WEBVTT 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 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. 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:15.880 But really, it is about tech news, and I've just tricked you again. 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 00:00:25.400 --> 00:00:28.600 the professional focused 7G105. 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:32.400 And it seems like it can indeed play games. 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 00:00:41.240 --> 00:00:46.960 in a rare occurrence, that exact score from the result was cited in Leesuan's official 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 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 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:07.740 Myth Wukong at 4K, potentially due to the company's NRSS upscaling tech and giving 00:01:07.740 --> 00:01:14.120 the RTX 4060 and 5060 a run for their money in a few mostly synthetic benchmarks. 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:20.640 It's actually a similar story for another Chinese GPU, the More Threads MTTS90, which 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:26.320 just had some of its benchmarks spread around Chinese social media, despite actually being 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 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:37.760 GPUs, but the Trump administration did just temporarily drop some trade restrictions for 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:43.480 semiconductors to make China happy, so maybe there's hope that US gamers could have another 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:50.160 alternative to buying NVIDIA graphics cards, since AMD also seems distracted, like NVIDIA, 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. 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 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:04.520 a bit longer, it's like Peter did, well he stopped, I'm gonna cry. 00:02:04.520 --> 00:02:09.200 Google pushed out a mandatory update for Pixel 6a phones earlier this month, nerfing 00:02:09.200 --> 00:02:13.920 their battery performance, because if they didn't, the phone's batteries might explode. 00:02:13.920 --> 00:02:17.400 Except for at least one phone, it apparently didn't work. 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:22.880 Reddit user footymanageraddict posted on the Google Pixel sub that despite applying 00:02:22.880 --> 00:02:30.080 the firmware update, his 6a still caught fire while he was asleep, rude, it ignited his 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 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:40.160 of artsy pictures of it. A testament to Google's treachery. 00:02:40.160 --> 00:02:43.640 They got rid of the don't be evil slogan and look what happened. 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, 00:02:49.480 --> 00:02:53.200 this is the first one to reportedly occur post update. 00:02:53.200 --> 00:02:57.920 The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission issued a recall for the phones on Friday but 00:02:57.920 --> 00:03:03.240 surprisingly there hasn't been much reporting on this issue overall. 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:06.360 It's possible people just thought this was normal behavior for Pixels. 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:12.640 UKIE, a major games industry trade association in the UK, has released a statement in support 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 00:03:18.760 --> 00:03:22.240 properly classified by rating systems like Peggy. 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:28.520 The statement follows Steam taking down dozens of adult games and indie game store itch.io 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:35.480 following suit by de-indexing not-safe-for-work titles after pressure from payment processors, 00:03:35.480 --> 00:03:41.120 who were themselves being pressured by an activist group called Collective Shout, a name that 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:46.800 won the group's name competition after just barely edging out Bellow Together and United 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, 00:03:54.760 --> 00:03:59.240 indie developers seem to largely disagree and the whole episode has really just motivated 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 00:04:04.200 --> 00:04:08.400 credit card payments again? Maybe we should be asking about today's sponsor. 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. 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:18.000 Except they're not. It's more tech news. Calm down. 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:21.160 It's just a prank. You don't have to get weird about it. 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:25.480 Following GPD's announcement, I and Neo have announced they're building their own handheld 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:32.720 powered by AMD's beastly Ryzen AI Max Plus 395, aka Strix Halo. 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:36.440 And unlike GPD's version, it's got a built-in battery. 00:04:36.440 --> 00:04:40.080 Ooh, like most handhelds. 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 00:04:45.280 --> 00:04:51.280 two-part live stream as the second One More Thing bonus announcement. 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 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. 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. 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:12.240 Conquer. Conquer. Conquer. 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:15.440 We used to call it Conquer. 00:05:15.440 --> 00:05:22.520 Alalauai. Another geekbench result for NVIDIA's mysterious upcoming N1X processor has made it somewhat 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 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 00:05:38.880 --> 00:05:43.560 powers the DGX Spark line of many AI PCs. 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:46.760 I mean, I don't know why I was expecting something new. This is NVIDIA. 00:05:46.760 --> 00:05:51.440 They'll probably just release a new upscaler and claim the new one 69 times better. 00:05:51.440 --> 00:05:55.240 Yeah, I said 69. Laugh. 00:05:55.240 --> 00:06:02.720 Laugh. Meta is fielding yet another copyright infringement lawsuit over AI training, this time from adult 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:09.080 film production studios, Strike 3 Holdings, and Counter Life Media. 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 00:06:17.960 --> 00:06:24.840 copyrighted smut since 2018, and thus affected the studio's ability to compete in the market 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 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:38.080 copyright lawsuit recommended that future plaintiffs use if they actually want to win. 00:06:38.080 --> 00:06:42.320 Meaning, porn studios might just be about to take Meta down. 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 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:55.440 other robots to get bigger and stronger. 00:06:55.440 --> 00:06:58.840 Like what your grandma promised would happen if you ate your oatmeal. 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 00:07:07.280 --> 00:07:13.600 each other. They're squirming around and combining with other robots to form structures that themselves 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 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:23.680 me extremely uncomfortable. What is the goal in this shot? 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:26.840 What are they trying? I want to tell these bots to get a room. 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 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.