{"video_id":"ctsEKf7-BJs","title":"Google, What Have You Done?","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2025-05-04T14:53:29Z","duration_s":537,"segments":[{"start_s":0.56,"end_s":7.92,"text":"oh uh did some did someone ask for some tech news in here I I could have sworn I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":6.279,"end_s":12.96,"text":"was it you was","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.4,"end_s":17.439,"text":"it why aren't you saying anything turns out that little chomecast outage we","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.2,"end_s":22.88,"text":"briefly covered in a quick bit on Monday was a bigger deal than it seemed as","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.0,"end_s":28.0,"text":"today marked the fourth day owners were unable to use their second gen","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.8,"end_s":30.08,"text":"chromecasts and chomecast audio devices","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":28.0,"end_s":33.8,"text":"Google 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the gaming performance of the 8 core ryzen 7 9800 x3d with productivity chops that beat the 16 core 9950 X non-3d in Jake's shortcircuit video which is not a review okay he's just vibing the 9800 x3d pulled slightly ahead in games on average with other outlets finding similar results but the 9950 x3d was a clear leader in multicore optimized applications except apparently for cinebench where the Intel core Ultra 9 285k randomly pulled ahead get out of there you're not supposed to that's not sit down now AMD also launched the ryzen 9 9900 x3d yesterday for 600 bucks but as Leo from kit Guru points out this seems to be another example of Team Red's tactic of launching a Fall Guy product to emphasize how good of a deal the more expensive one is which works great if you want customers to like you but not too too much they can be clingy speaking of six CPUs reviews also went up for Apple's new M4 powered MacBook Air with reviewers praising yet another Apple s so that can run circles around basically any Windows laptop in its class without using any fans for cooling it's embarrassing and it makes me feel bad although hold up PC mag had the Acer Swift ai14 powered by a ryzen AI 9 365 beat the M4 MacBook Air in cinebench there's that weird cinebench result again either something's wonky with that bench mark or this laptop did better cuz it has AI in its name it's enough for investors reviews were similarly positive for the other chip configurations Apple launched for the Mac Studio the M3 Ultra is being hailed as the most powerful s so apples ever launched mostly because of its 32 CPU cores and support for up to 512 GB of unified RAM the also just launched M4 Max has higher single core performance but Max is out at 16 CPU cores and 256 gigs of RAM but Apple surprisingly improved on something else this week their receptiveness to criticism the company added a disclaimer on their iPhone 16 series product pages saying that series cool AI update will be coming later after the 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website today and get 10% off your first purchase at squarespace.com TechLink I know you can't communicate directly to me when I'm actually doing the quick bits but I can't help thinking that you could if you just tried a little harder you know just just o lookie here onleaks has provided Android headlines with exclusive renders of Google's upcoming pixel 10 featuring three rear cameras a privilege previously reserved for only the pro tier pixel models but I'll do you one better said YouTuber Alexis Garza who posted a short showing the pixel 9A a which is expected to arrive later this month it's little sausage shaped camera module looks kind of perfect next to the bag of wet sausages Alexis was holding which I think I'll soon learn are not sausages but rather another kind of wet oblong snack of some kind now's your chance I'm going to check the comments netic Labs has sold the IP rights and development teams behind location-based games Pokémon go Pikmin Blom and Monster Hunter now to Saudi Investment Company scopely for $3.5 billion scopely also owns Monopoly go which is kind of perfect Niantic said the move will ensure these games have the long-term support needed to be forever games that players can continue to be obsessed with on their deathbed and into the Beyond turns out you can take it with you Google Deep Mind has announced its latest Gemma 3 smallish model which it says is the best model you can run on a single GPU although they mean a single NVIDIA h100 accelerator not the gaming gpus that you can't buy right now Google also announced Gemini robotics a suite of multimodal models that can enable greater dexterity in robots so they can fold origami zip things up struggle to clean up your desk as you actively make it messy and even follow directions when told to slam dunk a tiny baset basketball without being trained for that situation specifically although maybe it should have been because with that little gentle drop this robot wasn't exactly channeling LeBron okay so Nintendo switch emulator citen has dropped a new update adding multiplayer support in the 2025 equivalent of a neanderthal heading out to hunt a mammoth with nothing but his bare hands sure the citen team has a notice on their website saying they don't condone piracy which will probably make Nintendo's lawyers hesitate just long enough for the devs to realize they've made a mistake but what a thrill and a man with an artificial heart implant survived a 100 days outside of hospital before he was able to get a donated heart successfully implanted according to the artificial heart maker Australian company bacor the device called the total artificial heart is made of metal and uses a magnetic constantly powered rotor to push blood throughout the body which results in its user having no pulse rendering Untold numbers of Love song lyrics about heartbeats meaningless is the trade-off really worth it yeah probably it's also incredibly worth it to come back here on Friday for 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