WEBVTT 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:07.600 Quick, quick, drop whatever you're doing. 00:00:04.680 --> 00:00:12.880 And Intel seems to have implicitly confirmed rumors that they'll release a 00:00:09.760 --> 00:00:15.200 more powerful Arc Battle Mage GPU if 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:20.320 some tweets are anything to go by. And when are they not? In response to 00:00:17.279 --> 00:00:22.720 multiple fans pleading for an ARC B770, 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:27.519 which would sit above the existing B570 and B580 in Intel's naming scheme, the 00:00:25.680 --> 00:00:34.559 official Intel Twitter account replied with various versions of stay tuned with 00:00:30.560 --> 00:00:37.280 an eyes emoji, which in influencer means 00:00:34.559 --> 00:00:41.120 watch this space. Sparkles. Despite not having officially confirmed the 00:00:38.800 --> 00:00:45.680 existence of the B770, Intel said another fan who wants one is a gamer 00:00:43.360 --> 00:00:50.320 with great taste and called the card, which so far only exists in liinal 00:00:47.760 --> 00:00:54.320 space, a solid pick, which is like me congratulating you on picking me for 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:58.079 your baseball team. Yeah, I might show up, but my schedule's all up in the air 00:00:56.160 --> 00:01:01.800 right now. Now, Intel said the same thing to the one reply guy or gal who 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:06.720 asked about a B780, which makes me think either 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:10.000 they're also making that card, or this account is like an AI that will also 00:01:08.479 --> 00:01:15.360 tell you to stay tuned when you ask for an Intel ARC BLT cheese sandwich. But 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:19.680 really, who knows what we're going to see at Computex next week. There have 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:24.880 been rumors about a 24 gig version of the ARC B580, which is probably actually 00:01:22.240 --> 00:01:29.920 a pro card. But another fresh rumor this week indicates a third-party card 00:01:26.880 --> 00:01:32.960 manufacturer is prepping a dual GPU 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:35.520 graphics card with two B580 chips on a 00:01:32.960 --> 00:01:40.560 single board. Maybe they'll be stacked like a cheese 00:01:37.720 --> 00:01:45.840 sandwich. Stay tuned. Google is testing out adding an AI mode button to the main 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:50.000 search page. Users have reported seeing it replace the I'm feeling lucky button 00:01:48.399 --> 00:01:53.680 that takes you directly to the top result of your search, while others 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:58.960 report seeing it as an additional button in the search bar. So to make sure I 00:01:56.320 --> 00:02:03.280 understand, Google forced AI overviews into your normal searches and made you 00:02:00.960 --> 00:02:07.840 first perform an AI enabled search before you can even select the option to 00:02:05.360 --> 00:02:11.680 search without AI. And instead of making normal web searches more accessible, 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:16.400 they're adding an extra button that injects even more AI that very well 00:02:14.160 --> 00:02:19.840 might tell you that rocks are edible. Very cool. We're making products for 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:24.000 human people. We're not being evil. Got it. But you know what? It's okay because 00:02:21.920 --> 00:02:28.640 Google is offsetting this nonsense with improved spam and scam protections for 00:02:26.959 --> 00:02:32.160 Android, which will stop you from disabling Google Play Protect, 00:02:30.480 --> 00:02:36.480 sideloading, or granting extra permissions while on a call. and it'll 00:02:34.239 --> 00:02:41.599 warn you about scams if you open a banking app while screen sharing with an 00:02:39.040 --> 00:02:46.560 unknown contact, which I probably should just also not do that. Uh, these add to 00:02:44.239 --> 00:02:51.840 the existing scam detection tools in calls and messages added this year, 00:02:48.640 --> 00:02:54.239 which are entirely processed on device 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:57.760 supposedly. And oh, there's also a new key verifier feature that will let you 00:02:56.080 --> 00:03:02.480 confirm the identity of the contact you're talking to using cryptographic 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:07.440 keys. Somebody send this to the Department of Defense stat. Google also 00:03:05.200 --> 00:03:13.239 showed off and confirmed the new design language that had previously leaked 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:15.360 coming with Android 16 called Material 3 00:03:13.239 --> 00:03:20.080 Expressive, which is definitely going to bring in so many Gen Zers who were like, 00:03:17.920 --> 00:03:25.120 I thought Android was cringe, but I see myself here. Color blocks on the Google 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:29.680 logo. Make that a gradient, and I'm on board. Watch this space. House 00:03:27.519 --> 00:03:34.879 Republicans have slipped language into the proposed budget reconciliation bill 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:40.560 that could ban US states from enforcing any locally passed AI regulations for 10 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:44.640 years. It's a strange move because the rest of the bill is about completely 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:49.440 unrelated stuff like cuts to Medicaid. But it's not the only wacky AI related 00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:53.920 bill in the House right now. Senator Tom Cotton introduced his own bill that 00:03:51.280 --> 00:04:02.640 proposes putting tracking chips in all high performance AI processors so we can 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:04.480 uh protect children. Uh this kind of 00:04:02.640 --> 00:04:09.120 legislation is going to be relevant because the Trump administration just 00:04:06.239 --> 00:04:13.360 rescended Biden's AI diffusion rule which was horribly named to be fair. Uh 00:04:11.200 --> 00:04:18.000 that placed strict limits on US companies shipping AI chips. Although 00:04:15.760 --> 00:04:22.720 China's uh you know still a no-go. The Middle East, however, is fair game, 00:04:20.239 --> 00:04:30.000 which is why Saudi Arabia's hot new AI company, Humane, with with an I in it. 