you may know this is a virtual set but you probably don't know that I'm a
virtual host I'm not actually Riley Murdoch I'm someone else and they're
deep faking me to look like Ned Flanders Apple prognosticator Mark germanis who
wanders the germick plains talked of Apple's plans to make an iPhone with no
ports in his newsletter this week saying the tech giant didn't do that for the
upcoming iPhone 17 air for fear of
repercussions from the EU who traumatized the company by making them
switch from their proprietary lightning connector to
USBC the connector for poor people well
9-5 Mac took the liberty of asking the EU about this directly who said yeah
actually that that would be fine uh they probably said it with a European accent
though iPhone with no ports only make
safe charging very cool I don't know what's wrong with me the idea isn't that
crazy mac World writer David Price says
he's had the iPhone 16 plus for 6 months
and he's never used his iPhone's USBC
port and I'd love to ask him some questions but while the EU is Chill
about a portless iPhone they are still very much not chill about Apple's wal
Garden approach the block just ordered Apple to make notifications background
execution and a number of other iOS features available for third-party
devices like SmartWatches to use these are changes that Apple has said would be
bad for our products and our users because sure other Operating Systems
Support those things and their users seem fine but what is it doing to their
Immortal Souls sin has befouled your
heart the eu's order comes right after
Pebble founder Eric migicovsky unveiled two new Pebble OSS powered SmartWatches
from his new company core devices they're called The Core time 2 and The
Core 2 Duo so named because as Eric told
The Verge it's like a pebble too but it's made by core devices and then Duo
is for doover which okay sure anyway Eric wrote a blog
post about how iOS doesn't let thirdparty watches do a bunch of things
but maybe they will now in Europe anyway
the EU also charged Google today with breaching the digital markets act by
preferencing its own products in Search and Google Play prompting Google to blog
about how in anything would be hurting
consumers and businesses you sure about
that you sure about that you sure this
morning NVIDIA kicked off their GPU technology conference an event CEO
Jensen hang hyped up as the Super Bowl
of AI but with less fun commercials and
more pleading for investors to stay hodling Team Green made the rumors of
RTX Pro gpus come true the flagship
Blackwell RTX Pro 600 000 GPU will use the same base chip as an RTX 590 but
with up to 96 GB of vram or 24 gigs on
laptop versions Jensen also unveiled what he called two personal AI
supercomputers one is Project digits the Mini PC first revealed at CES but it's
been renamed to dgx spark and in
addition to NVIDIA's own design o like ASUS Dell and HP will be selling their
own versions powered by NVIDIA's gb10 super chip a term investors probably
love way more than Apu what the other
personal supercomputer is the dgx station which fits the company's brand
new Blackwell Ultra gb300 chip with 784
gbes of unified memory onto a standard
desktop siiz motherboard it's like a mini version of the giant nvl 72 units
with 72 Blackwell Ultra gpus also
unveiled by NVIDIA alongside an updated road map promising Reuben gpus in 2026
and Fineman gpus in 2027 the former of
which will also pair with Vera the company's first CPU with fully custom
armed CPU cores it's a lot of AI stuff
so thank goodness NVIDIA took a second to announce the accelerated Quantum
Research Center a supercomputer facility to hopefully help research on quantum
computers give us something other than overhyped shout out to
Microsoft but NVIDIA is definitely not slowing down on AI they just announced a
Consortium with Microsoft Black Rock and mgx to spend a hundred billion dollar on
AI data centers with Jensen promising that we'll soon be able to see these
huge server Farms from space Also anyone
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yet you know like how how like when I make certain movements it's like a bit
off I'll try to do the quick bits just like Riley after full unboxing videos of
the pixel 9A were posted earlier this week Google officially revealed the
phone in all its camera bump less Glory
it starts at 500 bucks for 128 gigs of storage and 8 gigs of RAM and compared
to the pixel 8A it's got a slightly larger and brighter 6.3 in screen with 7
years of included Android updates and ip68 dust and water resistance up from
IP67 hey sounds de de nuts because as
because as they unveiled the 9A they also delayed its launch to April to
check on a component quality issue which
is weird because that has never caused Google to hesitate before it's a good
sign that they're taking pixel Hardware more seriously though and also they're
finally adding undo and redo buttons to their keyboard that's unrelated but it's
good Windows 11 has a couple updates on the way that are even cooler than the
one that just deleted co-pilot a recent Insider build includes a new virtual
keyboard for game controllers which at the very least should allow Gamers with
Windows handhelds to type stuff without taking their hands off the controls so
they can keep working on giving it that nice sweat patina another Insider build
feature adds a FAQ section to Windows 11's about this PC section which appears
to provide an explanation for why you're losing every valerant match it's because
your PC sucks and your team does too
it's never you we know that Chinese car manufacturer byd claimed last week that
its upcoming Super E platform will support electric vehicle charging at up
to 1,000 kilow fully charging some vehicles in as little as 5 minutes that
technology would leap from frog competitors whose Chargers usually top
out at around 350 KW is 5 minutes is
really fast I mean that's barely enough time to grab some pork skins from 7-Eleven and get back to your car before
it explodes and Korean researchers have genetically engineered a strain of ecoli
bacteria to produce Plastics
which sort of the opposite of what I thought we were trying to do but uh oh
but if I keep reading Riley's script remember I'm not him I'll find out that
the Plastics are actually glucose-based polymers which can be broken down by
other also engineered bacteria make it
and degrade it that seems circular why
are we doing this again look I'm going to head out and let the real Riley give
you some more Tech news on Friday can we turn the Deep fake off now that felt
weird