WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.840 Huh, I'd rather talk tech news than the alternative. 00:00:03.840 --> 00:00:08.000 Tech-olds, would that be what TechWiki does? I just, not, no shade. 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:12.320 Intel is planning a major rebrand of its core series of processors. 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:16.840 You know, the i5, i7, et cetera. Even though the brand is so well recognized 00:00:16.840 --> 00:00:21.040 that my uncle, who lives in the woods, knew he had one in his ancient laptop, 00:00:21.040 --> 00:00:24.120 apparently built at a time when humans had thicker thighs. 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:31.960 The info comes from an ashes of the Singularity benchmark that listed the system CPU as an Intel Core Ultra5 103H, 00:00:33.480 --> 00:00:38.280 1003, I don't even know how to say that. Proving Intel's following a disturbing trend 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:41.400 of companies making their product names harder to pronounce. 00:00:41.400 --> 00:00:45.680 Just because Apple names every iPad, iPad, doesn't mean we have to speed to the other end 00:00:45.680 --> 00:00:48.760 of the spectrum, okay? Anyways, the rebrand was also confirmed 00:00:48.760 --> 00:00:52.160 by Intel spokesman Bernard Fernandez on Twitter, 00:00:52.160 --> 00:00:56.920 who mentions brand changes in preparation for the upcoming Meteor Lake CPUs. 00:00:56.920 --> 00:01:01.520 Video cards theorizes that only some chips will be branded Ultra, 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:07.880 with the rest simply removing the i. So it'll be Core 9 instead of Core i9. 00:01:07.880 --> 00:01:11.420 Unless it's a Core Ultra9. It's a bold strategy. 00:01:11.420 --> 00:01:15.120 Let's see if it pays off for them because Intel needs something to pay off 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:18.960 after reporting their biggest quarterly earnings drop in company history. 00:01:18.960 --> 00:01:23.360 They need people to buy their products. And what do people like? Unpredictability. 00:01:23.360 --> 00:01:27.240 It was a Core i5 last week. This week, it's a Core Ultra5. 00:01:27.240 --> 00:01:32.000 Keep them guessing, it's exciting. A scientist known as one of the godfathers of AI, 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:36.000 Jeffrey Hinton, has resigned after a decade working at Google 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:40.240 in order to inform the public about the dangers of artificial intelligence. 00:01:40.240 --> 00:01:45.680 Presumably because it can be a gateway drug to the harder stuff, DMT. 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:49.880 Google hired Hinton in 2012 after he and two of his students 00:01:49.880 --> 00:01:55.760 built a neural network that could teach itself to identify objects, but not how to love. 00:01:55.760 --> 00:02:00.240 That wouldn't come until Microsoft dropped Unhinged Bing in 2023. 00:02:00.240 --> 00:02:05.040 Interestingly, Hinton told the New York Times that Google's frenzied response to Microsoft 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:10.320 slapping open AI's GPT tech into Bing made him realize he had to get the word out 00:02:10.320 --> 00:02:14.480 that humans are playing with fire in sort of the same way that cavemen 00:02:14.480 --> 00:02:18.960 probably played with fire because it was super cool until they wanted to see what the biggest fire 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:23.320 they could build was and then parts of Japan were just gone. Hinton's departure comes on the heels 00:02:23.320 --> 00:02:26.560 of Italy unbanning chat GPT after open AI 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:31.200 made some changes requested by their government and a report detailing Apple's struggles 00:02:31.200 --> 00:02:36.720 to build competitive AI tech. So thanks, Jeffrey, but it doesn't really look 00:02:36.720 --> 00:02:40.240 like the basilisk is coming anytime soon. So I think we're gonna be fine. 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:45.000 Google Roco's Basilisk, if you don't, it's a funny joke, I promise. 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:50.280 And Microsoft might finally be getting serious about making its own custom ARM-based chips 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:54.960 to compete with Apple Silicon if new job postings on Microsoft's careers website 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:58.080 are to be believed. Because I don't know, they could have been posted 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:02.720 as a prank. April Fool's was a month ago, but as we can see, Microsoft's pretty slow sometimes. 00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:07.040 A number of jobs are classified as part of the Microsoft Silicon team, 00:03:07.040 --> 00:03:12.280 tasked with delivering high performance and innovative Silicon system on chip. 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:16.720 Singular, I don't know why. With Windows 12 rumored to launch as soon as 2024, 00:03:16.720 --> 00:03:22.640 some analysts are speculating that Microsoft could be aiming to optimize new ARM-powered processors 00:03:22.640 --> 00:03:27.880 for the new OS and vice versa. A transformative concept probably used 00:03:27.880 --> 00:03:31.840 by at least one company before. Not sure where I've seen that. 