1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:08,480 Welcome back to the tech news show you watch instead of googling stuff I guess. 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:11,200 I'm Riley Murdoch, but 3 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:15,519 uh you know feel free to disagree. Uh more than 50 Chinese tech companies have 4 00:00:13,599 --> 00:00:21,199 announced plans to use a new connector standard that makes HDMI DisplayPort 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:22,720 USB 4 and Thunderbolt seem like two cans 6 00:00:21,199 --> 00:00:29,119 with a string between them. The appropriately named generalurpose media 7 00:00:25,119 --> 00:00:32,079 interface or GPMI supports 96 Gbits per 8 00:00:29,119 --> 00:00:36,880 second of data bandwidth and 240 watts of power delivery over a USB type-C 9 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:42,000 connector which beats every other consumer standard on the market. But 10 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:44,960 there's also a GPMI typeB connector with 11 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:49,840 double the specs supporting 192 Gbits per second and 480 watts. Now, there 12 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:56,480 aren't great pictures of the TypeB, but it appears to resemble a USB-C plug 13 00:00:53,520 --> 00:01:00,239 stretched sideways, thus making the hole bigger, so pictures can slide through 14 00:00:58,559 --> 00:01:04,479 more easily. The computer won't have to fold them in half anymore. The GPMI 15 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:09,920 standard has been licensed by the USB implementers forum and TV manufacturers 16 00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:15,760 like TCL, Highense, and Huawei are on board. So GPMI products and cables could 17 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:21,119 very well arrive on non-Chinese shores soon enough for the price of 18 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:28,720 $200,000 the way tariffs are going. A modder has managed to flash a Radeon 19 00:01:23,799 --> 00:01:30,720 RX970 with the BIOS of an RX970 XT, 20 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:35,119 increasing its power draw and clock speeds in basically the GPU equivalent 21 00:01:33,439 --> 00:01:39,439 of the billionaire guy who injects himself with his son's blood to make him 22 00:01:37,119 --> 00:01:43,920 stronger. He's basically his own son now, and the fabric of time is in 23 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:48,799 danger. Anyway, the modder, who goes by Gertie on the German language PC games 24 00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:54,720 hardware forums, found that the XT's BIOS also unlocked more overclocking 25 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:58,479 headroom, allowing an RX970 to match the 26 00:01:54,720 --> 00:02:00,799 9070 XT's performance in 3D Mark tests 27 00:01:58,479 --> 00:02:05,520 despite having a lower number of cores. The hybrid card is apparently stable, 28 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:09,599 although its ultra low power mode doesn't work, and one of the forum 29 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:13,200 members encountered some freezes when they tried it in their setup. You know, 30 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:16,959 it's like how the billionaire guy sometimes has a little seizure where his 31 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:20,319 eyes roll back in his head and he sees horrifying visions of his inevitable 32 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:23,840 galactic conquest. Like, should he accept his dark destiny or could he 33 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,959 avoid slaughtering billions to become an immortal worm king? You get glitches 34 00:02:25,599 --> 00:02:30,640 with these kind of things. We're still learning things about the Switch 2. For 35 00:02:28,879 --> 00:02:34,879 example, Nintendo confirmed that the console doesn't have Hall effect 36 00:02:32,640 --> 00:02:39,680 joysticks despite the original Switch Joy-Cons notoriously having issues with 37 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:44,239 stick drift. Nintendo hasn't said how they addressed that issue, but maybe 38 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:49,120 they used a newer joystick technology called tunneling magnetoresistance or 39 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:52,480 TMR, which The Verge wrote about here, and I'm only really mentioning because 40 00:02:50,640 --> 00:02:56,080 it involves quantum mechanics, which tickles my brain a little bit whenever I 41 00:02:54,319 --> 00:03:01,120 hear about it. Despite the stick uncertainty though, developers told 42 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:03,440 Steven Totio at Gamefile they are 43 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:08,720 extremely happy with the console's horsepower. A claim that vibes well with 44 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:14,000 these screenshots of Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition that CD Project Red 45 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:18,480 says were taken on the Switch 2. They look good. Even if the Switch 2 looks 46 00:03:16,319 --> 00:03:23,360 great though, fans are still calling for Nintendo to drop the price. But as the 47 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:27,280 man chosen at birth to one day become the current Nintendo of America 48 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:31,760 president Doug Bowser told Wired, the company is assessing the impact of 49 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:36,159 Trump's new tariffs, which they didn't factor into the price of the Switch 2 50 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:41,200 because they couldn't have. Meaning if the price is changing at all, it ain't 51 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:45,760 going down. All right, not going down tonight. 