1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 At Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:07,880 the world's once most valuable company finally drank the AI Kool-Aid 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:11,920 after being usurped by First Microsoft and then in Vidya, 4 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:16,520 in terms of the world's most valuable companies. And now, all the Apple faithful 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:21,440 will drink this Kool-Aid too. Apple Intelligence is the company's new set of features 6 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:27,160 and tools that leverage, primarily, Apple's own custom models running on device. 7 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:33,360 But they also announced Private Cloud Compute, a brand new standard for privacy in AI, 8 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:38,080 which reportedly extends your privacy bubble to include some server space. 9 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:42,560 Apple said that unless a given server's security has been verified by them, 10 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:46,840 Apple devices will cryptographically refuse to talk to them, 11 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:50,160 a phrase that I'm definitely going to steal. Use it for under your in-laws. 12 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:54,940 I cryptographically refuse. Yeah, Apple took great pains this morning 13 00:00:54,940 --> 00:01:00,820 to assure everyone that if this all fails to respect user privacy, Craig Federighi will commit Sudoku 14 00:01:00,820 --> 00:01:06,260 with a new Apple pencil. He's a deeply troubled man. So what are these Apple Intelligence features? 15 00:01:06,260 --> 00:01:09,740 Well, Siri has a new icon. It's AI generated. 16 00:01:09,740 --> 00:01:13,020 No, Siri has basically taken the Bradley Cooper 17 00:01:13,020 --> 00:01:16,020 limitless drug and can now retain more context 18 00:01:16,020 --> 00:01:21,380 and conversations, use what it sees on your screen and all the info it knows about you, 19 00:01:21,380 --> 00:01:26,620 AKA personal context, to search for stuff and perform cross-app actions. 20 00:01:26,620 --> 00:01:31,340 You could ask Siri in messages to add this address to Damien's contact card. 21 00:01:31,340 --> 00:01:35,420 Now show me photos of him in a pink coat. Now edit it and make it pop. 22 00:01:35,420 --> 00:01:38,940 Now add this to my note where I'm collecting details about his life, 23 00:01:38,940 --> 00:01:42,020 at which point Siri would probably start feeling uncomfortable 24 00:01:42,020 --> 00:01:47,260 if it could feel. But it can't yet. I'm still better. Developers can define actions like these 25 00:01:47,260 --> 00:01:53,180 with the App Intense API. So this kind of power won't be limited to just Apple apps. 26 00:01:53,180 --> 00:01:56,380 Nor will the new system-wide generative writing tools 27 00:01:56,380 --> 00:02:00,060 like rewrite, proofread, summarize, and smart reply, 28 00:02:00,060 --> 00:02:04,020 which have wonderfully descriptive names and will work across any app. 29 00:02:04,020 --> 00:02:07,020 Image Playground, meanwhile, is a standalone app 30 00:02:07,020 --> 00:02:10,180 for generating images in three available styles 31 00:02:10,180 --> 00:02:13,300 based on discrete concepts you select 32 00:02:13,300 --> 00:02:17,100 rather than a written prompt. It runs entirely on device 33 00:02:17,100 --> 00:02:22,100 and so can theoretically be used to generate images forever. 34 00:02:22,100 --> 00:02:29,420 It can be hooked into from other apps like Messages and can even generate images of people in your photo library 35 00:02:29,420 --> 00:02:33,060 to really give your stalking report some extra pizzazz. 36 00:02:33,060 --> 00:02:36,300 This is what I imagine they look like in my head. Also, I'm a cat. 37 00:02:36,300 --> 00:02:40,220 You can also generate emoji. So they called them GenMoji. 38 00:02:40,220 --> 00:02:45,940 Frankly, I think Apple could do better. Photos now has a cleanup, which is just magic eraser, 39 00:02:45,940 --> 00:02:49,180 as well as natural language search for photos and videos 40 00:02:49,180 --> 00:02:54,060 and a feature that will create a slideshow movie with music based on a prompt. 