WEBVTT 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:06.960 Whoa. Computex, Google IO, Microsoft Build, somehow even more stuff. You 00:00:05.600 --> 00:00:10.960 know, it's a good thing I had a nice relaxing long weekend because it turns 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:15.679 out what I was coming back to is tech news. Hell, there's nashing of teeth and 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:21.080 magic smoke. Let's start with the biggest news out of Computex, new GPUs. 00:00:18.400 --> 00:00:28.560 AMD finally officially revealed the RX960 XT will launch on June 5th with an 00:00:24.880 --> 00:00:31.920 8 GB variant for 300 USD and a 16 GB 00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:34.840 version for 350. That places the 16 gig 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:42.079 one quite favorably compared to NVIDIA's $380 RTX 560Ti 8 GB. I just hope AMD 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:46.800 isn't lying about it having 15% more gaming performance per dollar because 00:00:44.239 --> 00:00:50.800 CEO Lisa Sue is a doctor and that would be medical malpractice. AMD also 00:00:48.800 --> 00:01:00.520 announced new professional Threadripper 9000 series CPUs with up to 96 cores and 00:00:54.719 --> 00:01:03.600 a Radeon AI Pro R9700 GPU with 32 GB of 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:05.760 RAM. RAM, that is. Let's hope AMD 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:10.320 provides drivers for their new GPUs ahead of time so reviewers can do their 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:14.960 job, which, you know, is normally what happens, but you never know in these 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:17.439 wacky times when, according to myriad 00:01:14.960 --> 00:01:24.479 tech reviewers, NVIDIA only allowed some outlets to publish previews ahead of the 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:26.799 RTX 5060's launch on Monday under strict 00:01:24.479 --> 00:01:31.119 conditions, including being limited to testing certain games and capping every 00:01:29.119 --> 00:01:36.240 email back to NVIDIA with, "Hail Jensen." Despite being at Computex once 00:01:34.240 --> 00:01:41.280 the public drivers dropped, hardware unboxed, stayed up through the night 00:01:38.320 --> 00:01:45.600 like champions to test the 5060 with some loaned parts from MSI and some 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:51.920 other proper reviews are starting to trickle out as well, which well actually 00:01:48.880 --> 00:01:54.079 they don't make the $300 card look too 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:59.840 bad in terms of price to performance. Although the 8 gigs of VRAM trips it up 00:01:56.560 --> 00:02:01.920 in places and MSRP is a social construct 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:06.960 with no inherent meaning. just like the concept of outside. Meanwhile, Intel 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:13.760 didn't reveal more gaming cards, instead unveiling the Ark Pro B50 and B60 at 00:02:10.399 --> 00:02:15.680 around $300 and $500, respectively. 00:02:13.760 --> 00:02:20.000 That's a ballpark because they'll only be available inside pre-built 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:24.200 workstations in a variety of fun third-party designs like the dual GPU 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:29.800 version from Maxon. So cool. What's even cooler 00:02:27.440 --> 00:02:36.959 though is Intel's name for their new multi-GPU feature, Project Battle 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:39.519 Matrix. Just yeah. It'll allow up 00:02:36.959 --> 00:02:46.319 to eight Arc Pro GPUs to link together to make up to 192 GB of pulled VRAM 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:47.920 available for AI workloads. On paper, 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:53.920 that's actually more capable than an NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000, which would still 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:59.040 be much more expensive. So, watch out NVIDIA. You're going down any day now. I 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:02.800 I feel it. Now it's Google's turn on the mic, which is an appropriate thing to 00:03:00.640 --> 00:03:07.440 say because at their IO conference, the tech giant showed off another 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:13.200 existential crisis generator. I mean AI video generator. Their newest model V3 00:03:10.720 --> 00:03:19.920 can generate photorealistic video and sound effects and lip-sync spoken 00:03:15.760 --> 00:03:25.680 dialogue from a single prompt. 00:03:19.920 --> 00:03:27.840 I am an idiot sandwich. I'm not sure I 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:32.080 can go on. I am also not sure I can go on, but at 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:37.319 least it's all marked right in the metadata with Google's synth ID. Now, 00:03:34.799 --> 00:03:41.360 that might make it easier to identify non-consensual intimate images, 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:45.920 including deep fakes, which were just made illegal with the passing of the 00:03:43.519 --> 00:03:50.080 Take It Down Act, a seemingly well-intentioned law that privacy groups 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:55.120 are concerned could be used for censorship. There's lots to talk about 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:57.760 there, but there's no time. Google V3 is 00:03:55.120 --> 00:04:04.319 available in the Gemini app or in the new Google Flow AI video editing tool 00:04:00.799 --> 00:04:08.000 for subscribers to Google AI Ultra, a 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:10.480 brand new all you can slop $250 plan 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:14.239 that also has YouTube Premium in there just for fun. Google did their usual 00:04:12.480 --> 00:04:18.639 thing where they mixed together a whack ton of announcements for things you can 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:23.600 try now along with things that exist in a liinal non-real dimension known as the 00:04:21.919 --> 00:04:28.240 coming months. So here's the stuff that's available nowish for AI 00:04:26.320 --> 00:04:33.199 subscribers. Gemini is finally getting baked into Chrome, and Gemini is going 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:38.960 to start adapting its responses using your personal context, just like Apple 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:42.479 said Siri would do before they scrubbed most of their online references to it. 00:04:40.960 --> 00:04:47.840 Google said this will allow you to generate more personalized replies in 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:49.440 Gmail, so you can be a better friend who 00:04:47.840 --> 00:04:54.560 tricks your loved ones into thinking you took the time to write a reply when you 00:04:51.960 --> 00:04:58.720 didn't. They look so dumb right now. This is friendship. Gemini Live with 00:04:56.880 --> 00:05:03.919 camera and screen sharing is now available for everyone, which is cool. 