WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.440 Four score and seven years ago. There was no tech news. 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:08.040 But if there was, it definitely wasn't included in any YouTube videos. 00:00:08.040 --> 00:00:12.120 They were making videos about the Spanish Civil War or, 00:00:12.120 --> 00:00:15.800 I don't know. Pours and buggies. Being poor. 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:20.720 AMD has confirmed the existence of its Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor, 00:00:20.720 --> 00:00:26.160 the successor to the Z1 Extreme, powering gaming handhelds like Lenovo's Legion Go 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:30.840 and the ASUS ROG Ally X. According to digital trends in a joint briefing 00:00:30.840 --> 00:00:33.880 with Microsoft at the IFA 2024 conference, 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:39.560 AMD said they're targeting a release date of early 2025 for the Z2 Extreme, 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:44.520 which would presumably arrive inside of new handheld devices. 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:49.080 Not floating down from the sky with little parachutes after being shot out of an air cannon. 00:00:49.080 --> 00:00:53.400 I don't know who keeps putting that idea in the script. It's very stupid. 00:00:53.400 --> 00:00:56.920 It's you. No specs for the chip were given, 00:00:56.920 --> 00:01:00.760 but AMD exec Jack Quinn said he wants 00:01:00.760 --> 00:01:06.640 to play Black Myth Wukong for three hours instead of the 45 minutes current handhelds can muster. 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:12.200 And Jack, he gets what he wants. Team Red also said they're working with several partners, 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:15.240 which could include Valve. 00:01:15.240 --> 00:01:18.500 The Steam Deck did not use a Z1 chip, 00:01:18.500 --> 00:01:24.840 but it did use AMD chips. So we may see the Z2 Extreme power the Steam Deck too, 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:30.880 or Valve might follow Acer, who went with a Ryzen 7 8840HS 00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:37.920 in their recently announced handheld and energy drink from 2010, the Nitroblades 7. 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:41.240 The Nitroblades 6 cost several heart attacks. 00:01:41.240 --> 00:01:46.880 Intel was having a great week following its reveal of Lunar Lake as a compelling answer 00:01:46.880 --> 00:01:52.040 to Qualcomm's Snapdragon X series laptop chips, but then Intel had to go and mess it up 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:58.400 by announcing it's outsourcing the production of Lunar Lake's successor Aerolake to external partners. 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:01.680 It's not a great look as the plan has been 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:05.920 to manufacture Aerolake on the Intel 20a node for years, 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:13.400 but don't worry, Intel found a good way to spin this. You see, they've had early success on Intel 18a, 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:19.120 which enables them to shift engineering resources from Intel 20a earlier than expected. 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:22.640 We're giving up on our own technology and outsourcing production to our competitors, 00:02:22.640 --> 00:02:25.700 but that's a good thing. We went for coffee with them and they're really, 00:02:25.700 --> 00:02:29.880 they're not so bad, they're good guys. They see biscuits instead of cookies, they're crazy. 00:02:29.880 --> 00:02:36.480 The news is inviting speculation about whether CEO Pat Gelsinger really is the chosen one, 00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:42.600 prophesied to bring balance to the fabs. According to Reuters, it's also making Qualcomm 00:02:42.600 --> 00:02:46.960 consider trying to acquire different pieces of Intel, 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:52.040 like a vulture, planning which giblets it's gonna pick off a half-dead antelope 00:02:52.040 --> 00:02:56.760 dragging itself across the savannah. That's a gruesome image, who put this in here? 00:02:56.760 --> 00:03:02.720 This is a kid's show. You did it. This is, kids gotta learn, death is a part of life. 00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:06.000 Death is real and also it's brutal. That's tech news, baby. 