1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,600 The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, I've had a heck of a launch week with users and reviewers alike 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:10,080 testing the phone's new titanium construction. And the scores are not looking great, they really 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:13,520 should have paid attention in class. I'm James Shrive, this is TechLinked, and this is the 4 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:21,040 Repairability Score awarded to the iPhone 15 lineup by iFixit. 4 out of 10, matching the iPhone 14 5 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:27,200 score after iFixit downgraded it from a 7. You see, the 14 added the ability to open up from 6 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:33,680 the front or the back, but Apple still heavily limits user repair through software. Kind of like 7 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:37,600 inviting your friend over to stand in your entryway, but proceed no further. 8 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:45,600 And value your friendship this much. I get cookies. Similar to many early iPhone 15 Pro owners, iFixit found the titanium shell 9 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:50,080 scratches really easily, something also discovered by YouTuber JerryRig. Everything 10 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:56,160 shortly before he cracked the glass back of the 15 Pro Max about two seconds into his bend test. 11 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:59,520 It might be time for iPhoneers to consider switching to the 12 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:04,960 Pixel 8 Pro when it launches on October 4th. Google is now promising seven years of software 13 00:01:04,960 --> 00:01:09,360 updates which should really extend the life of your phone as long as it doesn't pull a Pixel 7 14 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:13,280 and have its buttons randomly fall off. I mean, you barely use them. 15 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:18,640 Redditors can now earn real money based on the amount of karma and gold they receive on eligible 16 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:23,760 posts, validating the oceans of blood, sweat, and tears excreted by millions of users who 17 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,120 have spent years toiling in the fake internet point fields. 18 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:33,360 It's hard not to draw comparisons between the new Reddit contributor program and Twitter's 19 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:39,200 recent rollout of ad revenue sharing for Twitter Blue. I mean, X-premium subscribers. 20 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:43,840 If only because social media platforms paying users living wages for a shitpost written 21 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:47,280 while shitting on the literal shitter is a fairly new thing. 22 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:51,440 Unlike BlueShack, Redditors won't have to front eight bucks a month to get paid, 23 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:55,360 but they will have to verify that they meet certain eligibility requirements 24 00:01:55,360 --> 00:02:00,960 like being over 18, living in the US, and having an account in good standing. 25 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:05,920 They can start farming dollar-dollar bills on eligible contributions which don't include posts 26 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:10,720 with sexually explicit content or content related to violence, drugs, farms, gambling, 27 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,480 scams, crypto or otherwise, and of course, donations to chair. 28 00:02:16,640 --> 00:02:20,960 References to the new program were actually first spotted by Android Authority back in July 29 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:26,160 when Reddit announced a phase out of Reddit coins and gold shortly before launching more 30 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:30,960 NFT avatars which have somehow survived the crypto collapse. Yes, they're still cringe, 31 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:35,520 but it's Reddit, so it doesn't matter. NVIDIA envisions a future where games are mostly rendered 32 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:40,480 from AI-generated frames as opposed to frames produced with traditional rasterization at 33 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:45,440 native resolution because they'd look better anyway. Like how any picture pre-2022 pales in 34 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:49,760 comparison to the anime wife whose mid-journey creates for me to pretend to cuddle with. 35 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:57,440 The AI-rendered games comment comes from NVIDIA's vice president of applied deep learning research, 36 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:03,680 Brian Catanzaro, who told Digital Foundry that in Cyberpunk 2077's latest update, 37 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:08,560 DLSS 3.5's frame generation and ray reconstruction features result in 38 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:14,000 real-er, better-looking frames, despite being the result of an upscaling process. 39 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:20,720 Brian went so far as to suggest that in the far future, DLSS 10 will enable a completely 40 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:25,920 neural rendering system which won't use rasterization at all. Whether he made the comments 41 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:33,840 as a cope for the fact that AMD's Radeon RX 7900 XT can power the 7680x2160 240Hz display on 42 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:40,240 Samsung's latest super-ultra-wide Odyssey Neo G9 while the RTX 4090 cannot is anyone's guess. 43 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:43,920 Sadly, the quick bits got a bit squished in transit, so they're really more like 44 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:51,200 no, still good, but just smooshed. A ransomware group is claiming that all of Sony's bases are 45 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:57,840 belonged to them as they have breached quote all Sony systems and quote everyone. The proof of 46 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:02,800 the hack posted by the group is apparently not particularly compelling according to cybersecurity 47 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:07,280 experts, but we'll know for sure sooner or later as the group says that Sony won't pay and the data 48 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:12,240 will be published in three days if nobody buys it first. Though if this is anything like the 49 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:17,360 2014 Sony hack, we might get a sneak peek into future films and terrorist threats targeting 50 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:23,440 Seth Rogen. Remember that? Wait, how do we know this wasn't him? Kim's back. OpenAI has released 51 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:29,440 an update for chatGPT that allows the chatbot to see, hear, and speak, removing one of the last 52 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:33,920 things really throwing a wrench in our romantic relationship. It already has that sweet nothings 53 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:39,440 extension. You can now audibly talk to it in a conversational style as well as include images 54 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:43,200 in your prompts so it knows what the hell you're talking about if your parents told you to use 55 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:48,800 your words a bit too much. Now you can show chatGPT a picture of your barbecue to troubleshoot why it 56 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:54,560 won't work if you'd like to hear that it's infested by gremlins. The update gives chatGPT 57 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:58,960 the tools it will need to go against Meta's planned sassy chatbot for teens, but it's 58 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:06,000 left me missing our old much worse AI assistants like ALXE-A. ChatGPT, play despacito. Getty images 59 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,800 who has previously sued AI art generators for using its copyrighted images in their training 60 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:16,320 data has now announced their own AI art generator because this is the way of things built by NVIDIA 61 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:21,600 and reportedly trained entirely on licensed images. A claim Getty is so confident in, 62 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:25,920 they're offering to get sued on your behalf. It's like the 30 minutes are free guarantee, 63 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:31,120 but if the driver was explicitly willing to go to jail to get your pizza to you on time, 64 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:36,480 I don't care for the school zone. Getty also says that images generated this 65 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:41,360 way will not be added into the library, thereby preventing the lossy JPEG problem of training 66 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:46,640 in AI using their own output that threatens to turn all future AI art into an uncanny 67 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:53,440 valley soup or hellscape. Head of AMD's Radeon Division, Scott Hurtlman, 68 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:57,760 has announced his departure from the company after seven years following the launch of the RX 69 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:03,680 7800 XT and 7700 XT. Hurtlman was known as a friendly and approachable face willing to engage 70 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:09,040 with the community. Via his socials, Hurtlman said goodbye to the Radeon team, saying he will 71 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:18,400 miss every single one of them. And Tesla has released a new video ostensibly 72 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:24,640 showcasing the new capabilities of their Neuronet-trained Optimus robot, first unveiled two 73 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:29,680 years ago. Though I don't see it taking on the Decepticons anytime soon, some have speculated 74 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:34,160 that parts of the video look like CGI, but it's equally possible that they simply fast forwarded 75 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:38,640 sections to make the robot look less like a concussed toddler slowly sorting blocks, 76 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:42,480 which would explain why its human assistant appears to move uncannily fast. 77 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:48,560 Hori's got a lot of coffee. In another scene, the same robot also demonstrated its ability to 78 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:53,760 balance on one leg through some beginner yoga, hopefully labeled Namaste. 79 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:00,000 And you should Namaste tuned for Wednesday when we'll be back!