WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.600 The things life throws at you sometimes. Triumphs, betrayals, literal tons of 00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:11.200 tech news. It can be a lot, but don't worry cuz I'm here 00:00:09.600 --> 00:00:17.240 to add more of that last one to the pile. You're strong. You can take it. 00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:21.600 Microsoft has apparently had enough of being called Microslop and has 00:00:19.560 --> 00:00:25.960 officially banned the word from the official Copilot Discord server. 00:00:24.040 --> 00:00:30.120 Naturally, this went as well as you could probably expect. After the filter 00:00:28.040 --> 00:00:35.240 went live, users responded with the maturity of well, Discord users and 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:40.920 flooded the chat with creative variants of the Microsoft name like Microslop 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:43.040 with a zero or Sloppysoft, 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:45.760 which was my nickname in college. A day later, the constant turmoil 00:00:44.400 --> 00:00:50.960 eventually led to the server's moderators disabling message history and 00:00:48.360 --> 00:00:56.120 restricting posting altogether. What was Microsoft's strategy here? Fix Copilot's 00:00:53.560 --> 00:01:01.440 reputation by telling their most online users exactly which words they aren't 00:00:58.120 --> 00:01:04.400 allowed to say? The internet loves that. 00:01:01.440 --> 00:01:08.640 Maybe CEO Satya Nadella was just grumpy that apparently no one had listened to 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:13.680 his blog post from December urging us to move past the idea of slop versus 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:15.160 sophistication. He had a point. 10 years 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:18.280 from now, you're going to feel pretty foolish when you're slurping happily 00:01:16.960 --> 00:01:22.920 from the trough with all the other piggies. So, stop calling it slop. 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:26.960 Investors can hear you. The Mobile World Congress kicked off today in Barcelona 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:31.520 featuring a surprise guest, the new iPhone 17E just announced by Apple. They 00:01:29.800 --> 00:01:35.920 almost never participate in big tech conferences. The entire court is 00:01:33.800 --> 00:01:40.600 speculating that it's simply a ruse to impress the Duke's frail cousin. 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:45.560 Muriel? Apple has finally fixed the largest complaint budget buyers had with 00:01:42.960 --> 00:01:50.800 the 16E by equipping the 17E with MagSafe. They also doubled the base 00:01:47.880 --> 00:01:55.440 storage to 256 GB while maintaining the $599 price point. They're so good to us. 00:01:53.400 --> 00:02:01.520 Apple has also bumped the chip in the iPad Air from an M3 to an M4 while 00:01:58.120 --> 00:02:03.920 keeping its $600 MSRP, 128 GB of base 00:02:01.520 --> 00:02:07.920 storage, and 12 GB of RAM, which is so exciting. You'll probably want to not 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:12.920 pre-order it on March 4th because it hits shelves on March 11th. 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:16.240 Don't do it. Not even once. Don't even line up. Apple's sudden appearance had 00:02:14.600 --> 00:02:21.280 the Android phones a little bit of fluster, but Xiaomi still managed to 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:23.680 show off the Leica Lights phone 17 Ultra 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:28.280 blurring the line between phone and DSLR camera by putting a big circle on the 00:02:26.640 --> 00:02:33.280 back. My brain is confused. >> What is it? Motorola showed off the Razr 00:02:30.880 --> 00:02:36.760 Fold, its first book-style foldable, and intriguingly, an enterprise-focused 00:02:35.200 --> 00:02:42.320 partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation. You know, the privacy-focused Android fork you can 00:02:40.160 --> 00:02:46.920 already install yourself, but now it will come in a suit. Maybe 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:51.800 made of a single layer of carbon atoms. You never know with these guys. But phones got to connect somehow, so it's a 00:02:50.200 --> 00:02:56.640 good thing that Qualcomm announced their next-gen modem, which supports native 5G 00:02:54.480 --> 