Tech news can feel kind of serious and dystopian sometimes so let's lighten it
up by heading to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and checking out some tech
that's so wild and wacky it makes me slightly uncomfortable Lenovo brought a
new extra tall boy concept laptop to mwc
called the thinkbook flip but instead of rolling the display back down to normal
size like the thinkbook plus shown at CES the flips 18-in display folds in
Half Backwards making this PC the perfect choice for Battleship
heads there's got to be some Battleship heads out there for multiple monitor
heads there's the lenovo's dual screen concept A system that lets you attach
extra displays to a laptop through lenovo's magic Bay magnetic connector
Lenovo went kind of wild with the concepts this year they also had a yoga
concept laptop with a solar panel so it's powered by the sun yeah everything
is indirectly but this skips the midem man there's also a solar powered battery
bank and after wondering what lenovo's AI stick was when it recently leaked
today I learned it has an npu inside that can connect to a poor disadvantaged
regular pc that was born with no AI processors at all here you go go make
some slop with your friends but guys that's just the beginning Chinese
company infinix showed off the zero series mini trifold a concept phone that
makes way more sense than other multifold designs because it can go from
normal phone size down to medium phone size and then down again to like a
little GoPro type form factor why is this the first time someone's thought of
this what are we doing infinix also showed off a solar powered phone and
charging case that Mashable thinks is cool because you can charge it by
pointing a light at it which would be perfect for when I'm trapped in a cave
and I don't want to hold both my flashlight and my phone so I can just point the flashlight at the phone and I
mean problem solved at that point but to offset the usefulness of those Concepts
infinix also had a phone with a back that changes color and makes a little
drawing of a face to mimic the facial expression of a person after their
pictures taken I don't know when this would ever be useful or wanted but the
other stuff was cool all right what else the xiaomi 15 and 15 Ultra are phones
that look and act like fancy cameras and you can even attach modular lenses while
the xiaomi buds 5 Pro are the first earbuds with qualcomm's S7
Pro chip and support for xan so they can
stream audio over Wi-Fi which is not the
normal way to do that that's weird not as weird though as Samsung's Flex gaming
concept a handheld that folds in
half okay that actually makes a lot of sense I want that Samsung's other
concept the asymmetric flip uh does not
make any sense because it's literally just a Galaxy Z flip but worse what if
we what if we added another fold and kind of curled it
why it's Mobile World Congress we're so wacky and different not like those other
Tech conferences we have SUVs from byd
that can launch drones out of the roof so anyone can feel like the bad guys in
a chase scene I Won't Let You
Escape we're going to get them kids yay seems like Google has finally
blocked you block origin on Chrome for nearly everyone with journalists and
social media users claiming to have recently encountered this friendly
little notice blocking Those ads was fun wasn't it well it's time to stop but
there are some options available to The Blockheads that's I I didn't mean it
like that there's ublock origin light which was made by the same developer
Raymond Hill and it's compatible with Google's new manifest V3 extension
standard but it's had to sacrifice some of its power to do so you could switch
to Firefox which has promised to continue supporting manifest V2 and V3
extensions but ooh wait a second didn't Mozilla changed their terms of use to
say they can do horrible things like abduct my pets and eat them I well it
certainly seemed that way but the company has now Rewritten the Rewritten
terms to clarify that nothing was being
changed about how Firefox operates the terms were apparently updated adding
that scary sale of data language to comply with the broad legal definition
of sale of data as seen in California's consumer Privacy Act where doing pretty
much anything with data is referred to as a sale and I would have loved if
that's how things worked when I had a commission-based job just made a
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TechLink oh man some of that stuff was way too wacky and wild hey let's bring
it back and enjoy some quick bits they're more
refined audite good word Qualcomm is
working on its second gen Snapdragon X Series S so's which may feature up to 18
CPU cores 48 GB of integrated RAM and
support for discrete graphics cards gaming laptops according to reference
design scene by German Tech site wind future the chips are reportedly not
expected to launch until next year and one of them may be called the Snapdragon
X2 Ultra Premium which should solve one
of the main reasons not many people picked up the first gen not a long
enough name it's got 33.3 repeating per more name words by now tsmc announced
this morning it will spend an additional $100 billion dollar to build more chip
manufacturing facilities in Arizona the move was also announced later in the day
by US president Donald Trump it's unclear whether tsmc agreed to do this
to avoid Trump's favorite thing tariffs
or whether the move was already planned but either way the us is going to get
more chip manufacturing so they can fulfill some of their military leaders
dreams of blowing up tsmc if China invades Taiwan they'll be good YouTube
is planning to lean more into being a platform where you can subscribe to
other streaming services like Paramount plus and Max according to a report from
the information YouTube's TV app is being redesigned to display this kind of
content on the homepage similar to how Amazon Prime and Apple tv plus also host
content from other services so when you scroll through and click on something
that you think you can watch because it's listed on the streaming service that you pay for you actually can't
watch it you have to subscribe to another streaming service hosted on the
first streaming service which is just so convenient and would probably be cool to
see how far down the rabbit hole we could take this and Firefly Aerospace
has become the first private company to successfully land a craft on the moon a
feed it proved by posting this photo of
uh I mean uh I guess it's the moon U it
it must be the Lander craft called Blue Ghost was also able to capture this
photo of the lunar Sunrise which could easily have been photoshopped or AI
generated by anyone on their phone look and look this is really cool I just like
they took that photo um you know but I could make you a photo just like that
I'm just say I'm just saying you land on the moon big big whoop I'm just saying
listen hey look eyes on me
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