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This video is about inviting 50 strangers to try and stay inside a giant

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jello cube the longest and the winner gets a $100. You thought it was about

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tech news, but I tricked you. But really, it is about tech news and I've

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just tricked you again. Almost too easy.

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China is upping their gaming GPU game

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with the Lee Swan 7G 106 announced this

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weekend alongside the professional focused 7G 105. And it seems like it can

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indeed play games. That's number one. You got to get that down first. Now,

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last week, an Open CL Geekbench result for the 7G 106 was spotted by Bench

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Leaks. And in a rare occurrence, that exact score from the result was cited in

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Lee Swan's official presentation. The 7G

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106 is notable for being the first 6nmter gaming GPU from a Chinese

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company. And while it's no RTX5090,

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it was shown pushing more than 70 FPS in the fairly demanding Blackmith Wukong at

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4K, potentially due to the company's NRSS upscaling tech and giving the RTX

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4060 and 5060 a run for their money in a

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few mostly synthetic benchmarks. It's actually a similar story for another

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Chinese GPU, the More Threads MTTS90,

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which just had some of its benchmarks spread around Chinese social media,

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despite actually being announced quite some time ago. Now, there's very little

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information about price or release date for either of these GPUs, but the Trump

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administration did just temporarily drop some trade restrictions for

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semiconductors to make China happy. So maybe there's hope that US gamers could

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have another alternative to buying NVIDIA graphics cards since AMD also

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seems distracted like NVIDIA by the AI hardware market and Intel I mean well

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they're just trying to stay alive. It's like they got Thanos snapped but they're

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like holding on to their physical form for a bit longer. It's like Peter did

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well. He stopped. I'm going to cry. Google pushed out a mandatory update for

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Pixel 6a phones earlier this month, nerfing their battery performance

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because if they didn't, the phone's batteries might explode. Except for at

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least one phone, it apparently didn't work. Reddit user footy manager addict

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posted on the Google Pixel sub that despite applying the firmware update,

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his 6A still caught fire while he was

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asleep. Rude. It ignited his sheets, but

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he managed to throw it onto the floor so he could take some frankly kind of artsy

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pictures of it. A testament to Google's treachery. They got rid of the don't be

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evil slogan and look what happened. While there were a handful of notable

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reports of Pixel 6A's blowing up before the update, this is the first one to

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reportedly occur post update. The Australian Competition and Consumer

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Commission issued a recall for the phones on Friday, but surprisingly there

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hasn't been much reporting on this issue. Overall, it's possible people

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just thought this was normal behavior for Pixels. UKIE, a major games industry

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trade association in the UK, has released a statement in support of

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platforms like Steam having creative freedom in what games they can host as

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long as it's properly classified by rating systems like Peggy. The statement

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follows Steam taking down dozens of adult games and indie game store it.io

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following suit by deindexing not safe for work titles after pressure from

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payment processors who were themselves being pressured by an activist group

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called Collective Shout. A name that won the group's name competition after just

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barely edging out Bellow Together and United Squeal. They're very literal.

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Despite making it their mission to protect women by banning adult games

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from platforms, indie developers seem to largely disagree. And the whole episode

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has really just motivated the public to ask why we're giving moral authority to

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the people who make money off of missed credit card payments. Again, maybe we

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for tricking you earlier. The following Quick Bits are about the people in Jello

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thing. Except they're not. It's more tech news. Calm down. It's just a prank.

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You don't have to get weird about it. Following GPD's announcement, I and Neo

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have announced they're building their own handheld powered by AMD's beastly

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Ryzen AI Max Plus 395, aka Stricks Halo.

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And unlike GPD's version, it's got a built-in battery. Ooh, like most

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handhelds. Uh, this unit called the Iono

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Next 2 was announced at the end of a nearly fivehour two-part live stream. As

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the second one more thing bonus announcement, then as the one More Thing

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three, they announced they're making an Iono phone with a slider design. I don't

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think you can keep doing more uh things and calling it one more thing. I'm never

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going to trust you again if you do that. But you can release a new line of budget

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handhelds and call it conquer.

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>> Conquer. Conquer.

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Conquer. >> I'll allow it. Another Geekbench result

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for NVIDIA's mysterious upcoming N1X processor has made it somewhat less

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mysterious. The result lists the chip specs, including 20 CPU cores and 48

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compute units, which should give it some decent gaming chops. But the specs also

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seem to match up almost exactly with NVIDIA's GB10 Superchip, which powers

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the DGX Spark line of mini AI PCs. I

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mean, I don't know why I was expecting something new. This is NVIDIA. They'll

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probably just release a new upscaler and claim the new one's 69 times better.

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Yeah, I said 69. Laugh. Laugh. Meta is

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fielding yet another copyright infringement lawsuit over AI training.

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this time from Adult Film Production Studios, Strike 3 Holdings, and

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Counterlife Media. The names today. The

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lawsuit alleges Meta has been continually torrenting and crucially

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seeding these studios copyrighted smut

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since 2018 and thus affected the studios

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ability to compete in the market for their own content. Now, you may remember

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this is the exact type of argument that the judge in Meta's last copyright

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lawsuit recommended that future plaintiffs use if they actually want to

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win. Meaning, porn studios might just be

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about to take Meta down. Wait, why was Meta torrenting so much porn? And

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researchers at Columbia University have developed robots that they say can

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consume other robots to get bigger and stronger.

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like what your grandma promised would happen if you ate your oatmeal. And I

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don't know, if you look at the paper, it's kind of misleading. It's more like

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the robots, which are little 6inch rods.

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They're not really consuming each other. They're they they're squirming around

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and combining with other robots to form structures that themselves squirm

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around. They actually kind of remind me of the microbots from Big Hero 6, except

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those didn't make me extremely uncomfortable. What is the goal in this

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shot? What are they trying? I want to tell these bots to get a room and I want

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to tell you to come back here on Wednesday for more tech news or hey

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whatever else we might make a video about. We might throw you another

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curveball and

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it'll be about tech