WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.140 Google has revealed what is going to be the successor to Chromebooks. 00:00:04.140 --> 00:00:05.480 Googlebooks. 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:12.080 They're gonna come out this fall running Google's Android-based Aluminium OS, 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:15.160 but don't worry, that's just the code name. They're gonna have a different name for it 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:19.320 by the time it launches. They got the same crack branding team on it 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:23.200 as the one that came up with Googlebook. Googlebook. 00:00:23.200 --> 00:00:26.520 I'm Riley Murdock, this is Techlinked, and the Googlebook announcement 00:00:26.520 --> 00:00:30.640 comes ahead of Google I.O., the company's annual Dev Conference. 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:37.200 This year's theme, even more AI. I mean, Google VP, John Miletus says the Googlebook 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:40.320 will run native Android apps with no emulation 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:45.760 because it'll be running an OS built on the Android stack. Something that many of us were very excited about 00:00:45.760 --> 00:00:50.480 because I guess we assumed that Google wouldn't stuff it full of AI bloat. 00:00:50.480 --> 00:00:55.160 I don't know why we thought that. Google was showing this kind of stock Googlebook imagery 00:00:55.160 --> 00:01:00.520 in a lot of the presentation, but they didn't actually give any details on hardware. 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:04.080 Apparently it's going to be a very similar situation to the one with Chromebooks. 00:01:04.080 --> 00:01:07.240 Miletus says Google is working closely with major OEMs 00:01:07.240 --> 00:01:10.320 from Acer to Lenovo to ensure premium quality, 00:01:10.320 --> 00:01:15.120 and Intel, Qualcomm, and MediaTek are all on board on the processor side, 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:18.300 meaning that both x86 and ARM support 00:01:18.300 --> 00:01:21.760 is baked in to Aluminium OS right out of the gate. 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:26.200 Google similarly did not go into a ton of detail about Aluminium OS, 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:29.280 but they did talk a lot about Magic Pointer, 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:32.720 which summons Gemini whenever you wiggle your cursor. 00:01:32.720 --> 00:01:36.000 So you can wiggle it over a table of data 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:40.440 to turn it into a charter, wiggle it over an image of a Japanese storefront 00:01:40.440 --> 00:01:43.960 to get a translation. According to Google, the Magic Pointer is so important 00:01:43.960 --> 00:01:48.560 because pointing is really at the core of a lot of the interactions we have. 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:53.680 I thought it was human connection, but no, actually, I just, this is the core of a lot. 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:58.480 I just kind of go around, but it's where the Facebook poke came from. 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:02.600 After months of waiting, the Trump phone is finally here, 00:02:02.600 --> 00:02:05.720 asterisk, asterisk on basically everything in that sentence. 00:02:05.720 --> 00:02:11.840 People who put down a $100 pre-order deposit for the Trump phone have been freaking out this past week 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:15.080 after Trump Mobile updated its terms and conditions 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:18.400 on April 6th. This led to people posting a lot 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:21.560 of demonstrably false information on social media. 00:02:21.600 --> 00:02:26.720 Posts went viral claiming that the terms and conditions said that the phone would not arrive, 00:02:26.720 --> 00:02:32.960 that people would not get their deposits back or refunded, that 600,000 pre-orders of the phone 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:38.440 were confirmed. According to the Verge, however, that claim of 600,000 pre-orders is just, 00:02:38.440 --> 00:02:42.480 that came out of nowhere, someone made that up. And the terms and conditions do have 00:02:42.480 --> 00:02:47.840 a lot of weird language in there about how Trump Mobile might not release a phone. 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:50.960 Just because you gave us $100, doesn't mean we're going to release a phone. 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:55.760 I don't know. However, they do very explicitly promise refunds 00:02:55.760 --> 00:02:59.560 if the phone never ships. Who knows if they're going to honor that, 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:03.520 but it's in there. The general vibe on the internet for the past week 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:06.920 and a half has been that the Trump phone is dead, 00:03:06.920 --> 00:03:12.880 which is a totally fair thing to think. I thought it was dead a long time ago. 00:03:12.880 --> 00:03:17.200 But even more reporting from the Verge has surfaced evidence that the Trump phone 00:03:17.200 --> 00:03:22.640 is more real than it's ever been. It got FCC approval back in January 00:03:22.640 --> 00:03:27.120 and PTCRB approval in March, which is reportedly one of the final steps 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:32.720 before a phone actually launches. And sure enough, Trump Mobile stated this morning 00:03:32.720 --> 00:03:35.960 that the phone is going to ship this week. 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:42.840 Now, that said, the aforementioned terms and conditions also say delivery will come in no specific timeframe, 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:46.800 which could put it anywhere between now and the eventual heat death of the universe. 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:51.740 But the important thing is that we should all keep doing our best to figure out 00:03:51.740 --> 00:03:56.720 what is it going to happen with this phone? I mean, stability of the stock market, 00:03:56.720 --> 00:03:59.840 you know, inflation, wars happening, that's all, 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:03.720 that's fine. We got to figure out what is up with this yellow colored phone. 