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:36.720 Regardless, good idea, Microsoft. Quick bits, how quick are they? 00:03:36.720 --> 00:03:40.480 A bit, I think they're getting worse. Google's Pixel Fold has been leaked 00:03:40.480 --> 00:03:44.640 in pretty much its entirety over the past week. A series of events that Google 00:03:44.640 --> 00:03:49.160 is probably tearing its hair out over. Oh, what, how did, oh no, 00:03:49.760 --> 00:03:54.480 how did you get those photos, what? Big leaker boy Evan Blass has given us 00:03:54.480 --> 00:04:00.320 not only 4K marketing images of the front and back of the device, but also a spec sheet. 00:04:00.320 --> 00:04:04.760 Now honestly, for me, the only thing missing is which hardware features will spontaneously 00:04:04.760 --> 00:04:08.720 shatter a couple weeks after it launches. Google, if you could just throw that in the next leak, 00:04:08.720 --> 00:04:12.240 that'd be great things, okay. Microsoft is rolling out a new feature 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:16.880 for the Edge browser, a pop-up every time the user navigates to Google Bard, 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:20.280 telling them to, hey, try Bing instead. 00:04:20.280 --> 00:04:24.280 In a move that Microsoft's marketing heads probably thought of as ingenious, 00:04:24.280 --> 00:04:28.760 but anyone with a soul would call obnoxious, Edge's most recent developer build 00:04:28.760 --> 00:04:31.920 shows a button inviting users to compare answers 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:35.800 with the AI-powered new Bing over here, which brings up a split screen 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:40.080 for a side-by-side view of both chatbots, like an overly attached girlfriend 00:04:40.080 --> 00:04:43.120 that telepathically knows whenever you're thinking about your ex. 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:46.840 Now, I would never accuse Google of the same cutthroat behavior, 00:04:46.840 --> 00:04:53.080 but if you try using Google search on an Edge browser, you will get some pointed ads for Google Chrome, so. 00:04:53.080 --> 00:04:58.160 EA has released a patch for the Windows PC version of Star Wars Jedi Survivor, 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:05.880 which has been plagued with performance issues worse than the central core was plagued by the Black Sun. 00:05:07.200 --> 00:05:10.520 Sure. EA claims to have found the primary source of the issue. 00:05:10.520 --> 00:05:14.600 It's you darn gamers insisting on running crusty old Windows 10 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:18.400 on your top-of-the-line hardware, designed for Windows 11. 00:05:18.400 --> 00:05:23.920 Hardware unboxed disputed this conclusion, though, finding that the game ran better, 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:29.440 not worse, on Windows 10. But both 10 and 11 showed poor CPU usage. 00:05:29.440 --> 00:05:32.800 Once again, EA, it's not us, it's you. 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:37.840 A bunch of new Intel graphics cards were announced today, made by a company other than Intel? 00:05:37.840 --> 00:05:41.360 Huh? What? Huh? 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:46.720 Matrox used to develop their own GPUs, but transitioned to building non-gaming video cards 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:51.720 with existing GPUs from AMD and others. But the company's latest Luma series 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:54.760 is their first to feature Intel's Alchemist GPUs, 00:05:54.760 --> 00:05:57.880 the same ones powering Intel's Arc gaming cards. 00:05:57.880 --> 00:06:02.800 Don't worry, I'll tell you why this is interesting. It's because the Luma series represents another product 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:06.360 that can deliver Intel's excellent AV1 transcoding abilities 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:09.520 that also isn't Intel's Arc gaming cards. 00:06:09.520 --> 00:06:15.320 Also, Matrox sounds like a transformer, and frankly, one that could seriously bumble me up, 00:06:15.320 --> 00:06:18.840 and I would like to see that. And pictures out of Ukraine seem to show 00:06:18.840 --> 00:06:22.320 the Ukrainian army using Valve's Steam Deck 00:06:22.320 --> 00:06:28.080 to remote control a machine gun turret. The remote weapon system called Sablia, 00:06:28.080 --> 00:06:31.720 I'm not gonna try, I'm not gonna try, or Saber in English, 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:35.200 can reportedly be operated from up to 500 feet away. 00:06:35.200 --> 00:06:40.520 Technologically speaking, this isn't that different from using a laptop, except it's a lot more portable, 00:06:40.520 --> 00:06:44.760 and you can probably squeeze in a few stalker clear sky missions between engagements. 00:06:44.760 --> 00:06:48.280 I'm informed I can also say stalker Call of Pripyat, 00:06:48.280 --> 00:06:51.640 Shadow of Chernobyl, or there's other games too. 00:06:52.880 --> 00:06:57.520 David signs off. And you have my permission to stalk this channel 00:06:57.520 --> 00:07:02.240 again on Wednesday for more tech news. It's not, I shouldn't have said that.