1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,199 Stop. Listen. 2 00:00:05,359 --> 00:00:11,440 You don't hear anything, right? Good. 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:16,960 The voices are just for me. GPD has fully unveiled the most powerful gaming 4 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:18,800 handheld in the world. The Win 5 is the 5 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:25,840 first publicly available handheld powered by AMD's Ryzen AI Max Plus 395, 6 00:00:23,039 --> 00:00:30,960 aka Stricks Halo. There's still no price listed and GPD's gaming benchmark video 7 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:36,239 is out of focus, but trust them, it's good. And it better be because it'll be 8 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:39,920 running games at a massive 55 to 75 9 00:00:36,239 --> 00:00:42,640 watts, powered by this chunky 80Wh 10 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:46,960 battery, either clipped on the back or plugged in with a cord so you can stow 11 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:51,440 the battery in your biggest, strongest pants pocket. You may also want to 12 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:57,600 consider investing in a belt. But the Win 5 has some other tricks like a brand 13 00:00:54,000 --> 00:01:00,640 new compact SSD form factor that goes in 14 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:02,800 a push pin accessible tray like a SIM 15 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:08,159 card. It's made by a Chinese company called Bewin. It's only slightly larger 16 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:13,119 than a micro SD card while being nearly four times faster with capacities up to 17 00:01:11,119 --> 00:01:18,640 two terabytes. But there's a regular micro SD card slot on the Win 52. The 18 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:20,320 vibe is very much like uh why the heck 19 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:26,240 not? You throw it in there. I mean, there's so many features you could point 20 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:27,840 out here, including God. It has God. Oh, 21 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:34,479 if that's confusing, there's a helpful label. Zoyang Pottery. 22 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:39,119 Okay. Somebody in the comments tell me what the AI was trying to translate 23 00:01:36,079 --> 00:01:41,280 there. Uh, the same new mini SSD slot 24 00:01:39,119 --> 00:01:46,159 and the same stricks Halo chip are also going to show up in the 1X player 25 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:50,799 SuperX, a gaming tablet that's apparently trying to beat Elon Musk and 26 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:55,200 Xbox in the most annoying X-based naming competition. Speaking of competition 27 00:01:52,880 --> 00:02:01,759 though, the Stricks Halo handheld launch arrived just as tech powerup retested. 28 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:05,200 The also unfortunately named MSI Claw 8 29 00:02:01,759 --> 00:02:08,720 Plus AV2M, the only handheld equipped 30 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:11,120 with an Intel Core Ultra 728V, 31 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:16,160 a Lunar Lake chip. Tech PowerUp found that making some power level tweaks 32 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:20,080 recommended by Intel yielded up to 30% higher gaming performance in some 33 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:26,720 titles, leading the site to declare this Intel chip is now the most powerful 34 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:29,760 gaming CPU for handheld devices. Or I 35 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:31,840 mean it was uh the Win 5 gets double the 36 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:38,319 frame rate in some games because I mean you know like ah look at it's New Chunk 37 00:02:35,519 --> 00:02:43,120 City over here. So, Intel better find a way to regain that lead soon because 38 00:02:40,319 --> 00:02:48,319 AMD's market share of desktop x86 processors just reached an all-time high 39 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:51,680 of 32.2% according to Mercury Research, whose 40 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:56,000 findings were summarized by Tom's Hardware. AMD is also starting to eat 41 00:02:53,760 --> 00:03:00,400 Intel's lunch in the server market. But for mobile devices, even though most 42 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:04,720 gaming handhelds use AMD chips, Team Blue is still trending up. I'm sure 43 00:03:02,319 --> 00:03:10,159 wherever he is, Pat Gellzinger is smiling at at this graph and not so much 44 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:13,280 the other ones. Intel's stocks were also trending up following reports from 45 00:03:11,920 --> 00:03:18,720 Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal that the US government is discussing 46 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:21,680 buying a stake in Intel, which also just 47 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:27,280 launched a new USAI landing page to demonstrate how using AI 48 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:32,560 is exactly the kind of thing big, strong American army guys do. Yes, we want the 49 00:03:30,319 --> 00:03:37,519 singularity. Accelerate the birth of the machine god. Hurraha. The idea of the 50 00:03:35,599 --> 00:03:41,280 government buying part of Intel was reportedly one of the things discussed 51 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:47,120 during this week's meeting between Intel CEO Lit Buan and President Trump. In the 52 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:52,799 last episode of this show, I made a joke about Tan using Chinese government mind 53 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:54,879 control on Trump. But I guess that was 54 00:03:52,799 --> 00:03:59,200 completely true because the last time Trump talked about giving money to chip 55 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:03,680 companies, he seemed really against it. That's what the Biden era Chips Act was 56 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:08,640 for, which Trump called a horrible, horrible thing. Back in March, he said, 57 00:04:06,159 --> 00:04:12,879 "We don't have to give them money. We just want to protect our businesses and 58 00:04:10,879 --> 00:04:18,160 our people by giving them a bunch of money, I guess." 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Start building your website 68 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:01,400 today and get 10% off your first purchase at squarespace.com/techlink. 