41 00:02:54,060 --> 00:02:58,260 There's a handful of other OS features like mail summaries, priority notifications, 42 00:02:58,260 --> 00:03:03,300 and the focus feature using AI to determine which messages are okay to distract you with. 43 00:03:03,300 --> 00:03:08,580 But wait, what about that open AI deal? Well, if Siri's brain juice is wearing thin, 44 00:03:08,580 --> 00:03:12,360 she'll ask you if she can ask ChatGPT for help. 45 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:16,080 The chatbot can also be accessed through the aforementioned writing tools 46 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:20,380 with no open AI account required, although paid subscribers can link their account 47 00:03:20,380 --> 00:03:27,620 to access their benefits. Now, Apple says all of this will be available to try this summer, launching as a beta with iOS 18 48 00:03:27,620 --> 00:03:32,020 in the fall. Sadly, Apple did not mention working on AI-powered robots, 49 00:03:32,020 --> 00:03:36,060 although IMO, it is getting harder and harder to believe Craig is a real person. 50 00:03:36,060 --> 00:03:39,180 He's too perfect. No man was born with those eyebrows. 51 00:03:39,180 --> 00:03:43,200 Now, that was all the AI stuff. Apple also announced miscellaneous updates 52 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,740 to their various OSes, including a lightning round 53 00:03:46,740 --> 00:03:51,140 of Vision OS 2 updates for the tens of Vision Pro users 54 00:03:51,860 --> 00:03:56,620 although that figure will go up now that Vision Pro is coming to more countries, sadly. 55 00:03:56,620 --> 00:03:59,820 Just imagine, instead of tens, they could have dozens of users. 56 00:03:59,820 --> 00:04:03,980 You can now look at photos with other Vision Pro users 57 00:04:03,980 --> 00:04:10,300 so you can relive your daughter's first steps while also staring at your mother's dystopian cyber ghost. 58 00:04:10,300 --> 00:04:15,860 I don't know, Apple moved on from all this quick, so I will too. iOS 18 will give iPhone users a taste 59 00:04:15,860 --> 00:04:20,700 of Android's custom color themes for app icons, customization of the quick settings. 60 00:04:20,700 --> 00:04:24,540 I mean, control center, although you can also adjust widget size there, 61 00:04:24,540 --> 00:04:28,900 so fair enough, and the ability to hide apps in a locked folder. 62 00:04:28,900 --> 00:04:33,180 Developers can also allow their apps to privately pair with certain devices 63 00:04:33,180 --> 00:04:36,220 instead of the user pairing the device on a system level, 64 00:04:36,220 --> 00:04:39,380 which sounds more secure, I think. 65 00:04:39,380 --> 00:04:45,260 Messages now supports text formatting, fun new little text effects, message scheduling, 66 00:04:45,260 --> 00:04:48,380 which they call send later, and messaging via satellite. 67 00:04:48,380 --> 00:04:51,420 That will definitely feel cooler. 68 00:04:51,420 --> 00:04:55,860 It's going to space, nice. Mail has categories now, 69 00:04:55,860 --> 00:05:00,140 which I'm surprised it didn't have already. Tap to cash will let iPhone users 70 00:05:00,140 --> 00:05:04,860 ape the old way we used to transfer money, and iOS 18 has a game mode now, 71 00:05:04,860 --> 00:05:08,420 because real gamers use Apple, and they are valid. 72 00:05:08,420 --> 00:05:11,920 But what about the really big iPhones? That's right, iPads. 73 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:16,220 Many iPad OS apps will now have an Apple TV-esque floating tab bar, 74 00:05:16,220 --> 00:05:20,740 which morphs into the sidebar, and you'll be able to draw while sharing your screen and share play, 75 00:05:20,740 --> 00:05:23,940 but most important of all, at long last. 76 00:05:25,740 --> 00:05:28,760 iPad has a calculator app. I'm not crying. 77 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:33,300 I kind of forgive Apple for taking so long because it's got a feature called Math Notes 78 00:05:33,300 --> 00:05:36,940 that looks sick. It will execute handwritten calculations, 79 00:05:36,940 --> 00:05:41,900 generate interactive graphs, and even create contextual sliders 80 00:05:41,900 --> 00:05:47,380 to modify values that you wrote in there. Fine, Apple, whatever, okay? 81 00:05:47,380 --> 00:05:51,260 It's cool. In Notes, you can train the SmartScript feature 82 00:05:51,260 --> 00:05:55,780 on your own handwriting, and then it will conform your hasty, messy handwriting 83 00:05:55,780 --> 00:06:00,220 into that style, along with text you paste, and then you can just scribble to delete, 84 00:06:00,220 --> 00:06:03,500 which is not as cool as making the other end of the pencil and eraser, but I'll take it. 85 00:06:03,500 --> 00:06:07,060 And then of course, we