1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,400 Apple will launch the iPhone 15 Pro on 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:07,760 September 13th, according to 9to5Mac. 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:11,760 And while they didn't say whether the phone would launch with an exclusive set 4 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:17,240 of unsatisfying GIFs, it wouldn't surprise me. September 15th is is a 5 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:21,760 Friday. You could It's right there. I'm Riley Murdoch. This is TechLinked, and 6 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:27,360 this is a render of the iPhone 15 Pro posted by Ian Zelbo on Twitter, showing 7 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:31,800 a noticeably smaller bezel than the 14 Pro. An obviously misleading post that 8 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:37,720 Twitter's community notes could not let stand without linking to a clarifying 9 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:39,160 article written by Ian Zelbo. Community 10 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:42,840 notes are actually one of the few things that have gotten noticeably better under 11 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:47,080 Elon. It's like people tweet sassy things, and they'll say, "Additional 12 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:50,760 context, this person is just a little hangry right now." But the thinner 13 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:55,040 bezels might not help iPhone sales as much as being the only smartphone on the 14 00:00:52,760 --> 00:01:00,200 market with a 3 nanometer processor, thanks to a timed exclusivity deal with 15 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:04,559 TSMC. The foundry will eat the cost of any defective batches, but Apple will be 16 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:08,000 paying more for the chips, which probably explains other rumors that 17 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:13,600 Apple's increasing the storage for the 15 Pro and Pro Max, while also upping 18 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:20,280 the price for the base model by $100 and $200, respectively, to $1299 and $1199, 19 00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:24,400 disrespectively. I don't know if that's a word, and I'm not checking. The quest 20 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:29,080 for a room-temperature superconductor continues with scientists, Twitter 21 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:33,760 users, and degenerates racing to validate it, argue about it, and create 22 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:36,560 fake evidence for it, respectively. I'm sorry, that was that was the last one. 23 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:40,000 If you've either been living under a rock or have simply realized you're 24 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:43,760 incredibly out of your depth trying to read pre-print physical chemistry 25 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:47,480 papers, a couple weeks ago Korean researchers claimed to have synthesized 26 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:52,200 a room-temperature superconductor they called LK-99. 27 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:57,000 A sassy Star Wars droid. Just kidding. Kicking off a mad dash to replicate the 28 00:01:54,480 --> 00:02:01,400 study's findings. Since if it's real, LK-99 could revolutionize human 29 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:06,200 technology by letting us do things like levitate frogs. That's not true, but it 30 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:10,000 kind of is. So I'm moving on. Making the material itself is pretty complicated, 31 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:13,920 but some groups have claimed to have some success. From established 32 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:18,040 researchers to engineers like Andrew McCalip, who have been live blogging 33 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:21,800 their attempts on Twitter. Despite all the developments though, the 34 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:26,560 superconductivity of LK-99 is still heavily in question. So commercial 35 00:02:23,920 --> 00:02:30,720 fusion power probably isn't just around the corner. It might only be around a 36 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:34,640 couple more corners though, since the same researchers who demoed the first 37 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:39,640 net gain fusion reaction back in December just announced another, even 38 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:44,800 more net gainier success. Stay on the ground, frogs. Your time shall yet come. 39 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:48,480 Unless you're an incredibly wealthy frog who can afford a ticket to the 40 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:52,560 commercial space station built by Airbus and Voyager Space when it replaces the 41 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:57,160 International Space Station sometime after 2031, maybe. Frogs apparently only 42 00:02:55,280 --> 00:03:01,560 live for 6 to 8 years, but that's not Airbus's problem. The proposed station, 43 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:06,040 called Starlab, was originally a joint project between Colorado-based Voyager 44 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:10,320 Space and Lockheed Martin, but the latter is being downgraded to a 45 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:14,720 supplier. European aerospace giant Airbus is replacing them as a designer 46 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:19,440 and builder of Starlab, bringing closer ties with the European Space Agency, or 47 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:23,880 ESA, to the project. 