00:04:03.720 --> 00:04:09.080 Meta employees across the US have begun to organize protests in response to the company's new 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:14.100 mouse and keyboard tracking software. The pushback comes after last month's announcement 00:04:14.100 --> 00:04:19.680 that the tool would be logging employee activity in order to train the AI agents that Meta planned 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:24.360 to use to replace those same employees. The company then announced that 10% of staff 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:28.760 would be laid off on May 20th to help fund $135 billion in AI spending. 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:33.740 So the fallout has triggered unprecedented worker 00:04:33.740 --> 00:04:38.480 organizing at Meta with the movement now spreading to the UK through a tech workers union. 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:42.800 So I guess congratulations to Zuckerberg for finally achieving Meta's goal 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:46.160 of bringing people together. This news comes during a rough stretch 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:52.800 for the cursed puppet that is the Zucker corn as Meta stock dropped nearly 9% after Q1 earnings 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:59.400 showed a loss of 20 million active users across their platforms and an impending $3.7 billion 00:04:59.400 --> 00:05:02.480 penalty as part of the ongoing New Mexico lawsuit. 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:05.720 Honestly, in moments like this, I kind of feel sorry for Zuck. 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:09.600 But then I remember that he's actually a lizard 95% 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:12.760 of the way through a transformation into a man. 00:05:12.760 --> 00:05:16.520 And I actually feel totally fine again. Like you're gonna feel about our sponsor. 00:05:16.520 --> 00:05:19.480 Quick bits. I hardly know her. 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:23.920 Spotify suffered a global outage Tuesday afternoon 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:27.120 with more than 15,000 users reporting problems. 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:30.440 The rest of them didn't even notice. Coincidentally, on the same day, 00:05:30.440 --> 00:05:36.320 the company rolled out a flashy new feature celebrating and recapping your entire listening history. 00:05:36.320 --> 00:05:40.440 Not just this past year. Some users reported that their music had cut out 00:05:40.440 --> 00:05:44.920 but the ads kept playing. Different user decided to go analog, 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:51.080 listening to records to pass the time. Luckily, Spotify fixed the issue and it's working again now. 00:05:51.080 --> 00:05:55.160 Almost got a bit introspective there listening to an artistic work in its entirety. 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:58.480 I don't want that. The EU has announced that it is working on 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:03.300 expanded child safety legislation, intended to crack down on social platforms 00:06:03.300 --> 00:06:06.640 for addictive features. The commission said the move is necessary 00:06:06.640 --> 00:06:09.800 because these platforms have failed to protect children from harm. 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:12.800 Enforcement is, however, where the EU will struggle 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:18.520 as their age verification app was called a fundamentally ill-conceived disaster by security experts. 00:06:18.520 --> 00:06:22.840 Which, incidentally, is what my local paper called my high school jazz bands decision 00:06:22.840 --> 00:06:26.680 to incorporate Roman candles into our pep rally performance. 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:30.440 It looked really cool though. Amazon announced Tuesday it's rolling out 00:06:30.440 --> 00:06:36.000 30 minute deliveries to dozens of US cities starting with bits of Seattle and Philadelphia. 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:39.240 It's most aggressive push yet into quick commerce. 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:45.000 The company is using smaller, dark facilities tucked into neighborhoods close to where customers live. 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:48.160 Knowing Amazon, I think those dark facilities 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:51.320 might be where they keep employees trying to unionize. 00:06:51.320 --> 00:06:57.120 Or just take more than a five minute break. Apple released iOS 26.5 this week 00:06:57.120 --> 00:07:02.200 alongside a warning to update immediately since it patches over 60 security flaws 00:07:02.200 --> 00:07:06.860 and many of them are serious. As usual, Apple's keeping the specifics vague 00:07:06.860 --> 00:07:12.060 in order to give users a head start before attackers reverse engineer the patches, I guess. 00:07:12.060 --> 00:07:16.500 So you should probably go get the update unless you've always dreamed of being a silent partner 00:07:16.500 --> 00:07:21.760 in a Belarusian crypto mining operation. In Chinese robotics company, Unitree, 00:07:21.760 --> 00:07:26.760 debuted the GD01, a nine foot, 500 kilogram manned mecca 00:07:27.820 --> 00:07:31.780 that could be yours for only $650,000. 00:07:31.780 --> 00:07:34.860 The demo showcases a pilot controlling the bot 00:07:34.860 --> 00:07:39.360 as it stomps happily along before proceeding to knock down a brick wall. 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:42.880 Why are all of their demos so violent? 00:07:42.880 --> 00:07:46.540 They just accept it. They're just like, well, if we make robots, 00:07:46.540 --> 00:07:50.020 they're gonna kill us. So is it like that's what, but that's not all. 00:07:50.020 --> 00:07:53.980 It also transforms and crawls backwards on all fours 00:07:53.980 --> 00:07:57.940 like the girl from the ring. They one upped it for this one. 00:07:57.940 --> 00:08:02.560 The cockpit doesn't rotate though. So in that form, the pilot would stare helplessly 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:05.660 at the clouds, a great design for anyone who values 00:08:05.700 --> 00:08:09.300 a nice sunset over surviving a giant robot fight. 00:08:09.300 --> 00:08:13.660 I certainly hope you survive long enough to come back on Friday for more tech news. 00:08:13.660 --> 00:08:17.080 I'm sure we'll have some more quantifiably questionable 00:08:17.080 --> 00:08:21.020 and refreshingly quenchable quality stories.