WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.640 The things life throws at you sometimes. Triumphs, betrayals, literal tons of tech news. 00:00:06.640 --> 00:00:12.280 It can be a lot, but don't worry, cause I'm here to add more of that last one to the pile. 00:00:12.280 --> 00:00:17.120 You're strong, you can take it. Microsoft has apparently had enough 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:21.080 of being called microslop and has officially banned the word 00:00:21.080 --> 00:00:24.080 from the official co-pilot discord server. 00:00:24.080 --> 00:00:27.360 Naturally, this went as well as you could probably expect 00:00:27.360 --> 00:00:31.320 after the filter went live, users responded with the maturity of, 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:36.480 well discord users and flooded the chat with creative variants of the Microsoft name 00:00:36.480 --> 00:00:41.000 like microslop with a zero or sloppy soft, 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:45.160 which was mine, it came in college. A day later, the constant turmoil eventually led 00:00:45.160 --> 00:00:48.160 to the server's moderators disabling message history 00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:52.760 and restricting posting altogether. What was Microsoft's strategy here? 00:00:52.760 --> 00:00:57.640 Fixed co-pilots reputation by telling their most online users exactly which words 00:00:57.680 --> 00:01:01.520 they aren't allowed to say, they didn't have loves that. 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:06.280 Maybe CEO Sacha Nadella was just grumpy that apparently no one had listened 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:09.920 to his blog post from December, urging us to move past the idea 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:14.360 of slop versus sophistication. He had a point, 10 years from now, 00:01:14.360 --> 00:01:17.720 you're gonna feel pretty foolish when you're slurping happily from the trough 00:01:17.720 --> 00:01:22.280 with all the other piggies. So stop calling it slop, investors can hear you. 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:26.640 The Mobile World Congress kicked off today in Barcelona featuring a surprise guest, 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:29.760 the new iPhone 17E just announced by Apple. 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:35.920 They almost never participate in big tech conferences. The entire court is speculating that it's simply a ruse 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:39.280 to impress the Duke's fair cousin. Muriel? 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:43.800 Apple has finally fixed the largest complaint budget buyers had with a 16E 00:01:43.800 --> 00:01:49.680 by equipping the 17E with MagSafe. They also doubled the base storage to 256 gigabytes 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:53.480 while maintaining the 599 price point. They're so good to us. 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:56.480 Apple has also bumped the chip in the iPad Air 00:01:56.480 --> 00:02:00.040 from an M3 to an M4 while keeping its $600 MSRP, 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:03.400 128 gigabytes of base storage and 12 gigabytes of RAM, 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:07.160 which is so exciting. You'll probably want to not pre-order it on March 4th 00:02:07.160 --> 00:02:10.480 because it hit shelves on March 11th. 00:02:10.480 --> 00:02:13.560 Don't do it, not even one. Don't even line up. 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:18.280 Apple's sudden appearance had the Android phones a little bit flustered, but Xiaomi still managed 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:21.360 to show off the Leica Lights phone 17 Ultra 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:24.600 blurring the line between phone and DSLR camera 00:02:24.640 --> 00:02:28.280 by putting a big circle on the back. My brain is confused. 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:31.640 What is it? Motorola showed off the Razer Fold, 00:02:31.640 --> 00:02:35.840 its first book-style foldable and intriguingly, an enterprise-focused partnership 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:40.000 with the GrapheneOS Foundation. You know, the privacy-focused Android fork 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:44.000 you can already install yourself, but now it will come in a suit, 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:47.000 maybe made of a single layer of carbon atoms. 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:51.400 You never know what these guys, but phones gotta connect somehow, so it's a good thing that Qualcomm 00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:55.840 announced their next-gen modem, which supports native 5G over satellite. 00:02:55.840 --> 00:03:00.280 And I'm just happy this wasn't a thing back in the year 2000, or Castaway starring Tom Hanks. 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:05.320 Would've been a terrible film. Over immediately. But if you thought MWC was just for, you know, 00:03:05.320 --> 00:03:10.560 mobiles, you clearly underestimated just how much R&D money these companies 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:16.200 leave completely unsupervised. Xiaomi unveiled the Vision GT electric supercar concept, 00:03:16.200 --> 00:03:18.920 which is gonna be in the Gran Turismo racing game. 00:03:20.040 --> 00:03:25.800 You guys? I can't wait. Meanwhile, Lenovo brought enough concepts to Barcelona 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:31.000 to fill a whole separate convention center. First, they showed off a concept for the Legion Go Fold, 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:34.120 a foldable Windows gaming handheld, because the one thing missing 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:38.640 from your portable Steam library is a mechanical hinge, an inevitable repair bill. 00:03:38.640 --> 00:03:42.400 Lenovo also showed off a Thinkbook modular AI PC concept, 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:46.600 the result of a framework laptop and an ASUS ZenBook Duo having a baby 00:03:46.600 --> 00:03:49.760 in the worst way you can imagine. I didn't do it. 00:03:49.760 --> 00:03:53.080 It's essentially a system of magnetic modular screens, 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:56.680 keyboards, accessories, and ports, so you can build the laptop you want, 00:03:56.680 --> 00:04:00.640 then swap out anything on the fly, which is genuinely awesome. 00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:03.840 I make jokes. It's awesome. It's such a great concept that I can't wait 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:08.880 to never be able to buy it, but it wouldn't be a tech event without at least one robot. 00:04:08.880 --> 00:04:12.280 Lenovo explored the concept for a desktop AI workmate 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:15.480 that is literally a robot ARM with puppy dog eyes. 00:04:15.480 --> 00:04:20.200 Look at his little face. He wants to help you optimize your spreadsheets. 