00:03:00.360 over satellite. And I'm just happy this wasn't a thing back in the year 2000, or 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:03.920 Cast Away starring Tom Hanks would have been a terrible film. 00:03:01.920 --> 00:03:09.800 >> immediately. But if you thought MWC was just for, you know, mobiles, you clearly 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:13.800 underestimated just how much R&D money these companies leave completely 00:03:11.480 --> 00:03:18.080 unsupervised. Xiaomi unveiled the Vision GT electric supercar concept, which is 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:21.760 going to be in the Gran Turismo racing game. 00:03:19.959 --> 00:03:26.360 You guys I can't wait. >> Meanwhile, Lenovo brought enough 00:03:24.600 --> 00:03:30.239 concepts to Barcelona to fill a whole separate convention center. First, they 00:03:28.519 --> 00:03:34.000 showed off a concept for the Legion Go Fold, a foldable Windows gaming 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:38.200 handheld, because the one thing missing from your portable Steam library is a 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:42.880 mechanical hinge and inevitable repair bill. Lenovo also showed off a ThinkBook 00:03:40.160 --> 00:03:48.080 modular AI PC concept, the result of a Framework laptop and an Asus Zenbook Duo 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:49.680 having a baby in the worst worst way you can imagine. 00:03:48.760 --> 00:03:53.960 >> it like that. It's essentially a system of magnetic 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:58.400 modular screens, keyboards, accessories, and ports so you can build the laptop 00:03:55.960 --> 00:04:02.000 you want, then swap out anything on the fly, which is genuinely awesome. 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:05.880 I make jokes. It's awesome. It's such a great concept that I can't wait to never 00:04:04.200 --> 00:04:09.560 be able to buy it. But it wouldn't be a tech event without 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:14.840 at least one robot. Lenovo explored the concept for a desktop AI workmate that 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:17.400 is literally a robot arm with puppy dog eyes. Look at his little face. 00:04:16.762 --> 00:04:21.440 >> [laughter] >> He wants to help you optimize your spreadsheets. 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:25.600 And if that wasn't enough robotics for you, Honor unveiled its robot phone, a 00:04:23.960 --> 00:04:29.800 futuristic device sporting a little motorized robotic gimbal arm right on 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:34.400 the back. Not only does this 200 megapixel mechanical limb offer 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:39.400 cinematic video stabilization and autonomous subject tracking, but it it 00:04:36.960 --> 00:04:43.960 physically nods, shakes his head, and dances to music, which it did alongside 00:04:41.840 --> 00:04:46.560 Honor's actual robot backed by a full dance crew. 00:04:45.320 --> 00:04:53.040 It's hard to be mad at the inevitable robot uprising when it starts with a perfectly choreographed underground 00:04:49.919 --> 00:04:55.800 Berlin-style dance session. 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AMD is launching its Ryzen AI 400 Pro 00:06:32.200 --> 00:06:39.080 series desktop CPUs, which confusingly are replacing the Ryzen 8000G lineup. 00:06:37.440 --> 00:06:42.760 But, we're far beyond any of these chip names making any sense at this point. 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:49.520 There are six new AM5 processors that pair Zen 5 CPU cores with RDNA 3.5 00:06:45.880 --> 00:06:50.720 integrated graphics, and also an NPU. 00:06:49.520 --> 00:06:56.960 I guess. These new chips are basically upgraded laptop CPUs meant for OEMs and business 00:06:54.200 --> 00:07:00.040 PCs. At least with the new NPU, you won't get too hot and sweaty in the 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:03.600 sheets with Copilot trying to work out naming conventions. 