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:12.200 The internet archive has lost its attempt to appeal the final ruling from its March 2023 court battle 00:03:12.200 --> 00:03:16.480 with the association of American publishers in which the archive's operation 00:03:16.480 --> 00:03:21.440 as a non-profit digital library was found to be copyright infringement. 00:03:21.440 --> 00:03:27.160 Publishers Hatchett, Harper Collins, and Penguin Random House sued the internet archive 00:03:27.160 --> 00:03:30.960 in 2020 over its controlled digital lending system. 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:37.800 In the recent appeals decision, the judges ask, is it fair use to scan copyrighted physical books 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:42.560 and distribute as many digital copies as you have physical copies for free 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:45.600 as if you're some kind of library or something? 00:03:45.600 --> 00:03:49.480 No, you buy your books like the founding fathers intended. 00:03:49.480 --> 00:03:53.160 It's the third amendment. We're Canadian, I don't know what the amendment is. 00:03:53.160 --> 00:03:56.400 It's not actually a third amendment. I just wanna clarify that I know 00:03:56.400 --> 00:03:59.480 it's not the third amendment. Okay, that was close. 00:03:59.480 --> 00:04:04.600 Except, like other libraries, the internet archive does buy books, 00:04:04.600 --> 00:04:10.960 which as author Malcolm Harris points out on Twitter, means they're not really taking sales away 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:14.440 from individual authors. But I admit, we're not legal experts 00:04:14.440 --> 00:04:18.840 and the only place the internet archive has left to take this case is the Supreme Court. 00:04:18.840 --> 00:04:22.260 So we'll see how things play out there. Though this does make me agree 00:04:22.260 --> 00:04:27.740 with Twitter user gentlemenbug. If scanning books doesn't count as fair use, 00:04:27.740 --> 00:04:33.780 where is the publisher lawsuit against open AI? I mean, last I heard they had scanned some things. 00:04:33.780 --> 00:04:38.380 But the quick bits are so fast, we can't say four score in seven years ago. 00:04:38.380 --> 00:04:44.700 We just say 87 years ago. We don't have time to be poetic. Ah, version 6.0 of the Bluetooth standard 00:04:44.700 --> 00:04:48.900 has been released a mere eight years after the last major version. 00:04:48.900 --> 00:04:55.100 Yes, I know 5.4 came out last year, but it doesn't, why do you know so much 00:04:55.100 --> 00:04:58.580 about Bluetooth standards? In addition to reducing power consumption 00:04:58.580 --> 00:05:02.540 and increasing efficiency, Bluetooth 6's channel sounding feature 00:05:02.540 --> 00:05:08.460 will allow centimeter level accuracy for device tracking over considerable distances. 00:05:08.460 --> 00:05:12.460 This could allow Googles find my device network to catch up to Apple's, 00:05:12.460 --> 00:05:16.340 which currently uses ultra wideband tech for precision tracking. 00:05:16.340 --> 00:05:20.780 Or Apple could ditch the ultra wideband chips in their devices and make them cheaper for customers. 00:05:20.780 --> 00:05:27.460 And I'm just kidding, that's not gonna happen. Phone maker honor is using AI to fight near sightedness. 00:05:27.460 --> 00:05:31.860 Near sightedness or myopia, a condition from which I sadly suffer, 00:05:31.860 --> 00:05:36.340 occurs when eyes grow longer to better focus on close objects. 00:05:36.340 --> 00:05:40.580 Something that has apparently grown more commonplace in a world full of screens. 00:05:40.580 --> 00:05:45.860 Where are the people? Some of honor's devices, like the magic V3 foldable phone, 00:05:45.860 --> 00:05:49.100 use advanced display and AI tech 00:05:49.100 --> 00:05:52.220 to defocus certain colors. 00:05:52.220 --> 00:05:56.180 Apparently this may help slow the progression of myopia. 