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Get these guys some LSD.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":54.8,"end_s":60.48,"text":"And Apple has pivoted to exploring camera equipped AirPods instead of a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":58.64,"end_s":65.36,"text":"camera equipped Apple Watch after realizing that viewing that video would","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":63.28,"end_s":69.6,"text":"suck. Missed opportunity to redefine the term watching video. These new AirPods","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":67.84,"end_s":72.64,"text":"could incorporate gesture controls and contextual awareness, but most","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":71.04,"end_s":76.159,"text":"importantly, these new devices will likely be able to let you record","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":74.159,"end_s":79.2,"text":"fingerboard tricks from five different angles. 67.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":78.32,"end_s":86.56,"text":">> All right. Yeah. >> Yeah. Valve has confirmed that Steam Deck OLED shortages are tied directly","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":83.28,"end_s":88.08,"text":"to, shocker, the ongoing memory and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":86.56,"end_s":92.72,"text":"storage supply crisis, according to a little notice now sitting at the bottom of the handheld store page. The news","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":91.36,"end_s":96.56,"text":"comes shortly after the Steam Machine was delayed. And the worst part of me","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":94.799,"end_s":100.32,"text":"worries that Valve is doing this on purpose to create yet another Halfife 3","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":98.56,"end_s":105.04,"text":"situation. Valve could easily survive another 20 years on the hopes of fans","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":102.479,"end_s":108.799,"text":"and commissions on CSGO trading. It's legal kind of. 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And just in time, the tech news is about to start. And they're super chill about the dress code, so that's perfect. Apple is reportedly gearing up for a big wave of AI hardware, including smart glasses, camera equipped AirPods for some reason, and even an AI pendant thing, which will finally signal to the normies that they can buy AI wearables. Now, according to German notorious Marculon, aka Bloomberg's Mark German, the glasses have evolved from early tethered prototypes with external battery packs to sleeker frames with everything embedded directly inside, including highresolution cameras, but not a display. The Pendant, meanwhile, will have a low res camera for environmental awareness and lean on your iPhone to power its AI features, which I need like yesterday. My pendants haven't been hallucinating nearly enough. Get these guys some LSD. And Apple has pivoted to exploring camera equipped AirPods instead of a camera equipped Apple Watch after realizing that viewing that video would suck. Missed opportunity to redefine the term watching video. These new AirPods could incorporate gesture controls and contextual awareness, but most importantly, these new devices will likely be able to let you record fingerboard tricks from five different angles. 67. >> All right. Yeah. >> Yeah. Valve has confirmed that Steam Deck OLED shortages are tied directly to, shocker, the ongoing memory and storage supply crisis, according to a little notice now sitting at the bottom of the handheld store page. The news comes shortly after the Steam Machine was delayed. And the worst part of me worries that Valve is doing this on purpose to create yet another Halfife 3 situation. Valve could easily survive another 20 years on the hopes of fans and commissions on CSGO trading. It's legal kind of. But the fact that even the mighty valve is being affected by this data centerdriven crisis lines up with what memory controller company Fisizen CEO recently said in an interview. He predicts that many consumer electronics manufacturers will go bankrupt or exit product lines by the end of 2026, describing a structural shift in DRM and nan supply that favors data centers over everyday devices, which is fine by me. We don't wait in lines to use the pay phone in public places anymore. And I think we really lost something there. >> Furtus is subscribed to things. >> Sit in a box full of graffiti and spit. Meanwhile, Western Digital revealed during an investor call that they are pretty much sold out for 2026. They apparently have data centers buying drives years in advance. So, if you thought going back to the old hard disk drive was going to save you, then you were sorely mistaken, bucko. As memory and storage continues to get prioritized for AI infrastructure, we're rapidly heading into a situation where hardware will be so expensive that people just won't be able to own their own computers anymore. and renting your bleeps and bloops will really be the only option. In 10 years, we're going to be driving across the silicon wasteland pumping buzzeline into our EV swap 1973 Ford Falcons as we try to escape the war boys. And we'll still be making payments to a Morton Joe for at least on a Game Boy Color. >> At least we'll have Payones >> with a Chrome Edition. Discord's global age verification rollout somehow got even