1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,800 Apple will launch the iPhone 15 Pro on September 13th, 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:08,520 according to 9 to 5 Mac, and while they didn't say whether the phone would launch 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:12,480 with an exclusive set of unsatisfying GIFs, it wouldn't surprise me. 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:17,120 September 15th is a Friday. You could, it's right there. 5 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:21,880 I'm Riley Murdoch. This is TechLinked, and this is a render of the iPhone 15 Pro 6 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:27,920 posted by Ian Zelbo on Twitter, showing a noticeably smaller bezel than the 14 Pro. 7 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:31,200 An obviously misleading post that Twitter's community notes 8 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:37,440 could not let stand without linking to a clarifying article written by Ian Zelbo. 9 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:41,360 Community notes are actually one of the few things that have gotten noticeably better under Elon. 10 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:46,200 It's like people tweet sassy things and they'll say, additional context, 11 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:50,640 this person is just a little hangry right now. But the thinner bezels might not help iPhone sales 12 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:55,120 as much as being the only smartphone on the market with a three nanometer processor, 13 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:58,600 thanks to a timed exclusivity deal with TSMC. 14 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,680 The foundry will eat the cost of any defective batches, 15 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:06,360 but Apple will be paying more for the chips, which probably explains other rumors 16 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,960 that Apple's increasing the storage for the 15 Pro and Pro Max, 17 00:01:09,960 --> 00:01:15,760 while also upping the price for the base model by $100 and $200 respectively, 18 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:19,720 to $1299 and $1199, disrespectively. 19 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:24,560 I don't know if that's a word and I'm not checking. The quest for a room temperature superconductor 20 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,440 with scientists, Twitter users, and degenerates, 21 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:33,840 racing to validate it, argue about it, and create fake evidence for it, respectively. 22 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,080 Sorry, that was the last one. If you've either been living under a rock 23 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:42,360 or have simply realized you're incredibly out of your depth trying to read pre-print physical chemistry papers, 24 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,800 a couple weeks ago, Korean researchers claimed to have synthesized 25 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:50,040 a room temperature superconductor they called LK99, 26 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:55,520 a sassy Star Wars droid, just kidding. Kicking off a mad dash to replicate the study's findings, 27 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:59,120 since, if it's real, LK99 could revolutionize 28 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:03,240 human technology by letting us do things like levitate frogs. 29 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:08,640 That's not true, but it kind of is, so I'm moving on. Making the material itself is pretty complicated, 30 00:02:08,640 --> 00:02:13,400 but some groups have claimed to have some success from established researchers to engineers 31 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:17,680 like Andrew McAllop, who have been live blogging their attempts on Twitter. 32 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:23,280 Despite all the developments, though, the superconductivity of LK99 is still heavily in question, 33 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,640 so commercial fusion power probably isn't just around the corner. 34 00:02:27,640 --> 00:02:32,480 It might only be around a couple more corners, though, since the same researchers who demoed 35 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,560 the first net gain fusion reaction back in December 36 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:39,360 just announced another even more net gainier success. 37 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,760 Stay on the ground, frogs. Your time shall yet come. 38 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:47,640 Unless you're an incredibly wealthy frog who can afford a ticket to the commercial space station 39 00:02:47,640 --> 00:02:52,200 built by Airbus and Voyager Space when it replaces the International Space Station 40 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:56,760 sometime after 2031, maybe. Frogs apparently only live for six to eight years, 41 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:00,600 but that's not Airbus' problem. The proposed station called Starlab 42 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:05,960 was originally a joint project between Colorado-based Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin, 43 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,120 but the latter is being downgraded to a supplier. 44 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:14,200 European aerospace giant Airbus is replacing them as a designer and builder of Starlab, 45 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:18,680 bringing closer ties with the European Space Agency, or ESA, to the project. 46 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:24,960 Starlab is receiving the largest funding award given by NASA towards many such proposed space stations, 47 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:31,600 continuing the space industry's current trend of having private companies with names like Axiom Space, 48 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,520 that's a real one, Spearhead Humanities Starward Expansion, 49 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,680 because that always went quite well in my favorite space documentaries. 50 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,880 You know, like Alien. They confirmed we're not alone. 