Welcome back to the tech news show you watch instead of googling stuff I guess.
I'm Riley Murdoch, but
uh you know feel free to disagree. Uh more than 50 Chinese tech companies have
announced plans to use a new connector standard that makes HDMI DisplayPort
USB 4 and Thunderbolt seem like two cans
with a string between them. The appropriately named generalurpose media
interface or GPMI supports 96 Gbits per
second of data bandwidth and 240 watts of power delivery over a USB type-C
connector which beats every other consumer standard on the market. But
there's also a GPMI typeB connector with
double the specs supporting 192 Gbits per second and 480 watts. Now, there
aren't great pictures of the TypeB, but it appears to resemble a USB-C plug
stretched sideways, thus making the hole bigger, so pictures can slide through
more easily. The computer won't have to fold them in half anymore. The GPMI
standard has been licensed by the USB implementers forum and TV manufacturers
like TCL, Highense, and Huawei are on board. So GPMI products and cables could
very well arrive on non-Chinese shores soon enough for the price of
$200,000 the way tariffs are going. A modder has managed to flash a Radeon
RX970 with the BIOS of an RX970 XT,
increasing its power draw and clock speeds in basically the GPU equivalent
of the billionaire guy who injects himself with his son's blood to make him
stronger. He's basically his own son now, and the fabric of time is in
danger. Anyway, the modder, who goes by Gertie on the German language PC games
hardware forums, found that the XT's BIOS also unlocked more overclocking
headroom, allowing an RX970 to match the
9070 XT's performance in 3D Mark tests
despite having a lower number of cores. The hybrid card is apparently stable,
although its ultra low power mode doesn't work, and one of the forum
members encountered some freezes when they tried it in their setup. You know,
it's like how the billionaire guy sometimes has a little seizure where his
eyes roll back in his head and he sees horrifying visions of his inevitable
galactic conquest. Like, should he accept his dark destiny or could he
avoid slaughtering billions to become an immortal worm king? You get glitches
with these kind of things. We're still learning things about the Switch 2. For
example, Nintendo confirmed that the console doesn't have Hall effect
joysticks despite the original Switch Joy-Cons notoriously having issues with
stick drift. Nintendo hasn't said how they addressed that issue, but maybe
they used a newer joystick technology called tunneling magnetoresistance or
TMR, which The Verge wrote about here, and I'm only really mentioning because
it involves quantum mechanics, which tickles my brain a little bit whenever I
hear about it. Despite the stick uncertainty though, developers told
Steven Totio at Gamefile they are
extremely happy with the console's horsepower. A claim that vibes well with
these screenshots of Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition that CD Project Red
says were taken on the Switch 2. They look good. Even if the Switch 2 looks
great though, fans are still calling for Nintendo to drop the price. But as the
man chosen at birth to one day become the current Nintendo of America
president Doug Bowser told Wired, the company is assessing the impact of
Trump's new tariffs, which they didn't factor into the price of the Switch 2
because they couldn't have. Meaning if the price is changing at all, it ain't
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saying you should Google stuff instead of watching the show. I watch almost
every episode. I think they're doing a great I mean, they're doing their best.
Tariffs continue to royal, great word, the global economy with Trump
threatening to place an extra 50% tariff
on China if the country doesn't rescend its 34% tariff that it announced in
retaliation for Trump's reciprocal tariffs announced last
week. Snip snap snip snap. It's crazy.
The extra 50% would bring the US's total tariffs on China to
104%. Uh, and Trump said the country has until April 9th to make the change, by
which point global stocks may have reached Atlantis. But hey, humans are
smart. We're adapting to the new conditions. For example, Apple
reportedly flew five cargo planes full
of iPhones and other products into the US in the last week of March, giving
their warehouses a few months of supply before those hefty tariffs were put in
place. Hey, big market opportunity for
smugglers. You know, jobs are being created. Over in the UK, a judge has
ruled that Apple's fight with the government over access to its users
encrypted data cannot take place in
secret despite secrecy rules laid out in the Investigatory Powers Act, which the
Home Office used to demand Apple provide them with a software backdoor. The
ruling is a win for privacy advocates, while another UK law just coming into
effect this week is a win for advocates of skimming online reviews and not
realizing halfway through that it doesn't make any freaking sense. I'm
trying to buy a cordless drill and this is an essay about a hair dryer. Is it a
twoin one? I'm wasting so much time. Colossal Biosciences, the genetic
engineering firm whose woolly mice went a bit viral a few weeks ago, has now
claimed to have successfully brought back the direwolf, a species that went
extinct around 11,000 years ago. I'm
very much summarizing here, but the company says they scraped some direwolf
DNA off of some fossils, combined it with greywolf DNA, and edited it to get
something similar to a real direwolf
with twin males who are now about 6 months old. It's being called the
world's first deextinction, brought to you by a younger Jon Hammond who loves
hooded leather jackets. He actually kind of looks like Jon Snow, which does not
bode well for any of us. As cool as all of this sounds, this company gives me
major red flags. They named the twins Romulus and Remis, which, you know,
fine, that's cool, that the mythical founders of Rome, etc., followed by a
female named Khesi, Blake Lively. They
also love memeing. Um, I feel like these
people saw Jurassic Park as an instruction manual. Also, a few years
ago, scientists found that direwolves aren't technically wolves and are more
closely related to African wild dogs, uh, which don't look like wolves. So, I
don't know what. Um, cool, though. And Kawasaki unveiled the Corio, a concept
vehicle ridable robot horse cat thing.
It's powered by 150cc hydrogenfueled
engine, and it will apparently carry you just fine as it leaps over icy chasms.
something ATV owners have been itching to do basically forever. It's got AI
apparently, so it seems like it could act like something in between a vehicle
and a real horse. And if it's good, you
can feed it an apple like like it's like a like a
computer cuz it's and I don't have
anything to give you if you come back on Wednesday for more tech news. Unless
Well, I'm I'm already giving you something. It's it's the tech news.
What? You want something else too?