I 142 00:10:50,839 --> 00:10:57,800 guess don't I know it in June the developer of sponsor block said YouTube 143 00:10:55,360 --> 00:11:02,600 was experimenting with serers side ad injection which was reportedly to blame 144 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:08,160 for some ad block users seeing black screens instead of ads on YouTube videos 145 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:13,240 but wait if YouTube doesn't want to block ads why' they introduce the jump 146 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:17,839 ahead feature for YouTube premium which is pretty much designed to skip ads also 147 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:23,760 you see ads when you pause YouTube videos now Merry Christmas Microsoft 148 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:28,320 really thinks you should be upgrading to Windows 11 before Windows 10 loses 149 00:11:25,959 --> 00:11:33,880 official support next October so tell you what they'll you with a full screen 150 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:36,000 ad every time your PC boots up okay just 151 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:40,880 trying to help yeah despite Microsoft's efforts Windows 11 market share is 152 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:45,639 barely budging no doubt that's partially because some people who would want to 153 00:11:42,639 --> 00:11:48,440 upgrade need to buy a new PC to do so 154 00:11:45,639 --> 00:11:53,440 thanks to Windows 11's non-negotiable TPM 2.0 requirement but many others are 155 00:11:51,639 --> 00:11:57,480 probably just hesitant to go along with it when Microsoft's releasing things 156 00:11:55,320 --> 00:12:02,959 like recall which was pulled from release uh fixed and is now slowly 157 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:07,839 rolling out again despite still not working properly speaking of not working 158 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:13,440 properly the list of issues with the Windows 11 24 H2 update is longer than 159 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:18,760 Santa's at this point and the OS comes along with lovely baked in ads you have 160 00:12:16,079 --> 00:12:25,120 to go turn off what's the matter guys why don't you want to upgrade are you 161 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:28,560 okay enter a bright Hope on the horizon 162 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:31,160 Steam OS no you can't get the modern 163 00:12:28,560 --> 00:12:36,120 version on desktop yet but valve has confirmed they adding support to Steam 164 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:38,199 OS for third-party gaming handhelds they 165 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:43,720 dropped new branding guidelines with powered by Steam OS labels and signs 166 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:48,560 point to Lenovo announcing a Steam OS powered handheld of their own at CES in 167 00:12:46,279 --> 00:12:55,639 a couple weeks so why not put it on my gaming PC too valve hello they never 168 00:12:52,680 --> 00:13:02,160 answer even though it's Christmas 2024 also saw the launch of the PlayStation 5 169 00:12:58,399 --> 00:13:05,320 Pro with Sony's own pssr upscaling Tech 170 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:07,000 and a $700 price tag not that it hurt 171 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:12,240 sales much apparently it's doing all right we didn't get an upgraded Xbox 172 00:13:09,279 --> 00:13:18,440 series X which is fine by me because I don't even want to know what they'd add 173 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:21,519 on to that name Xbox series XS actually 174 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:24,680 I'd go for that Xbox Chief Phil Spencer 175 00:13:21,519 --> 00:13:27,120 said they might make an Xbox handheld 176 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:32,800 but that'd be years out the same can't be said for the Nintendo switch 2 which 177 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:35,360 has sprung so many leaks in recent weeks 178 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:39,880 I think she's about to blow Nintendo's bound to reveal the switch 2 soon they 179 00:13:37,680 --> 00:13:44,480 were going to do it this year but decided to hurl lawyers at the 180 00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:49,079 developers of the Yuzu and ryujin switch emulators instead forcing them both to 181 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:53,440 shut down don't worry about the lawyers they're fine and to top things off here 182 00:13:51,519 --> 00:13:58,680 are some other things that happened Australia passed a social media ban for 183 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:04,000 kids under 16 it's still unclear how that'll be enforced or where kids will 184 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:09,000 get their skibby RZ speaking of which a law was passed to ban Tik Tok from the 185 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:12,440 US unless parent company bite dance sells the app to someone else but 186 00:14:11,199 --> 00:14:17,880 they've got a hearing with the supreme court on January 10th which I'm sure 187 00:14:14,639 --> 00:14:20,800 will fix everything in October SpaceX 188 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:26,240 caught the Starship booster in midair with the giant robot arms of its launch 189 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:31,759 Tower remember that that one's just cool back in June SoftBank demoed another 190 00:14:28,639 --> 00:14:34,480 heart warming use case for AI a filter 191 00:14:31,759 --> 00:14:38,680 that makes angry customers sound calm on the phone I'm sure it'll be very 192 00:14:36,399 --> 00:14:43,680 appreciated by any customer service agents that haven't been replaced by AI 193 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:48,040 yeah well guess what scientists are building processors with literal brain 194 00:14:45,759 --> 00:14:53,839 cells inside so I guess the old biological organisms get to take the 195 00:14:50,199 --> 00:14:57,079 machine job this time as a Christmas 196 00:14:53,839 --> 00:14:58,680 present and there's my present to you 197 00:14:57,079 --> 00:15:02,480 I'm not going to lie I think I missed a few things things but I have to go to 198 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:08,079 sleep now or St Nicholas is going to skip right over my house so farewell 199 00:15:05,279 --> 00:15:15,959 2024 and cheers to another year full of tech news because it just keeps 200 00:15:11,639 --> 00:15:15,959 coming it doesn't stop