WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.160 Today's tech news is chock-full of vitamins and nutrients, like a, well, potato. 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:10.360 Sorry, I can't get potatoes out of my head, you know, I can boil them, mash them, stick 00:00:10.360 --> 00:00:16.240 them in a stew, you know. Apple allegedly halted M2 chip production for two months according to a report from 00:00:16.240 --> 00:00:23.320 Korean outlet, TheElec. They claim this was due to global Mac sales plummeting, possibly due to getting your partner 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:27.320 the same card and flowers you get them for Valentine's Day every year, and not the Mac 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:33.240 book they deserve. TheElec spoke to a number of companies that are normally sent Apple silicon wafers by 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:38.440 TSMC for modification prior to being installed in Macs, and these firms didn't receive 00:00:38.440 --> 00:00:44.520 a single wafer all January or February, not even for Valentine's Day. 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:48.800 TheElec speculates the only explanation is that Apple halted production due to decreased 00:00:48.800 --> 00:00:54.000 demand, and not because the silicon fairy already put thousands of processors under 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:58.400 Tim Cook's pillow. I don't know how that works, do you put money under there? 00:00:58.400 --> 00:01:03.120 The fairy may need to apologize to Amcona, one of those wafer receiving companies. 00:01:03.120 --> 00:01:07.280 Their dedicated Apple chip packaging line sat idle for two months. 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:12.040 If Apple has paused production of M2 chips for MacBooks, it kind of makes sense. 00:01:12.040 --> 00:01:18.080 After all, their Q1 2023 Mac revenue was 29% lower than the same quarter last year, which 00:01:18.080 --> 00:01:22.720 brought in record high revenue, and Apple could have sworn it was going to continue 00:01:22.720 --> 00:01:29.040 indefinitely. That's so weird. But neither Apple nor TSMC have mentioned this pause, so we can't really confirm the 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:33.800 reason for it until one of them comments, or until Tim Cook complains of waking up with 00:01:33.800 --> 00:01:39.760 terrible neck pain. As a funny April Fools gag, ASUS pretended they were trying to compete with the Steam 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:44.440 Dick. But because companies can't make simple jokes anymore, and instead must play some sort of 00:01:44.440 --> 00:01:50.040 non-linear four-dimensional chess match on Twitter when the calendar strikes April 1st, 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:56.920 actually the thing is real. It's a real thing. They call it the ROG Ally, and I believe them because of all the rainbow RGB. 00:01:56.920 --> 00:02:02.680 According to reports, the Ally is powered by a custom AMD SoC built on TSMC's 4nm 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:10.560 process and features a 7-inch 120Hz FHD Plus display with a peak brightness of 500 nits. 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:16.720 Wow. Also like the ROG X13 and Z13, the Ally can be paired with the XG Mobile, which allows 00:02:16.720 --> 00:02:24.320 it to benefit from up to an RTX 4090 laptop GPU if you want to spend 2 grand more than 00:02:24.320 --> 00:02:31.500 however much the Ally will cost at launch. At this point in the story, I'm also obligated to say that LTT does a great job discussing 00:02:31.500 --> 00:02:36.960 the Ally in today's preview video. I have to say that because Linus knows where I live. 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:41.880 And many of the elite Twitterites thought they were victims of the most elaborate April 00:02:41.880 --> 00:02:46.480 Fools prank this weekend when they got to keep their legacy checkmarks. 00:02:46.480 --> 00:02:51.360 Despite having lost the ability to read, because Twitter's posts said they'd start removing 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:58.040 checkmarks on April 1st. Which is why I'm still verified on Twitter, despite practically begging for them to get 00:02:58.040 --> 00:03:04.840 it over with. Please. Twitter has also stopped distinguishing Twitter blue from legacy verified ticks, which was 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:09.440 previously the only way to know whether someone has an affinity for expensive stickers. 00:03:09.440 --> 00:03:13.440 But the one account everyone seemed to notice was missing a checkmark was the New York Times, 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:19.000 who had publicly stated they wouldn't be paying the $1,000 a month Twitter is charging businesses 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:25.120 for gold checkmarked verification. They aren't the only account to publicly proclaim they won't be paying the look at 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:32.760 me I have a fancy sticker next to my name subscription. LeBron James said the same thing, yet he still has a blue checkmark, probably because he's 00:03:32.760 --> 00:03:37.400 a basketball player and not a publication that has done horrible things, like quoting 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:40.400 words spoken by Elon Musk in articles and such. 