have the new macOS Sequoia, 86 00:06:07,060 --> 00:06:12,460 which will support full-on iPhone mirroring, complete with full-screen control, audio, 87 00:06:12,460 --> 00:06:15,460 and the ability to drag and drop files 88 00:06:15,460 --> 00:06:19,940 directly into iPhone apps from your Mac. At this point in the presentation, 89 00:06:19,940 --> 00:06:23,260 Craig force-grabbed his iPhone for no reason, 90 00:06:23,260 --> 00:06:27,220 and unironically, that was just funny and cool, 91 00:06:27,220 --> 00:06:32,460 and I just wanted to tell you about it. Moving on. macOS will finally have Windows-style window snapping, 92 00:06:32,460 --> 00:06:35,460 along with an actual passwords manager called Passwords, 93 00:06:35,460 --> 00:06:39,220 and Safari will have these contextual highlights and page summaries. 94 00:06:39,220 --> 00:06:42,180 Now, last couple things here, Assassin's Creed Shadows will come out on Mac, 95 00:06:42,940 --> 00:06:46,140 AirPods will let you nod or shake your head 96 00:06:46,140 --> 00:06:49,820 to tell Siri yes or no, so you don't have to talk to her in public, 97 00:06:49,820 --> 00:06:54,100 because that's embarrassing. And WatchOS 11 will come with a new vitals app 98 00:06:54,100 --> 00:06:57,620 that can monitor your vitals and tell you if something's off, 99 00:06:57,620 --> 00:07:01,980 and that sounds potentially life-saving, while the new effort rating that tells you 100 00:07:01,980 --> 00:07:06,460 whether you're slacking in the fitness department just sounds judgy, which is a perfect way 101 00:07:06,460 --> 00:07:09,500 to end the Apple stuff. Time to move on, let's go. 102 00:07:09,500 --> 00:07:15,500 Don't judge me, Craig. Graphics card manufacturer PowerColor is using AI 103 00:07:15,500 --> 00:07:19,380 to make AMD Radeon GPUs much more power efficient. 104 00:07:19,380 --> 00:07:25,340 Now, there are some downsides, mostly that PowerColor is naming the technology Edge AI. 105 00:07:25,340 --> 00:07:29,540 My response to that is no thank you. I don't want to get edge by AI. 106 00:07:29,540 --> 00:07:32,860 PowerColor claims that by equipping Radeon graphics cards 107 00:07:32,860 --> 00:07:37,420 with an NPU from AI partner Canaron, maybe, 108 00:07:37,420 --> 00:07:43,420 running Cyberpunk and Final Fantasy XV consumes about 22% less power. 109 00:07:43,420 --> 00:07:49,180 This is likely due to Edge AI putting the GPUs into what some researchers call a goon state. 110 00:07:49,180 --> 00:07:53,180 Impressively, those numbers are even higher than what can apparently be achieved 111 00:07:53,180 --> 00:07:58,860 by AMD's own power saving feature. Having said that, the Edge AI does have a slight effect 112 00:07:58,860 --> 00:08:03,020 on frame rate based on live demos from PowerColor's booth at Computex. 113 00:08:03,020 --> 00:08:08,460 Two systems running the Final Fantasy XV benchmark were shown, the system without the NPU 114 00:08:08,460 --> 00:08:12,220 achieved 118 FPS while consuming 338 Watts. 115 00:08:12,220 --> 00:08:16,140 The system with the NPU only consumed 261 Watts 116 00:08:16,140 --> 00:08:19,580 while maxing out at an FPS of 107, not bad. 117 00:08:19,580 --> 00:08:22,820 But these results seem to be from Edge AI's ECO mode, 118 00:08:22,820 --> 00:08:27,940 which is meant to be more power efficient. According to Canaron, there is also apparently a boost mode 119 00:08:27,940 --> 00:08:31,180 for high performance and stability, which is good 120 00:08:31,180 --> 00:08:34,700 because I've heard things can get unstable if you edge too much. 121 00:08:34,700 --> 00:08:37,740 Quick bits, oh yeah, I've got quick bits. 122 00:08:37,740 --> 00:08:41,260 Do you, do you want them? 123 00:08:41,260 --> 00:08:45,740 AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9000 X3D series CPUs 124 00:08:45,740 --> 00:08:52,460 may be coming up much sooner than you think. An allegedly trustworthy source told outlet Club 386 125 00:08:52,460 --> 00:08:55,740 that Team Red's next 3D vCache-equipped chips 126 00:08:55,740 --> 00:09:00,540 could launch just two months after the 9000 non-X3D processors. 127 00:09:00,540 --> 00:09:05,340 And that would be particularly impressive since AMD told PC Gamer they're making big improvements 128 00:09:05,340 --> 00:09:09,300 to their X3D line from last time. Now this probably means they found a workaround 129 00:09:09,300 --> 00:09:14,300 for the 3D vCache's higher thermal resistance allowing for higher boost clocks. 130 00:09:14,300 --> 00:09:18,060 I mean, it's not like they've cracked the fourth dimension. 