Apple will launch the iPhone 15 Pro on September 13th,
according to 9 to 5 Mac, and while they didn't say whether the phone would launch
with an exclusive set of unsatisfying GIFs, it wouldn't surprise me.
September 15th is a Friday. You could, it's right there.
I'm Riley Murdoch. This is TechLinked, and this is a render of the iPhone 15 Pro
posted by Ian Zelbo on Twitter, showing a noticeably smaller bezel than the 14 Pro.
An obviously misleading post that Twitter's community notes
could not let stand without linking to a clarifying article written by Ian Zelbo.
Community notes are actually one of the few things that have gotten noticeably better under Elon.
It's like people tweet sassy things and they'll say, additional context,
this person is just a little hangry right now. But the thinner bezels might not help iPhone sales
as much as being the only smartphone on the market with a three nanometer processor,
thanks to a timed exclusivity deal with TSMC.
The foundry will eat the cost of any defective batches,
but Apple will be paying more for the chips, which probably explains other rumors
that Apple's increasing the storage for the 15 Pro and Pro Max,
while also upping the price for the base model by $100 and $200 respectively,
to $1299 and $1199, disrespectively.
I don't know if that's a word and I'm not checking. The quest for a room temperature superconductor
with scientists, Twitter users, and degenerates,
racing to validate it, argue about it, and create fake evidence for it, respectively.
Sorry, that was the last one. If you've either been living under a rock
or have simply realized you're incredibly out of your depth trying to read pre-print physical chemistry papers,
a couple weeks ago, Korean researchers claimed to have synthesized
a room temperature superconductor they called LK99,
a sassy Star Wars droid, just kidding. Kicking off a mad dash to replicate the study's findings,
since, if it's real, LK99 could revolutionize
human technology by letting us do things like levitate frogs.
That's not true, but it kind of is, so I'm moving on. Making the material itself is pretty complicated,
but some groups have claimed to have some success from established researchers to engineers
like Andrew McAllop, who have been live blogging their attempts on Twitter.
Despite all the developments, though, the superconductivity of LK99 is still heavily in question,
so commercial fusion power probably isn't just around the corner.
It might only be around a couple more corners, though, since the same researchers who demoed
the first net gain fusion reaction back in December
just announced another even more net gainier success.
Stay on the ground, frogs. Your time shall yet come.
Unless you're an incredibly wealthy frog who can afford a ticket to the commercial space station
built by Airbus and Voyager Space when it replaces the International Space Station
sometime after 2031, maybe. Frogs apparently only live for six to eight years,
but that's not Airbus' problem. The proposed station called Starlab
was originally a joint project between Colorado-based Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin,
but the latter is being downgraded to a supplier.
European aerospace giant Airbus is replacing them as a designer and builder of Starlab,
bringing closer ties with the European Space Agency, or ESA, to the project.
Starlab is receiving the largest funding award given by NASA towards many such proposed space stations,
continuing the space industry's current trend of having private companies with names like Axiom Space,
that's a real one, Spearhead Humanities Starward Expansion,
because that always went quite well in my favorite space documentaries.
You know, like Alien. They confirmed we're not alone.
They can do the things we can't. This quick-pits intro ain't what it used to be,
because they're all different. We never did the same one. AMD's next-gen RDNA4 gaming graphics cards
won't compete with NVIDIA's high-end models, according to Twitter leaker Kepler,
causing some people, I imagine, to freak out.
But as Kepler tweeted, yes, I'm still calling them tweets,
AMD has actually used this strategy numerous times in the past.
Team Red's Polaris-based RX 400 and 500 series
were praised on their price of performance, despite avoiding a direct toe-to-toe
with NVIDIA's RTX 1080. It's why TechLink doesn't benchmark GPUs.
Linus TechTips does that. We just stay in our lane of pulling things out of our ass.
In other GPU news, Intel announced their graphics drivers will now collect telemetry by default,
causing a bit of a fuss among those who thought this meant their GPUs would start spying on them
and selling their data to advertisers. And, well, I mean, those people are right.
If by spying, they mean logging the categories
of websites you visit and by selling to advertisers,
they mean making the data available to Intel so they can use it to optimize GPU drivers
in the same way that NVIDIA and AMD do. I'm assuming Intel just didn't know they could do this.
What? Selling their data to advertisers?
By which, I mean, our engineers?
No. OpenAI has provided a way for website admins
to block the company's web crawler called GPTBot
from scraping their websites for AI training data.
Wow, pretty big of OpenAI to allow this. Although they did already scrape the entire web
to train their existing models, but it's like a bunch of kids promising
to not throw a bag of turds at your front door if you don't want them to
after they already did it about a dozen times. And I would have to admit
that I would appreciate them saying that. YouTuber MrBeast, AKA Jimmy Donaldson,
has been sued by virtual dining concepts, VDC,
the company that operated the YouTuber's ghost kitchen restaurant chain
for failing to follow through with his contractual obligations.
Obligations that Donaldson tried to get out of by first suing VDC himself a week ago
over, among other things, burger quality.
It's a big issue. This really is not tech news, but I'm putting it in because maybe this might end
the abomination that is ghost kitchens through the power of corporations
and rich people suing each other. That's all any of us can hope for.
And despite everyone agreeing that it's probably not gonna happen,
Elon Musk seems to think his fight with Mark Zuckerberg
is still on, tweeting that he's lifting weights at work in preparation.
Zuckerplied on, of course, threads, saying his suggested date of August 26th wasn't confirmed,
suggesting the fight be streamed on a more reliable platform than Twitter.
I don't know whether he means threads or Facebook there because what?
And calling out Musk's tweets as akin to his famous claim of having funding secured
to buy Twitter, which he only did after being forced to, basically.
Sure enough, yesterday Musk tweeted that the exact date is still in flux
and he may require surgery before the fight can happen,
which I can only assume means he's getting a Neuralink installed so he can activate cyborg reflexes
like in cyberpunk. I don't know, that's the only way he's beating Zuck.
This guy's killing it on the jujitsu mat and on social media.
I don't wanna like Zuck and I don't, but, and you killed this episode.
Thanks a lot, now it's dead. Come back on Wednesday for a freshly revived episode
thanks to a combination of magic, science, and floating frogs.