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:48.360 Hey, don't have time for tech news? Introducing QuickBits, the news delivery solution for the enthusiast on the move. 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:54.000 NVIDIA's RTX 4070 may be launching relatively soon if listings spotted on manufacturer websites 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:59.800 are anything to go by and not a psychological trick played on our minds by Chibi Jensen-Huang. 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:05.880 The leaks suggest the cards could launch with an MSRP of $599 US, which is reasonable. 00:04:05.880 --> 00:04:12.600 I mean, it's $100 more than the 3070's MSRP, but that card launched 2.5 years ago, 00:04:12.600 --> 00:04:17.280 which is before every company decided that pretty much everything is at least $100 too 00:04:17.280 --> 00:04:20.440 cheap. How are CEOs supposed to retire early? 00:04:20.440 --> 00:04:25.720 Germany may be considering joining Italy's temporary ban on chat GPT. 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:28.920 Regulators in multiple European countries are following up with the Italians on their 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:34.200 findings, but Germany's data security commissioner has stated outright that Germany may ban chat 00:04:34.200 --> 00:04:39.920 GPT on the same grounds as Italy. No word yet on whether Japan will be getting it on the action. 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:43.120 Come on Japan, get the ban back together. 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:48.280 Don't worry about what happened last time, it's fine, it's been a while. 00:04:48.280 --> 00:04:52.720 NASA has announced the four astronauts that will be flying around the moon next year and 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:57.040 what will be the first time anyone has bothered to visit the poor thing in over 50 years. 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:02.240 How do you think the moon feels? The space agency is knocking out some world firsts with their crew lineup. 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:07.200 We got the first woman to visit the moon, the first person of color, and even more amazingly, 00:05:07.200 --> 00:05:11.000 the first Canadian astronaut to visit the moon will be on the crew. 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:18.240 We finally a win for the little guy. At least in terms of population to area ratio, we have hardly anybody who lives here. 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:25.720 He is the tallest one, does that kind of make sense? Nintendo has finally announced the new company it created with Japanese mobile firm DNA, 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:28.720 who Nintendo previously partnered with on a number of mobile games. 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:33.080 The new joint venture is called Nintendo Systems, okay? 00:05:33.080 --> 00:05:37.840 Probably because Nintendo owns 80% of the company since it's unclear whether DNA also 00:05:37.840 --> 00:05:42.800 has a popular Italian plumber mascot, we are looking into that. 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:47.520 But what they do have is the goal of developing and operating systems related to the digital 00:05:47.520 --> 00:05:51.520 part of Nintendo's business. They also have a very pretty website. 00:05:51.520 --> 00:05:56.840 It's nice. And singer Robin Thicke might be the reason why we'll never see a worldwide release 00:05:56.840 --> 00:06:01.960 of Mother 3, the final installment of the series known as Earthbound in the West. 00:06:01.960 --> 00:06:08.280 According to lawyer slash YouTuber Moon, the 2006 Japan exclusive game contains too 00:06:08.280 --> 00:06:16.880 many musical references to bands like The Beatles. I mean, there's a bat enemy with a light motif similar to the opening theme of the 1960s 00:06:16.880 --> 00:06:23.680 Batman TV series. Back to Robin Thicke though, he and Pharrell Williams were found guilty of copyright infringement 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:30.200 because their 2013 song Blurred Lines sounded like Marvin Gaye's 1977 single Gotta Give 00:06:30.200 --> 00:06:35.080 It Up. Nintendo's scared of being sued into oblivion if they try to localize it. 00:06:35.080 --> 00:06:40.320 And this is why we can't have nice things. Literally, this is the reason. 00:06:40.320 --> 00:06:44.800 But you can have nice things if you only just come back on Wednesday for more tech news. 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:46.720 The things we have for you are so nice.