131 00:09:18,060 --> 00:09:23,060 Unless, hello science, I'd like to report a time crime. 132 00:09:23,980 --> 00:09:29,380 There Jacob, I did it, okay, I did it. While this weekend's Xbox showcase came and went 133 00:09:29,380 --> 00:09:32,700 without the rumored reveal of an Xbox handheld, 134 00:09:32,700 --> 00:09:36,060 Xbox chief Phil Spencer kind of basically 135 00:09:36,100 --> 00:09:39,900 mostly confirmed it existed during an IGN live interview. 136 00:09:39,900 --> 00:09:43,140 Not only did Philium Wallace say the hardware team 137 00:09:43,140 --> 00:09:47,980 at Xbox is working on different form factors, but he literally said he thinks 138 00:09:47,980 --> 00:09:51,620 Xbox should have a handheld. And he's in charge of those things. 139 00:09:51,620 --> 00:09:54,980 And he's- So we should have a handheld? I think so. 140 00:09:54,980 --> 00:09:58,460 I think we should have a handheld. Do you want to say anything about it? No, I don't want to say anything. 141 00:09:58,460 --> 00:10:02,780 Since he's the boss, that should mean we're getting one 142 00:10:02,940 --> 00:10:06,140 unless he doesn't realize he's the boss of Xbox. 143 00:10:06,140 --> 00:10:09,540 I mean, for all we know, he might think he's just a model for casual jackets. 144 00:10:09,540 --> 00:10:13,500 He looks good. Privacy officials in Canada and the UK 145 00:10:13,500 --> 00:10:18,180 are launching a joint investigation into 23andMe's recent data breach 146 00:10:18,180 --> 00:10:22,980 to determine if the company had adequate safeguards to keep client information secure 147 00:10:22,980 --> 00:10:28,300 and whether they alerted authorities and affected clients within a reasonable timeframe. 148 00:10:28,300 --> 00:10:31,380 Whatever safeguards there were clearly weren't adequate 149 00:10:31,420 --> 00:10:36,220 in the sense that sensitive data from 6.9 million clients was stolen 150 00:10:36,220 --> 00:10:39,420 despite only 14,000 accounts being compromised. 151 00:10:39,420 --> 00:10:44,900 And it apparently took around five months before the company noticed. But maybe the British have some other definition 152 00:10:44,900 --> 00:10:49,780 of what adequate means, like how they call them biscuits instead of cookies. 153 00:10:49,780 --> 00:10:52,820 You know, we don't know how it works over there. I think everything's upside down. 154 00:10:52,820 --> 00:10:56,180 Rubber beans eraser. Oh, I made a mistake. Have you got a rubber? 155 00:10:56,180 --> 00:10:59,500 Windows isn't the only OS getting ARM-based laptops. 156 00:10:59,540 --> 00:11:04,620 Linux notebook manufacturer Tuxedo is apparently also getting in on the fun. 157 00:11:04,620 --> 00:11:10,180 They unveiled a prototype laptop at Computex featuring a Snapdragon X Elite SoC. 158 00:11:10,180 --> 00:11:14,180 Tuxedo is currently working on porting their in-house Tuxedo OS 159 00:11:14,180 --> 00:11:18,740 Linux distribution to ARM architecture, but the notebook should be ready by Christmas. 160 00:11:18,740 --> 00:11:23,820 That means that this year, San is gonna give us a multitude of comments online 161 00:11:23,820 --> 00:11:27,020 saying how Windows on ARM is so much worse 162 00:11:27,020 --> 00:11:32,660 than Linux on ARM. We know it's gonna happen. Oh, oh, oh, I use Arch. 163 00:11:32,660 --> 00:11:38,420 Did you know? And Nokia says that it has made the first phone call 164 00:11:38,420 --> 00:11:43,340 using 3D spatial audio, using the Immersive Video and Audio Services, 165 00:11:43,340 --> 00:11:46,620 or EVOS codec. Sure. 166 00:11:46,620 --> 00:11:52,060 The EVOS codec is part of an upcoming upgrade to 5G cellular networks that's supposed to be faster, 167 00:11:52,060 --> 00:11:55,220 more efficient, and better at cellular positioning, 168 00:11:55,220 --> 00:11:58,980 which is big news for fans of not dying because an ambulance can't find you. 169 00:11:58,980 --> 00:12:02,500 According to Nokia, spatial audio could be enabled for most phones 170 00:12:02,500 --> 00:12:06,300 with two or more microphones. This would give calls a richer quality 171 00:12:06,300 --> 00:12:09,740 and allow users to deploy Google's new audio fart emoji 172 00:12:09,740 --> 00:12:11,660 with surround sound reverb. 173 00:12:13,980 --> 00:12:17,780 Whoa, I feel like I'm there. But there's no audio emoji for the tech news, 174 00:12:17,780 --> 00:12:21,100 so you'll just have to come back on Wednesday for another episode of TechLinked. 175 00:12:21,100 --> 00:12:26,300 Nothing can be done. I mean, we'll work on it. 176 00:12:26,300 --> 00:12:29,540 I could make a genmoji for it. I'm stupid.