00:04:20.200 --> 00:04:24.080 And if that wasn't enough robotics for you, Honor unveiled its robot phone, 00:04:24.080 --> 00:04:28.600 a futuristic device sporting a little motorized robotic gimbal ARM right on the back. 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:34.320 Not only does this 200 megapixel mechanical limb offer cinematic video stabilization 00:04:34.320 --> 00:04:39.280 and autonomous subject tracking, but it physically nods, shakes his head, 00:04:39.280 --> 00:04:43.160 and dances to music, which it did alongside Honor's actual robot 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:47.480 backed by a full dance crew. It's hard to be mad at the inevitable robot uprising 00:04:47.520 --> 00:04:51.920 when it starts with a perfectly choreographed underground Berlin style dad session. 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:56.920 Still, I bet it couldn't go toe to toe with our sponsors. 00:04:56.920 --> 00:05:01.640 I know that was a lot of tech news to take in just now, but I have wonderful news. 00:05:01.640 --> 00:05:05.040 There's still five more quick bits and you gotta finish them all. 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:08.360 I know you can do it. There's gonna be a treat after. 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:14.400 Open wide. AMD is launching its Ryzen AI 400 Pro series desktop CPUs, 00:05:14.400 --> 00:05:17.440 which confusingly are replacing the Ryzen 8000G 00:05:17.440 --> 00:05:21.080 lineup, but we're far beyond any of these chip names making any sense at this point. 00:05:21.080 --> 00:05:27.440 There are six new AIM-5 processors that pair Zen 5 CPU cores with Arduino 3.5 integrated graphics 00:05:27.440 --> 00:05:31.120 and also an NPU, I guess. 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:35.440 These new chips are basically upgraded laptop CPUs meant for OEMs and business PCs. 00:05:35.440 --> 00:05:39.040 At least with the new NPU, you won't get too hot and sweaty in the sheets 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:42.520 with co-pilot trying to work out naming conventions. 00:05:42.520 --> 00:05:46.360 Put that robot ARM to good use. Spreadsheets. Seems like everyone just found out 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:52.500 about California's Digital Age Assurance Act passed in October 2025 mandating all operating systems, 00:05:52.500 --> 00:05:58.440 including Linux and SteamOS to ask for your age during setup by January 1st, 2027. 00:05:58.440 --> 00:06:03.560 The OS will send your age signal to apps so they know which content to flag as restricted, 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:08.880 but despite the non-compliance fines that can run up to $7,500, 00:06:08.880 --> 00:06:13.560 age setup is completely self-reported. No photo ID upload required. 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:17.040 It's foolproof. So prepare for a shocking demographic shift 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:22.040 of Linux users magically born on January 1st, 1900, 00:06:22.320 --> 00:06:28.560 which is exactly how old I feel when a youth mentions jester maxing or mogging. 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:32.360 YouTube is testing yet another AI feature for shorts. 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:36.480 All your favorite things in one story. This time, it's ad object, 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:42.120 which allows users to insert items into a scene and reimagine, which can generate video 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:47.920 from a single frame of a different short, whether it's yours or someone else's, do ours, do it. 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:52.360 Don't want your likeness to be used in fever dreams created by strangers, I do. 00:06:52.360 --> 00:06:57.260 You can opt out, I won't, but that disables all regular remixing on your channel. 00:06:57.260 --> 00:07:00.360 And if I can't remix other people's shorts, what is there even to post there? 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:07.120 Original content. Post something so I can post it. A new machine from Nobel Prize women chemist, Omar Yagi, 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:10.480 can pull up to 1,000 liters of drinkable water per day 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:15.040 straight out of your butt. So, straight out of desert air, 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:18.320 even in humidity as low as 20%, stop laughing Riley. 00:07:18.320 --> 00:07:23.080 The shipping container size system uses special materials called metal organic frameworks, 00:07:23.080 --> 00:07:26.560 basically ultra porous molecular sponges 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:30.600 that grab water vapor from the air and release it when heated by sunlight. 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:33.600 It can run off grid using just wind and solar energy, 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:37.600 meaning remote communities could literally generate water from thin air. 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:41.400 I guess the only question is, can we get an invite to the inaugural pool party? 00:07:41.400 --> 00:07:44.720 Not you, you've been rude. This pool is dry. 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:51.000 And a developer named Victor Larios has recreated a 1994 era Linux desktop environment 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:55.680 that runs in your browser, complete with a recreation of the classic CDE interface 00:07:55.680 --> 00:08:00.960 and Eximax text editor, and in true 90s fashion, Netscape Navigator. 00:08:00.960 --> 00:08:05.040 The reports say it's about as stable as Linux. I mean, as stable as you'd expect 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:09.880 for something pretending to be three decades old. The open source project runs as a modern web app, 00:08:09.880 --> 00:08:14.360 though reports say it's about as stable as you'd expect for something pretending to be three decades old. 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:18.360 You can also download it from GitHub and run it locally, if you want to. 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:22.360 Although, I'm not totally sure why you would, although you're a Linux user. 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:26.080 So it might make sense. Now we just needed to run Doom. 00:08:26.080 --> 00:08:29.080 After all, 94 was the year the game was ported to Linux. 00:08:29.080 --> 00:08:33.800 Fun fact, I knew that and you didn't. I also know you're gonna come back here on Wednesday 00:08:33.800 --> 00:08:38.040 for more tech news because you're a fortuitous person. 00:08:38.040 --> 00:08:43.640 You have what it takes to get hit with everything Life throws at ya and keeps standing, stand tall, player. 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:49.400 And you just might shoot the high score. What am I saying? 00:08:49.400 --> 00:08:52.640 There's so many different ways to take this. We're gonna make it to championships. 00:08:52.640 --> 00:08:53.480 Okay.