WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.800 Apple will launch the iPhone 15 Pro on September 13th, 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 00:00:08.520 --> 00:00:12.480 with an exclusive set of unsatisfying GIFs, it wouldn't surprise me. 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:17.120 September 15th is a Friday. You could, it's right there. 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 00:00:21.880 --> 00:00:27.920 posted by Ian Zelbo on Twitter, showing a noticeably smaller bezel than the 14 Pro. 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:31.200 An obviously misleading post that Twitter's community notes 00:00:31.200 --> 00:00:37.440 could not let stand without linking to a clarifying article written by Ian Zelbo. 00:00:37.440 --> 00:00:41.360 Community notes are actually one of the few things that have gotten noticeably better under Elon. 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:46.200 It's like people tweet sassy things and they'll say, additional context, 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 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:55.120 as much as being the only smartphone on the market with a three nanometer processor, 00:00:55.160 --> 00:00:58.600 thanks to a timed exclusivity deal with TSMC. 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:01.680 The foundry will eat the cost of any defective batches, 00:01:01.680 --> 00:01:06.360 but Apple will be paying more for the chips, which probably explains other rumors 00:01:06.360 --> 00:01:09.960 that Apple's increasing the storage for the 15 Pro and Pro Max, 00:01:09.960 --> 00:01:15.760 while also upping the price for the base model by $100 and $200 respectively, 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:19.720 to $1299 and $1199, disrespectively. 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 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:28.440 with scientists, Twitter users, and degenerates, 00:01:28.440 --> 00:01:33.840 racing to validate it, argue about it, and create fake evidence for it, respectively. 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:37.080 Sorry, that was the last one. If you've either been living under a rock 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, 00:01:42.360 --> 00:01:45.800 a couple weeks ago, Korean researchers claimed to have synthesized 00:01:45.800 --> 00:01:50.040 a room temperature superconductor they called LK99, 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, 00:01:55.520 --> 00:01:59.120 since, if it's real, LK99 could revolutionize 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:03.240 human technology by letting us do things like levitate frogs. 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, 00:02:08.640 --> 00:02:13.400 but some groups have claimed to have some success from established researchers to engineers 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:17.680 like Andrew McAllop, who have been live blogging their attempts on Twitter. 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:23.280 Despite all the developments, though, the superconductivity of LK99 is still heavily in question, 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:27.640 so commercial fusion power probably isn't just around the corner. 00:02:27.640 --> 00:02:32.480 It might only be around a couple more corners, though, since the same researchers who demoed 00:02:32.480 --> 00:02:35.560 the first net gain fusion reaction back in December 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:39.360 just announced another even more net gainier success. 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:42.760 Stay on the ground, frogs. Your time shall yet come. 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 00:02:47.640 --> 00:02:52.200 built by Airbus and Voyager Space when it replaces the International Space Station 00:02:52.200 --> 00:02:56.760 sometime after 2031, maybe. Frogs apparently only live for six to eight years, 00:02:56.760 --> 00:03:00.600 but that's not Airbus' problem. The proposed station called Starlab 00:03:00.600 --> 00:03:05.960 was originally a joint project between Colorado-based Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin, 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:09.120 but the latter is being downgraded to a supplier. 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:14.200 European aerospace giant Airbus is replacing them as a designer and builder of Starlab, 00:03:14.200 --> 00:03:18.680 bringing closer ties with the European Space Agency, or ESA, to the project. 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:24.960 Starlab is receiving the largest funding award given by NASA towards many such proposed space stations, 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:31.600 continuing the space industry's current trend of having private companies with names like Axiom Space, 00:03:31.600 --> 00:03:35.520 that's a real one, Spearhead Humanities Starward Expansion, 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:38.680 because that always went quite well in my favorite space documentaries. 