WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:08.480 Welcome back to the tech news show you watch instead of googling stuff I guess. 00:00:04.880 --> 00:00:11.200 I'm Riley Murdoch, but 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:15.519 uh you know feel free to disagree. Uh more than 50 Chinese tech companies have 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:21.199 announced plans to use a new connector standard that makes HDMI DisplayPort 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:22.720 USB 4 and Thunderbolt seem like two cans 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:29.119 with a string between them. The appropriately named generalurpose media 00:00:25.119 --> 00:00:32.079 interface or GPMI supports 96 Gbits per 00:00:29.119 --> 00:00:36.880 second of data bandwidth and 240 watts of power delivery over a USB type-C 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:42.000 connector which beats every other consumer standard on the market. But 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:44.960 there's also a GPMI typeB connector with 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:49.840 double the specs supporting 192 Gbits per second and 480 watts. Now, there 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:56.480 aren't great pictures of the TypeB, but it appears to resemble a USB-C plug 00:00:53.520 --> 00:01:00.239 stretched sideways, thus making the hole bigger, so pictures can slide through 00:00:58.559 --> 00:01:04.479 more easily. The computer won't have to fold them in half anymore. The GPMI 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:09.920 standard has been licensed by the USB implementers forum and TV manufacturers 00:01:06.960 --> 00:01:15.760 like TCL, Highense, and Huawei are on board. So GPMI products and cables could 00:01:12.880 --> 00:01:21.119 very well arrive on non-Chinese shores soon enough for the price of 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:28.720 $200,000 the way tariffs are going. A modder has managed to flash a Radeon 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:30.720 RX970 with the BIOS of an RX970 XT, 00:01:28.720 --> 00:01:35.119 increasing its power draw and clock speeds in basically the GPU equivalent 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:39.439 of the billionaire guy who injects himself with his son's blood to make him 00:01:37.119 --> 00:01:43.920 stronger. He's basically his own son now, and the fabric of time is in 00:01:41.520 --> 00:01:48.799 danger. Anyway, the modder, who goes by Gertie on the German language PC games 00:01:46.320 --> 00:01:54.720 hardware forums, found that the XT's BIOS also unlocked more overclocking 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:58.479 headroom, allowing an RX970 to match the 00:01:54.720 --> 00:02:00.799 9070 XT's performance in 3D Mark tests 00:01:58.479 --> 00:02:05.520 despite having a lower number of cores. The hybrid card is apparently stable, 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:09.599 although its ultra low power mode doesn't work, and one of the forum 00:02:07.360 --> 00:02:13.200 members encountered some freezes when they tried it in their setup. You know, 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:16.959 it's like how the billionaire guy sometimes has a little seizure where his 00:02:15.200 --> 00:02:20.319 eyes roll back in his head and he sees horrifying visions of his inevitable 00:02:18.720 --> 00:02:23.840 galactic conquest. Like, should he accept his dark destiny or could he 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:26.959 avoid slaughtering billions to become an immortal worm king? You get glitches 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:30.640 with these kind of things. We're still learning things about the Switch 2. For 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:34.879 example, Nintendo confirmed that the console doesn't have Hall effect 00:02:32.640 --> 00:02:39.680 joysticks despite the original Switch Joy-Cons notoriously having issues with 00:02:37.440 --> 00:02:44.239 stick drift. Nintendo hasn't said how they addressed that issue, but maybe 00:02:41.920 --> 00:02:49.120 they used a newer joystick technology called tunneling magnetoresistance or 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:52.480 TMR, which The Verge wrote about here, and I'm only really mentioning because 00:02:50.640 --> 00:02:56.080 it involves quantum mechanics, which tickles my brain a little bit whenever I 00:02:54.319 --> 00:03:01.120 hear about it. Despite the stick uncertainty though, developers told 00:02:57.920 --> 00:03:03.440 Steven Totio at Gamefile they are 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:08.720 extremely happy with the console's horsepower. A claim that vibes well with 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:14.000 these screenshots of Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition that CD Project Red 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:18.480 says were taken on the Switch 2. They look good. Even if the Switch 2 looks 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:23.360 great though, fans are still calling for Nintendo to drop the price. But as the 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:27.280 man chosen at birth to one day become the current Nintendo of America 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:31.760 president Doug Bowser told Wired, the company is assessing the impact of 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:36.159 Trump's new tariffs, which they didn't factor into the price of the Switch 2 00:03:33.760 --> 00:03:41.200 because they couldn't have. Meaning if the price is changing at all, it ain't 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. 