messier this week after users in the UK discovered they were part of what Discord calls an experiment with Persona, an alternate age assurance vendor. Persona is also used by Reddit, Roblox, and OpenAI for age assurance. But users found this concerning for a couple reasons. For one, Discord promised that age verification data would become local, not stored. But Persona stores the info users submit for 7 days and then deletes it. That's not [music] zero days. For two, one of Persona's biggest investors is Founders Fund, the venture capital firm directed by co-founder of Palunteer and winner of the world's sweatiest billionaire award, which is a high bar, Peter Teal. And while Teal's company isn't personally handling the face scans, the association with the guy whose surveillance company builds tracking tools that helps the US military shorten the kill chain and who appeared over 2,200 times in the recently released Epstein files isn't going to help with user outrage. >> What? What's wrong with it? He likes a massage. >> Discord told Kotaku that the Persona experiment has concluded and they have edited their support blog to remove mention of it. But that hasn't stopped the ongoing fallout. Discord competitor Teamspeak says it hit hosting capacity from the wave of users fleeing Discord. 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That's right, The Lion King is not public domain clip art. It's just incredibly traumatizing. That said, Cance 2.0 know is actually a genuine leap in AI video. It can cut between shots with consistency, generate decent fight choreography, and users have been cranking out everything from a cat and Godzilla doing a Dragon Ball Z fusion dance to some actually funny Star Wars skits, which really tickles Riley's heart >> and other parts. >> To be fair, it's because a human wrote them. A very clever human was involved. But a very believable performance from AI Anakin doesn't hurt. OpenAI has hired Peter Steinberger, the creator of viral AI assistant OpenClaw to build its next generation of personal agents. [music] In his announcement, Steinberger stated that OpenClaw will stay open source, unlike the vast majority of Open AI's products. >> What does that stand for? >> Open. He also pointed to Europe's regulatory environment as a factor for the move to open AI, tweeting that in the US people are enthusiastic about his work. While in Europe, they shout for regulation and responsibility. Cringe. To be fair, Europe itself has acknowledged this. Mario Draggy, former Italian prime minister, published a 2024 report calling the EU's innovation gap with the US an existential challenge. But damn it, they just love regulating things so much. It's hard to stop. Nokia, the company that made our dad's cell phones, has won a patent dispute over the H.265 codec, also known as HEVC, forcing Acer and ASUS to halt certain PC and laptop sales in Germany. Europe's at it again. Nokia felt that the use of the codec by these brands was not up to the fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory obligations tied to its designation as a standard essential patent, allowing Nokia to file for an injunction in Munich courts. So many fun words in there. Afterwards, both manufacturers filed for an appeal and will be pursuing further legal action to reach a fair solution as quickly as possible. End quote. So, if you're a German and you want to buy an Acer or ASUS PC with your marks or whatever, it looks like you have to actually go into DSA shop to get one while supplies last. T-Mobile is rolling out a live call translation that works without an app dubbed live translation. It runs at the network level and can be activated after enrolling in the beta program by simply dialing an asterisk 87 asterisk on your phone. >> 87. >> Only one person on the call needs to be on T-Mobile for it to function, translating conversations in real time across supported languages. And I mean, hey, that sounds great and all, but this is also the carrier that's currently being accused of accidentally switching some customers to the wrong phone plans during iPhone promos. At least now you can yell at their support agents in any language you want. Oh no, not the last one. And China's Spring Festival Gala, an annual Chinese New Year celebration, featured humanoid robots doing back flips, nunchuk routines, and kung fu alongside martial arts actors. Not Steven Seagal, though. That guy. Four robotics firms showcased their bots to an audience where nearly 80% of active TVs in the country were tuned in >> because they had to be. But of course, the bots couldn't pull it all off without at least one stumbling and falling. I guess there's still some kinks to work out. Oh sh What? It's part of the show. I wasn't expecting them to use drunken fist style. [laughter] It's self-referential. The whole thing was perfectly choreographed. And as an added bonus, no little kids got accidentally wailed on by a nunchuck wielding robot. You know what, China? Nice job on this one. I'd like to see more shows like this performed over there far away from me >> and my children. They are nunchuck free so far. But I want you to stay close, especially on Friday when we come back with more tech news. Right now, we're all heading to Brad's house to go swimming in his parents' pool. You can come if you want, but his dad said you weren't allowed in the pool because of what you did last time. But you can come. >> What? >> Not in the pool. >> Sit on the side. to the side."}