WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.240 I can't get enough of that tech news. 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:07.320 We can never get enough. They can't sue us for that, can they? 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:11.800 YouTube appears to be testing TikTok style video swiping 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:17.400 on long form videos on their mobile app in what can only rationally be described 00:00:17.400 --> 00:00:21.600 as their dumbest experiment yet, for reasons I shall explain. 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:27.000 This test causes the swipe up action to scroll another video into view 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:31.640 as confirmed by an official forum post and was demonstrated in a screen recording 00:00:31.640 --> 00:00:37.480 posted by Tusharmeta on Twitter, a platform which recently started auto scrolling 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 00:00:42.480 --> 00:00:45.600 about the rich ecosystem of mobile game ads 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 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:53.760 is because it would replace the actually useful gestures 00:00:53.760 --> 00:00:58.400 of swiping up to make the video bigger and enter full screen and swiping down 00:00:58.400 --> 00:01:02.360 to exit full screen and minimize the video. Gestures I've used all the time 00:01:02.360 --> 00:01:09.120 since they were introduced in 2020, but maintaining useful features reinforces the mistaken idea 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:12.480 that YouTube is designed for you, the users. 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:16.000 And well, I mean, it is, but just the part 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:19.440 of your optic nerve that connects to your reptile brain. 00:01:19.440 --> 00:01:25.080 To underline this, YouTube has begun hiking these somewhat reasonable prices still being paid 00:01:25.080 --> 00:01:30.400 by early premium subscribers. It makes you hope for an alternative video platform. 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:35.080 Who's this? Spotify's new partner program will pay podcast creators 00:01:35.080 --> 00:01:38.660 based on video performance and they're adding a bunch of quality of life features 00:01:38.660 --> 00:01:43.320 for video and TechLink has a video version that gets published on Spotify. 00:01:43.320 --> 00:01:47.920 You're watching this on Spotify? Stop repeating everything you're saying, sorry. 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:51.080 NVIDIA's GeForce experience is dunzo 00:01:51.080 --> 00:01:55.040 as Team Green has officially released the NVIDIA app 00:01:55.080 --> 00:01:59.600 after releasing several beta versions this year. In case you didn't get all the memos, 00:01:59.600 --> 00:02:02.720 the NVIDIA app is designed to combine the features of 00:02:02.720 --> 00:02:07.360 and replace both GeForce experience updating GPU drivers, 00:02:07.360 --> 00:02:13.160 screen recording, performance monitoring and the NVIDIA control panel, fine-tuning driver settings, 00:02:13.160 --> 00:02:18.120 configuring G-Sync displays, et cetera. While the one app to rule them both 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:22.360 is officially replacing GeForce experience as of now, 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:25.640 it doesn't quite have all the control panel switches 00:02:25.640 --> 00:02:30.760 and dials installed yet. So NVIDIA control panel will continue to haunt you 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 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:39.380 to optimize soon enough as NVIDIA has reportedly stopped 00:02:39.380 --> 00:02:43.400 production of most of the RTX 40 series cards, 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:48.160 which some analysts think points to the RTX 5090, 5080 00:02:48.160 --> 00:02:51.680 and perhaps even the 5070 and 5060 launching 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:54.760 in the first few months of 2025. 00:02:54.760 --> 00:02:59.760 Oh man, those bad boys are gonna be so expensive. 00:03:00.880 --> 00:03:04.000 Speaking of tariffs, the once and future president 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:10.120 of the Kingdom of America, Donald Trump, has reiterated plans to save TikTok 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. 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:21.440 I'm gonna save TikTok. Trump tried to ban TikTok himself during his first term, 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. 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 00:03:34.640 --> 00:03:38.920 so they eat each other. That can't be a popular move with Elon Musk, 00:03:38.920 --> 00:03:42.560 owner of one such mother f***ing snake, Twitter. 