This video is about inviting 50 strangers to try and stay inside a giant
jello cube the longest and the winner gets a $100. You thought it was about
tech news, but I tricked you. But really, it is about tech news and I've
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China is upping their gaming GPU game
with the Lee Swan 7G 106 announced this
weekend alongside the professional focused 7G 105. And it seems like it can
indeed play games. That's number one. You got to get that down first. Now,
last week, an Open CL Geekbench result for the 7G 106 was spotted by Bench
Leaks. And in a rare occurrence, that exact score from the result was cited in
Lee Swan's official presentation. The 7G
106 is notable for being the first 6nmter gaming GPU from a Chinese
company. And while it's no RTX5090,
it was shown pushing more than 70 FPS in the fairly demanding Blackmith Wukong at
4K, potentially due to the company's NRSS upscaling tech and giving the RTX
4060 and 5060 a run for their money in a
few mostly synthetic benchmarks. It's actually a similar story for another
Chinese GPU, the More Threads MTTS90,
which just had some of its benchmarks spread around Chinese social media,
despite actually being announced quite some time ago. Now, there's very little
information about price or release date for either of these GPUs, but the Trump
administration did just temporarily drop some trade restrictions for
semiconductors to make China happy. So maybe there's hope that US gamers could
have another alternative to buying NVIDIA graphics cards since AMD also
seems distracted like NVIDIA by the AI hardware market and Intel I mean well
they're just trying to stay alive. It's like they got Thanos snapped but they're
like holding on to their physical form for a bit longer. It's like Peter did
well. He stopped. I'm going to cry. Google pushed out a mandatory update for
Pixel 6a phones earlier this month, nerfing their battery performance
because if they didn't, the phone's batteries might explode. Except for at
least one phone, it apparently didn't work. Reddit user footy manager addict
posted on the Google Pixel sub that despite applying the firmware update,
his 6A still caught fire while he was
asleep. Rude. It ignited his sheets, but
he managed to throw it onto the floor so he could take some frankly kind of artsy
pictures of it. A testament to Google's treachery. They got rid of the don't be
evil slogan and look what happened. While there were a handful of notable
reports of Pixel 6A's blowing up before the update, this is the first one to
reportedly occur post update. The Australian Competition and Consumer
Commission issued a recall for the phones on Friday, but surprisingly there
hasn't been much reporting on this issue. Overall, it's possible people
just thought this was normal behavior for Pixels. UKIE, a major games industry
trade association in the UK, has released a statement in support of
platforms like Steam having creative freedom in what games they can host as
long as it's properly classified by rating systems like Peggy. The statement
follows Steam taking down dozens of adult games and indie game store it.io
following suit by deindexing not safe for work titles after pressure from
payment processors who were themselves being pressured by an activist group
called Collective Shout. A name that won the group's name competition after just
barely edging out Bellow Together and United Squeal. They're very literal.
Despite making it their mission to protect women by banning adult games
from platforms, indie developers seem to largely disagree. And the whole episode
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for tricking you earlier. The following Quick Bits are about the people in Jello
thing. Except they're not. It's more tech news. Calm down. It's just a prank.
You don't have to get weird about it. Following GPD's announcement, I and Neo
have announced they're building their own handheld powered by AMD's beastly
Ryzen AI Max Plus 395, aka Stricks Halo.
And unlike GPD's version, it's got a built-in battery. Ooh, like most
handhelds. Uh, this unit called the Iono
Next 2 was announced at the end of a nearly fivehour two-part live stream. As
the second one more thing bonus announcement, then as the one More Thing
three, they announced they're making an Iono phone with a slider design. I don't
think you can keep doing more uh things and calling it one more thing. I'm never
going to trust you again if you do that. But you can release a new line of budget
handhelds and call it conquer.
>> Conquer. Conquer.
Conquer. >> I'll allow it. Another Geekbench result
for NVIDIA's mysterious upcoming N1X processor has made it somewhat less
mysterious. The result lists the chip specs, including 20 CPU cores and 48
compute units, which should give it some decent gaming chops. But the specs also
seem to match up almost exactly with NVIDIA's GB10 Superchip, which powers
the DGX Spark line of mini AI PCs. I
mean, I don't know why I was expecting something new. This is NVIDIA. They'll
probably just release a new upscaler and claim the new one's 69 times better.
Yeah, I said 69. Laugh. Laugh. Meta is
fielding yet another copyright infringement lawsuit over AI training.
this time from Adult Film Production Studios, Strike 3 Holdings, and
Counterlife Media. The names today. The
lawsuit alleges Meta has been continually torrenting and crucially
seeding these studios copyrighted smut
since 2018 and thus affected the studios
ability to compete in the market for their own content. Now, you may remember
this is the exact type of argument that the judge in Meta's last copyright
lawsuit recommended that future plaintiffs use if they actually want to
win. Meaning, porn studios might just be
about to take Meta down. Wait, why was Meta torrenting so much porn? And
researchers at Columbia University have developed robots that they say can
consume other robots to get bigger and stronger.
like what your grandma promised would happen if you ate your oatmeal. And I
don't know, if you look at the paper, it's kind of misleading. It's more like
the robots, which are little 6inch rods.
They're not really consuming each other. They're they they're squirming around
and combining with other robots to form structures that themselves squirm
around. They actually kind of remind me of the microbots from Big Hero 6, except
those didn't make me extremely uncomfortable. What is the goal in this
shot? What are they trying? I want to tell these bots to get a room and I want
to tell you to come back here on Wednesday for more tech news or hey
whatever else we might make a video about. We might throw you another
curveball and
it'll be about tech