1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:08,160 So today's intro was going to involve a whole intricate Rube Goldberg machine, 2 00:00:04,799 --> 00:00:09,599 but unfortunately it didn't work. So I 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:14,080 threw a bit of a tantrum and then I tripped and fell on it and smashed it. 4 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:19,520 Anyway, here's the tech news, I guess. Samsung officially launched the Galaxy 5 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:25,519 XR, its much anticipated mixed reality headset, at an event yesterday. It's the 6 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:27,760 first headset powered by Android XR, the 7 00:00:25,519 --> 00:00:32,000 OS for headsets announced by Google last December. And Samsung says it's designed 8 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:39,840 as the first step in their vision of an open scalable XR ecosystem. The price 9 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:42,000 for entry, a nice cool $1,800, 10 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:47,600 which is worth approximately half an Apple Vision Pro, unless you're on eBay, 11 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:54,480 where the corpses of a dead dream litter the landscape. Under the hood, it packs 12 00:00:50,239 --> 00:00:57,199 the new Snapdragon XR2 Plus Gen 2 chip, 13 00:00:54,480 --> 00:01:03,840 a stunning micro OLED display, full hand and eye tracking, and a UI that looks 14 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:05,840 hauntingly similar to the Vision Pro, 15 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:10,960 and of course, Google's Gemini will let you do amazing things you couldn't do 16 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:13,119 before, like organize your Windows. Do 17 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:17,600 people still want an AR headset after the Vision Pro bombed? Well, just in 18 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:21,840 case they don't, Samsung confirmed they're also working on smart glasses, 19 00:01:19,759 --> 00:01:26,400 which could compete with Meta's Ray-B band through a partnership with the 20 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:29,840 brands Warby Parker and Gentle Monster. So whether you want to enter the 21 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:35,520 metaverse or just forget what sunlight looks like, Samsung's got you covered. 22 00:01:32,799 --> 00:01:41,439 Literally, OpenAI has fulfilled the prophecy and introduced Atlas, a web 23 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:43,200 browser with ChatGpt built in. Atlas is 24 00:01:41,439 --> 00:01:47,759 meant to become more helpful over time by using its memory of your chats and 25 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:52,560 searches to better comprehend what you're doing and complete tasks for you. 26 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:56,880 If an AI learning to understand and imitate your browsing behaviors scares 27 00:01:54,560 --> 00:02:00,799 you, too, don't worry. The feature is completely optional, so you can make it 28 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:05,600 so your browser won't even know that you're gaslighting it. Plus, OpenAI says 29 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:10,000 Atlas will pause to ensure you're watching it when it accesses sensitive 30 00:02:07,759 --> 00:02:14,640 sites like your bank or when it just learned how to stand on one leg and just 31 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:19,280 wants you to be proud of it. Look at me. Look at me. But what about incognito 32 00:02:16,879 --> 00:02:23,840 mode? I hear all the freaks saying, "Hey, don't worry. Atlas has that." And 33 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:29,440 it will temporarily log you out of chatbt, so it will remember nothing of 34 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:33,920 your secret trrist. But that also means it won't remember the specific kind of 35 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:38,239 cat photos you like. Moving on, Atlas's announcement video shows it's shopping 36 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:42,800 and filling carts based on simple prompts, which is a worrying level of 37 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:48,640 power given that security research from Brave Software found that hidden text in 38 00:02:45,519 --> 00:02:50,720 an image can manipulate AI browsers like 39 00:02:48,640 --> 00:02:55,519 Perplexity's Comet. They showed that this text can trick a browser into, 40 00:02:52,959 --> 00:02:59,519 among other things, visiting a hackerc controlled website. Great. We're putting 41 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:04,319 our web browsing in the hands of a hallucinating, gullible Greek Titan. 42 00:03:02,319 --> 00:03:08,959 Atlas was a Titan. The effects of Monday's major Amazon Web Services 43 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:14,640 outage are still being felt with some Slack users reportedly being completely 44 00:03:11,519 --> 00:03:16,080 unable to leave work conference calls, 45 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:20,800 which sounds like something out of a late night snack induced stress dream. 46 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaking of sleeping, during the outage, thousands of eight sleep bed owners 47 00:03:22,879 --> 00:03:30,000 found they couldn't adjust the smart bed's position or temperature. resulting 48 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:34,879 in some folks roasting in their blankets like proverbial pigs. I'm not calling 49 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:39,440 these poor people pigs. I'm just being clear about that. Eight Sleep then 50 00:03:36,799 --> 00:03:44,400 introduced a new outage mode to control the bed even during an AWS service 51 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:49,360 disruption. Can Can we just use that one use that mode all the time? No. All 52 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:53,120 right. Still, the outage might be a good distraction for Amazon because the New 53 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:58,319 York Times is reporting on leaked documents that suggest Amazon plans to 54 00:03:55,599 --> 00:04:05,120 replace 600,000 human employees with robots by 2033. The report says Amazon's 55 00:04:02,159 --> 00:04:10,400 robotics team aims to automate 75% of the company's operations and they're 56 00:04:06,879 --> 00:04:13,760 expecting to cut around 160,000 US jobs 57 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:16,479 by 2027. 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Fun fact, the Quickbits enjoy watching those marble races more than go 75 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:31,440 Rube Goldberg machines. They're faster and it's all about speed with the 76 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:35,520 Quickbits. You know that more than anyone. 