1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,160 Oh, uh, did someone ask for some tech news in here? 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,440 I could have sworn, I, was it you? 3 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:12,680 Was it? Why aren't you saying anything? 4 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:17,440 Turns out that little Chromecast outage we briefly covered in a quick bid on Monday 5 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:23,920 was a bigger deal than it seemed, as today marked the fourth day owners were unable to use 6 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:28,040 their second gen Chromecasts and Chromecast audio devices. 7 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:32,420 Google quickly promised users they were working on a fix when all of this news broke, 8 00:00:32,420 --> 00:00:37,580 though they still haven't figured it out, so they've issued an apology, which is great. 9 00:00:37,580 --> 00:00:41,620 I'll forward that over to my friends who messaged me looking for answers 10 00:00:41,620 --> 00:00:45,500 after probably spending hours troubleshooting their parents' Chromecast. 11 00:00:45,500 --> 00:00:49,740 Look at their faces that I won't show to you for privacy re, imagine it. 12 00:00:49,740 --> 00:00:55,260 Google also helpfully instructed users to not factory reset their devices 13 00:00:55,260 --> 00:00:58,780 a day after most of them probably already tried that, 14 00:00:58,820 --> 00:01:02,340 especially this person who says Google told them 15 00:01:02,340 --> 00:01:07,020 to factory reset it. That's how Google figured out it was bad, sacrificial lamb. 16 00:01:07,020 --> 00:01:13,620 But why, why all of this pain? Well, according to Reddit user madhatter369, 17 00:01:13,620 --> 00:01:18,580 the issue is most definitely due to one of the Chromecast certificates 18 00:01:18,580 --> 00:01:22,580 having an expiry date of March 9th, 2025, 19 00:01:22,580 --> 00:01:28,580 the day all of this shit went down. Ah, if only there was some way to predict this. 20 00:01:28,580 --> 00:01:32,660 To be fair to Google though, the second gen Chromecast launched 10 years ago 21 00:01:32,660 --> 00:01:36,980 and it is a Google product. At the time, they probably thought they'd let it live 22 00:01:36,980 --> 00:01:40,060 a few years at most before taking it out back themselves. 23 00:01:40,060 --> 00:01:47,460 Hey, you wanna hear about tech that's working great though? AMD's Ryzen 99950X3D, which launched yesterday 24 00:01:47,460 --> 00:01:50,740 for $700, making it the most expensive 25 00:01:50,740 --> 00:01:55,640 mainstream processor on the market right now. But reviewers are making it look 26 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:59,700 like it's also the best on the market, marrying the gaming performance 27 00:01:59,700 --> 00:02:03,060 of the 8-core Ryzen 7 9800X3D 28 00:02:03,060 --> 00:02:09,220 with productivity chops that beat the 16-core 99950X non-3D. 29 00:02:09,220 --> 00:02:12,940 In Jake's ShortCircuit video, which is not a review, 30 00:02:12,940 --> 00:02:18,420 okay, he's just vibing, the 9800X3D pulled slightly ahead in games on average 31 00:02:18,420 --> 00:02:24,260 with other outlets finding similar results. But the 99950X3D was a clear leader 32 00:02:24,260 --> 00:02:29,180 in multi-core optimized applications, except apparently for Cinebench, 33 00:02:29,180 --> 00:02:32,900 where the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K 34 00:02:32,900 --> 00:02:36,260 randomly pulled ahead. Get out of there, you're not supposed to, 35 00:02:36,260 --> 00:02:42,980 that's not, sit down. Now AMD also launched the Ryzen 99900X3D yesterday 36 00:02:42,980 --> 00:02:46,820 for $600, but as Leo from KitGuru points out, 37 00:02:46,820 --> 00:02:52,820 this seems to be another example of Team Red's tactic of launching a Fall Guy product 38 00:02:52,820 --> 00:02:56,020 to emphasize how good of a deal the more expensive one is, 39 00:02:56,020 --> 00:02:59,260 which works great if you want customers to like you, 40 00:02:59,260 --> 00:03:03,940 but not too much, they can be clingy. Speaking of six CPUs, 41 00:03:03,940 --> 00:03:08,620 reviews also went up for Apple's new M4-powered MacBook Air 42 00:03:08,620 --> 00:03:12,300 with reviewers praising yet another Apple SoC 43 00:03:12,300 --> 00:03:18,660 that can run circles around basically any Windows laptop in its class without using any fans for cooling. 44 00:03:18,660 --> 00:03:21,780 It's embarrassing, and it makes me feel bad. 45 00:03:21,780 --> 00:03:26,420 Although, hold up, PC Mag had the Acer Swift AI 14 46 00:03:26,420 --> 00:03:29,500 powered by a Ryzen AI 9365, 47 00:03:29,500 --> 00:03:33,160 beating the M4 MacBook Air in Cinebench. 48 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:38,220 There's that weird Cinebench result again. Either something's wonky with that benchmark 49 00:03:38,220 --> 00:03:41,620 or this laptop did better because it has AI in its name. 50 00:03:41,620 --> 00:03:44,780 It's enough for investors. Reviews were similarly positive 51 00:03:44,780 --> 00:03:48,760 for the other chip configurations Apple launched for the Mac Studio. 52 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:53,840 The M3 Ultra is being hailed as the most powerful SoC Apple's ever launched, 53 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:59,840 mostly because of its 32 CPU cores and support for up to 512 gigabytes of unified RAM. 54 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:04,960 The also just launched M4 Max has higher single core performance, 55 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:09,140 but max is out at 16 CPU cores and 256 gigs of RAM. 56 00:04:09,140 --> 00:04:13,360 But Apple surprisingly improved on something else this week, 57 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:17,560 their receptiveness to criticism. The company added a disclaimer 58 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:25,240 on their iPhone 16 series product pages saying that series cool AI update will be coming later 59 00:04:25,460 --> 00:04:30,120 after the company was criticized for continuing to advertise AI Siri 60 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:34,920 as if she was in the room with us right now. If she was, she'd probably be going around 61 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:39,280 handing out printed map quest directions that include driving through a lake or something. 