1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,960 We've brought you some tech news to get you through the most evil day of the year. Black Friday, 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:10,080 when skeletons rise from their graves and...is that not what Black Friday means? 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:14,960 Dbrand and Zach, Jerry or everything Nelson, are taking competing phone case company, 4 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:20,720 Casify, to court for allegedly stealing their teardown skin designs. The theft was discovered 5 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:26,960 when Dbrand and Nelson carefully analyzed Casify's inside-out case for about one second. 6 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:31,280 As Nelson explained in a YouTube video, he and Dbrand painstakingly reproduced the internals 7 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:36,240 of phones and laptops for their teardown series of skins, but they also include fun little Easter 8 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:41,360 eggs in said skins because that's what Black Friday is all about. Can I get a hallelujah? 9 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:48,160 I don't understand Black Friday, but I do understand it doesn't make sense for Casify 10 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:53,040 to have the same exact Easter eggs on their inside-out products. I also know what you're 11 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:57,920 thinking. Casify must have bought Dbrand skins, scanned them, changed a couple things, 12 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:02,080 then sold them as their own work, but you're actually giving them way too much credit. 13 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:07,200 Based on the research of Nelson and Dbrand attorneys at LA, it looks like Casify used 14 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:13,120 lower res product images from Dbrand's own site. In a further update, Casify may have also 15 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:17,840 cheated off iFixit, as pointed out by Labs correspondent Jake Danes on a tip from the 16 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:23,920 LTT subreddit. They did a journalism. In Casify's defense, they at least tried to hide their thievery, 17 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:29,120 while Iranian company Mahut Leather hit Ctrl C, Ctrl V, and called it a day. 18 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:35,680 Does no one know how to properly play drives anymore? Kids these days are so spoiled by chat GPT. 19 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:44,560 And get this, Casify just released a statement calling themselves a bastion of originality. 20 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:48,000 A bastion. Never call yourself a bastion. 21 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:56,720 Lenovo is taking ASUS to court for allegedly violating four of their patents. 22 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:03,200 What does Oprah Winfrey giving out lawsuits? Lenovo is seeking damages for a halt on sales of any 23 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:09,200 infringing products within the US. For example, the company says the ASUS ZenBook Pro 14 OLEDs, 24 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:13,600 wake on land tech, diagonal scrolling capability, and even its hinge. 25 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:18,640 All vitally patents granted to Lenovo. I don't know. Sounds a bit unhinged. 26 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:25,120 Anyway, in a press release on Tuesday, Lenovo said the lawsuit was a last resort as they had 27 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:29,440 previously offered ASUS a cross-licensing deal earlier this year as a solution. 28 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:33,200 Now, however, Lenovo demands ASUS stop marketing, advertising, selling, 29 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:37,600 distributing, basically doing anything with their laptops in the United States. 30 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:42,400 While they're at it, Lenovo decided to channel Kelly Jensen from middle school by claiming 31 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:48,880 this won't harm US consumers for competition since ASUS' market share is so small. ASUS, 32 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:54,000 some advice if I may, when you run home to your bedroom and lock the door, blast Soundgarden 33 00:02:54,000 --> 00:03:00,240 to hide your loud sobs. Chinese factories are taking apart thousands of brand new RTX 4090s 34 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:05,360 to make specialized GPUs for AI according to posts on Baidu, which is offensive to me as a 35 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:09,200 fan of GPU shortage one. It was perfect. It doesn't need a sequel. 36 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,640 The export restrictions on AI chips to China took effect November 17th, 37 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:17,200 just after NVIDIA was supposed to launch their Chinese export restriction-compliant 38 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:21,920 AI chip the H20. But NVIDIA delayed that launch until the first quarter of next year. 39 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:28,000 Fortunately for AI companies, crafty NVIDIA absolutely pumped out RTX 4090 orders to China 40 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:33,200 before the restrictions took effect. Unfortunately for actual gamers, those cards seem to have been 41 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:37,040 bought up by potentially sketchy companies that are dismantling them and slapping their chips 42 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:42,400 into blower-style coolers that are more suited for multi-card systems. Now, the Chinese market 43 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:48,080 has been flooded with cheap coolers and 4090 PCBs, which are useful for repairing melted 4090s. 44 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:53,120 To be fair, you need to have a 4090 to melt in the first place. All these perfectly good cards 45 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:58,880 are going to AI farms while Chinese gamers are left in the lurch. All they want to do is drop 46 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:03,040 at Lazy Lagoon with the boys. Don't spread it around, but Linus has been diagnosed with a 47 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:08,800 debilitating neurological condition that prevents him from saying quick bits. It's also terminal. 