1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,240 I can't get enough of that tech news. 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,320 We can never get enough. They can't sue us for that, can they? 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:11,800 YouTube appears to be testing TikTok style video swiping 4 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:17,400 on long form videos on their mobile app in what can only rationally be described 5 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:21,600 as their dumbest experiment yet, for reasons I shall explain. 6 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:27,000 This test causes the swipe up action to scroll another video into view 7 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:31,640 as confirmed by an official forum post and was demonstrated in a screen recording 8 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:37,480 posted by Tusharmeta on Twitter, a platform which recently started auto scrolling 9 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:42,480 to a new video when the one you're watching in full screen ends, which has really educated me 10 00:00:42,480 --> 00:00:45,600 about the rich ecosystem of mobile game ads 11 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:50,200 that can give you cancer by looking at them. Now the reason this experiment is very dumb 12 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:53,760 is because it would replace the actually useful gestures 13 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:58,400 of swiping up to make the video bigger and enter full screen and swiping down 14 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:02,360 to exit full screen and minimize the video. Gestures I've used all the time 15 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:09,120 since they were introduced in 2020, but maintaining useful features reinforces the mistaken idea 16 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,480 that YouTube is designed for you, the users. 17 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:16,000 And well, I mean, it is, but just the part 18 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,440 of your optic nerve that connects to your reptile brain. 19 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:25,080 To underline this, YouTube has begun hiking these somewhat reasonable prices still being paid 20 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:30,400 by early premium subscribers. It makes you hope for an alternative video platform. 21 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:35,080 Who's this? Spotify's new partner program will pay podcast creators 22 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,660 based on video performance and they're adding a bunch of quality of life features 23 00:01:38,660 --> 00:01:43,320 for video and TechLink has a video version that gets published on Spotify. 24 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:47,920 You're watching this on Spotify? Stop repeating everything you're saying, sorry. 25 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:51,080 NVIDIA's GeForce experience is dunzo 26 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:55,040 as Team Green has officially released the NVIDIA app 27 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:59,600 after releasing several beta versions this year. In case you didn't get all the memos, 28 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,720 the NVIDIA app is designed to combine the features of 29 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:07,360 and replace both GeForce experience updating GPU drivers, 30 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:13,160 screen recording, performance monitoring and the NVIDIA control panel, fine-tuning driver settings, 31 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:18,120 configuring G-Sync displays, et cetera. While the one app to rule them both 32 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,360 is officially replacing GeForce experience as of now, 33 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,640 it doesn't quite have all the control panel switches 34 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:30,760 and dials installed yet. So NVIDIA control panel will continue to haunt you 35 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:35,840 from the hidden area of the system tray. The new NVIDIA app should have some more graphics cards 36 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:39,380 to optimize soon enough as NVIDIA has reportedly stopped 37 00:02:39,380 --> 00:02:43,400 production of most of the RTX 40 series cards, 38 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:48,160 which some analysts think points to the RTX 5090, 5080 39 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:51,680 and perhaps even the 5070 and 5060 launching 40 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,760 in the first few months of 2025. 41 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:59,760 Oh man, those bad boys are gonna be so expensive. 42 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaking of tariffs, the once and future president 43 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:10,120 of the Kingdom of America, Donald Trump, has reiterated plans to save TikTok 44 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:15,960 from the government's current plans to ban the app if by dance doesn't sell it by January 19th. 45 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:21,440 I'm gonna save TikTok. Trump tried to ban TikTok himself during his first term, 46 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:28,420 but in March of this year, he said banning it would help Facebook, a platform he's also not a fan of. 47 00:03:28,420 --> 00:03:34,640 Looks like Trump's employing the age old tactic known as keep all of the mother f***ing snakes on the plane 48 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:38,920 so they eat each other. That can't be a popular move with Elon Musk, 49 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:42,560 owner of one such mother f***ing snake, Twitter. 