WEBVTT 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:03.480 Surprise, I got you tech news. 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:07.440 You knew that? That's why you clicked the video? 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:11.160 You want me to just get to it? Oh, I knew this was stupid. 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:14.600 An Xbox gaming handheld is being planned by Microsoft 00:00:14.600 --> 00:00:19.700 to launch later this very year. According to fairly reliable Xbox Insider, 00:00:19.700 --> 00:00:23.440 and no big deal if you say his name with a Southern accent, Giz Corden. 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:27.000 It's Giz Corden. According to Corden's sources, 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:31.620 the handheld will be an Xbox branded device made by a manufacturing partner. 00:00:31.620 --> 00:00:36.740 Kind of like how Lenovo made an officially licensed SteamOS device, the Legion Go S. 00:00:36.740 --> 00:00:40.940 That handheld was apparently so good it made this laptop mag writer 00:00:40.940 --> 00:00:44.260 want to buy Valve's first party Steam Deck instead. 00:00:45.140 --> 00:00:50.100 Which is maybe Microsoft's end game. Giz also says the company plans to launch 00:00:50.100 --> 00:00:54.340 a proper first party Xbox handheld in 2027, 00:00:54.340 --> 00:00:58.660 along with a premium Series X console successor. 00:00:58.700 --> 00:01:01.700 Corden elaborated on the Xbox two podcast, 00:01:01.700 --> 00:01:06.060 saying that there may not be any developer kits for this round of consoles. 00:01:06.060 --> 00:01:09.280 Game devs will just need a set of specs to target 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:12.980 because this Xbox will essentially just be a PC 00:01:12.980 --> 00:01:16.860 in a TV friendly shell, as opposed to normal PCs, 00:01:16.860 --> 00:01:20.620 which when placed near a television can erupt into hissing and growling. 00:01:20.620 --> 00:01:25.220 The news of upcoming Xbox hardware could reassure some fans worried 00:01:25.220 --> 00:01:29.900 about former Xbox exclusives being published on other platforms, 00:01:29.900 --> 00:01:34.420 like Forza Horizon 5, which will launch in April on PlayStation 5 00:01:34.420 --> 00:01:37.660 with a Microsoft account login requirement, 00:01:37.660 --> 00:01:41.340 because that went so well for Sony's PC games. That'll show them, 00:01:41.340 --> 00:01:46.780 that'll show those dirty PlayStation fans that their parents should have bought an Xbox instead 00:01:46.780 --> 00:01:51.620 when they were children, so they'd form a ridiculous social attachment to the brand I like. 00:01:51.620 --> 00:01:54.740 Speaking of branding, specs and images have leaked 00:01:54.940 --> 00:01:58.300 of NVIDIA's Blackwell powered pro workstation card 00:01:58.300 --> 00:02:02.620 called the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell. 00:02:02.620 --> 00:02:07.820 As with the card's predecessor, the RTX 6000 ADA generation, 00:02:07.820 --> 00:02:11.340 the 6000 means this is NVIDIA's flagship pro model, 00:02:11.340 --> 00:02:16.580 but this time they threw a pro in there too, in all caps, just to be sure. 00:02:16.580 --> 00:02:21.940 It's only for pros, stop looking. Video cards found the images after Twitter leaker 00:02:21.980 --> 00:02:26.940 Harukaze leaked specs, which led Mark Brown to find a listing 00:02:26.940 --> 00:02:30.940 from card manufacturer, LeadTech. Great job everybody, 00:02:30.940 --> 00:02:34.300 but gamers are probably more interested in the leaked specs 00:02:34.300 --> 00:02:38.900 for the RTX 5050, 5060, and 5060 Ti, 00:02:38.900 --> 00:02:44.140 which were posted by other Twitter leaker, whose name I will always pronounce as Copete 7 Kimmy, 00:02:44.140 --> 00:02:49.060 because it pleases me. Unfortunately, these specs for these low to mid rangers 00:02:49.060 --> 00:02:52.100 likely won't please low to mid gamers, 00:02:52.100 --> 00:02:56.540 which is a half hearted diss I already regret. We're talking specs that barely improve 00:02:56.540 --> 00:03:01.220 on their predecessors, if at all. But with a launch expected sometime in the next few months, 00:03:01.220 --> 00:03:04.780 NVIDIA still has time to add a qualifier to the name, 00:03:04.780 --> 00:03:09.340 RTX Fun 5050, don't take it too seriously. 00:03:09.340 --> 00:03:15.900 Following reports that Apple has delayed its LLM powered Siri upgrade indefinitely, 00:03:15.900 --> 00:03:19.420 some, like Mac rumors contributor, Aaron Parris, 00:03:19.420 --> 00:03:23.860 wondered if Apple would pull ads that specifically advertise the feature, 00:03:23.860 --> 00:03:27.060 since it's not a thing. 00:03:27.060 --> 00:03:32.820 Turns out Apple would, they took down the ad shortly after Parris tweeted about it, 00:03:32.820 --> 00:03:36.620 leaving no evidence of any false advertising. 00:03:36.620 --> 00:03:40.100 Except for, as pointed out by Snazzy Labs, aka Quinn Nelson, 00:03:40.100 --> 00:03:43.100 this whole section of Apple's iPhone 16 Pro page 00:03:43.100 --> 00:03:47.420 full of false advertising. Yeah, the text there makes it sound like Siri 00:03:47.420 --> 00:03:50.780 can do advanced AI assistant stuff right now, 00:03:50.780 --> 00:03:56.620 instead of saying that at some future point, she'll be able to do them about two thirds of the time. 00:03:56.620 --> 00:04:00.540 And the remaining 33% she'll hallucinate and book your grandma a flight to Siberia. 