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Ah, you've arrived. And just in time, the tech news is about to start.

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And they're super chill about the dress code, so that's perfect. Apple is

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reportedly gearing up for a big wave of AI hardware, including smart glasses,

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camera equipped AirPods for some reason, and even an AI pendant thing, which will

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finally signal to the normies that they can buy AI wearables. Now, according to

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German notorious Marculon, aka Bloomberg's Mark German, the glasses

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have evolved from early tethered prototypes with external battery packs

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to sleeker frames with everything embedded directly inside, including

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highresolution cameras, but not a display. The Pendant, meanwhile, will

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have a low res camera for environmental awareness and lean on your iPhone to

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power its AI features, which I need like yesterday. My pendants haven't been

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hallucinating nearly enough. Get these guys some LSD.

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And Apple has pivoted to exploring camera equipped AirPods instead of a

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camera equipped Apple Watch after realizing that viewing that video would

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suck. Missed opportunity to redefine the term watching video. These new AirPods

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could incorporate gesture controls and contextual awareness, but most

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importantly, these new devices will likely be able to let you record

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fingerboard tricks from five different angles. 67.

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>> All right. Yeah. >> Yeah. Valve has confirmed that Steam Deck OLED shortages are tied directly

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to, shocker, the ongoing memory and

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storage supply crisis, according to a little notice now sitting at the bottom of the handheld store page. The news

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comes shortly after the Steam Machine was delayed. And the worst part of me

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worries that Valve is doing this on purpose to create yet another Halfife 3

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situation. Valve could easily survive another 20 years on the hopes of fans

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and commissions on CSGO trading. It's legal kind of. But the fact that even

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the mighty valve is being affected by this data centerdriven crisis lines up

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with what memory controller company Fisizen CEO recently said in an

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interview. He predicts that many consumer electronics manufacturers will

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go bankrupt or exit product lines by the end of 2026, describing a structural

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shift in DRM and nan supply that favors data centers over everyday devices,

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which is fine by me. We don't wait in lines to use the pay phone in public

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places anymore. And I think we really lost something there. >> Furtus is subscribed to things.

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>> Sit in a box full of graffiti and spit. Meanwhile, Western Digital revealed

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during an investor call that they are pretty much sold out for 2026. They

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apparently have data centers buying drives years in advance. So, if you

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thought going back to the old hard disk drive was going to save you, then you

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were sorely mistaken, bucko. As memory and storage continues to get prioritized

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for AI infrastructure, we're rapidly heading into a situation where hardware

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will be so expensive that people just won't be able to own their own computers

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anymore. and renting your bleeps and bloops will really be the only option.

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In 10 years, we're going to be driving across the silicon wasteland pumping

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buzzeline into our EV swap 1973 Ford Falcons as we try to escape the war

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boys. And we'll still be making payments to a Morton Joe for at least on a Game

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Boy Color. >> At least we'll have Payones >> with a Chrome Edition. Discord's global

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age verification rollout somehow got even messier this week after users in

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the UK discovered they were part of what Discord calls an experiment with

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Persona, an alternate age assurance vendor. Persona is also used by Reddit,

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Roblox, and OpenAI for age assurance. But users found this concerning for a

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couple reasons. For one, Discord promised that age verification data

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would become local, not stored. But Persona stores the info users submit for

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7 days and then deletes it. That's not

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[music] zero days. For two, one of Persona's biggest investors is Founders

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Fund, the venture capital firm directed by co-founder of Palunteer and winner of

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the world's sweatiest billionaire award, which is a high bar, Peter Teal. And

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while Teal's company isn't personally handling the face scans, the association

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with the guy whose surveillance company builds tracking tools that helps the US

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military shorten the kill chain and who appeared over 2,200 times in the

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recently released Epstein files isn't going to help with user outrage.

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>> What? What's wrong with it? He likes a massage. >> Discord told Kotaku that the Persona

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experiment has concluded and they have edited their support blog to remove

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mention of it. But that hasn't stopped the ongoing fallout. Discord competitor

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Teamspeak says it hit hosting capacity from the wave of users fleeing Discord.

