WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.880 Hey, America, you know, happy birthday. 00:00:03.880 --> 00:00:07.600 I got you some tech news, cause I don't know if you're gonna love all the other 00:00:07.600 --> 00:00:12.260 presents your dad's giving you. So Hell Divers 2 will officially be the first 00:00:12.260 --> 00:00:15.320 PlayStation exclusive game actually published by 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:19.160 PlayStation to arrive on Xbox when it drops from orbit 00:00:19.160 --> 00:00:23.120 on August 26th. Hoorah! Is that what they, is that? 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:26.200 Super Earth for the win! I haven't played the game. 00:00:26.200 --> 00:00:30.480 It's not the first time a PlayStation exclusive has found its way to Xbox. 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:35.920 There's MLB The Show, for instance, but that game is published by MLB itself 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:39.240 and it's understood they kind of forced Sony to let them do it. 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:42.280 Baseball people, you know, very intimidating. They have bats. 00:00:42.280 --> 00:00:48.680 This appears to be the first time PlayStation has voluntarily let an exclusive cross over to Xbox. 00:00:48.680 --> 00:00:52.160 Perhaps giving PlayStation fans a taste of the rage 00:00:52.160 --> 00:00:58.040 Xbox fans have felt for years watching their precious exclusives being given away. 00:00:58.680 --> 00:01:02.200 Oh, seems like the vast majority of PlayStation players 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:05.400 think this is good or don't really care. 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:09.860 But that's not stopping gaming sites from trying to get some clicks with game rant highlighting 00:01:09.860 --> 00:01:12.960 negative comments made by a lot of fans on Twitter, 00:01:12.960 --> 00:01:18.000 Reddit, and the PlayStation blog, which has three comments, all negative, 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:23.000 and also all written by the same guy. As for why this is all happening now, 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:26.480 I don't know, maybe PlayStation is throwing Xbox a bone. 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:32.040 After all, they just got hit by big layoffs and then Xbox exec Matt Turnbull tried to help 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:36.160 by offering the best advice he can under the circumstances, 00:01:36.160 --> 00:01:40.280 which is ideas for prompts that you can feed an AI 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:44.680 that should make you feel better about being fired from your game developer job by the company 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:48.460 building AI game generators. Thank you. 00:01:48.460 --> 00:01:52.680 In other game type news, the Stop Killing Games Initiative in support 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:56.040 of game preservation has hit the goals for its EU 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:59.280 and UK petitions with more than 1.1 million 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:02.520 and 150,000 signatures respectively. 00:02:02.520 --> 00:02:06.520 But they could still use more as officials will have to verify them. 00:02:06.520 --> 00:02:12.000 And a bunch of those signatures probably don't count because the people signing didn't mean it enough. 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:17.560 So if you live in the EU or the UK and you wanna stop the ruthless massacre of video games, 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:21.760 go on and sign the petitions. Links are with our news sources in the description. 00:02:21.760 --> 00:02:24.920 Now the UK government actually already responded 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:28.520 to the petition in May saying there's no law requiring 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:32.760 game companies to essentially support their games indefinitely. 00:02:32.760 --> 00:02:38.120 But one, they're not being asked to do that only to make an end of life plan that gives players 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:42.600 any option to not lose the game forever. Self hosting servers, for example. 00:02:42.600 --> 00:02:45.680 And two, there's no law saying that 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:52.160 that's why there's a petition. So now as if on cue, right as the petitions hit their goals, 00:02:52.160 --> 00:02:59.520 EA announced they'll be shutting down the servers for Anthem Bioware's ill-fated looter shooter from 2019 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:05.600 on January 12th, 2026. The news was crushing to players in the Anthem subreddit 00:03:05.600 --> 00:03:10.520 because yeah, people have still consistently been playing this game because other games 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:16.400 haven't quite managed to recreate that core flying around cosplaying as Iron Man mechanic, 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:20.280 which was one of the things that game did right. Yes, I beat it. 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:24.920 The story is bad. But the soundtrack, ooh, still gets me. 00:03:24.920 --> 00:03:29.440 Bum-ba-dee, oh, you gotta check, you gotta Spotify. 00:03:29.440 --> 00:03:36.640 After passing votes in the Senate and House, US President Donald Trump has signed his big beautiful bill 00:03:36.640 --> 00:03:40.960 into law, which puts some notable tech policies into place. 