62 00:04:39,280 --> 00:04:43,140 It would be very obvious. I know you can't communicate directly to me 63 00:04:43,140 --> 00:04:47,600 when I'm actually doing the quick bits, but I can't help thinking that you could 64 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,800 if you just tried a little harder, you know? Just, just, yeah. 65 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:54,640 Ooh, looky here. OnLeaks has provided Android headlines 66 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:58,160 with exclusive renders of Google's upcoming Pixel 10, 67 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:02,120 featuring three rear cameras, a privilege previously reserved 68 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:08,200 for only the pro tier Pixel models. But I'll do you one better, said YouTuber Alexis Garza, 69 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:11,640 who posted a short showing the Pixel 9a, 70 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:14,800 which is expected to arrive later this month. 71 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:19,040 It's a little sausage-shaped camera module. Looks kind of perfect next to the bag 72 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:25,280 of wet sausages Alexis was holding, which I think I'll soon learn are not sausages, 73 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:29,960 but rather another kind of wet oblong snack of some kind. 74 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:36,600 Now's your chance. I'm gonna check the comments. Niantic Labs has sold the IP rights 75 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:43,520 and development teams behind location-based games Pokemon Go, Pikmin Bloom, and Monster Hunter Now 76 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:48,800 to Saudi Investment Company, Scopely, for three and a half billion dollars. 77 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:53,040 Scopely also owns Monopoly Go, which is kind of perfect. 78 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:59,120 Niantic said the move will ensure these games have the long-term support needed to be forever games 79 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:04,760 that players can continue to be obsessed with on their deathbed and into the beyond. 80 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:07,920 Turns out you can take it with you. Google DeepMind has announced 81 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:11,920 its latest Gemma 3 small-ish model, 82 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:15,840 which it says is the best model you can run on a single GPU, 83 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:19,680 although they mean a single NVIDIA H100 accelerator, 84 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:24,720 not the gaming GPUs that you can't buy right now. Google also announced Gemini Robotics, 85 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:30,160 a suite of multimodal models that can enable greater dexterity in robots 86 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,200 so they can fold origami, zip things up, 87 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,520 struggle to clean up your desk as you actively make it messy, 88 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:40,480 and even follow directions when told to slam dunk 89 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:44,960 a tiny basketball without being trained for that situation specifically. 90 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:48,640 Although maybe it should have been because with that little gentle drop, 91 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:52,960 this robot wasn't exactly channeling LeBron, okay, so. 92 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:58,760 Nintendo Switch emulator Citrin has dropped a new update adding multiplayer support 93 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:04,880 in the 2025 equivalent of a Neanderthal heading out to hunt a mammoth with nothing but his bare hands. 94 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:09,880 Sure, the Citrin team has a notice on their website saying they don't condone piracy, 95 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:15,280 which will probably make Nintendo's lawyers hesitate just long enough for the devs to realize 96 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:19,000 they've made a mistake. But what a thrill. 97 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:24,480 And a man with an artificial heart implant survived 100 days outside of hospital 98 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:28,440 before he was able to get a donated heart successfully implanted, 99 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:33,440 according to the artificial heart maker, Australian company, BiVacor. 100 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:38,800 The device called the Total Artificial Heart is made of metal and uses a magnetic, 101 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:43,040 constantly powered rotor to push blood throughout the body, 102 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:46,200 which results in its user having no pulse, 103 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:50,840 rendering untold numbers of love song lyrics about heartbeats meaningless. 104 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:54,520 Is the trade-off really worth it? Yeah, probably. 105 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:58,280 It's also incredibly worth it to come back here on Friday for more tech news, 106 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:04,760 a statement I can only assume you agree with unless you say otherwise right this second. 107 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:07,600 And I'm not hearing anything, so.