00:04:00.540 --> 00:04:05.100 But those two thirds times, what the fuck, magical. 00:04:05.100 --> 00:04:08.400 A magic you could also feel through our sponsor. 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:12.500 I put the hat back on for the quick bits, because it was, I mean, it was just sitting there and I was like, stick to the bit. 00:04:12.540 --> 00:04:16.820 And so I, you know what, it's fine, it's okay. 00:04:16.820 --> 00:04:20.540 Scammers selling fake hardware online is nothing new, 00:04:20.540 --> 00:04:26.500 but the problem seems to be affecting seemingly legit listings on Amazon even more these days. 00:04:26.500 --> 00:04:30.660 As evidenced by this supposed Ryzen 7 9800 X3D 00:04:30.660 --> 00:04:38.140 purchased by YouTube channel Hardware Busters, that turned out to be a 14 year old AMD FX4100 00:04:38.140 --> 00:04:42.180 with a sticker on it. That sticker was really on there though, so. 00:04:42.180 --> 00:04:46.980 So be careful out there. If you're shopping for the Ryzen 99950 X3D, 00:04:46.980 --> 00:04:50.780 which will supposedly launch this Wednesday for 700 bucks, 00:04:50.780 --> 00:04:54.940 maybe, who knows. Turns out that battery demolishing update 00:04:54.940 --> 00:05:00.380 for the Pixel 4a was pushed by Google to prevent battery overheating risk, 00:05:00.380 --> 00:05:05.260 which was bad enough that Australia issued a formal recall of the devices. 00:05:05.260 --> 00:05:10.940 Although in the age of software updates, a recall often just means an urgent notice to update, 00:05:10.980 --> 00:05:15.460 which is the case here. But all Google said when they first issued the update 00:05:15.460 --> 00:05:19.620 was that it was necessary to improve the stability of the battery's performance, 00:05:19.620 --> 00:05:23.820 which doesn't sound nearly as dire as phone could explode. 00:05:23.820 --> 00:05:28.780 But hey, why do we need to know why a tech giant is fundamentally altering something 00:05:28.780 --> 00:05:33.620 about a device's performance? It's their phone, we just gave them some money to use it. 00:05:33.620 --> 00:05:39.600 Speaking of borked Google things, owners quote unquote of second gen Chromecast 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:43.120 and Chromecast audio devices were frustrated to be met 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:48.920 with untrusted device errors this week, leading some to worry the Google graveyard 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:52.600 had come for their dongles as it shall for us all. 00:05:52.600 --> 00:05:56.400 But nope, it was just a glitch and Google's working on a fix. 00:05:56.400 --> 00:06:00.160 Just be glad the issues weren't the result of a massive cyber attack, 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:05.880 like the one Elon Musk said was responsible for stability issues experienced by ex-users this morning. 00:06:05.880 --> 00:06:09.240 They don't want you to tweet. Better tweet even harder 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:12.400 and Grock writes the funniest best tweets ever, 00:06:12.400 --> 00:06:16.480 so subscribe to that. Some DVDs released by Warner Brothers 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:20.880 from the years 2006 to 2008 have been found to go bad 00:06:20.880 --> 00:06:24.720 due to a manufacturing defect known as disk rot, 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:28.320 which is way more biologically related terms 00:06:28.320 --> 00:06:34.380 than I'm used to using when speaking about optical disks, which I do each morning when I wake up. 00:06:34.420 --> 00:06:37.780 The issue was investigated by Chris Bumbray 00:06:37.780 --> 00:06:42.260 of movie news site Joe Blow and Warner Bros has now stated they're working 00:06:42.260 --> 00:06:47.260 with consumers to replace defective disks. So you might wanna check your DVDs 00:06:47.260 --> 00:06:50.380 if you have any of that released from 2006 to 2008, 00:06:50.380 --> 00:06:56.380 especially because you probably got some good ones in there. The prestige, the departed, children of men, 00:06:56.380 --> 00:07:00.060 the devil wears Prada, pans labyrinth, step up, 00:07:00.060 --> 00:07:05.940 that's all one year because movies used to be good. And the Compal Infinite is a laptop with a screen 00:07:05.940 --> 00:07:09.660 that rolls outward to expand itself horizontally, 00:07:09.660 --> 00:07:14.020 as opposed to vertically, like the Lenovo Thinkbook plus Gen 6. 00:07:14.020 --> 00:07:17.360 The Infinite even won an IF design award, 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:20.460 which doesn't mean much because they've gotten the same award 00:07:20.460 --> 00:07:26.140 for a number of other cool products that never came to market. You want a real innovative screen type product? 00:07:26.140 --> 00:07:29.860 ASUS just launched monitors with built-in air purifiers 00:07:29.860 --> 00:07:33.340 so you don't actually have to go touch grass to get fresh air. 00:07:33.340 --> 00:07:38.380 Take that, mom. Here's something else you can touch, your mouse or phone or whatever 00:07:38.380 --> 00:07:41.540 to click the next tech news video when it comes out on Wednesday. 00:07:41.540 --> 00:07:47.260 Grass? Tech news is just as helpful.