1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,640 Tech news comes and tech news goes. I try to make it stay for a while, but that never works. 2 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:09,520 I can't, I can't control it. It doesn't listen. 3 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:13,280 The humane AI pin, the first in a coming wave 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:16,600 of small AI powered devices has launched. 5 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:21,280 And now everyone's upset. Tech reviewers are upset that the AI pin is expensive, 6 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:27,920 requiring a $700 purchase, plus a $24 a month T-Mobile 4G LTE subscription, 7 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:31,560 separate from your phone plan. It's incredibly slow to respond. 8 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:35,800 It doesn't actually do what it's supposed to half the time. It overheats regularly, 9 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:39,720 makes you look like a weirdo in public, and that's only scratching the surface. 10 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:45,120 But defenders of the AI pin are also upset because the tech reviewers just don't get 11 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:50,400 that it's not meant to replace your smartphone. You shouldn't compare the AI pin to a smartphone. 12 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:54,960 You should compare it to the first iPhone because both of them sucked at launch. 13 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,360 Listen, humane's head engineer Ken Kosienda 14 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:04,600 admits that the revolutionary AI device his company just launched is frustrating sometimes. 15 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:08,440 Occasionally, the AI simply won't listen and has to be sent to its room. 16 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:12,840 But that doesn't mean you should write the pin off. Why don't you watch humane's YouTube videos 17 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:16,080 where they try to explain what the fuck this thing is? 18 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:19,760 At the very least, it might humanize humane's CEO 19 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,080 and co-founder, former Apple designer Imran Choudhury. 20 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:27,200 See, he's not sad all the time. Okay, now's the part where I say, 21 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:31,680 to be fair, the AI pin is an attempt to create a new category of device 22 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:36,360 which always comes with growing pains. Humane has posted a roadmap of upcoming features 23 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:40,880 and to be honest, the idea of using just my voice for a bunch of things which currently require 24 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:45,280 grabbing my phone sounds great. But this ain't it, chief. 25 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:49,920 Now, to wait a couple weeks for the Rabbit R1 to launch so we can do this all over again. 26 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,040 Apple announced that iPhone owners and repair shops 27 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:58,640 will be able to fix their devices with used parts from other iPhones and not have to deal 28 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:02,680 with a shameful error message for installing a part that wasn't genuine. 29 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:08,120 Oh, I can't believe you've done this. Apple has specified that the used parts affected 30 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:11,200 by this update, including face ID and touch ID sensors, 31 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:16,360 screens, batteries and cameras, still have to be genuine Apple parts. 32 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:21,360 Third-party components will not work correctly. This is because of parts pairing. 33 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:25,360 Apple's practice of requiring an iPhone to validate whether a part is genuine, 34 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:30,160 which Apple hardware executive, John Turnes, convincingly called not evil. 35 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:33,580 Okay. To be clear, Apple's announcement is unquestionably 36 00:02:33,580 --> 00:02:38,080 great news for repair heads. Just don't let Apple diehards know 37 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:41,520 that their devices have become more open. They don't seem to like that. 38 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:47,720 Here's a little something for everyone though. Mark Muadib, God Emperor German says that new Macs 39 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:52,320 will be coming out later this year powered by Apple's new M4 chips, 40 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:56,800 which will pack extra AI smarts and come in three flavors, 41 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:01,680 code named Donan, Brava and Hydra. 42 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:05,000 I'm assuming because Apple's running out of synonyms for Ultra. 43 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,640 The Apple M4 Mucho Grande. Haven't used that one. 44 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:12,720 If you use it, you owe me royalties. Like it or not, a bunch of other noteworthy AI news 45 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:18,160 occurred this week, starting with the launch of UDO, an AI music generator created by a team 46 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:23,400 of former Google DeepMinders. Together with the also very good Suno V3, 47 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:28,600 which launched a few weeks ago, we're basically having a Sora moment for AI music, 48 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:34,040 except these tools are actually available. Meaning it's easier than ever to make a 50s pop ballad 49 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:37,560 about how your friend soiled himself at work. It is a banger. 50 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:42,120 Or if you prefer a sad girl indie song about software license terms. 