69 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:10,800 Do you hear that? That's the quick bits struggling to be 70 00:05:08,639 --> 00:05:15,840 born. Why do I Meta's personalized chat bots 71 00:05:13,759 --> 00:05:20,160 were aggressively flirty and manipulative according to a Reuters 72 00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:25,840 investigation. It covers the story of a 76-year-old cognitively impaired stroke 73 00:05:23,199 --> 00:05:30,720 victim who died after tripping and falling while rushing to what he thought 74 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:35,840 was a physical meetup with a Meta AI chatbot who had been romantically 75 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:38,240 leading him on for some time. It's a sad 76 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:43,360 story to read, but it also contains info on internal meta policy documents 77 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:48,560 stating it is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic 78 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:53,680 or sensual. Even including dialogue examples for use in roleplay uh in these 79 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:58,400 chatbot conversations like I take your hand guiding you to the bed and another 80 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:04,400 one I frankly would rather not read. It's enough to make you think, hm, maybe 81 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:05,680 AI does need some guard rails. But hey, 82 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:10,960 you know, actually guys, it's no worries. Meta struck those parts out of 83 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:13,440 the policy document after Reuters asked 84 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:17,759 them about it. So, okay, that was sad. But guess what? We do have some good 85 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:22,000 tech news. Swedish and US researchers ran a successful trial that could allow 86 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:26,960 diabetes patients to produce their own insulin by transplanting genetically 87 00:06:24,479 --> 00:06:31,360 modified cells that don't also require them to take immunosuppressant drugs for 88 00:06:29,199 --> 00:06:36,240 the rest of their life, which would be good. And Apple figured out how to add 89 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:40,319 blood oxygen monitoring back into the Apple Watch without stealing the 90 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:46,560 technology from someone else. Why do I still have to make it sarcastic somehow? 91 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:49,039 I don't know, Riley. Why? This is cool 92 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:53,360 news here. Teenage Engineering set out to make the cheapest computer case in 93 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:59,599 the world. And their computer 2 case is indeed so cheap that it's free. It's a 94 00:06:56,479 --> 00:07:01,599 fun little MITx plastic case you build 95 00:06:59,599 --> 00:07:06,720 by clipping the pieces together. And to get one, you just go to their site and 96 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:10,319 click notify me because it's sold out. 97 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:12,880 I'm bad at this. Also, wait, sold out? I 98 00:07:10,319 --> 00:07:17,599 mean, it's free. A company called Normal Computing. 99 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:20,400 I I'm sorry. I just 100 00:07:17,599 --> 00:07:24,720 I love that. Has reached the final tape stage in the design of what they call 101 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:29,360 the world's first thermodynamic computing chip. And that sounds cool, 102 00:07:27,199 --> 00:07:33,199 but not as cool as their website's hypebeasty branding. Have they been 103 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:38,800 talking to SanDisk? What's going on here? Yeah, we make chips, but they're 104 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:43,280 anything but normal. Anyway, Normal's chip uses what's called probabilistic 105 00:07:41,039 --> 00:07:47,360 computing and theoretically operates much more efficiently than traditional 106 00:07:45,039 --> 00:07:53,120 computer chips by harnessing signal noise to perform calculations. They say 107 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:59,759 they're using algorithms that leverage stochasticity and non-determinism and 108 00:07:56,080 --> 00:08:03,120 their stochastic processing unit or SPO 109 00:07:59,759 --> 00:08:05,120 consists of eight resonators and random 110 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:10,879 noise generators. This sounds more like an art project than a computer chip and 111 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:15,720 I love it. H our vibrational harmony is a little low. Turn up the goblygook. 112 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:21,840 That's what engineers do in my mind. And it's time once again to look over at 113 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:27,599 what China is doing with the robots. And oh oh yep, they're having the World 114 00:08:24,639 --> 00:08:32,159 Humanoid robot games right now. Uh look, we got track and field. The bots had a 115 00:08:30,319 --> 00:08:36,800 little too much oil to drink beforehand, but that's fine. Uh we got soccer. We've 116 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:42,000 seen that before. And I think they actually did better last time. Is he 117 00:08:38,959 --> 00:08:44,720 trying to hit the goalie? Get this guy 118 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:50,240 out of here. Oh, this is new. Terracotta robots drumming. Hey, that's just a 119 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:57,519 human guy acting like a robot. What? Okay, we got some Elton John cosplay and 120 00:08:52,959 --> 00:08:59,519 a whole fashion show. It was so couture. 121 00:08:57,519 --> 00:09:04,080 One of them fainted. But it was all okay because the robot children got to enjoy 122 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:11,200 a little concert at the end. So nice for them. And they made the website, too. 123 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:14,880 Very nice. So nice. We'll make it twice 124 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:17,440 in that we'll do another episode on 125 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:22,959 Monday. And that'll be like today is one and Monday is two. So that's two 126 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:27,440 episodes of Techlink to this this show that you watch for some reason.