00:05:56.180 --> 00:05:59.380 Could this also be solved with less screen time? 00:05:59.380 --> 00:06:03.820 Maybe, but honor also has an AI powered deep fake video detector. 00:06:03.820 --> 00:06:07.060 And yes, maybe that problem would also be solved with less screen time. 00:06:07.060 --> 00:06:14.100 But can I have one positive AI story? Please just let me add this. US Navy chiefs got in trouble for illegally conspiring 00:06:14.140 --> 00:06:17.580 to install a Starlink satellite dish on their warship. 00:06:17.580 --> 00:06:21.940 Apparently the internet on Navy ships is often restricted to preserve bandwidth 00:06:21.940 --> 00:06:27.860 and maintain operational security. But the big dogs on board wanted to check sports scores 00:06:27.860 --> 00:06:30.940 and stream movies uninterrupted. Is that real? 00:06:30.940 --> 00:06:36.660 Yeah. So they smuggled the dish on board and bolted it to a wooden pallet strapped to the ship. 00:06:36.660 --> 00:06:41.580 They may have gotten away with it too, if they bothered to hide their network's SSID. 00:06:41.580 --> 00:06:45.140 Instead, rank and file sailors started asking why 00:06:45.140 --> 00:06:48.980 there was an unexplained Wi-Fi network named Stinky. 00:06:48.980 --> 00:06:52.140 And that just didn't smell right. Of course they didn't hide their SSID. 00:06:52.140 --> 00:06:56.180 They're basically Marines with cuter uniforms. And I dare you to keep that in. 00:06:56.180 --> 00:07:02.740 California based startup Reflect Orbital has the modest goal of being able to sell sunlight 00:07:02.740 --> 00:07:06.340 in the middle of the night using giant sky mirrors. 00:07:06.340 --> 00:07:10.420 While physically plausible, it's not actually clear Reflect Orbital 00:07:10.420 --> 00:07:15.220 even has the technology to pull this kind of orbital sun mirror stunt. 00:07:15.220 --> 00:07:19.140 Define physically plausible. I know several physicists that would have an issue with it. 00:07:19.140 --> 00:07:23.580 I think it's plausible. The company has yet to launch anything into space, 00:07:23.580 --> 00:07:28.820 but it's currently taking four minute reservations via its website for late next year. 00:07:28.820 --> 00:07:33.940 As part of the reservation process, they ask you why you want your very own nighttime patch 00:07:33.940 --> 00:07:40.460 of sun, perhaps because they also don't know why anyone would buy this over a $100 spotlight. 00:07:40.460 --> 00:07:44.060 Also they ask you if you've heard of the moon yet. Do they? 00:07:44.060 --> 00:07:47.220 No, but that's neck time sun. 00:07:47.220 --> 00:07:50.420 And engineers from Cornell and Florence University 00:07:50.420 --> 00:07:56.220 have created a new biohybrid robot that uses electrical signals from an edible mushroom 00:07:56.220 --> 00:07:59.980 to control a mechanical body. Why do we have to say it's edible? 00:07:59.980 --> 00:08:03.060 Probably because the mechanical body's just tripping. 00:08:03.060 --> 00:08:06.180 Mushrooms can sense different chemical signals 00:08:06.180 --> 00:08:11.140 from the world all around them, which allows the bio robot to dynamically respond 00:08:11.140 --> 00:08:14.660 to its environment. Obvious applications include recreating 00:08:14.660 --> 00:08:19.060 the predator-prey relationship as a form of enrichment for vegans. 00:08:19.060 --> 00:08:23.140 That's a Jessica original. 00:08:23.140 --> 00:08:28.260 This isn't an entirely new concept. Nearly a decade ago, the Open Worm project 00:08:28.260 --> 00:08:31.260 created a digital version of a worm's brain 00:08:31.260 --> 00:08:35.660 that could be uploaded into a Lego robot in a kind of black mirror, 00:08:35.660 --> 00:08:39.220 but for invertebrates concept. What are we doing here? Why? 00:08:39.220 --> 00:08:42.220 What is science? What's next? 00:08:42.220 --> 00:08:45.860 I created a cyborg salary. Why? 00:08:45.860 --> 00:08:49.740 He's got laser eyes. 00:08:49.740 --> 00:08:53.020 Here's another concept. Come back on Monday for more tech news. 00:08:53.020 --> 00:08:57.140 I'm gonna hold my breath until then to make sure you show up. If you don't, I won't take another breath 00:08:57.140 --> 00:08:58.260 and I could die. 00:09:00.380 --> 00:09:02.700 Raleigh, it's not worth it. It's just a new show. 00:09:04.580 --> 00:09:06.260 Private. Please.