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I think they're doing a great I mean, they're doing their best. 68 00:04:49,919 --> 00:04:58,000 Tariffs continue to royal, great word, the global economy with Trump 69 00:04:54,639 --> 00:05:00,720 threatening to place an extra 50% tariff 70 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:06,400 on China if the country doesn't rescend its 34% tariff that it announced in 71 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:11,840 retaliation for Trump's reciprocal tariffs announced last 72 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:14,800 week. Snip snap snip snap. It's crazy. 73 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:19,600 The extra 50% would bring the US's total tariffs on China to 74 00:05:16,840 --> 00:05:24,160 104%. Uh, and Trump said the country has until April 9th to make the change, by 75 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:28,639 which point global stocks may have reached Atlantis. But hey, humans are 76 00:05:26,479 --> 00:05:33,600 smart. We're adapting to the new conditions. For example, Apple 77 00:05:30,479 --> 00:05:35,759 reportedly flew five cargo planes full 78 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:40,400 of iPhones and other products into the US in the last week of March, giving 79 00:05:37,919 --> 00:05:45,759 their warehouses a few months of supply before those hefty tariffs were put in 80 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:47,280 place. Hey, big market opportunity for 81 00:05:45,759 --> 00:05:51,759 smugglers. You know, jobs are being created. Over in the UK, a judge has 82 00:05:49,919 --> 00:05:56,560 ruled that Apple's fight with the government over access to its users 83 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:59,280 encrypted data cannot take place in 84 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:04,400 secret despite secrecy rules laid out in the Investigatory Powers Act, which the 85 00:06:01,919 --> 00:06:08,960 Home Office used to demand Apple provide them with a software backdoor. The 86 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:12,880 ruling is a win for privacy advocates, while another UK law just coming into 87 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:17,039 effect this week is a win for advocates of skimming online reviews and not 88 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:21,280 realizing halfway through that it doesn't make any freaking sense. I'm 89 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:27,680 trying to buy a cordless drill and this is an essay about a hair dryer. Is it a 90 00:06:25,039 --> 00:06:32,800 twoin one? I'm wasting so much time. Colossal Biosciences, the genetic 91 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:36,960 engineering firm whose woolly mice went a bit viral a few weeks ago, has now 92 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:43,600 claimed to have successfully brought back the direwolf, a species that went 93 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:45,520 extinct around 11,000 years ago. I'm 94 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:50,080 very much summarizing here, but the company says they scraped some direwolf 95 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:57,280 DNA off of some fossils, combined it with greywolf DNA, and edited it to get 96 00:06:53,440 --> 00:07:00,000 something similar to a real direwolf 97 00:06:57,280 --> 00:07:04,240 with twin males who are now about 6 months old. It's being called the 98 00:07:01,919 --> 00:07:08,479 world's first deextinction, brought to you by a younger Jon Hammond who loves 99 00:07:06,319 --> 00:07:13,199 hooded leather jackets. He actually kind of looks like Jon Snow, which does not 100 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:17,440 bode well for any of us. As cool as all of this sounds, this company gives me 101 00:07:14,639 --> 00:07:22,479 major red flags. They named the twins Romulus and Remis, which, you know, 102 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:29,440 fine, that's cool, that the mythical founders of Rome, etc., followed by a 103 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:32,479 female named Khesi, Blake Lively. They 104 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:34,240 also love memeing. Um, I feel like these 105 00:07:32,479 --> 00:07:39,360 people saw Jurassic Park as an instruction manual. Also, a few years 106 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:44,400 ago, scientists found that direwolves aren't technically wolves and are more 107 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:48,479 closely related to African wild dogs, uh, which don't look like wolves. So, I 108 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:56,000 don't know what. Um, cool, though. And Kawasaki unveiled the Corio, a concept 109 00:07:52,199 --> 00:07:59,039 vehicle ridable robot horse cat thing. 110 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,960 It's powered by 150cc hydrogenfueled 111 00:07:59,039 --> 00:08:06,080 engine, and it will apparently carry you just fine as it leaps over icy chasms. 112 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:10,400 something ATV owners have been itching to do basically forever. It's got AI 113 00:08:08,639 --> 00:08:16,960 apparently, so it seems like it could act like something in between a vehicle 114 00:08:13,599 --> 00:08:18,759 and a real horse. And if it's good, you 115 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:25,280 can feed it an apple like like it's like a like a 116 00:08:22,199 --> 00:08:27,120 computer cuz it's and I don't have 117 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:31,280 anything to give you if you come back on Wednesday for more tech news. Unless 118 00:08:29,919 --> 00:08:36,880 Well, I'm I'm already giving you something. It's it's the tech news. 119 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,880 What? You want something else too?