1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,040 This video is about inviting 50 strangers to try and stay inside a giant Jell-O cube 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:10,960 the longest and the winner gets $100. You thought it was about tech news, but I tricked you. 3 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:15,880 But really, it is about tech news, and I've just tricked you again. 4 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:25,400 Almost too easy. China is upping their gaming GPU game with the Leesuan 7G106 announced this weekend alongside 5 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,600 the professional focused 7G105. 6 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:32,400 And it seems like it can indeed play games. 7 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:41,240 That's number one. You gotta get that down first. Now last week, an OpenCL geek bench result for the 7G106 was spotted by BenchLeaks, and 8 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:46,960 in a rare occurrence, that exact score from the result was cited in Leesuan's official 9 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:54,040 presentation. The 7G106 is notable for being the first 6nm gaming GPU from a Chinese company, and while 10 00:00:54,040 --> 00:01:00,920 it's no RTX 5090, it was shown pushing more than 70 FPS in the fairly demanding Black 11 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:07,740 Myth Wukong at 4K, potentially due to the company's NRSS upscaling tech and giving 12 00:01:07,740 --> 00:01:14,120 the RTX 4060 and 5060 a run for their money in a few mostly synthetic benchmarks. 13 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:20,640 It's actually a similar story for another Chinese GPU, the More Threads MTTS90, which 14 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:26,320 just had some of its benchmarks spread around Chinese social media, despite actually being 15 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:32,400 announced quite some time ago. Now there's very little information about price or release date for either of these 16 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:37,760 GPUs, but the Trump administration did just temporarily drop some trade restrictions for 17 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:43,480 semiconductors to make China happy, so maybe there's hope that US gamers could have another 18 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:50,160 alternative to buying NVIDIA graphics cards, since AMD also seems distracted, like NVIDIA, 19 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:55,960 by the AI hardware market, and Intel, I mean, well, they're just trying to stay alive. 20 00:01:55,960 --> 00:02:00,400 It's like they got Thanos snapped, but they're like holding onto their physical form for 21 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,520 a bit longer, it's like Peter did, well he stopped, I'm gonna cry. 22 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:09,200 Google pushed out a mandatory update for Pixel 6a phones earlier this month, nerfing 23 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:13,920 their battery performance, because if they didn't, the phone's batteries might explode. 24 00:02:13,920 --> 00:02:17,400 Except for at least one phone, it apparently didn't work. 25 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:22,880 Reddit user footymanageraddict posted on the Google Pixel sub that despite applying 26 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:30,080 the firmware update, his 6a still caught fire while he was asleep, rude, it ignited his 27 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:35,400 sheets but he managed to throw it onto the floor so he could take some frankly, kind 28 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:40,160 of artsy pictures of it. A testament to Google's treachery. 29 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:43,640 They got rid of the don't be evil slogan and look what happened. 30 00:02:43,640 --> 00:02:49,480 While there were a handful of notable reports of Pixel 6a's blowing up before the update, 31 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:53,200 this is the first one to reportedly occur post update. 32 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:57,920 The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission issued a recall for the phones on Friday but 33 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:03,240 surprisingly there hasn't been much reporting on this issue overall. 34 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:06,360 It's possible people just thought this was normal behavior for Pixels. 35 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:12,640 UKIE, a major games industry trade association in the UK, has released a statement in support 36 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:18,760 of platforms like Steam having creative freedom in what games they can host as long as it's 37 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:22,240 properly classified by rating systems like Peggy. 38 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:28,520 The statement follows Steam taking down dozens of adult games and indie game store itch.io 39 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:35,480 following suit by de-indexing not-safe-for-work titles after pressure from payment processors, 40 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:41,120 who were themselves being pressured by an activist group called Collective Shout, a name that 41 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:46,800 won the group's name competition after just barely edging out Bellow Together and United 42 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:54,760 Squeal. They're very literal. Despite making it their mission to protect women by banning adult games from platforms, 43 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:59,240 indie developers seem to largely disagree and the whole episode has really just motivated 44 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:04,200 the public to ask why we're giving moral authority to the people who make money off of missed 45 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:08,400 credit card payments again? Maybe we should be asking about today's sponsor. 46 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:15,000 I'm sorry for tricking you earlier. The following quick bits are about the people in Jell-O thing. 47 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,000 Except they're not. It's more tech news. Calm down. 48 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,160 It's just a prank. You don't have to get weird about it. 49 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:25,480 Following GPD's announcement, I and Neo have announced they're building their own handheld 50 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:32,720 powered by AMD's beastly Ryzen AI Max Plus 395, aka Strix Halo. 51 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:36,440 And unlike GPD's version, it's got a built-in battery. 52 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:40,080 Ooh, like most handhelds. 53 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:45,280 This unit, called the I and Neo Next 2, was announced at the end of a nearly five-hour 54 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:51,280 two-part live stream as the second One More Thing bonus announcement. 55 00:04:51,280 --> 00:04:57,280 Then as the One More Thing 3, they announced they're making an I and Neo phone with a slider 56 00:04:57,280 --> 00:05:02,680 design. I don't think you can keep doing more things and calling it One More Thing. 57 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:09,240 I'm never going to trust you again if you do that. But you can release a new line of budget handhelds and call it Conquer. 58 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,240 Conquer. Conquer. Conquer. 59 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:15,440 We used to call it Conquer. 60 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:22,520 Alalauai. Another geekbench result for NVIDIA's mysterious upcoming N1X processor has made it somewhat 61 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:30,800 less mysterious. The result lists the chip's specs, including 20 CPU cores and 48 compute units, which should 62 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:38,880 give it some decent gaming chops. But the specs also seem to match up almost exactly with NVIDIA's GB10 Super Chip, which 63 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:43,560 powers the DGX Spark line of many AI PCs. 64 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,760 I mean, I don't know why I was expecting something new. This is NVIDIA. 65 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:51,440 They'll probably just release a new upscaler and claim the new one 69 times better. 66 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:55,240 Yeah, I said 69. Laugh. 67 00:05:55,240 --> 00:06:02,720 Laugh. Meta is fielding yet another copyright infringement lawsuit over AI training, this time from adult 68 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:09,080 film production studios, Strike 3 Holdings, and Counter Life Media. 69 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:17,960 The names today. The lawsuit alleges Meta has been continually torrenting and, crucially, seeding the studio's 70 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:24,840 copyrighted smut since 2018, and thus affected the studio's ability to compete in the market 71 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:31,960 for their own content. Now, you may remember, this is the exact type of argument that the judge in Meta's last 72 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:38,080 copyright lawsuit recommended that future plaintiffs use if they actually want to win. 73 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:42,320 Meaning, porn studios might just be about to take Meta down. 74 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:51,160 Wait, why was Meta torrenting so much porn? And researchers at Columbia University have developed robots that they say can consume 75 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:55,440 other robots to get bigger and stronger. 76 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:58,840 Like what your grandma promised would happen if you ate your oatmeal. 77 00:06:58,840 --> 00:07:07,280 And I don't know if you look at the paper, it's kind of misleading. It's more like the robots, which are little six inch rods, and they're not really consuming 78 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:13,600 each other. They're squirming around and combining with other robots to form structures that themselves 79 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:19,680 squirm around. They actually kind of remind me of the microbots from Big Hero 6, except those didn't make 80 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:23,680 me extremely uncomfortable. What is the goal in this shot? 81 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:26,840 What are they trying? I want to tell these bots to get a room. 82 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:31,280 And I want to tell you to come back here on Wednesday for more tech news, or hey, whatever 83 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:39,640 else we might make a video about. We might throw you another curveball and it'll be about tech news.