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:32.560 So, it's Humi Human Humane, is 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:39.120 immediately buying 10 billion worth of AMD GPUs and 18,000 NVIDIA GPUs to 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:43.680 start, while the United Arab Emirates wants to buy over a million GPUs. Okay, 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:47.759 hold on there, Sparky. I mean, they're going to need chips to power all of 00:04:45.520 --> 00:04:52.000 these data centers being built over there in the desert because according to 00:04:50.320 --> 00:04:57.360 a recent statement from the US Commerce Department, anyone using Huawei's Ascend 00:04:54.400 --> 00:05:01.840 AI chips anywhere in the world could be subject to disciplinary action by the 00:04:59.520 --> 00:05:07.520 US. And also, don't make fun of the tariffs online. It's bad for the 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:11.440 nation's youth. 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With a 6.7 in screen, the S25 Edge 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:32.440 is basically an S25 Plus, but worse, 00:06:30.400 --> 00:06:39.520 while being slightly more expensive at $1,100 US. The battery is a,000 milliamp 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:42.639 smaller at 3900, it's got weaker wired 00:06:39.520 --> 00:06:44.800 only charging and no telephoto lens. And 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:49.520 while it's got a 200 megapixel main camera now, it uses the same size sensor 00:06:47.440 --> 00:06:54.319 as the 50 megapixel one in the rest of the lineup. 00:06:51.039 --> 00:06:56.240 On the plus side though, you won't get 00:06:54.319 --> 00:07:00.400 uh bullied for having a phone with a normal thickness. I I I don't get it. 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:04.240 Nintendo published proper tech specs for the Switch 2, so the Digital Foundry 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:08.160 team at Eurogamer, who did a lot of Switch 2 hardware sleuththing before the 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:12.639 official announcement, dove into analysis mode. The biggest takeaway is 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:17.280 that the Switch 2 has a much larger gap in performance between handheld and 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:22.160 docked mode, probably partially due to the new dock having a fan in it. So, get 00:07:19.840 --> 00:07:27.639 hyped to play on the TV, but don't be disappointed when you can't see the 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:30.000 sweat glistening on your Cyborg GF in 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:35.199 Cyberpunk. Wouldn't be a problem with a real girl. You'd see their sweat just 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:39.599 fine. And that's just an idea. Users who bought a lifetime subscription to VPN 00:07:37.520 --> 00:07:43.280 provider VPN Secure had those subscriptions cancelled because the 00:07:41.440 --> 00:07:46.400 company's new owners say they had never heard about it when they were in the 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:51.919 buying process. It's not their fault. Nobody told me. After enduring customer 00:07:49.039 --> 00:07:58.000 backlash, the new VPN Secure agreed to give the lifetime subholders two free 00:07:54.560 --> 00:08:00.720 years. So, I guess after that they'll 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:04.080 die. Thanks. Couple super quick bits here because I didn't know where else to 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:10.560 put them. HBO is changing the name of its streaming service back to HBO Max 2 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:12.160 years after rebranding as just Max in an 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:16.879 effort to signal that it's not just The Sopranos and stuff on there. There's 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:21.360 there's a lot of worse shows, too. And Uber has announced Uber Route Share, 00:08:19.280 --> 00:08:26.160 route share, whatever you want, which involves drivers following set routes 00:08:23.599 --> 00:08:32.399 and arriving at stops every 20 minutes. Yes, it's a bus. This Silicon Valley 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:37.599 innovation is relentless. And scientists at the FOM Institute for Molecular and 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:42.560 Atomic Physics in Amsterdam built a robot powered entirely by air being 00:08:40.640 --> 00:08:48.000 pushed through tubes like a wacky inflatable tube man. But he's alive now. 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:53.440 Apparently, without any programming, the robot's leg movements begin as a chaotic 00:08:50.959 --> 00:08:57.600 mess, but then naturally synchronize through the power of raw physics, unlike 00:08:56.080 --> 00:09:02.640 other robots, which don't involve physics at all. The bot even switches to 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:06.160 an alternating limb method in water. Wild. I'm not going to lie, though. The 00:09:04.640 --> 00:09:10.000 real reason I included the story is because RS Technica's title and subtitle 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:15.440 sounds like a string of creative insults. You're a brainless robot that 00:09:12.560 --> 00:09:21.519 runs on air. You're a starting gazelle that swims like a dog. You have an air 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:24.080 of stilted rapidity about you. Be gone. 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:27.760 Hey, I'm sorry. I didn't mean that. Okay, look, how about to make it up to 00:09:25.839 --> 00:09:35.080 you, you come back here on Friday for more tech news and we'll call it even. 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:35.080 Okay, don't look away yet.