1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,440 Oh boy, there are some stories today. You won't believe these stories. 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:06,480 There are stories, and we're gonna tell you about them. And let me just say, 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:11,720 when Apple opened pre-orders for the Vision Pro this morning, demand was so high, 4 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:16,000 it seems to have exceeded available supply. Shipping estimates for each of the headset's 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:19,360 three storage options have now moved from February 2nd 6 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:23,000 to mid-March. But if you're sad, you have to wait an extra month 7 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:28,280 for your face MacBook, maybe don't be since the device is shipping without a Netflix app 8 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:32,440 of any kind, literally unplayable, not chill. 9 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:36,360 We're not just talking about a native VisionOS app, mind you, back in September, 10 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:41,360 Apple claimed nearly all iPad and iPhone apps can run on VisionOS, unmodified. 11 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:46,000 But Netflix has confirmed to Bloomberg that they're not making theirs compatible at all, 12 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,960 despite the process sounding much easier than, well, buying a Vision Pro. 13 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:53,120 And Netflix isn't the only app absent from the platform. 14 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:59,080 Bloomberg also was told by YouTube, it will not allow its iPad app to work on Vision Pro 15 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:04,160 while a person familiar with Spotify's plans said their app wouldn't show up either. 16 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:08,280 And according to Mac Stories, many other popular apps have also manually opted out 17 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:13,320 of making their existing apps usable on the platform. But no one is saying why, 18 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:18,680 leaving us to assume the only logical explanation is that they're all making their own $3,500 headsets. 19 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,200 This music looks amazing. 20 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:27,200 Amazon is planning to launch a paid subscription for its voice assistant later this year, 21 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,240 according to leaked internal documents and sources. 22 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:34,760 We leaked these sources everywhere. They have a tentative and very original name 23 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:37,880 for the upgraded version of ALEXA. 24 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:44,200 They're calling it ALEXA Plus. Apparently Ms. Plus will have more chatGPT style features 25 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:48,120 to give it better conversational and reasoning skills so you can get better input 26 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,560 on what specific toilet paper you should order with same day shipping. 27 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:55,160 ChatGPT doesn't even use toilet paper. Same day wiping. Even better than that, 28 00:01:55,160 --> 00:02:00,440 the upgraded assistant will allegedly be able to tell the difference between when you are finished speaking 29 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:04,120 and when you're just pausing. So it doesn't cut you off. 30 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,200 The Plus model could launch as soon as June 30th, 31 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:13,760 but there are some roadblocks for starters. While the new assistant is a better conversation list, 32 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:18,480 it's not very good at assisting. It gives overly long answers, 33 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:22,560 makes factual errors and frequently hallucinates. Like a toddler on acid. 34 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:26,840 On top of those pretty severe issues, there's also reports of internal conflict at Amazon 35 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:30,260 with some employees feeling they shouldn't charge for the upgrade. 36 00:02:30,260 --> 00:02:35,940 It's almost like customers already paying Amazon's multitude of other subscriptions might not want another one. 37 00:02:35,940 --> 00:02:39,340 Okay guys, this is too many, too many features. 38 00:02:39,340 --> 00:02:42,920 Don't buy it. TSMC says it anticipates further delays 39 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:48,500 in getting their second Arizona FAB up and running. Initially projected to be up and running in 2026, 40 00:02:48,500 --> 00:02:53,940 Chairman Mark Liu now says it will probably take until 2027 or even 2028. 41 00:02:53,940 --> 00:02:59,860 When we won't exist. My toddler's doing acid by then. Once again, blaming all of those gosh darn skilled workers 42 00:02:59,860 --> 00:03:03,600 for apparently non-existing. Just as he did when the company announced a similar delay 43 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:08,900 for their other Arizona factory. Making things even worse, the chip's output by factory two may end up 44 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:12,700 less advanced than planned. TSMC wanted their first factory to produce 45 00:03:12,700 --> 00:03:16,740 four nanometer chips while the second factory made chips using three nanometer tech. 46 00:03:16,740 --> 00:03:22,660 But now the company says that three nanometer capability is dependent on funding promised by the US government 47 00:03:22,660 --> 00:03:27,420 through their CHIPS Act. However, TSMC hasn't received their promised grant yet. 48 00:03:27,420 --> 00:03:33,860 Instead, the Biden administration gave first funding to BAE systems, BAE systems. 