1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,360 Oh, I'm sorry, you wanted some happy-go-lucky, 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:07,160 positive tech news? Yeah, well tech news ain't your friend. 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:10,600 I'm your friend. I'm just trying to protect you, we know each other. 4 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:16,140 23andMe, the DNA testing company, has filed for bankruptcy nearly 20 years 5 00:00:16,140 --> 00:00:19,240 after pioneering the consumer genetic testing industry 6 00:00:19,240 --> 00:00:22,320 while collecting a valuable hoard of personal data 7 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:27,000 that would make smog the dragon blush. While the company says it will continue to operate 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,960 during the bankruptcy proceedings, during which it will seek to sell its assets, 9 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:35,700 co-founder and CEO, Ann Wojcicki, announced she's stepping down 10 00:00:35,700 --> 00:00:39,480 so she can be better positioned to bid on the company herself. 11 00:00:39,480 --> 00:00:43,880 Now, 23andMe says customer's genetic data is anonymized, 12 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:49,840 but no one's sure whether to believe that, and with the eventual fate of their genetic data uncertain, 13 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,840 privacy experts are strongly advising customers 14 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:54,840 to delete their DNA. 15 00:00:56,040 --> 00:01:00,240 How wouldn't that kill you? Oh, DNA data! 16 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:04,080 Oh, it looked like, don't do the first thing. 17 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:07,560 Also, 23andMe say that even if you delete your account, 18 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:13,320 they'll still retain a ton of data about you and your DNA, assuming you can still restore it 19 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:16,360 from the recycle bin. Hey, who's ready for some new GPUs? 20 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:20,880 These ones could be affordable, kind of. I'm talking about the 60-tier cards. 21 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:25,520 NVIDIA's RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti have had some specs leak, 22 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:29,400 courtesy of known Twitter hardware leaker, Momomo, 23 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:34,680 who posted a couple of HP's Omen desktops with an RTX 5060 Ti. 24 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:39,680 Those models have eight gigabytes of VRAM, but a 16-Gigabyte variant of the Ti 25 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:45,120 was spotted in a Best Buy listing. According to video cards with a Z.com, fun spelling, 26 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:52,080 NVIDIA's forcing their board partners to have at least one graphics card model priced at MSRP, 27 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:55,280 and it has to be available to purchase on the launch date. 28 00:01:55,280 --> 00:02:00,600 I mean, have you ever heard of such a thing? Video cards also purports to know some other specs 29 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:04,080 of the cards, which are scheduled to launch on April 16th, 30 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,560 according to WXNod on Twitter. 31 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:12,120 But there were also leaks mentioning AMD's RX 9060XT, 32 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,880 which looks like it's also coming in 8 and 16-Gigabyte 33 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:19,120 variants, courtesy of yet another Twitter leaker, 34 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:23,320 Harukaze5719. Do you think they get together on holidays? 35 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:27,120 Google has confirmed it may have possibly accidentally 36 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,640 deleted some user's data from Timeline, 37 00:02:30,640 --> 00:02:34,280 the Google Maps feature previously known as Location History. 38 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:38,040 In an email to affected users, the company said the deletion was caused 39 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:42,160 by a technical issue, but did not elaborate further, 40 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:46,360 forcing us to assume they were training a robot to deliver coffee in the server room. 41 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:50,080 You could have done that in the company ball pit, Google. Come on. 42 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:55,360 Data snafu comes after some users already lost location history data. 43 00:02:55,360 --> 00:03:01,240 After Google announced in December 2023, that it would be moved to on-device storage by default, 44 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,600 and they gave users instructions on how to back it up. 45 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:09,160 There were lots of articles spreading the word about this, but you can't reach everyone. 46 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:14,640 And now Google says that if your data was deleted and you don't have a backup, you're hooped, bud. 47 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:18,080 I mean, guys, Google's got a lot of data to keep track of. 48 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:22,480 Have you seen your Google Drive? Pulling up Bilbo Baggins over here. 49 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:27,760 Why shouldn't I keep it? Look, some of these quick bits are gonna be happy, okay? 50 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:31,720 Happy to see you. Ha ha ha, boop. 51 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:36,720 Android users are reporting that Google has started rolling out screen and camera sharing 52 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:39,760 for its Gemini Live AI conversation mode. 53 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:43,840 They're features that were previously shown off under the name Project Astra, 54 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:47,880 promising a future where you can carry on a conversation with your AI assistant, 55 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:53,600 while it looks through your phone camera, as if you're on one of the worst kind of video calls. 56 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:56,640 And look, there's the sign. 57 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,920 Oh, wow. 58 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:06,600 An Italian court has ruled that Google must block pirate websites listed 59 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:11,240 under the country's piracy shield system, replacing their original web addresses 60 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,740 with fake ones on Google's public DNS service, 61 00:04:14,740 --> 00:04:20,000 a tactic known as DNS poisoning. An Italian regulator's post on LinkedIn 62 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,380 celebrated the ruling as a win against piracy, 63 00:04:23,380 --> 00:04:28,480 which seems a little ironic, given that Italy invented the mafia. 64 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:33,720 NVIDIA's latest GPU drivers have reportedly caused 65 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:41,040 the black screen issues that affected some RTX 50 series GPUs to spread to the RTX 40 series, 66 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:45,400 according to multiple Reddit posts from users suffering the same pain. 67 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:49,060 Apparently rolling back to a previous driver sometimes fixes it, 68 00:04:49,060 --> 00:04:53,900 but then you're prevented from playing new games with up to date drivers. 69 00:04:53,900 --> 00:04:57,000 I don't know, maybe Jensen's just trying to teach us a lesson. 70 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,280 You know, just cause that screen is dark doesn't mean your mind has to be. 71 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:04,380 Imagine something in those inky depths. 72 00:05:04,380 --> 00:05:09,920 Oh God, it's coming this way. This was a mistake. The Philips Hue brand, which is now owned by Signify, 73 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:16,080 is mostly made up of RGB enabled smart lights, but a reference to a Philips Hue smart doorbell 74 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:21,200 was spotted in an app update. Interestingly, it doesn't change colors, 75 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:26,320 but it does ask visitors, Hue, are you? 76 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:41,000 And Penn State researchers have developed technology 77 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:44,720 that can create what they call audible enclaves, 78 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:51,840 little pockets of physical space inside which audio can be heard and nowhere else. 79 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:57,000 The scientists say they've achieved this using self-bending ultrasound beams 80 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:02,080 and non-linear acoustics, which I'm not here to explain to you, I could, 81 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:05,720 but I'm only here to warn that if this gets widely adopted, 82 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:09,840 walking around in a city could sound like you're flipping through radio stations. 83 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:15,200 And if people hear something they like, they could suddenly stop and then you got a sidewalk pile up on your hands. 84 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:19,520 We must destroy this technology immediately. To hear about more tech abominations 85 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:21,800 that shouldn't exist, come back on Wednesday. 86 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:26,240 What, some of it will be happy? Whatever.