WEBVTT 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, 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:10.080 when skeletons rise from their graves and...is that not what Black Friday means? 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:14.960 Dbrand and Zach, Jerry or everything Nelson, are taking competing phone case company, 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:20.720 Casify, to court for allegedly stealing their teardown skin designs. The theft was discovered 00:00:20.720 --> 00:00:26.960 when Dbrand and Nelson carefully analyzed Casify's inside-out case for about one second. 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:31.280 As Nelson explained in a YouTube video, he and Dbrand painstakingly reproduced the internals 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 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? 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 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 00:00:53.120 --> 00:00:57.920 thinking. Casify must have bought Dbrand skins, scanned them, changed a couple things, 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. 00:01:02.080 --> 00:01:07.200 Based on the research of Nelson and Dbrand attorneys at LA, it looks like Casify used 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 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:17.840 cheated off iFixit, as pointed out by Labs correspondent Jake Danes on a tip from the 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, 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:29.120 while Iranian company Mahut Leather hit Ctrl C, Ctrl V, and called it a day. 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. 00:01:39.440 --> 00:01:44.560 And get this, Casify just released a statement calling themselves a bastion of originality. 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:48.000 A bastion. Never call yourself a bastion. 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:56.720 Lenovo is taking ASUS to court for allegedly violating four of their patents. 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 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:09.200 infringing products within the US. For example, the company says the ASUS ZenBook Pro 14 OLEDs, 00:02:09.200 --> 00:02:13.600 wake on land tech, diagonal scrolling capability, and even its hinge. 00:02:13.600 --> 00:02:18.640 All vitally patents granted to Lenovo. I don't know. Sounds a bit unhinged. 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 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:29.440 previously offered ASUS a cross-licensing deal earlier this year as a solution. 00:02:29.440 --> 00:02:33.200 Now, however, Lenovo demands ASUS stop marketing, advertising, selling, 00:02:33.200 --> 00:02:37.600 distributing, basically doing anything with their laptops in the United States. 00:02:37.600 --> 00:02:42.400 While they're at it, Lenovo decided to channel Kelly Jensen from middle school by claiming 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:48.880 this won't harm US consumers for competition since ASUS' market share is so small. ASUS, 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 00:02:54.000 --> 00:03:00.240 to hide your loud sobs. Chinese factories are taking apart thousands of brand new RTX 4090s 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 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:09.200 fan of GPU shortage one. It was perfect. It doesn't need a sequel. 00:03:09.200 --> 00:03:12.640 The export restrictions on AI chips to China took effect November 17th, 00:03:12.640 --> 00:03:17.200 just after NVIDIA was supposed to launch their Chinese export restriction-compliant 00:03:17.200 --> 00:03:21.920 AI chip the H20. But NVIDIA delayed that launch until the first quarter of next year. 00:03:21.920 --> 00:03:28.000 Fortunately for AI companies, crafty NVIDIA absolutely pumped out RTX 4090 orders to China 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:33.200 before the restrictions took effect. Unfortunately for actual gamers, those cards seem to have been 00:03:33.200 --> 00:03:37.040 bought up by potentially sketchy companies that are dismantling them and slapping their chips 00:03:37.040 --> 00:03:42.400 into blower-style coolers that are more suited for multi-card systems. Now, the Chinese market 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:48.080 has been flooded with cheap coolers and 4090 PCBs, which are useful for repairing melted 4090s. 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 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 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 00:04:03.040 --> 00:04:08.800 debilitating neurological condition that prevents him from saying quick bits. It's also terminal. 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:14.960 Developer HackHive.io on Reddit has discovered a fun workaround to Google's current crackdown on 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:21.280 adblockers, an extension that simply mutes ads and plays them at 16x the original speed. 00:04:21.280 --> 00:04:25.040 The developer also plans to create a version that automatically clicks the skip button when it 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 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 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 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:46.000 something in that. SpeakerMaker Sonos will be expanding its business to offer its first-ever 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 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 00:04:58.640 --> 00:05:03.280 considering following up with earbuds. Again, it seems inevitable. It's an ambitious plan, 00:05:03.280 --> 00:05:07.920 with the headphones codenamed Duke, which sounds like sh**, intended to compete directly with the 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 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 00:05:17.520 --> 00:05:23.680 of secrets. Samsung is catching some heat for removing some screen burn-in protection 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 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 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:40.240 experienced some burn-in, it wasn't noticeable during normal use, while every LCD had overt 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:45.120 degradation. But it's still nothing compared to the images my brain has retained since early 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 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 00:05:55.760 --> 00:06:01.120 Google if its users paid directly through Spotify, according to testimonies shared during the Epic 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:05.760 V Google trial. If Spotify users picked Google's payment processor while signing up, 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 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, 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, 00:06:20.400 --> 00:06:25.200 Google understandably requested the deal's specifics remain sealed. I wouldn't want to 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. 00:06:29.520 --> 00:06:34.880 I will. And Ubisoft has issued a statement regarding their surprise in-game Black Friday ads, 00:06:34.880 --> 00:06:38.000 and yesterday's GameLinked, that's a different channel, but it's kind of the same. 00:06:38.640 --> 00:06:43.520 We reported that players of Assassin's Creed Odyssey and some other franchise titles reported 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 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 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 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. 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, 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.