WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.360 Oh, I'm sorry, you wanted some happy-go-lucky, 00:00:03.360 --> 00:00:07.160 positive tech news? Yeah, well tech news ain't your friend. 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:10.600 I'm your friend. I'm just trying to protect you, we know each other. 00:00:10.600 --> 00:00:16.140 23andMe, the DNA testing company, has filed for bankruptcy nearly 20 years 00:00:16.140 --> 00:00:19.240 after pioneering the consumer genetic testing industry 00:00:19.240 --> 00:00:22.320 while collecting a valuable hoard of personal data 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:27.000 that would make smog the dragon blush. While the company says it will continue to operate 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:30.960 during the bankruptcy proceedings, during which it will seek to sell its assets, 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:35.700 co-founder and CEO, Ann Wojcicki, announced she's stepping down 00:00:35.700 --> 00:00:39.480 so she can be better positioned to bid on the company herself. 00:00:39.480 --> 00:00:43.880 Now, 23andMe says customer's genetic data is anonymized, 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, 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:52.840 privacy experts are strongly advising customers 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:54.840 to delete their DNA. 00:00:56.040 --> 00:01:00.240 How wouldn't that kill you? Oh, DNA data! 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:04.080 Oh, it looked like, don't do the first thing. 00:01:04.080 --> 00:01:07.560 Also, 23andMe say that even if you delete your account, 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 00:01:13.320 --> 00:01:16.360 from the recycle bin. Hey, who's ready for some new GPUs? 00:01:16.360 --> 00:01:20.880 These ones could be affordable, kind of. I'm talking about the 60-tier cards. 00:01:20.880 --> 00:01:25.520 NVIDIA's RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti have had some specs leak, 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:29.400 courtesy of known Twitter hardware leaker, Momomo, 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:34.680 who posted a couple of HP's Omen desktops with an RTX 5060 Ti. 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:39.680 Those models have eight gigabytes of VRAM, but a 16-Gigabyte variant of the Ti 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, 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, 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:55.280 and it has to be available to purchase on the launch date. 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 00:02:00.600 --> 00:02:04.080 of the cards, which are scheduled to launch on April 16th, 00:02:04.080 --> 00:02:07.560 according to WXNod on Twitter. 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:12.120 But there were also leaks mentioning AMD's RX 9060XT, 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:15.880 which looks like it's also coming in 8 and 16-Gigabyte 00:02:15.880 --> 00:02:19.120 variants, courtesy of yet another Twitter leaker, 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:23.320 Harukaze5719. Do you think they get together on holidays? 00:02:23.320 --> 00:02:27.120 Google has confirmed it may have possibly accidentally 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:30.640 deleted some user's data from Timeline, 00:02:30.640 --> 00:02:34.280 the Google Maps feature previously known as Location History. 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:38.040 In an email to affected users, the company said the deletion was caused 00:02:38.040 --> 00:02:42.160 by a technical issue, but did not elaborate further, 00:02:42.160 --> 00:02:46.360 forcing us to assume they were training a robot to deliver coffee in the server room. 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:50.080 You could have done that in the company ball pit, Google. Come on. 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:55.360 Data snafu comes after some users already lost location history data. 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, 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:04.600 and they gave users instructions on how to back it up. 00:03:04.600 --> 00:03:09.160 There were lots of articles spreading the word about this, but you can't reach everyone. 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. 00:03:14.640 --> 00:03:18.080 I mean, guys, Google's got a lot of data to keep track of. 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:22.480 Have you seen your Google Drive? Pulling up Bilbo Baggins over here. 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? 00:03:28.640 --> 00:03:31.720 Happy to see you. Ha ha ha, boop. 00:03:31.720 --> 00:03:36.720 Android users are reporting that Google has started rolling out screen and camera sharing 00:03:36.720 --> 00:03:39.760 for its Gemini Live AI conversation mode. 00:03:39.760 --> 00:03:43.840 They're features that were previously shown off under the name Project Astra, 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:47.880 promising a future where you can carry on a conversation with your AI assistant, 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. 00:03:53.600 --> 00:03:56.640 And look, there's the sign. 00:03:58.760 --> 00:04:01.920 Oh, wow. 00:04:01.920 --> 00:04:06.600 An Italian court has ruled that Google must block pirate websites listed 00:04:06.600 --> 00:04:11.240 under the country's piracy shield system, replacing their original web addresses 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:14.740 with fake ones on Google's public DNS service, 00:04:14.740 --> 00:04:20.000 a tactic known as DNS poisoning. An Italian regulator's post on LinkedIn 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:23.380 celebrated the ruling as a win against piracy, 00:04:23.380 --> 00:04:28.480 which seems a little ironic, given that Italy invented the mafia. 00:04:30.640 --> 00:04:33.720 NVIDIA's latest GPU drivers have reportedly caused 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, 00:04:41.080 --> 00:04:45.400 according to multiple Reddit posts from users suffering the same pain. 00:04:45.400 --> 00:04:49.060 Apparently rolling back to a previous driver sometimes fixes it, 00:04:49.060 --> 00:04:53.900 but then you're prevented from playing new games with up to date drivers. 00:04:53.900 --> 00:04:57.000 I don't know, maybe Jensen's just trying to teach us a lesson. 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:01.280 You know, just cause that screen is dark doesn't mean your mind has to be. 00:05:01.280 --> 00:05:04.380 Imagine something in those inky depths. 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, 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 00:05:16.080 --> 00:05:21.200 was spotted in an app update. Interestingly, it doesn't change colors, 00:05:21.200 --> 00:05:26.320 but it does ask visitors, Hue, are you? 00:05:37.960 --> 00:05:41.000 And Penn State researchers have developed technology 00:05:41.080 --> 00:05:44.720 that can create what they call audible enclaves, 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:51.840 little pockets of physical space inside which audio can be heard and nowhere else. 00:05:51.840 --> 00:05:57.000 The scientists say they've achieved this using self-bending ultrasound beams 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:02.080 and non-linear acoustics, which I'm not here to explain to you, I could, 00:06:02.080 --> 00:06:05.720 but I'm only here to warn that if this gets widely adopted, 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:09.840 walking around in a city could sound like you're flipping through radio stations. 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. 00:06:15.200 --> 00:06:19.520 We must destroy this technology immediately. To hear about more tech abominations 00:06:19.520 --> 00:06:21.800 that shouldn't exist, come back on Wednesday. 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:26.240 What, some of it will be happy? Whatever.