1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,520 You may know this is a virtual set, but you probably don't know that I'm a virtual host. 2 00:00:05,520 --> 00:00:10,320 I'm not actually Riley Murdock, I'm someone else, and they're deep faking me to look like 3 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:16,080 Ned Flanders. Apple prognosticator Mark Germanus, who wanders the Girmick Plains, 4 00:00:16,080 --> 00:00:21,680 talked of Apple's plans to make an iPhone with no ports in his newsletter this week, 5 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:27,600 saying the tech giant didn't do that for the upcoming iPhone 17 Air for fear of 6 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:32,960 repercussions from the EU, who traumatized the company by making them switch from their 7 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:39,120 proprietary Lightning connector to USB-C, the connector for poor people. Well, 8 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:44,400 9 and 5 Mac took the liberty of asking the EU about this directly, who said, 9 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:48,480 yeah, actually, that would be fine. They probably said it with a European accent, though. 10 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:54,640 iPhone with no ports? Only Mac safe, Georgie? Very cool. I don't know what's wrong with me. 11 00:00:54,720 --> 00:01:01,360 The idea isn't that crazy. Macworld writer David Price says he's had the iPhone 16 Plus 12 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:08,480 for six months and he's never used his iPhone's USB-C port, and I'd love to ask him some questions. 13 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:14,160 But while the EU is chill about a portless iPhone, they are still very much not chill 14 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:19,520 about Apple's walled garden approach. The block just ordered Apple to make notifications, 15 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:25,520 background execution, and a number of other iOS features available for third-party devices like 16 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:31,760 smartwatches to use. These are changes that Apple has said would be bad for our products and our 17 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:37,520 users, because sure, other operating systems support those things and their users seem fine, 18 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:42,960 but what is it doing to their immortal souls? Sin has befouled your heart. 19 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:48,880 The EU's order comes right after Pebble founder Eric Migikowski unveiled two new 20 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:55,120 Pebble OS-powered smartwatches from his new company, Core Devices. They're called the Core Time 2 21 00:01:55,120 --> 00:02:02,320 and the Core 2 Duo. So named because, as Eric told the Verge, it's like a Pebble 2, 22 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:10,560 but it's made by Core Devices and then Duo is for Do-over, which...okay, sure. Anyway, 23 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:16,160 Eric wrote a blog post about how iOS doesn't let third-party watches do a bunch of things, 24 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:22,640 but maybe they will now in Europe anyway. The EU also charged Google today with breaching the 25 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:28,640 Digital Markets Act by preferencing its own products in Search and Google Play, prompting Google to 26 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:35,520 blog about how changing anything would be hurting consumers and businesses. You sure about that? 27 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,560 You sure about that? You sure about... This morning, NVIDIA kicked off their GPU 28 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:47,120 Technology Conference, an event CEO Jensen Huang hyped up as the Super Bowl of AI, 29 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:52,320 but with less fun commercials and more pleading for investors to stay hodling. 30 00:02:52,320 --> 00:03:00,640 Team Green made the rumors of RTX Pro GPUs come true. The flagship Blackwell RTX Pro 6000 GPU will 31 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:08,320 use the same base chip as an RTX 5090, but with up to 96 gigabytes of VRAM or 24 gigs on laptop 32 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:15,360 versions. Jensen also unveiled what he called two personal AI supercomputers. One is Project 33 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:22,240 Digits, the mini-PC first revealed at CES, but it's been renamed to DGX Spark. And in addition 34 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:28,560 to NVIDIA's own design, OEMs like ASUS, Dell and HP will be selling their own versions powered by 35 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:36,160 NVIDIA's GB10 Super Chip, a term investors probably love way more than APU. The other 36 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:42,240 personal supercomputer is the DGX station, which fits the company's brand new Blackwell Ultra 37 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:50,320 GB300 chip with 784 gigabytes of unified memory onto a standard desktop size motherboard. It's 38 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:58,880 like a mini version of the giant NVL72 units with 72 Blackwell Ultra GPUs also unveiled by NVIDIA, 39 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:07,520 alongside an updated roadmap promising Rubin GPUs in 2026 and Feynman GPUs in 2027, the former of 40 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:13,840 which will also pair with Vera, the company's first CPU with fully custom ARM CPU cores. 41 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:19,680 It's a lot of AI stuff, so thank goodness NVIDIA took a second to announce the accelerated quantum 42 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:24,960 research center, a supercomputer facility to hopefully help research on quantum computers 43 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:31,360 give us something other than overhyped bullshit. Shout out to Microsoft, but NVIDIA is definitely 44 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:37,360 not slowing down on AI. They just announced a consortium with Microsoft, BlackRock and MGX 45 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:43,440 to spend $100 billion on AI data centers, with Jensen promising that we'll soon be able to see 46 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:50,880 these huge server farms from space. Also, anyone with a Sigma grind set can break social media 47 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:58,240 algorithms with AI slop. Yes, get that bag. Can you see the deep fake yet? Like when I make certain 48 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:05,120 movements, it's like a bit off. I'll try to do the quick bits just like Riley. After full unboxing 49 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:10,720 videos of the Pixel 9a were posted earlier this week, Google officially revealed the phone in 50 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:17,920 all its camera bumpless glory. It starts at 500 bucks for 128 gigs of storage and 8 gigs of RAM, 51 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:22,880 and compared to the Pixel 8a, it's got a slightly larger and brighter 6.3 inch screen, 52 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:29,920 with seven years of included Android updates and IP68 dust and water resistance up from IP67. 53 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:39,120 Hey, sounds deez. Deez nuts because as because as they unveiled the 9a, they also delayed its 54 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:45,760 launch to April to check on a component quality issue, which is weird because that has never 55 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:50,240 caused Google to hesitate before. It's a good sign that they're taking Pixel hardware more 56 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:55,920 seriously though, and also they're finally adding undo and redo buttons to their keyboard. That's 57 00:05:55,920 --> 00:06:02,160 unrelated, but it's good. Windows 11 has a couple updates on the way that are even cooler than the 58 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:07,840 one that just deleted co-pilot. A recent insider build includes a new virtual keyboard for game 59 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:12,880 controllers, which at the very least should allow gamers with Windows handhelds to type stuff without 60 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:18,240 taking their hands off the controls so they can keep working on giving it that nice sweat patina. 61 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:24,160 Another insider build feature adds a FAQ section to Windows 11's about this PC section, 62 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:28,800 which appears to provide an explanation for why you're losing every valorant match. 63 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:34,400 It's because your PC sucks, and your team does too. It's never you. We know that. 64 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:40,160 Chinese car manufacturer BYD claimed last week that its upcoming Super E platform 65 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:45,760 will support electric vehicle charging at up to a thousand kilowatts, fully charging some vehicles 66 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:51,280 in as little as five minutes. That technology would leapfrog competitors whose chargers usually 67 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:56,640 top out at around 350 kilowatts-ish. Five minutes is really fast. I mean, that's barely enough time 68 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:01,600 to grab some pork skins from 7-Eleven and get back to your car before it explodes. And Korean 69 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:08,000 researchers have genetically engineered a strain of E. coli bacteria to produce plastics, which... 70 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:13,840 sort of the opposite of what I thought we were trying to do. But, uh, oh, but if I keep reading 71 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:19,440 Riley's script, remember I'm not him, I'll find out that the plastics are actually glucose-based 72 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:26,160 polymers, which can be broken down by other also engineered bacteria. Make it and degrade it. 73 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:31,360 Seems circular. Why are we doing this again? Look, I'm gonna head out and let the real Riley 74 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:36,960 give you some more tech news on Friday. Can we turn the deep fake off now? That felt weird.