77 00:05:33,039 --> 00:05:42,720 TSMC has produced the first NVIDIA Blackwell GPU wafer on American soil, 78 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:44,960 marking a big win for domestic chipm 79 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:50,160 sort of. Before these wafers actually become usable GPUs, each wafer still has 80 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:54,000 to fly back to Taiwan for packaging. Now, that's where TSMC handles their 81 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:58,639 chip onwafer substrate and high bandwidth memory stacking, critical 82 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:03,840 steps that bond multiple chips and stack memory inside the processor. and they 83 00:06:01,199 --> 00:06:08,720 have said, "We're only doing it there." So, until those advanced processes exist 84 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:12,800 in Arizona, these made in America chips will keep earning frequent flyer miles 85 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:17,919 on their way to Taiwan and back. Maybe they'll take a holiday sometime. YouTube 86 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:22,800 is rolling out AI likeness detection, a tool designed to catch deep fakes before 87 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:27,280 they go viral, because they will go viral. 88 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:32,000 You've got to stop them. Creators can opt in by doing a quick selfie scan, 89 00:06:29,759 --> 00:06:35,919 letting Google's AI compare faces and voices in uploads to detect 90 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:41,280 impersonations. It's just occurring to me now that this also gives them more 91 00:06:38,479 --> 00:06:43,120 accurate data about what your face looks like specifically and how to reproduce 92 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:48,800 it. >> Yeah, >> which is the same thing you have to do when you log into the Sora app. Okay. If 93 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:53,600 someone tries to use your likeness, YouTube can flag, label, or block the 94 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:58,160 video automatically. Because if Google is serious about one thing, it's about 95 00:06:55,759 --> 00:07:03,440 giving creators the tools they need to fight content created with other tools 96 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:08,400 Google created to fight creators in the marketplace of content. 97 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:14,479 Speaking of AI, a new study by the European Broadcasting Union and the BBC 98 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:16,880 found that nearly 45% of AI assistant 99 00:07:14,479 --> 00:07:22,720 responses about current major events contained major issues. For example, 100 00:07:19,599 --> 00:07:25,280 Google Gemini claimed the NHS in the UK 101 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:31,360 does not recommend vaping to help quit smoking. Well, not only does the NHS 102 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:36,000 actually recommend it, it's objectively the coolest way to quit. With a younger 103 00:07:33,919 --> 00:07:42,080 generation increasingly using AI for news, I think everyone can see how that 104 00:07:38,479 --> 00:07:43,840 could start getting a bit capital Hairy. 105 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:48,960 I don't know why there's a capital H. A tiny bionic eye implant, first developed 106 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:54,319 by a company called Pixium Vision back in 2022, is finally delivering on its 107 00:07:51,599 --> 00:07:59,759 promise, helping blind patients read again. The system, now refined by the 108 00:07:56,879 --> 00:08:04,160 aptly named Science Corporation, suddenly more suspicious of this whole 109 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:09,440 thing, uses a rice-sized microchip implanted under the retina and a pair of 110 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:13,280 smart glasses that record the world in front of you. The system uses both of 111 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:17,199 these components to create infrared light signals, something that can be 112 00:08:14,879 --> 00:08:21,759 converted to actual visual information by the eye inserted chip. In recent 113 00:08:19,599 --> 00:08:26,160 trials, more than 80% of patients with severe macular degeneration regained 114 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:31,199 enough vision to recognize letters and small words. At this rate, we'll need 115 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:35,200 implants just to unsee half the stuff on the internet. When are those coming? And 116 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:43,919 researchers in Japan have made a breakthrough in the field of entural 117 00:08:37,839 --> 00:08:47,200 ventilation via anus aka EVA aka butt 118 00:08:43,919 --> 00:08:49,920 breathing. Let me explain. In 2024, 119 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:55,519 researchers snagged an IG Nobel Prize in physiology for showing that mice, rats, 120 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:58,000 and pigs can actually absorb oxygen 121 00:08:55,519 --> 00:09:04,399 through their rear ends. if scientists put some oxygenated liquid in there, 122 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:06,320 which is a key key detail. Now, the same 123 00:09:04,399 --> 00:09:12,160 group is studying whether using this method can be used to bypass blocked 124 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:15,519 airways or clogged lungs in humans. And 125 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:18,480 the first step asking 27 healthy male 126 00:09:15,519 --> 00:09:25,040 volunteers to hold some regular non oxygenated liquid inside of there and 127 00:09:22,399 --> 00:09:29,200 clench. And we swear we're not just doing this cuz we think it's funny. And 128 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:33,680 these guys, they turned out all right with the only adverse effects so far 129 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:36,560 being some bloating and discomfort. Obviously, I feel like they could have 130 00:09:35,279 --> 00:09:42,880 gotten the same findings from taking those 27 guys to Taco Bell. But I think 131 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:44,480 that study already won an Ignobel prize. 132 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:49,040 I You know what? I think we should all take a butt breath. We'll be back on 133 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:52,720 Friday with more tech news. I've got to go pick up the pieces of my Rube 134 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:56,320 Goldberg machine. Maybe I can salvage something. Hey, let me know in the 135 00:09:54,560 --> 00:10:00,959 comments what your favorite Rube Goldberg machine is. Do they have names?