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And even though the September data breach that exposed roughly 70,000

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Discord users government IDs was actually not connected to age

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verification rollouts in the past year or so, collecting even more IDs was

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>> Wow. Ep so epic. I have a date every time she's just off screen.

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>> Bite Dance is scrambling to add safeguards to its AI video generator C

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dance 2.0 after Hollywood came at it with the law play Law and Order sound

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effect. Disney sent a cease and desist accusing Bike Dance of a virtual smash

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and grab of its IP, saying the tool treats its characters like free public

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domain clip art. That's right, The Lion King is not public domain clip art. It's

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just incredibly traumatizing. That said, Cance 2.0 know is actually a genuine

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leap in AI video. It can cut between shots with consistency, generate decent

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fight choreography, and users have been cranking out everything from a cat and

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Godzilla doing a Dragon Ball Z fusion dance to some actually funny Star Wars

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skits, which really tickles Riley's heart

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>> and other parts. >> To be fair, it's because a human wrote them. A very clever human was involved.

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But a very believable performance from AI Anakin doesn't hurt. OpenAI has hired

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Peter Steinberger, the creator of viral AI assistant OpenClaw to build its next

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generation of personal agents. [music] In his announcement, Steinberger stated

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that OpenClaw will stay open source, unlike the vast majority of Open AI's

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products. >> What does that stand for? >> Open. He also pointed to Europe's

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regulatory environment as a factor for the move to open AI, tweeting that in

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the US people are enthusiastic about his work. While in Europe, they shout for

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regulation and responsibility. Cringe.

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To be fair, Europe itself has acknowledged this. Mario Draggy, former

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Italian prime minister, published a 2024 report calling the EU's innovation gap

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with the US an existential challenge. But damn it, they just love regulating

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things so much. It's hard to stop. Nokia, the company that made our dad's

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cell phones, has won a patent dispute over the H.265 codec, also known as

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HEVC, forcing Acer and ASUS to halt

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certain PC and laptop sales in Germany.

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Europe's at it again. Nokia felt that the use of the codec by these brands was

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not up to the fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory obligations tied to

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its designation as a standard essential patent, allowing Nokia to file for an

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injunction in Munich courts. So many fun words in there. Afterwards, both

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manufacturers filed for an appeal and will be pursuing further legal action to

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reach a fair solution as quickly as possible. End quote. So, if you're a

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German and you want to buy an Acer or ASUS PC with your marks or whatever, it

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looks like you have to actually go into DSA shop to get one while supplies last.

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T-Mobile is rolling out a live call translation that works without an app

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dubbed live translation. It runs at the network level and can be activated after

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enrolling in the beta program by simply dialing an asterisk 87 asterisk on your

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phone. >> 87. >> Only one person on the call needs to be

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on T-Mobile for it to function, translating conversations in real time

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across supported languages. And I mean, hey, that sounds great and all, but this

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is also the carrier that's currently being accused of accidentally switching some customers to the wrong phone plans

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during iPhone promos. At least now you can yell at their support agents in any

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language you want.

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Oh no, not the last one.

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And China's Spring Festival Gala, an annual Chinese New Year celebration,

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featured humanoid robots doing back flips, nunchuk routines, and kung fu

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alongside martial arts actors. Not Steven Seagal, though. That guy. Four

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robotics firms showcased their bots to an audience where nearly 80% of active

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TVs in the country were tuned in >> because they had to be. But of course,

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the bots couldn't pull it all off without at least one stumbling and

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falling. I guess there's still some kinks to work out. Oh sh What? It's part

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of the show. I wasn't expecting them to use drunken fist style.

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[laughter] It's self-referential. The whole thing was perfectly

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choreographed. And as an added bonus, no little kids got accidentally wailed on

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by a nunchuck wielding robot. You know what, China? Nice job on this one. I'd

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like to see more shows like this performed over there far away from me

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>> and my children. They are nunchuck free so far. But I want you to stay close,

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especially on Friday when we come back with more tech news. Right now, we're

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all heading to Brad's house to go swimming in his parents' pool. You can come if you want, but his dad said you

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weren't allowed in the pool because of what you did last time. But you can

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come. >> What? >> Not in the pool. >> Sit on the side. to the side.