51 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:47,240 They can do the things we can't. This quick-pits intro ain't what it used to be, 52 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:53,200 because they're all different. We never did the same one. AMD's next-gen RDNA4 gaming graphics cards 53 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:57,560 won't compete with NVIDIA's high-end models, according to Twitter leaker Kepler, 54 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,720 causing some people, I imagine, to freak out. 55 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:03,880 But as Kepler tweeted, yes, I'm still calling them tweets, 56 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:07,840 AMD has actually used this strategy numerous times in the past. 57 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:11,200 Team Red's Polaris-based RX 400 and 500 series 58 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:15,560 were praised on their price of performance, despite avoiding a direct toe-to-toe 59 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,760 with NVIDIA's RTX 1080. It's why TechLink doesn't benchmark GPUs. 60 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:24,480 Linus TechTips does that. We just stay in our lane of pulling things out of our ass. 61 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:30,240 In other GPU news, Intel announced their graphics drivers will now collect telemetry by default, 62 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:35,000 causing a bit of a fuss among those who thought this meant their GPUs would start spying on them 63 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:40,480 and selling their data to advertisers. And, well, I mean, those people are right. 64 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,680 If by spying, they mean logging the categories 65 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,880 of websites you visit and by selling to advertisers, 66 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:51,440 they mean making the data available to Intel so they can use it to optimize GPU drivers 67 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:55,920 in the same way that NVIDIA and AMD do. I'm assuming Intel just didn't know they could do this. 68 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,960 What? Selling their data to advertisers? 69 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:02,440 By which, I mean, our engineers? 70 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:06,040 No. OpenAI has provided a way for website admins 71 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,320 to block the company's web crawler called GPTBot 72 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,360 from scraping their websites for AI training data. 73 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:19,640 Wow, pretty big of OpenAI to allow this. Although they did already scrape the entire web 74 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:23,100 to train their existing models, but it's like a bunch of kids promising 75 00:05:23,100 --> 00:05:26,240 to not throw a bag of turds at your front door if you don't want them to 76 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:30,000 after they already did it about a dozen times. And I would have to admit 77 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,680 that I would appreciate them saying that. YouTuber MrBeast, AKA Jimmy Donaldson, 78 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:38,080 has been sued by virtual dining concepts, VDC, 79 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:41,640 the company that operated the YouTuber's ghost kitchen restaurant chain 80 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:45,200 for failing to follow through with his contractual obligations. 81 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:51,440 Obligations that Donaldson tried to get out of by first suing VDC himself a week ago 82 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,440 over, among other things, burger quality. 83 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:59,120 It's a big issue. This really is not tech news, but I'm putting it in because maybe this might end 84 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:03,060 the abomination that is ghost kitchens through the power of corporations 85 00:06:03,060 --> 00:06:06,440 and rich people suing each other. That's all any of us can hope for. 86 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:09,920 And despite everyone agreeing that it's probably not gonna happen, 87 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,960 Elon Musk seems to think his fight with Mark Zuckerberg 88 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:18,000 is still on, tweeting that he's lifting weights at work in preparation. 89 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:24,320 Zuckerplied on, of course, threads, saying his suggested date of August 26th wasn't confirmed, 90 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:28,440 suggesting the fight be streamed on a more reliable platform than Twitter. 91 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,480 I don't know whether he means threads or Facebook there because what? 92 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:36,920 And calling out Musk's tweets as akin to his famous claim of having funding secured 93 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:41,760 to buy Twitter, which he only did after being forced to, basically. 94 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:46,240 Sure enough, yesterday Musk tweeted that the exact date is still in flux 95 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:50,860 and he may require surgery before the fight can happen, 96 00:06:50,860 --> 00:06:56,640 which I can only assume means he's getting a Neuralink installed so he can activate cyborg reflexes 97 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:00,080 like in cyberpunk. I don't know, that's the only way he's beating Zuck. 98 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,880 This guy's killing it on the jujitsu mat and on social media. 99 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:08,840 I don't wanna like Zuck and I don't, but, and you killed this episode. 100 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:12,960 Thanks a lot, now it's dead. Come back on Wednesday for a freshly revived episode 101 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,960 thanks to a combination of magic, science, and floating frogs.