48 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:14,960 Developer HackHive.io on Reddit has discovered a fun workaround to Google's current crackdown on 49 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:21,280 adblockers, an extension that simply mutes ads and plays them at 16x the original speed. 50 00:04:21,280 --> 00:04:25,040 The developer also plans to create a version that automatically clicks the skip button when it 51 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:29,440 becomes available. They've even submitted it to the Chrome Store, and it technically doesn't break 52 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:35,600 the rules, just like how technically Google CEO Sundar Pichai can't pay a large beefy man to 53 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:41,920 break HackHive.io's knees. That would be against the rules. HackHive, the bee's knees. There's 54 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:46,000 something in that. SpeakerMaker Sonos will be expanding its business to offer its first-ever 55 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:52,400 headphones, releasing a $400 over-ear set next year, possibly as early as April, which is such a 56 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:58,640 natural progression as it's kind of weird that they weren't doing that already. Sonos is apparently 57 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:03,280 considering following up with earbuds. Again, it seems inevitable. It's an ambitious plan, 58 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:07,920 with the headphones codenamed Duke, which sounds like sh**, intended to compete directly with the 59 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:13,040 Apple's AirPods Max and other high-end headsets. At least that's according to Bloomberg's Mark 60 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:17,280 Gurman, the undisputed Gretchen Wieners of the tech world. That's why his head is so big. It's full 61 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:23,680 of secrets. Samsung is catching some heat for removing some screen burn-in protection 62 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:28,640 in their most recent OS update. That may not be too bad according to Rating's 10-month study of 63 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:34,720 OLED and LCD burn-in, simulating 6,000 hours of real-world usage. While the OLED TVs they tested 64 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:40,240 experienced some burn-in, it wasn't noticeable during normal use, while every LCD had overt 65 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:45,120 degradation. But it's still nothing compared to the images my brain has retained since early 66 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:49,760 childhood when I walked into my parents' room at the wrong time. I never wanted to see my neighbors 67 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:55,760 like that. Google made a deal with Spotify that let the audio company avoid paying anything to 68 00:05:55,760 --> 00:06:01,120 Google if its users paid directly through Spotify, according to testimonies shared during the Epic 69 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:05,760 V Google trial. If Spotify users picked Google's payment processor while signing up, 70 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:10,800 Google would get a 4% cut. But that's way less than 15% Google's standard cut for subscriptions 71 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:16,000 for the past two years. That deal is even better than the 10% cut Google offered to Netflix, 72 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:20,400 who had watched enough Shark Tank to know it was time to say I'm out. Prior to this testimony, 73 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:25,200 Google understandably requested the deal's specifics remain sealed. I wouldn't want to 74 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:28,560 advertise the fact that I'll give you tech news for free if you're important enough. 75 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:34,880 I will. And Ubisoft has issued a statement regarding their surprise in-game Black Friday ads, 76 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,000 and yesterday's GameLinked, that's a different channel, but it's kind of the same. 77 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:43,520 We reported that players of Assassin's Creed Odyssey and some other franchise titles reported 78 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:48,400 in-game ads for 20% off Assassin's Creed Mirage that would prevent them from accessing the map 79 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:52,720 screen unless they pressed a button to make the ad go away. In a statement, Ubisoft said the ad was 80 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:57,920 supposed to show up in the main menu of Assassin's Creed games, but was misplaced due to a technical 81 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:03,280 error in that they meant to do it, but since no one liked it, it was technically a mistake. 82 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:07,040 But it's never a mistake to come back on Monday for more tech news, and if you have a free moment, 83 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:12,160 please tweet at Linus and tell him he's in your thoughts and prayers as he battles this affliction.