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:07.520 Put that robot arm to good use. Spreadsheets. Seems like everyone just 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:12.000 found out about California's Digital Age Assurance Act passed in October 2025, 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:17.000 mandating all operating systems, including Linux and Steam OS, to ask for 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:21.880 your age during setup by January 1st, 2027. The OS will send your age signal 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:26.040 to apps, so they know which content to flag as restricted. But, despite the 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:30.960 non-compliance fines that can run up to a $7,500, 00:07:28.400 --> 00:07:35.480 age setup is completely self-reported. No photo ID upload required. It's 00:07:33.320 --> 00:07:41.840 foolproof. So, prepare for a shocking demographic shift of Linux users 00:07:37.520 --> 00:07:44.320 magically born on January 1st, 1900, 00:07:41.840 --> 00:07:50.160 which is exactly how old I feel when a youth mentions jester maxing or mogging. 00:07:48.080 --> 00:07:54.080 YouTube is testing yet another AI feature for shorts. 00:07:51.960 --> 00:07:59.160 All your favorite things in one story. This time it's add object, which allows 00:07:56.560 --> 00:08:03.960 users to insert items into a scene and reimagine, which can generate video from 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:08.320 a single frame of a different short, whether it's yours or someone else's. 00:08:06.400 --> 00:08:12.960 Do ours do it. Don't want your likeness to be used in fever dreams created by 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:16.840 strangers? I do. You can opt out. I won't. But that disables all regular 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:19.720 remixing on your channel. And if I can't remix other people's 00:08:18.200 --> 00:08:25.360 shorts, what is there even to post there? Original content. >> Post something so I can post it. A new 00:08:22.840 --> 00:08:30.720 machine from Nobel Prize winning chemist Omar Yaghi can pull up to 1,000 L of 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:35.039 drinkable water per day straight out of your butt. It's uh 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:39.000 straight out of desert air, even in humidity as low as 20%. Stop laughing, 00:08:37.520 --> 00:08:43.400 Riley. The shipping container-size system uses special materials called 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:48.839 metal-organic frameworks. Basically, ultra-porous molecular sponges that grab 00:08:46.640 --> 00:08:52.720 water vapor from the air and release it when heated by sunlight. It can run 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:57.160 off-grid using just wind and solar energy, meaning remote communities could 00:08:54.440 --> 00:09:00.280 literally generate water from thin air. I guess the only question is 00:08:58.920 --> 00:09:05.320 can we get an invite to the inaugural pool party? >> Not you. You've been rude. 00:09:02.760 --> 00:09:11.080 >> This pool is dry. And a developer named Victor Larios has recreated a 1994 era 00:09:08.880 --> 00:09:16.360 Linux desktop environment that runs in your browser, complete with a recreation 00:09:13.040 --> 00:09:19.040 of the classic CDE interface and XEmacs 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:23.040 text editor, and in true '90s fashion, Netscape Navigator. The reports say it's 00:09:21.400 --> 00:09:27.000 about as stable as Linux. I mean, as stable as uh you'd expect for something 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:30.600 pretending to be three decades old. The open-source project runs as a modern web 00:09:29.160 --> 00:09:35.600 app, though reports say it's about as stable as you'd expect for something pretending to be three decades old. You 00:09:33.920 --> 00:09:40.920 can also download it from GitHub and run it locally. If you want to, although I'm not totally 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:42.840 sure why you would. Although you're a Linux user. Uh 00:09:42.301 --> 00:09:48.000 >> [laughter] >> so it might make sense. Now we just needed it to run Doom. After all, '94 00:09:46.560 --> 00:09:52.200 was the year the game was ported to Linux. Fun fact, Ah! I knew that and you 00:09:50.880 --> 00:09:55.240 didn't. I also know you're going to come back here on Wednesday for more tech 00:09:53.920 --> 00:09:58.920 news because you're a fortuitous person. 00:09:57.560 --> 00:10:04.240 You have what it takes to get hit with everything life throws at you and keep 00:10:01.160 --> 00:10:07.120 standing. Stand tall, player. 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:08.880 And you just might shoot the high score. What am I saying? 00:10:08.501 --> 00:10:14.680 >> [laughter] >> There's so many different ways to take this >> make IT TO THE CHAMPIONSHIPS! OKAY.