49 00:03:33,860 --> 00:03:37,020 A military supplier that makes chips for fighter jets, 50 00:03:37,020 --> 00:03:40,540 which are admittedly a lot sexier than computers and phones. 51 00:03:40,540 --> 00:03:43,620 However, even if TSMC can make a three nanometer FAB, 52 00:03:43,620 --> 00:03:50,060 this delay could mean the factory is a whole generation of silicon tech behind before it even opens its doors. 53 00:03:50,060 --> 00:03:54,180 The Arizona chips are gonna feel so old when they hear Taiwanese chips saying all this new slang, 54 00:03:54,180 --> 00:04:00,260 they don't understand. They're gonna be like, sweet dude. That's not based at all. 55 00:04:00,260 --> 00:04:04,540 Let's just get these pesky quipets out of my pocket so they're ready to, what? 56 00:04:04,540 --> 00:04:08,740 They're gone. What are we gonna do? Our show is dependent on the quipets. 57 00:04:08,740 --> 00:04:13,180 How are we gonna finish if there's not? Here in my other pocket, it's all good. 58 00:04:13,180 --> 00:04:16,180 Mark the Zuck, Zuckerberg has announced that MENA will be 59 00:04:16,180 --> 00:04:21,340 pursuing the creation of an artificial general intelligence, presumably so he can have member of his own kind 60 00:04:21,340 --> 00:04:24,900 to talk to on this planet. Part of Zuckerberg's vision is to make MENA's theoretical 61 00:04:24,900 --> 00:04:30,460 future AI relatively open source, similar to their LAMMA LLM rather than solely controlled 62 00:04:30,460 --> 00:04:34,940 by a few elite companies who know Jiu Jitsu. This of course, raised concerns that with the general public 63 00:04:34,940 --> 00:04:38,940 having access to tools roughly equivalent to human intelligence, right now the general public 64 00:04:38,940 --> 00:04:42,380 isn't intelligent at all. At press time, Zuckerberg was quoted as saying, 65 00:04:42,380 --> 00:04:45,860 grow my children, move fast and break things. 66 00:04:45,860 --> 00:04:49,420 BMW will be introducing general purpose humanoid robots 67 00:04:49,460 --> 00:04:52,900 from figure at a manufacturing plant in South Carolina. 68 00:04:52,900 --> 00:04:56,900 Figure CEO Brad Adcock, whose name is the complete sentence. 69 00:04:56,900 --> 00:05:01,380 I'm a professional. 70 00:05:01,380 --> 00:05:07,100 It's hard when the whole room is crying. Says that they're planning to ship their first figure 01 robot 71 00:05:07,100 --> 00:05:10,460 within the year. However, these bots will likely start with one task 72 00:05:10,460 --> 00:05:16,100 before expanding their repertoire, mostly repetitive, unappealing tasks like stacking pallets or unpacking boxes. 73 00:05:16,100 --> 00:05:20,100 So hard to read when there's tears in your eyes. There's plenty of room to expand 74 00:05:20,100 --> 00:05:24,460 because these robots can apparently learn complex actions like how to make a pot of coffee 75 00:05:24,460 --> 00:05:29,220 just by imitating videos of humans. Just nobody let it watch Westworld. 76 00:05:29,220 --> 00:05:32,420 That's what you want. Okay. I'm installing Adcock right now. 77 00:05:32,420 --> 00:05:37,940 Ha ha ha ha ha ha. A janitor's house that was being used as office space 78 00:05:37,940 --> 00:05:44,140 has been converted into an assistive smart home. The council of the English city of Sunderland 79 00:05:44,140 --> 00:05:48,580 undertook the project to allow occupational therapists and technologists as well as their customers 80 00:05:48,580 --> 00:05:53,260 and partners to have a space to train with assistive technology and to try out ideas 81 00:05:53,260 --> 00:05:57,540 to maximize independence for clients. They even used the space to help make gaming 82 00:05:57,540 --> 00:06:00,940 more accessible to kids. After all, being differently able shouldn't bar you 83 00:06:00,940 --> 00:06:04,260 from normal childhood activities like being bullied in Fortnite. 84 00:06:04,260 --> 00:06:10,420 This the council decrees. Microsoft has made an AI reading tutor available for free. 85 00:06:10,420 --> 00:06:13,500 Reading coach, that's the name. 86 00:06:13,500 --> 00:06:17,180 Generate stories for users to read while being equipped with guardrails 87 00:06:17,180 --> 00:06:20,820 to keep things appropriate. Users can make choices to alter the story's plot 88 00:06:20,820 --> 00:06:23,980 to help make learning more engaging while personalizing the experience 89 00:06:23,980 --> 00:06:27,260 by learning what words the learner is commonly mispronouncing. 90 00:06:27,260 --> 00:06:31,940 There's even a reward system that unlocks new elements and characters that can be used to generate new stories. 91 00:06:31,940 --> 00:06:35,540 And if that sounds too good to be true, that's because you're still gonna need 92 00:06:35,540 --> 00:06:38,620 a Microsoft account to access it. They got your kids. 93 00:06:38,620 --> 00:06:43,340 They got them now. And a handheld AI powered skin cancer detector 94 00:06:43,340 --> 00:06:47,300 has been approved by the FDA in an encouraging example of AI that's being used for something 95 00:06:47,300 --> 00:06:51,780 other than pumping the internet full of detritus. The derma sensor device actually identified 96 00:06:51,780 --> 00:06:56,180 skin cancer 96% of the time and correctly ruled it out 97% of the time 97 00:06:56,180 --> 00:06:59,780 in the FDA study, which is great news for the one in five Americans 98 00:06:59,780 --> 00:07:04,620 who will get some type of skin cancer by age 70. But just in case the story made you feel too good, 99 00:07:04,620 --> 00:07:07,900 I'm obligated to add that the derma sensor will be available to doctors 100 00:07:07,900 --> 00:07:13,300 through a subscription of $200 a month per five patients or 400 bucks a month for unlimited use. 101 00:07:13,300 --> 00:07:17,700 What a thing of the time savings though, you know? And those three out of a hundred people? 102 00:07:17,700 --> 00:07:22,180 Pranks, it was a prank, bro. I'm not sorry about giving you even more tech news 103 00:07:22,180 --> 00:07:26,540 if you come back on Monday. But if you don't come back, you just don't get tech news.