Four score and seven years ago. There was no tech news.
But if there was, it definitely wasn't included in any YouTube videos.
They were making videos about the Spanish Civil War or,
I don't know. Pours and buggies. Being poor.
AMD has confirmed the existence of its Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor,
the successor to the Z1 Extreme, powering gaming handhelds like Lenovo's Legion Go
and the ASUS ROG Ally X. According to digital trends in a joint briefing
with Microsoft at the IFA 2024 conference,
AMD said they're targeting a release date of early 2025 for the Z2 Extreme,
which would presumably arrive inside of new handheld devices.
Not floating down from the sky with little parachutes after being shot out of an air cannon.
I don't know who keeps putting that idea in the script. It's very stupid.
It's you. No specs for the chip were given,
but AMD exec Jack Quinn said he wants
to play Black Myth Wukong for three hours instead of the 45 minutes current handhelds can muster.
And Jack, he gets what he wants. Team Red also said they're working with several partners,
which could include Valve.
The Steam Deck did not use a Z1 chip,
but it did use AMD chips. So we may see the Z2 Extreme power the Steam Deck too,
or Valve might follow Acer, who went with a Ryzen 7 8840HS
in their recently announced handheld and energy drink from 2010, the Nitroblades 7.
The Nitroblades 6 cost several heart attacks.
Intel was having a great week following its reveal of Lunar Lake as a compelling answer
to Qualcomm's Snapdragon X series laptop chips, but then Intel had to go and mess it up
by announcing it's outsourcing the production of Lunar Lake's successor Aerolake to external partners.
It's not a great look as the plan has been
to manufacture Aerolake on the Intel 20a node for years,
but don't worry, Intel found a good way to spin this. You see, they've had early success on Intel 18a,
which enables them to shift engineering resources from Intel 20a earlier than expected.
We're giving up on our own technology and outsourcing production to our competitors,
but that's a good thing. We went for coffee with them and they're really,
they're not so bad, they're good guys. They see biscuits instead of cookies, they're crazy.
The news is inviting speculation about whether CEO Pat Gelsinger really is the chosen one,
prophesied to bring balance to the fabs. According to Reuters, it's also making Qualcomm
consider trying to acquire different pieces of Intel,
like a vulture, planning which giblets it's gonna pick off a half-dead antelope
dragging itself across the savannah. That's a gruesome image, who put this in here?
This is a kid's show. You did it. This is, kids gotta learn, death is a part of life.
Death is real and also it's brutal. That's tech news, baby.
The internet archive has lost its attempt to appeal the final ruling from its March 2023 court battle
with the association of American publishers in which the archive's operation
as a non-profit digital library was found to be copyright infringement.
Publishers Hatchett, Harper Collins, and Penguin Random House sued the internet archive
in 2020 over its controlled digital lending system.
In the recent appeals decision, the judges ask, is it fair use to scan copyrighted physical books
and distribute as many digital copies as you have physical copies for free
as if you're some kind of library or something?
No, you buy your books like the founding fathers intended.
It's the third amendment. We're Canadian, I don't know what the amendment is.
It's not actually a third amendment. I just wanna clarify that I know
it's not the third amendment. Okay, that was close.
Except, like other libraries, the internet archive does buy books,
which as author Malcolm Harris points out on Twitter, means they're not really taking sales away
from individual authors. But I admit, we're not legal experts
and the only place the internet archive has left to take this case is the Supreme Court.
So we'll see how things play out there. Though this does make me agree
with Twitter user gentlemenbug. If scanning books doesn't count as fair use,
where is the publisher lawsuit against open AI? I mean, last I heard they had scanned some things.
But the quick bits are so fast, we can't say four score in seven years ago.
We just say 87 years ago. We don't have time to be poetic. Ah, version 6.0 of the Bluetooth standard
has been released a mere eight years after the last major version.
Yes, I know 5.4 came out last year, but it doesn't, why do you know so much
about Bluetooth standards? In addition to reducing power consumption
and increasing efficiency, Bluetooth 6's channel sounding feature
will allow centimeter level accuracy for device tracking over considerable distances.
This could allow Googles find my device network to catch up to Apple's,
which currently uses ultra wideband tech for precision tracking.
Or Apple could ditch the ultra wideband chips in their devices and make them cheaper for customers.
And I'm just kidding, that's not gonna happen. Phone maker honor is using AI to fight near sightedness.
Near sightedness or myopia, a condition from which I sadly suffer,
occurs when eyes grow longer to better focus on close objects.
Something that has apparently grown more commonplace in a world full of screens.
Where are the people? Some of honor's devices, like the magic V3 foldable phone,
use advanced display and AI tech
to defocus certain colors.
Apparently this may help slow the progression of myopia.
Could this also be solved with less screen time?
Maybe, but honor also has an AI powered deep fake video detector.
And yes, maybe that problem would also be solved with less screen time.
But can I have one positive AI story? Please just let me add this. US Navy chiefs got in trouble for illegally conspiring
to install a Starlink satellite dish on their warship.
Apparently the internet on Navy ships is often restricted to preserve bandwidth
and maintain operational security. But the big dogs on board wanted to check sports scores
and stream movies uninterrupted. Is that real?
Yeah. So they smuggled the dish on board and bolted it to a wooden pallet strapped to the ship.
They may have gotten away with it too, if they bothered to hide their network's SSID.
Instead, rank and file sailors started asking why
there was an unexplained Wi-Fi network named Stinky.
And that just didn't smell right. Of course they didn't hide their SSID.
They're basically Marines with cuter uniforms. And I dare you to keep that in.
California based startup Reflect Orbital has the modest goal of being able to sell sunlight
in the middle of the night using giant sky mirrors.
While physically plausible, it's not actually clear Reflect Orbital
even has the technology to pull this kind of orbital sun mirror stunt.
Define physically plausible. I know several physicists that would have an issue with it.
I think it's plausible. The company has yet to launch anything into space,
but it's currently taking four minute reservations via its website for late next year.
As part of the reservation process, they ask you why you want your very own nighttime patch
of sun, perhaps because they also don't know why anyone would buy this over a $100 spotlight.
Also they ask you if you've heard of the moon yet. Do they?
No, but that's neck time sun.
And engineers from Cornell and Florence University
have created a new biohybrid robot that uses electrical signals from an edible mushroom
to control a mechanical body. Why do we have to say it's edible?
Probably because the mechanical body's just tripping.
Mushrooms can sense different chemical signals
from the world all around them, which allows the bio robot to dynamically respond
to its environment. Obvious applications include recreating
the predator-prey relationship as a form of enrichment for vegans.
That's a Jessica original.
This isn't an entirely new concept. Nearly a decade ago, the Open Worm project
created a digital version of a worm's brain
that could be uploaded into a Lego robot in a kind of black mirror,
but for invertebrates concept. What are we doing here? Why?
What is science? What's next?
I created a cyborg salary. Why?
He's got laser eyes.
Here's another concept. Come back on Monday for more tech news.
I'm gonna hold my breath until then to make sure you show up. If you don't, I won't take another breath
and I could die.
Raleigh, it's not worth it. It's just a new show.
Private. Please.