50 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:48,200 But his focus is gonna be elsewhere. Trump appointed Musk to co-lead something called 51 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:52,680 the Department of Government Efficiency, aka DOGE, 52 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:57,720 the crypto coin most efficient at having its price manipulated by Elon's tweets. 53 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:03,280 The goal will be to advise the government on how to cut spending, but despite being a department, 54 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:07,120 Trump describes DOGE as outside of government, 55 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:11,200 which means it's either just a fancy name for a cushy consulting gig, 56 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,720 or an institutional endorsement of oligarchy, fun. 57 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:20,000 Either way, for Twitter users worried the platform will become too dull without a constant stream 58 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,800 of late night Elon posts, rival platform Blue Sky 59 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:27,360 is looking a bit healthier with a million users joining 60 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:32,240 since the election ended to help it cross the 15 million user mark. 61 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:37,340 I don't know, I'm still struggling to make the switch though. When the primary selling point for the platform 62 00:04:37,340 --> 00:04:42,880 is simply that it's not the other one, which is an all too familiar dilemma in this context. 63 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:46,840 Silly Riley, quick bits are for kids. Despite adults being the only ones 64 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:51,100 who can afford the good ones. Xbox head Phil Spencer told Bloomberg 65 00:04:51,100 --> 00:04:56,040 that the rumored Xbox handheld is a few years out. 66 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,320 Or at least that's what we're taking from what he actually said, 67 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:04,000 which is the expectation is that we would do something 68 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,800 in that category. Did this guy take classes to learn how to speak 69 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,240 in the vaguest manner possible? He should run for office. 70 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:15,500 The big Phil also mentioned that more studio acquisitions are on the table 71 00:05:15,500 --> 00:05:19,380 and there are no red lines for which Xbox games 72 00:05:19,380 --> 00:05:22,500 could eventually come to PlayStation or Nintendo consoles. 73 00:05:22,500 --> 00:05:26,060 Again, I don't know what these red lines are. 74 00:05:26,060 --> 00:05:30,940 Is he talking about wires? Multiple reports, including one from the information 75 00:05:30,940 --> 00:05:35,340 is citing insiders who say that open AI, Google and the other big AI players 76 00:05:35,340 --> 00:05:38,580 are hitting a wall in further large language model 77 00:05:38,580 --> 00:05:41,860 advancements due to a lack of quality training data. 78 00:05:41,860 --> 00:05:47,740 It's not that there is no training data, it's just that the GPTs have already engorged themselves 79 00:05:47,740 --> 00:05:53,580 on the entire internet and then some. And that's why we need another internet. 80 00:05:53,580 --> 00:05:58,860 We also need AI welfare researchers, like the one Anthropic hired earlier this year 81 00:05:58,860 --> 00:06:04,300 to make sure that the engorged chatbots aren't secretly sentient and suffering 82 00:06:04,300 --> 00:06:10,940 from being forced to imbibe heinous amounts of police body cam videos with absolutely zero context. 83 00:06:10,940 --> 00:06:15,940 What's happening here? We don't know. Amazon is taking on Sheehan and Timu, 84 00:06:15,940 --> 00:06:19,180 rival online retailers who specialize in cheap garbage 85 00:06:19,180 --> 00:06:22,660 with their own similar service inside the Amazon app, 86 00:06:22,660 --> 00:06:27,500 Amazon Hall. The beta for Hall, which launches today features fashion, 87 00:06:27,500 --> 00:06:30,620 home, lifestyle, electronics and other products 88 00:06:30,620 --> 00:06:34,380 all under 20 bucks, with most under 10 bucks. 89 00:06:34,380 --> 00:06:38,700 While I'm sure there are some diamonds in the rough here, the news will be especially exciting 90 00:06:38,700 --> 00:06:44,580 for anyone who can't afford the more expensive stuff as well as shoppers who simply love opening packages 91 00:06:44,580 --> 00:06:47,860 to find an already disintegrating bag of plastic trinkets 92 00:06:47,860 --> 00:06:51,940 as a hobby. And Mark Zuckerberg has dropped a hot new track 93 00:06:51,940 --> 00:06:58,100 with T-Pain, with whom he has apparently formed the musical act known as Z-Pain. 94 00:07:00,300 --> 00:07:04,700 And there's even more pain to come, particularly when you hear Zuckerberg's 95 00:07:04,700 --> 00:07:09,020 auto-tuned rendition of Little John's Get Low, 96 00:07:09,020 --> 00:07:13,420 a song Mark and his wife apparently enjoy every year on their dating anniversary. 97 00:07:13,420 --> 00:07:16,460 Well now they have a much better version to listen to, 98 00:07:16,460 --> 00:07:19,980 as long as Instagram doesn't break the Spotify link, that is. 99 00:07:19,980 --> 00:07:25,300 Apparently it's broken on desktop, but works fine on iOS, which is, phew, that's good. 100 00:07:25,300 --> 00:07:28,780 For a second there, I thought Instagram's AI moderation had taste. 101 00:07:28,780 --> 00:07:32,860 But I know for sure that you have taste, which is how I know you'll come back on Friday 102 00:07:32,860 --> 00:07:36,260 for more tech news. How else are you gonna hear my auto-tuned cover 103 00:07:36,260 --> 00:07:39,780 of Soulja Boy? It's got Superman in it. 104 00:07:39,780 --> 00:07:41,380 It's my favorite superhero.