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We got AMD's 65 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:35,040 next-gen RDNA 4 gaming graphics cards won't compete with NVIDIA's high-end 66 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:40,560 models, according to Twitter leaker Kepler, causing some people, I imagine, 67 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:45,040 to freak out. But as Kepler tweeted, yes, I'm still calling them tweets, AMD 68 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:49,520 has actually used this strategy numerous times in the past. Team Red's 69 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:53,760 Polaris-based RX 400 and 500 series were praised on their price to performance, 70 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:58,280 despite avoiding a direct toe-to-toe with NVIDIA's RTX 1080. It's why 71 00:04:55,840 --> 00:05:01,960 TechLinked doesn't benchmark GPUs. Linus Tech Tips does that. We just stay in our 72 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:05,800 lane of, you know, pulling things out of our ass. In other GPU news, Intel 73 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:10,400 announced their graphics drivers will now collect telemetry by default, 74 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:14,000 causing a bit of a fuss among those who thought this meant their GPUs would 75 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:19,920 start spying on them and selling their data to advertisers. And well, I mean, 76 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:24,120 those people are right. If by spying they mean logging the categories of 77 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:28,360 websites you visit, and by selling to advertisers they mean making the data 78 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:32,400 available to Intel so they can use it to optimize GPU drivers in the same way 79 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:36,360 that NVIDIA and AMD do. I'm assuming Intel just didn't know they could do 80 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:40,720 this. What? Selling their data to advertisers, by which I mean our 81 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:45,360 engineers? No. OpenAI has provided a way for 82 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:49,960 website admins to block the company's web crawler, called GPTBot, from 83 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:56,640 scraping their websites for AI training data. Wow. Pretty big of OpenAI to allow 84 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:58,320 this. Although they did already scrape 85 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:02,200 like the entire web to train their existing models, but you know, it's like 86 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:05,640 a bunch of kids promising to not throw a bag of turds at your front door if you 87 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:09,320 don't want them to, after they already did it about a dozen times. And I would 88 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:13,880 have to admit that I would appreciate them saying that. YouTuber Mr. Beast, 89 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:18,120 aka Jimmy Donaldson, has been sued by Virtual Dining Concepts, VDC, the 90 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:21,720 company that operated the YouTuber's ghost kitchen restaurant chain, for 91 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:25,880 failing to follow through with his contractual obligations. Obligations 92 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:32,840 that Donaldson tried to get out of by first suing VDC himself a week ago over, 93 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:35,920 among other things, burger quality. It's a big issue. This really is not tech 94 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:40,280 news, but I'm putting it in because maybe this might end the abomination 95 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:44,280 that is ghost kitchens through the power of corporations and rich people suing 96 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:48,560 each other. It's all any of us can hope for. And despite everyone agreeing that 97 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:52,720 it's probably not going to happen, Elon Musk seems to think his fight with Mark 98 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:58,080 Zuckerberg is still on, tweeting that he's lifting weights at work in 99 00:06:54,920 --> 00:07:00,280 preparation. Zuck replied on, of course, 100 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:05,360 Threads, saying his suggested date of August 26th wasn't confirmed, suggesting 101 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:08,320 the fight be streamed on a more reliable platform than Twitter. I don't know 102 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:12,760 whether he means Threads or Facebook there, because what? And calling out 103 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:18,480 Musk's tweets as akin to his famous claim of having funding secured to buy 104 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:23,000 Twitter, which he only did after being forced to, basically. Sure enough, 105 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:28,280 yesterday Musk tweeted that the exact date is still in flux, and he may 106 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:32,280 require surgery before the fight can happen, which I can only assume means 107 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:37,000 he's getting a Neuralink installed so he can activate cyborg reflexes, like in 108 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:41,480 Cyberpunk. I don't know, that's the only way he's beating Zuck. This guy is 109 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:46,520 killing it on the jiu-jitsu mat and on social media. I don't want to like Zuck, 110 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:50,400 and I don't, but And you killed this episode. Thanks a lot, now it's dead. 111 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:57,080 Come back on Wednesday for a freshly revived episode, thanks to a combination 112 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:57,080 of magic, science, and floating frogs.