WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.400 Apple will launch the iPhone 15 Pro on 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:07.760 September 13th, according to 9to5Mac. 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:11.760 And while they didn't say whether the phone would launch with an exclusive set 00:00:09.560 --> 00:00:17.240 of unsatisfying GIFs, it wouldn't surprise me. September 15th is is a 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:21.760 Friday. You could It's right there. I'm Riley Murdoch. This is TechLinked, and 00:00:19.200 --> 00:00:27.360 this is a render of the iPhone 15 Pro posted by Ian Zelbo on Twitter, showing 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:31.800 a noticeably smaller bezel than the 14 Pro. An obviously misleading post that 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:37.720 Twitter's community notes could not let stand without linking to a clarifying 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:39.160 article written by Ian Zelbo. Community 00:00:37.720 --> 00:00:42.840 notes are actually one of the few things that have gotten noticeably better under 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:47.080 Elon. It's like people tweet sassy things, and they'll say, "Additional 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:50.760 context, this person is just a little hangry right now." But the thinner 00:00:48.480 --> 00:00:55.040 bezels might not help iPhone sales as much as being the only smartphone on the 00:00:52.760 --> 00:01:00.200 market with a 3 nanometer processor, thanks to a timed exclusivity deal with 00:00:57.320 --> 00:01:04.559 TSMC. The foundry will eat the cost of any defective batches, but Apple will be 00:01:02.680 --> 00:01:08.000 paying more for the chips, which probably explains other rumors that 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:13.600 Apple's increasing the storage for the 15 Pro and Pro Max, while also upping 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:20.280 the price for the base model by $100 and $200, respectively, to $1299 and $1199, 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 00:01:22.440 --> 00:01:29.080 for a room-temperature superconductor continues with scientists, Twitter 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:33.760 users, and degenerates racing to validate it, argue about it, and create 00:01:31.600 --> 00:01:36.560 fake evidence for it, respectively. I'm sorry, that was that was the last one. 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:40.000 If you've either been living under a rock or have simply realized you're 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:43.760 incredibly out of your depth trying to read pre-print physical chemistry 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:47.480 papers, a couple weeks ago Korean researchers claimed to have synthesized 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:52.200 a room-temperature superconductor they called LK-99. 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:57.000 A sassy Star Wars droid. Just kidding. Kicking off a mad dash to replicate the 00:01:54.480 --> 00:02:01.400 study's findings. Since if it's real, LK-99 could revolutionize human 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:06.200 technology by letting us do things like levitate frogs. That's not true, but it 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:10.000 kind of is. So I'm moving on. Making the material itself is pretty complicated, 00:02:08.440 --> 00:02:13.920 but some groups have claimed to have some success. From established 00:02:11.760 --> 00:02:18.040 researchers to engineers like Andrew McCalip, who have been live blogging 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:21.800 their attempts on Twitter. Despite all the developments though, the 00:02:19.040 --> 00:02:26.560 superconductivity of LK-99 is still heavily in question. So commercial 00:02:23.920 --> 00:02:30.720 fusion power probably isn't just around the corner. It might only be around a 00:02:28.440 --> 00:02:34.640 couple more corners though, since the same researchers who demoed the first 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:39.640 net gain fusion reaction back in December just announced another, even 00:02:37.320 --> 00:02:44.800 more net gainier success. Stay on the ground, frogs. Your time shall yet come. 00:02:42.600 --> 00:02:48.480 Unless you're an incredibly wealthy frog who can afford a ticket to the 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:52.560 commercial space station built by Airbus and Voyager Space when it replaces the 00:02:50.720 --> 00:02:57.160 International Space Station sometime after 2031, maybe. Frogs apparently only 00:02:55.280 --> 00:03:01.560 live for 6 to 8 years, but that's not Airbus's problem. The proposed station, 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:06.040 called Starlab, was originally a joint project between Colorado-based Voyager 00:03:03.640 --> 00:03:10.320 Space and Lockheed Martin, but the latter is being downgraded to a 00:03:08.040 --> 00:03:14.720 supplier. European aerospace giant Airbus is replacing them as a designer 00:03:12.440 --> 00:03:19.440 and builder of Starlab, bringing closer ties with the European Space Agency, or 00:03:16.880 --> 00:03:23.880 ESA, to the project. 