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:41.880 You know, like Alien. They confirmed we're not alone. 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, 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 00:03:53.200 --> 00:03:57.560 won't compete with NVIDIA's high-end models, according to Twitter leaker Kepler, 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:00.720 causing some people, I imagine, to freak out. 00:04:00.720 --> 00:04:03.880 But as Kepler tweeted, yes, I'm still calling them tweets, 00:04:03.880 --> 00:04:07.840 AMD has actually used this strategy numerous times in the past. 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:11.200 Team Red's Polaris-based RX 400 and 500 series 00:04:11.200 --> 00:04:15.560 were praised on their price of performance, despite avoiding a direct toe-to-toe 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:19.760 with NVIDIA's RTX 1080. It's why TechLink doesn't benchmark GPUs. 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. 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:30.240 In other GPU news, Intel announced their graphics drivers will now collect telemetry by default, 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 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:40.480 and selling their data to advertisers. And, well, I mean, those people are right. 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:43.680 If by spying, they mean logging the categories 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:46.880 of websites you visit and by selling to advertisers, 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 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. 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:58.960 What? Selling their data to advertisers? 00:04:58.960 --> 00:05:02.440 By which, I mean, our engineers? 00:05:02.440 --> 00:05:06.040 No. OpenAI has provided a way for website admins 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:09.320 to block the company's web crawler called GPTBot 00:05:09.320 --> 00:05:12.360 from scraping their websites for AI training data. 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:19.640 Wow, pretty big of OpenAI to allow this. Although they did already scrape the entire web 00:05:19.640 --> 00:05:23.100 to train their existing models, but it's like a bunch of kids promising 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 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:30.000 after they already did it about a dozen times. And I would have to admit 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:34.680 that I would appreciate them saying that. YouTuber MrBeast, AKA Jimmy Donaldson, 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:38.080 has been sued by virtual dining concepts, VDC, 00:05:38.080 --> 00:05:41.640 the company that operated the YouTuber's ghost kitchen restaurant chain 00:05:41.640 --> 00:05:45.200 for failing to follow through with his contractual obligations. 00:05:45.200 --> 00:05:51.440 Obligations that Donaldson tried to get out of by first suing VDC himself a week ago 00:05:51.440 --> 00:05:54.440 over, among other things, burger quality. 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 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:03.060 the abomination that is ghost kitchens through the power of corporations 00:06:03.060 --> 00:06:06.440 and rich people suing each other. That's all any of us can hope for. 00:06:06.440 --> 00:06:09.920 And despite everyone agreeing that it's probably not gonna happen, 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:12.960 Elon Musk seems to think his fight with Mark Zuckerberg 00:06:12.960 --> 00:06:18.000 is still on, tweeting that he's lifting weights at work in preparation. 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:24.320 Zuckerplied on, of course, threads, saying his suggested date of August 26th wasn't confirmed, 00:06:24.320 --> 00:06:28.440 suggesting the fight be streamed on a more reliable platform than Twitter. 00:06:28.440 --> 00:06:31.480 I don't know whether he means threads or Facebook there because what? 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:36.920 And calling out Musk's tweets as akin to his famous claim of having funding secured 00:06:36.960 --> 00:06:41.760 to buy Twitter, which he only did after being forced to, basically. 00:06:41.760 --> 00:06:46.240 Sure enough, yesterday Musk tweeted that the exact date is still in flux 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:50.860 and he may require surgery before the fight can happen, 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 00:06:56.640 --> 00:07:00.080 like in cyberpunk. I don't know, that's the only way he's beating Zuck. 00:07:00.080 --> 00:07:03.880 This guy's killing it on the jujitsu mat and on social media. 00:07:03.880 --> 00:07:08.840 I don't wanna like Zuck and I don't, but, and you killed this episode. 00:07:08.840 --> 00:07:12.960 Thanks a lot, now it's dead. Come back on Wednesday for a freshly revived episode 00:07:12.960 --> 00:07:16.960 thanks to a combination of magic, science, and floating frogs.