00:04:49.919 --> 00:04:58.000 Tariffs continue to royal, great word, the global economy with Trump 00:04:54.639 --> 00:05:00.720 threatening to place an extra 50% tariff 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:06.400 on China if the country doesn't rescend its 34% tariff that it announced in 00:05:03.840 --> 00:05:11.840 retaliation for Trump's reciprocal tariffs announced last 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:14.800 week. Snip snap snip snap. It's crazy. 00:05:11.840 --> 00:05:19.600 The extra 50% would bring the US's total tariffs on China to 00:05:16.840 --> 00:05:24.160 104%. Uh, and Trump said the country has until April 9th to make the change, by 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:28.639 which point global stocks may have reached Atlantis. But hey, humans are 00:05:26.479 --> 00:05:33.600 smart. We're adapting to the new conditions. For example, Apple 00:05:30.479 --> 00:05:35.759 reportedly flew five cargo planes full 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:40.400 of iPhones and other products into the US in the last week of March, giving 00:05:37.919 --> 00:05:45.759 their warehouses a few months of supply before those hefty tariffs were put in 00:05:42.400 --> 00:05:47.280 place. Hey, big market opportunity for 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:51.759 smugglers. You know, jobs are being created. Over in the UK, a judge has 00:05:49.919 --> 00:05:56.560 ruled that Apple's fight with the government over access to its users 00:05:53.520 --> 00:05:59.280 encrypted data cannot take place in 00:05:56.560 --> 00:06:04.400 secret despite secrecy rules laid out in the Investigatory Powers Act, which the 00:06:01.919 --> 00:06:08.960 Home Office used to demand Apple provide them with a software backdoor. The 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:12.880 ruling is a win for privacy advocates, while another UK law just coming into 00:06:10.960 --> 00:06:17.039 effect this week is a win for advocates of skimming online reviews and not 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:21.280 realizing halfway through that it doesn't make any freaking sense. I'm 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 00:06:25.039 --> 00:06:32.800 twoin one? I'm wasting so much time. Colossal Biosciences, the genetic 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:36.960 engineering firm whose woolly mice went a bit viral a few weeks ago, has now 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:43.600 claimed to have successfully brought back the direwolf, a species that went 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:45.520 extinct around 11,000 years ago. I'm 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:50.080 very much summarizing here, but the company says they scraped some direwolf 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:57.280 DNA off of some fossils, combined it with greywolf DNA, and edited it to get 00:06:53.440 --> 00:07:00.000 something similar to a real direwolf 00:06:57.280 --> 00:07:04.240 with twin males who are now about 6 months old. It's being called the 00:07:01.919 --> 00:07:08.479 world's first deextinction, brought to you by a younger Jon Hammond who loves 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:13.199 hooded leather jackets. He actually kind of looks like Jon Snow, which does not 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 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:22.479 major red flags. They named the twins Romulus and Remis, which, you know, 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:29.440 fine, that's cool, that the mythical founders of Rome, etc., followed by a 00:07:25.440 --> 00:07:32.479 female named Khesi, Blake Lively. They 00:07:29.440 --> 00:07:34.240 also love memeing. Um, I feel like these 00:07:32.479 --> 00:07:39.360 people saw Jurassic Park as an instruction manual. Also, a few years 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:44.400 ago, scientists found that direwolves aren't technically wolves and are more 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:48.479 closely related to African wild dogs, uh, which don't look like wolves. So, I 00:07:46.080 --> 00:07:56.000 don't know what. Um, cool, though. And Kawasaki unveiled the Corio, a concept 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:59.039 vehicle ridable robot horse cat thing. 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:00.960 It's powered by 150cc hydrogenfueled 00:07:59.039 --> 00:08:06.080 engine, and it will apparently carry you just fine as it leaps over icy chasms. 00:08:04.080 --> 00:08:10.400 something ATV owners have been itching to do basically forever. It's got AI 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:16.960 apparently, so it seems like it could act like something in between a vehicle 00:08:13.599 --> 00:08:18.759 and a real horse. And if it's good, you 00:08:16.960 --> 00:08:25.280 can feed it an apple like like it's like a like a 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:27.120 computer cuz it's and I don't have 00:08:25.280 --> 00:08:31.280 anything to give you if you come back on Wednesday for more tech news. Unless 00:08:29.919 --> 00:08:36.880 Well, I'm I'm already giving you something. It's it's the tech news. 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:36.880 What? You want something else too?