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We got AMD's 00:04:28.760 --> 00:04:35.040 next-gen RDNA 4 gaming graphics cards won't compete with NVIDIA's high-end 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:40.560 models, according to Twitter leaker Kepler, causing some people, I imagine, 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:45.040 to freak out. But as Kepler tweeted, yes, I'm still calling them tweets, AMD 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:49.520 has actually used this strategy numerous times in the past. Team Red's 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:53.760 Polaris-based RX 400 and 500 series were praised on their price to performance, 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:58.280 despite avoiding a direct toe-to-toe with NVIDIA's RTX 1080. It's why 00:04:55.840 --> 00:05:01.960 TechLinked doesn't benchmark GPUs. Linus Tech Tips does that. We just stay in our 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.800 lane of, you know, pulling things out of our ass. In other GPU news, Intel 00:05:04.200 --> 00:05:10.400 announced their graphics drivers will now collect telemetry by default, 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:14.000 causing a bit of a fuss among those who thought this meant their GPUs would 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:19.920 start spying on them and selling their data to advertisers. And well, I mean, 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:24.120 those people are right. If by spying they mean logging the categories of 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:28.360 websites you visit, and by selling to advertisers they mean making the data 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:32.400 available to Intel so they can use it to optimize GPU drivers in the same way 00:05:30.320 --> 00:05:36.360 that NVIDIA and AMD do. I'm assuming Intel just didn't know they could do 00:05:33.640 --> 00:05:40.720 this. What? Selling their data to advertisers, by which I mean our 00:05:38.880 --> 00:05:45.360 engineers? No. OpenAI has provided a way for 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:49.960 website admins to block the company's web crawler, called GPTBot, from 00:05:47.760 --> 00:05:56.640 scraping their websites for AI training data. Wow. Pretty big of OpenAI to allow 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:58.320 this. Although they did already scrape 00:05:56.640 --> 00:06:02.200 like the entire web to train their existing models, but you know, it's like 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 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 00:06:07.640 --> 00:06:13.880 have to admit that I would appreciate them saying that. YouTuber Mr. Beast, 00:06:11.520 --> 00:06:18.120 aka Jimmy Donaldson, has been sued by Virtual Dining Concepts, VDC, the 00:06:16.400 --> 00:06:21.720 company that operated the YouTuber's ghost kitchen restaurant chain, for 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:25.880 failing to follow through with his contractual obligations. Obligations 00:06:23.960 --> 00:06:32.840 that Donaldson tried to get out of by first suing VDC himself a week ago over, 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:35.920 among other things, burger quality. It's a big issue. This really is not tech 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:40.280 news, but I'm putting it in because maybe this might end the abomination 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:44.280 that is ghost kitchens through the power of corporations and rich people suing 00:06:42.640 --> 00:06:48.560 each other. It's all any of us can hope for. And despite everyone agreeing that 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:52.720 it's probably not going to happen, Elon Musk seems to think his fight with Mark 00:06:50.400 --> 00:06:58.080 Zuckerberg is still on, tweeting that he's lifting weights at work in 00:06:54.920 --> 00:07:00.280 preparation. Zuck replied on, of course, 00:06:58.080 --> 00:07:05.360 Threads, saying his suggested date of August 26th wasn't confirmed, suggesting 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:08.320 the fight be streamed on a more reliable platform than Twitter. I don't know 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:12.760 whether he means Threads or Facebook there, because what? And calling out 00:07:10.400 --> 00:07:18.480 Musk's tweets as akin to his famous claim of having funding secured to buy 00:07:15.520 --> 00:07:23.000 Twitter, which he only did after being forced to, basically. Sure enough, 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:28.280 yesterday Musk tweeted that the exact date is still in flux, and he may 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:32.280 require surgery before the fight can happen, which I can only assume means 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:37.000 he's getting a Neuralink installed so he can activate cyborg reflexes, like in 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 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, 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. 00:07:48.760 --> 00:07:57.080 Come back on Wednesday for a freshly revived episode, thanks to a combination 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:57.080 of magic, science, and floating frogs.