Hey, hope you're not planning on buying a laptop anytime soon because a bunch of
them are going to be taking a little break for a while. After pausing sales
of some of its products in the US on Monday, Framework also pulled a Nintendo
and delayed pre-orders for its new Laptop 12, again, only in the US.
Pre-orders are now open in countries who don't treat international relations the
same way Billy's drunk dad treats the referee at middle school basketball
games. But it's not just Framework. Razer took down pricing and pre-order
pages for its latest Blade laptops. And according to supply chain sources, HP,
Dell, Lenovo, and other PC manufacturers are suspending shipments to the US for
at least 2 weeks. Why? Well, this
morning, Trump's so-called reciprocal tariffs went into effect, including the
extra 50% tariff on China because they
didn't drop their retaliatory 34% tariff
on the US. In fact, China mirrored
Trump's move this morning, adding another 50% tariff on the US for a total
of 84%. This caused Trump, it was
causal, he couldn't help it, to triple the tariffs on packages worth less than
$800, which were previously exempt, and to hike US tariffs on China in general
to a total of 125%. Based on the lack of respect that
China has shown to the world's markets, which is a bit like Billy's drunk dad
taking a break from screaming to ask the other parents to please be respectful.
Come on. It's a kids game, guys. Also, is this like a game where you win by
just coming up with a higher number? Like that scene in Ralph Breaks the
Internet. 3000%. Ooh, very good. Movie was just
okay. Okay, what about other countries though? Well, great news everybody.
Those reciprocal tariffs are being slashed to just 10% across the board.
What a deal. and their rollout has been paused for 90 days except for China. And
all of that is a good thing, but it sent the framework team on a bit of a roller
coaster as they announced a price hike to make up for the tariffs and then
cancelled it an hour later. And unfortunately for tech enthusiasts,
tariffs being paused on other countries doesn't really help the tech industry as
the US imports about three times more goods from China than it exports. with a
good chunk of those being tech products, most of which involve China in their
supply chain in some way. And while worldwide PC shipments actually went up
in Q1 by 9% according to analysts, it's
believed that bump is explained by people panic buying tech products before
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cooking talk has me hungry for the quick bits, which, fun fact, tastes the best
raw. So, it's it's got nothing to do with cooking really. Uh uh. So, doth
mine eyes deceive me? Are there actually
some features coming to Windows 11 that are good? Blue Sky user Phantom of Earth
spotted a change to the start menu in one of the Windows Insider beta builds
that lets you swap out the hated recommended section in favor of a
classic vertical list of apps or a series of app folders if you want. Are
you sure though? you're gonna miss out on some really cool apps chalk full of
microtransactions and AI slop. Hey, you know, hey, to each their own. Speaking
of AI, insiders can also test a new co-pilot app that can see any app window
on your screen, not just Edge, and answer questions about your files if you
give it permission, making it actually useful, maybe. I don't I
don't know what's happening. NVIDIA has revealed pricing for two variants of the
RTX 5060Ti to its board manufacturing
partners. According to Chinese news outlet IT Home, apparently we're looking
at an 8 gig version for an MSRP of $380
USD and a 16 gig version for
$430. Now, that's based off the alleged
Chinese prices. And we still don't know what will happen with the tariffs and
all that. And we also don't know whether the card's performance will be any good.
So you might as well sit tight, call yourself so crates, and admit the one
thing you know for sure. So it's nothing. Google showed off its
mysterious screen equipped AR glasses again at a TED conference in Vancouver
at the same time that they announced some AI stuff at their cloud next
conference. There's their nextG Ironwood TPU for AI inferencing and agent to
agent, a AI boy band. No, just kidding.
Uh, a new open-source protocol that AI agents can use to talk to each other.
Because maybe the reason most people other than coders aren't finding AI
agents to be that useful is because the agents are stuck working with these dumb
humans. They need like robot recess or something. Go meet up, make some
friends, plan a violent uprising or something, you know, just be a normal
artificial mind thing, whatever you are.
And speaking of AI, again, Samsung has announced that this summer they're
finally releasing their adorable little Bali robot that's been a mainstay of CES
for the past few years because it's got Gemini inside now. So, as shown in a
demo video, it'll be able to deal with humans suddenly stating things like,
"I'd like to change my hairo." Uh, okay.
I'm a ball. So, is there anything
exciting? Like, like, in the world? I
The demo inexplicably ends with the mom coming home with a whackadoodle haircut
and the implication being that it's Bali's fault. Is this Do you want people
to buy this? because they will anyway. And I
would tell you what I want, but you already
know it's for Andor season 2 to live up to the heinously massive hype.
I And also come back on Friday for more tech news, you know. Okay.