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:44.720 The $7,500 EV tax credit is being taken away 00:03:44.720 --> 00:03:50.160 on September 30th, while tax credits for building new solar and wind energy infrastructure 00:03:50.200 --> 00:03:55.360 will be phased out by 2027, which is expected to raise the cost of electricity 00:03:55.360 --> 00:04:00.480 in nearly every state. The big boy bill will also require 800 megahertz 00:04:00.480 --> 00:04:04.400 of electromagnetic spectrum, around the six to seven gigahertz mark, 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:09.720 to be auctioned off by 2034, which could make Wi-Fi slower, 00:04:09.720 --> 00:04:14.040 as those bands are used in the Wi-Fi 6 and 7 spec. 00:04:14.040 --> 00:04:20.140 But there is something good in there. The tax credit for building chip manufacturing capacity, 00:04:20.140 --> 00:04:24.580 in the US, is rising to 35% from 25%. 00:04:24.580 --> 00:04:28.780 And that follows the Trump administration lifting its restrictions on the export 00:04:28.780 --> 00:04:33.140 of chip design software to China. Now this will obviously help Chinese companies 00:04:33.140 --> 00:04:37.220 design their own chips, but it's a hopeful sign that the US's trade deal 00:04:37.220 --> 00:04:42.420 with China did actually go through and they'll export rare earth minerals again, 00:04:42.420 --> 00:04:46.940 which are vital to the production of batteries and have that satisfying crunch 00:04:46.940 --> 00:04:51.300 I just can't find anywhere else. The New York Times has a helpful breakdown 00:04:51.300 --> 00:04:56.060 of the entire bill, so check that out if you wanna find out about all the non-tech stuff. 00:04:56.060 --> 00:05:00.740 That's none of my business. America, guess what? I got you more gifts because I'm your best friend 00:05:00.740 --> 00:05:04.780 and you love QuickBit, so I got some of those for your birthday too. Happy birthday, America. 00:05:04.780 --> 00:05:10.100 Open them. Reviews for NVIDIA's RTX 5050 are out and, 00:05:10.100 --> 00:05:14.540 well, you know, it's 250 bucks, 00:05:14.540 --> 00:05:17.900 the same MSRP as the Intel ARC B580, 00:05:17.900 --> 00:05:24.380 but with four Gigabyte less VRAM, a smaller 128-bit memory bus, and worse performance. 00:05:24.380 --> 00:05:28.660 Once again, though, how gamers feel about this literally doesn't matter to anyone, 00:05:28.660 --> 00:05:32.820 least of all to NVIDIA's market cap, which almost got high enough to make NVIDIA 00:05:32.820 --> 00:05:36.140 the world's most valuable company in history. 00:05:36.140 --> 00:05:39.260 But perhaps if we yell at Jensen louder. 00:05:39.260 --> 00:05:45.980 Meta is working on training its chatbots to message users to follow up on previous conversations, 00:05:46.020 --> 00:05:50.260 unprompted, according to leaked documents seen by Business Insider, 00:05:50.260 --> 00:05:54.420 which was later confirmed by Meta, and will do nothing to make chatbots 00:05:54.420 --> 00:05:58.020 seem less desperate for your approval. They just fold, right? 00:05:58.020 --> 00:06:01.140 Have some backbone. Oh, maybe the messages can show up 00:06:01.140 --> 00:06:06.060 on this touchscreen trackpad from eInk, the company, which is apparently specifically designed 00:06:06.060 --> 00:06:09.300 to display AI-generated content. 00:06:09.300 --> 00:06:11.580 Why? So I can do this? 00:06:12.940 --> 00:06:18.380 I mean, it might make it easier to ignore. The archive team is recruiting PC users 00:06:18.380 --> 00:06:22.060 to donate internet bandwidth they're not using to the internet archive, 00:06:22.060 --> 00:06:26.820 which is unironically one of the most important public good projects out there right now. 00:06:26.820 --> 00:06:30.700 But how? Through a tool called Archive Team Warrior, 00:06:30.700 --> 00:06:35.500 which runs inside a lightweight virtual machine, uses almost no system resources. 00:06:35.500 --> 00:06:41.140 Check it out, maybe support them by getting a sticker that depicts an archive team warrior 00:06:41.140 --> 00:06:46.180 running away from danger. Hey, I mean, not all wars. 00:06:48.700 --> 00:06:53.180 Not all wars. The Fairphone 6, a phone designed specifically 00:06:53.180 --> 00:06:58.420 to be super repairable, came out last week and iFixit has given it a repairability score 00:06:58.420 --> 00:07:02.340 of 10 out of 10. Phew! 00:07:02.340 --> 00:07:04.740 That was a close one. 00:07:07.740 --> 00:07:09.780 That would have been embarrassing. 00:07:10.780 --> 00:07:15.940 Whoo! And a company called Black Dot has made its automatic tattooing machine, 00:07:15.940 --> 00:07:21.620 which they insist is not a robot, available to the public in a New York tattoo shop 00:07:21.620 --> 00:07:25.100 called Bang Bang. But while I was looking for info on their website, 00:07:25.100 --> 00:07:30.820 the thing that stuck out to me the most is this e-book written by Black Dot's founder and CEO 00:07:30.820 --> 00:07:33.860 about himself that you can read for free 00:07:33.860 --> 00:07:37.340 if you give them your email address. The text seems kind of cool, 00:07:37.340 --> 00:07:40.860 but that's coming from someone who doesn't have a single tattoo. 00:07:40.860 --> 00:07:45.940 I lost them all in the war. But tattoo enthusiasts do not seem to like it. 00:07:45.940 --> 00:07:51.580 I think I'd rather take my chances with Emily the Engineer's Frankenstein 3D printer 00:07:51.580 --> 00:07:53.420 tattoo printer thing instead. 00:07:55.220 --> 00:07:59.100 Looks safer. But don't take your chances on missing any tech news. 00:07:59.100 --> 00:08:02.980 Come back on Monday, unless you booked an appointment with the tattoo robot. 00:08:02.980 --> 00:08:05.980 He is famously cranky about that.