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:48.200 But his focus is gonna be elsewhere. Trump appointed Musk to co-lead something called 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:52.680 the Department of Government Efficiency, aka DOGE, 00:03:52.680 --> 00:03:57.720 the crypto coin most efficient at having its price manipulated by Elon's tweets. 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, 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:07.120 Trump describes DOGE as outside of government, 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:11.200 which means it's either just a fancy name for a cushy consulting gig, 00:04:11.200 --> 00:04:14.720 or an institutional endorsement of oligarchy, fun. 00:04:14.720 --> 00:04:20.000 Either way, for Twitter users worried the platform will become too dull without a constant stream 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:23.800 of late night Elon posts, rival platform Blue Sky 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:27.360 is looking a bit healthier with a million users joining 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:32.240 since the election ended to help it cross the 15 million user mark. 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 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. 00:04:42.880 --> 00:04:46.840 Silly Riley, quick bits are for kids. Despite adults being the only ones 00:04:46.840 --> 00:04:51.100 who can afford the good ones. Xbox head Phil Spencer told Bloomberg 00:04:51.100 --> 00:04:56.040 that the rumored Xbox handheld is a few years out. 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:59.320 Or at least that's what we're taking from what he actually said, 00:04:59.320 --> 00:05:04.000 which is the expectation is that we would do something 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:07.800 in that category. Did this guy take classes to learn how to speak 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:11.240 in the vaguest manner possible? He should run for office. 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:15.500 The big Phil also mentioned that more studio acquisitions are on the table 00:05:15.500 --> 00:05:19.380 and there are no red lines for which Xbox games 00:05:19.380 --> 00:05:22.500 could eventually come to PlayStation or Nintendo consoles. 00:05:22.500 --> 00:05:26.060 Again, I don't know what these red lines are. 00:05:26.060 --> 00:05:30.940 Is he talking about wires? Multiple reports, including one from the information 00:05:30.940 --> 00:05:35.340 is citing insiders who say that open AI, Google and the other big AI players 00:05:35.340 --> 00:05:38.580 are hitting a wall in further large language model 00:05:38.580 --> 00:05:41.860 advancements due to a lack of quality training data. 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 00:05:47.740 --> 00:05:53.580 on the entire internet and then some. And that's why we need another internet. 00:05:53.580 --> 00:05:58.860 We also need AI welfare researchers, like the one Anthropic hired earlier this year 00:05:58.860 --> 00:06:04.300 to make sure that the engorged chatbots aren't secretly sentient and suffering 00:06:04.300 --> 00:06:10.940 from being forced to imbibe heinous amounts of police body cam videos with absolutely zero context. 00:06:10.940 --> 00:06:15.940 What's happening here? We don't know. Amazon is taking on Sheehan and Timu, 00:06:15.940 --> 00:06:19.180 rival online retailers who specialize in cheap garbage 00:06:19.180 --> 00:06:22.660 with their own similar service inside the Amazon app, 00:06:22.660 --> 00:06:27.500 Amazon Hall. The beta for Hall, which launches today features fashion, 00:06:27.500 --> 00:06:30.620 home, lifestyle, electronics and other products 00:06:30.620 --> 00:06:34.380 all under 20 bucks, with most under 10 bucks. 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 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 00:06:44.580 --> 00:06:47.860 to find an already disintegrating bag of plastic trinkets 00:06:47.860 --> 00:06:51.940 as a hobby. And Mark Zuckerberg has dropped a hot new track 00:06:51.940 --> 00:06:58.100 with T-Pain, with whom he has apparently formed the musical act known as Z-Pain. 00:07:00.300 --> 00:07:04.700 And there's even more pain to come, particularly when you hear Zuckerberg's 00:07:04.700 --> 00:07:09.020 auto-tuned rendition of Little John's Get Low, 00:07:09.020 --> 00:07:13.420 a song Mark and his wife apparently enjoy every year on their dating anniversary. 00:07:13.420 --> 00:07:16.460 Well now they have a much better version to listen to, 00:07:16.460 --> 00:07:19.980 as long as Instagram doesn't break the Spotify link, that is. 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. 00:07:25.300 --> 00:07:28.780 For a second there, I thought Instagram's AI moderation had taste. 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 00:07:32.860 --> 00:07:36.260 for more tech news. How else are you gonna hear my auto-tuned cover 00:07:36.260 --> 00:07:39.780 of Soulja Boy? It's got Superman in it. 00:07:39.780 --> 00:07:41.380 It's my favorite superhero.