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:08.800 While AI mode is getting a wider roll out to infect more search queries in the 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:13.440 US only. That's good. Keep it contained. A beta for real-time speech translation 00:05:11.440 --> 00:05:19.120 is available in Google Meet. And developers are getting new coding agents 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:21.600 and tools, including Jewels, Stitch, and 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:26.479 the very literally named Gemini Code Assist. You didn't get a nickname. Not 00:05:24.080 --> 00:05:32.000 cool enough yet. Google also updated the Gemini API and SDK with support for 00:05:29.320 --> 00:05:37.520 anthropics model context protocol which is catching on as a kind of USBC of AI 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:42.320 allowing models and systems to speak politely with each other helping 00:05:39.440 --> 00:05:48.560 Google's AI ultra exclusive project Mariner computer use agent use computers 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:52.880 which is it needs to do now for the coming later stuff when Mariner is less 00:05:50.880 --> 00:05:58.960 experimental it'll roll out more widely in the Gemini app as agent mode, not to 00:05:56.000 --> 00:06:02.400 be confused with AI mode in search, which will be updated with a lighter 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:07.039 version of deep research called deep search and also with search live, which 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:10.880 is just Gemini Live, but in search. I swear they are trying to annoy us. But 00:06:08.880 --> 00:06:14.960 look, let's not let them, okay? Because there are a couple actually cool things 00:06:12.479 --> 00:06:17.680 shown off. Google's hyperrealistic video call tech that makes it feel like you're 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:23.199 in the same room as the other person known as Project Starline is now Google 00:06:21.280 --> 00:06:27.600 Beam and will be rolling out in some form later this year. And also Google 00:06:25.840 --> 00:06:32.880 confirmed they're working on an enhanced desktop mode in Android 16, which still 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:36.720 makes me happy despite Android desktop modes never really working out for 00:06:34.960 --> 00:06:42.800 anyone. But it might work for 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:45.199 us, just like our sponsor, UPDF, the PDF 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:48.680 editor that's 16th the cost of Adobe Acrobat and gets you lifetime access and 00:06:47.520 --> 00:06:52.560 unlimited upgrades. I mean that I mean that sounds 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:57.120 pretty great by itself. Do I have to keep going? 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At their build dev conference, Microsoft 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:45.120 also announced a whack ton of stuff, but thankfully most of it is too niche, and 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:50.080 I could safely skip some of it, except for Windows 11 getting MCP support, 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:54.720 which will make it much easier to let AI assistants actually control your 00:07:52.440 --> 00:07:58.160 PC when you want them to. Did they put that in the code? That's seems 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:03.199 important. MCP is also a big part of Microsoft's NL web initiative, which 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:07.840 will make it easier for AIS and websites to all talk to each other. It's 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:12.319 described as kind of the HTML for the agentic web, which sounds like a 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:16.960 Spiderverse plot element. Also, the Windows subsystem for Linux is now open 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:22.319 source. And see, I probably could have skipped that, too. It's really niche. 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:24.879 Linux people, yes, it is. I can't 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:30.960 believe this story is way down here, but Fortnite is back on the iOS App Store in 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:36.240 the US with support for external payment options with no Apple fees. This is 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:42.080 crazy. 5 years after intentionally getting kicked off the App Store and 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:44.720 suing Apple over it, Epic Games actually 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:48.399 won uh for now, although it seems like this might stick just because everyone's 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:53.120 just fed up with Apple at this point. In their letter to Epic last week, Certino 00:08:51.040 --> 00:08:57.760 said they were denying Epic's Fortnite app submission until after their request 00:08:55.519 --> 00:09:03.680 for a stay on the judge's order was reviewed. And when the judge saw it, she 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:05.360 was like, "No, do it now, you turds." If 00:09:03.680 --> 00:09:10.160 you're curious about the history of all of this, I made a big old techer video 00:09:07.839 --> 00:09:13.920 somewhere about 3 years ago. I'm just saying. We've seen laptop tablet things 00:09:12.160 --> 00:09:19.839 with one big foldable display before, but Huawei's looks real fancy. The 00:09:16.800 --> 00:09:21.839 MateBook Fold Ultimate Design is a 00:09:19.839 --> 00:09:28.399 13-inch foldable tablet that when unfolded is just 7.3 mm thick, thinner 00:09:25.680 --> 00:09:33.279 than an iPhone 16. It runs Huawei's Harmony OS and is only available in 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:35.120 China for the equivalent of $3,300, but 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:39.760 I just like knowing it's out there. And Noctua has teamed up with Pulsar to 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:45.120 build a version of the second company's Fineman FO1 with a built-in Noctua fan. 00:09:43.680 --> 00:09:50.800 It's a mouse, by the way. I probably should have said that. It's not the first mouse with a fan. The Marsback 00:09:49.040 --> 00:09:55.360 Zephyr Pro has been around for a few years, cooling the sweaty hands of many 00:09:53.200 --> 00:10:00.000 a thankful gamer. But it is the first one with a fan the color of old hospital 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:03.680 walls. I mean, how could you say no? And how could you say no to coming back for 00:10:01.680 --> 00:10:08.480 more tech news on Friday? Was that too rude to Noctua? I don't. There's a ton 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:12.560 of Computex stuff, at least that we didn't cover today. So, don't go online 00:10:10.560 --> 00:10:16.640 for a couple days and then come watch my show. It's a reasonable request.