WEBVTT 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. 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 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:16.080 Ned Flanders. Apple prognosticator Mark Germanus, who wanders the Girmick Plains, 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, 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 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:32.960 repercussions from the EU, who traumatized the company by making them switch from their 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:39.120 proprietary Lightning connector to USB-C, the connector for poor people. Well, 00:00:39.120 --> 00:00:44.400 9 and 5 Mac took the liberty of asking the EU about this directly, who said, 00:00:44.400 --> 00:00:48.480 yeah, actually, that would be fine. They probably said it with a European accent, though. 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. 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 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. 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 00:01:14.160 --> 00:01:19.520 about Apple's walled garden approach. The block just ordered Apple to make notifications, 00:01:19.520 --> 00:01:25.520 background execution, and a number of other iOS features available for third-party devices like 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 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:37.520 users, because sure, other operating systems support those things and their users seem fine, 00:01:37.520 --> 00:01:42.960 but what is it doing to their immortal souls? Sin has befouled your heart. 00:01:42.960 --> 00:01:48.880 The EU's order comes right after Pebble founder Eric Migikowski unveiled two new 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 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, 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, 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, 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 00:02:22.640 --> 00:02:28.640 Digital Markets Act by preferencing its own products in Search and Google Play, prompting Google to 00:02:28.640 --> 00:02:35.520 blog about how changing anything would be hurting consumers and businesses. You sure about that? 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:40.560 You sure about that? You sure about... This morning, NVIDIA kicked off their GPU 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:47.120 Technology Conference, an event CEO Jensen Huang hyped up as the Super Bowl of AI, 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:52.320 but with less fun commercials and more pleading for investors to stay hodling. 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 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 00:03:08.320 --> 00:03:15.360 versions. Jensen also unveiled what he called two personal AI supercomputers. One is Project 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 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 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:36.160 NVIDIA's GB10 Super Chip, a term investors probably love way more than APU. The other 00:03:36.160 --> 00:03:42.240 personal supercomputer is the DGX station, which fits the company's brand new Blackwell Ultra 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:50.320 GB300 chip with 784 gigabytes of unified memory onto a standard desktop size motherboard. It's 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, 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 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. 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 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:24.960 research center, a supercomputer facility to hopefully help research on quantum computers 00:04:24.960 --> 00:04:31.360 give us something other than overhyped bullshit. Shout out to Microsoft, but NVIDIA is definitely 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:37.360 not slowing down on AI. They just announced a consortium with Microsoft, BlackRock and MGX 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 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 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 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 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:10.720 videos of the Pixel 9a were posted earlier this week, Google officially revealed the phone in 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, 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, 00:05:22.880 --> 00:05:29.920 with seven years of included Android updates and IP68 dust and water resistance up from IP67. 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:06:07.840 --> 00:06:12.880 controllers, which at the very least should allow gamers with Windows handhelds to type stuff without 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. 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:24.160 Another insider build feature adds a FAQ section to Windows 11's about this PC section, 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:28.800 which appears to provide an explanation for why you're losing every valorant match. 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. 00:06:34.400 --> 00:06:40.160 Chinese car manufacturer BYD claimed last week that its upcoming Super E platform 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:45.760 will support electric vehicle charging at up to a thousand kilowatts, fully charging some vehicles 00:06:45.760 --> 00:06:51.280 in as little as five minutes. That technology would leapfrog competitors whose chargers usually 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 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 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:08.000 researchers have genetically engineered a strain of E. coli bacteria to produce plastics, which... 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 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 00:07:19.520 --> 00:07:26.160 polymers, which can be broken down by other also engineered bacteria. Make it and degrade it. 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 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.