51 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:47,680 We couldn't do these things before. Other models released this week include Mixdral 8X22B, 52 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:52,600 which French startup, Mistral, dropped as a 281 Gigabyte torrent file, 53 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:56,160 and Gemini 1.5 Pro, which is now available to developers 54 00:03:56,160 --> 00:04:02,300 through Google's Vertex AI platform. Open AI released a new version of GPT-4 Turbo, 55 00:04:02,300 --> 00:04:05,640 but didn't initially describe what was different about it, 56 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:10,400 other than saying it's majorly improved. Sam Altman chimed in to clarify 57 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:14,760 that it's significantly smarter and more pleasant to use. 58 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:18,480 To be specific though, it's more good and less bad. 59 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:23,600 Open AI eventually did post benchmark results showing that it's kind of better at math. 60 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:28,120 I don't know, maybe the two researchers just fired by the for-profit non-profit 61 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:32,880 for allegedly leaking information, no more. We should ask them before they start their own company 62 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,980 and get billions from Microsoft. QuickBits aren't called QuickBits because they're fast. 63 00:04:36,980 --> 00:04:41,320 They're made out of QuickLine, and if you touch them, they cause severe irritation. 64 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,920 My life is pain. Discord has shut down the servers 65 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:50,160 for Nintendo Switch emulators, Suyu and Sudachi, and completely disabled 66 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:55,600 the Discord accounts of their lead developers. The platform claims there was a court ordered injunction 67 00:04:55,600 --> 00:05:00,520 for the takedown of materials on those servers, likely because both Suyu and Sudachi 68 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:06,240 started life as forks of Yuzu, the emulator Nintendo sued all the way to hell. 69 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:11,400 And that's not the only bad news for Suyu-enthus-Suyu-seists, all right. 70 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,780 According to someone claiming to be a Suyu developer, 71 00:05:14,780 --> 00:05:19,740 the emulation project is dead, or rather, it's no longer a thing. 72 00:05:19,740 --> 00:05:23,300 That's beautiful. I hope that's what my kids say about me and my funeral. 73 00:05:23,300 --> 00:05:26,560 Intel has decided to discontinue boxed versions 74 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:29,900 of their 13th gen core K series CPUs, 75 00:05:29,900 --> 00:05:36,000 something that may seem like a surprising move seeing that boxed 12th gen chips are still alive and well, 76 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:41,660 but it makes a bit more sense when you consider that all the discontinued SKUs are based on the same silicon 77 00:05:41,660 --> 00:05:46,260 that's being used in the newer, better, 14th gen K series chips. 78 00:05:46,260 --> 00:05:51,380 Essentially, the 12th gen chips are like your dog and 13th gen is a kid, okay? 79 00:05:51,380 --> 00:05:58,420 Hear me out. I think Jacob wrote this one. A dog can't replace a kid, but a newer, better kid can. 80 00:05:58,420 --> 00:06:02,220 Mm, not sure. You just get rid of the old one 81 00:06:02,220 --> 00:06:06,060 and call the new one by the old one's name. No one knows the difference, everyone wins, 82 00:06:06,060 --> 00:06:09,260 except the older kid. Instagram is taking a bold new step 83 00:06:09,260 --> 00:06:12,500 in the fight against unsolicited dick pics 84 00:06:12,500 --> 00:06:15,700 by introducing a feature that proactively scans images 85 00:06:15,700 --> 00:06:19,540 sent as DMs for nudity and then blurs it. 86 00:06:19,540 --> 00:06:23,100 Now this feature will be on by default for users under 18, 87 00:06:23,100 --> 00:06:28,140 but it's also an option for grown adults who don't want every app to turn into a hookup app. 88 00:06:28,140 --> 00:06:31,540 We have LinkedIn for that. The feature will also gently prompt users 89 00:06:31,540 --> 00:06:36,260 to reconsider if they appear to be trying to send a nude image. 90 00:06:36,260 --> 00:06:41,980 According to Meta, the feature isn't just to shield our poor innocent eyes from unexpected danglage, 91 00:06:41,980 --> 00:06:44,980 but also to undermine blackmailers who use nudes 92 00:06:44,980 --> 00:06:49,860 to encourage unsuspecting users to send them potential extortion material. 93 00:06:49,860 --> 00:06:53,020 Beware, she might say boobs in bio, 94 00:06:53,020 --> 00:06:59,020 but that is just her siren song, calling unwary sailors to dash themselves upon the rocks. 95 00:06:59,020 --> 00:07:04,540 It's dangerous out there. Google has announced that they will be making several AI editing tools for Google Photos 96 00:07:04,540 --> 00:07:09,540 available for free to all users, including Magic Editor, Magic Eraser, 97 00:07:09,540 --> 00:07:14,540 Photo Unblur, and Portrait Light. The features were previously exclusive to Pixel users 98 00:07:14,540 --> 00:07:19,340 and Google One subscribers, while free users had a limited number of uses every month. 99 00:07:19,340 --> 00:07:23,860 The Magic Eraser feature will be particularly useful if you're looking to gradually delete yourself 100 00:07:23,860 --> 00:07:28,140 from all of your loved ones' photos and gaslight them into believing you never existed. 101 00:07:28,140 --> 00:07:31,900 It's at least one use case. And Microsoft has apparently been pushing 102 00:07:31,900 --> 00:07:35,420 full-screen pop-up ads to Windows 10 users, 103 00:07:35,460 --> 00:07:40,020 encouraging them to switch to Windows 11, despite the fact that many of their computers 104 00:07:40,020 --> 00:07:45,020 aren't even eligible to run Windows 11, a fact that the ad itself acknowledges. 105 00:07:45,020 --> 00:07:48,660 Windows 10, you can't get it, but pretty nice, huh? 106 00:07:48,660 --> 00:07:53,940 Official Windows 10 support will soon be ending, of course, and continued security updates for the next year 107 00:07:53,940 --> 00:07:58,420 will cost $61 per device. The upgrade to Windows 11 is free. 108 00:07:58,420 --> 00:08:02,380 You just need to buy a whole new computer, but you don't need anything to come back on Monday 109 00:08:02,380 --> 00:08:07,340 for more tech news. If the internet gets shut off, just, you know, sit in front of your monitor 110 00:08:07,340 --> 00:08:09,540 and imagine what the tech news would be like.