1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,800 Look, I know you're expecting to see Riley, but his lips are tired. 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,800 Don't say that. Don't worry, Riley. You rest those smackers. 3 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:14,560 What? I got this. Apple is reportedly planning to launch some decidedly wacky new products in 2027, according 4 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:20,200 to Mark Gurman, known by the Greeks as the Oracle at Grummanopoulos. 5 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:26,200 Gurman hardly know him. In his latest newsletter, the ruler of Gurmilon 7 reiterated previous claims that Apple would 6 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:31,920 release the first foldable iPhone with a display crease that's barely there in 2027. 7 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:36,840 But apparently, later in the year, Apple is going to celebrate the 20th anniversary of 8 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:43,320 iPhone by launching a mostly glass curved iPhone without any cutouts in the display. 9 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:49,920 No one asked for this. Cut it out. I have a feeling the curve here refers more to the edge of the phone being curved like 10 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:54,280 Samsung's discontinued edge design from back when you were 6 years old, but at this 11 00:00:54,400 --> 00:01:00,280 time, we also can't rule out an eye banana phone because I don't know if somebody's 12 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,920 tripping here, whether it's Apple or no Girm limits himself. 13 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:08,400 But 2027 is apparently also the year Apple will launch their smart glasses to compete 14 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:14,400 with Meta's products. And they're also developing some kind of cross between a foldable iPad and a touchscreen 15 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:20,000 Mac. But at least they have the common decency to hold off on that until 2028. 16 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,120 We're reasonable people. We'll all be dead by then. 17 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,280 We'll want to start saving up for these probably very expensive devices. 18 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:30,680 So make sure you don't accidentally delete an email titled Lopez voice assistant class 19 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:38,000 action settlement. If you've owned an Apple device in the last decade, it's telling you how to claim 20 bucks 20 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:43,320 or so per device from Apple's recent settlement over Siri spying on people by accident. 21 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:48,280 Now the new fancy AI powered Siri won't spy on you, it'll just lie to you if Apple ever 22 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:53,560 launches it. Show us your wrist, Apple, so we can slap them. 23 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:59,520 References to a version of the Intel Arc B580 with 24 gigabytes of VRAM were spotted 24 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:05,360 in a regulatory filing submitted by card manufacturer Max Sun, which is exciting because all PC 25 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:10,400 gamers want is more Intel Arc cards and for our other dad, Pat Gelsinger, to come back 26 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,400 to you. Pat! Pat, no! 27 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:18,880 He went out for smokes. But don't get too excited, it's likely that this is an Intel Arc Pro workstation card 28 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:24,200 given that Intel explicitly said that that's what they'll be showing off at Confutex 2025 29 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:27,600 in Taiwan. Well, I'll be there. Oh. 30 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,600 Eatin' noodles, goin' for a walk. Yeah. Ah, first time. 31 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,600 Do dumplings? First time dumplings. Stinky tofu? 32 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,600 People burn their mouths, I heard. I gotta be careful. You've never been there. 33 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:40,920 Another Max Sun filing also mentioned an NVIDIA RTX 5050, my favorite name so far, with 34 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:46,080 what else? 8 gigabytes of VRAM, but at least the memory will be the least of your worries with that 35 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:51,120 card. Okay, look, we'll take what we can get at a time when, according to Digitimes, NVIDIA 36 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:56,480 is reportedly implementing some pretty hefty price hikes across its lineup of GPUs. 37 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,640 And of course, they're gonna blame the tariffs, but... 38 00:02:59,640 --> 00:03:02,720 What? Why are you pausing? 39 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:05,800 What? Say something. What? 40 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:12,520 Those tariffs are paused! Oh! Or some of them are anyway, as the US and China have agreed to mutually cut tariffs on each 41 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:16,160 other by 115% for a period of 90 days. 42 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:20,560 In an extremely rare joint statement that was also probably pretty awkward to write, 43 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:27,120 like, which language do you use? Both nations announced that the Trump administration's recently imposed tariffs on Chinese goods 44 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:33,200 will drop from 145% to 30%, while China's tariffs on American goods are going from 45 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:39,640 125% to 10%. The CCP's Ministry of Commerce also released their own statement, though, roughly translated 46 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,160 as, okay, can we quit the bulls*** now? 47 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:48,280 Not quite, because this tariff reduction does not apply to small packages under $800 coming 48 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:54,680 from China, which will still be subject to 120% tariff or a flat fee of $100, which goes 49 00:03:54,680 --> 00:04:00,280 up to $200 on June 1st. De minimis to the max. 50 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:04,680 Trump also put a pause permanently on the director of the US corporate office, Shira 51 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:10,460 Pearlmutter. One day after her office published a preliminary report arguing that AI companies might not 52 00:04:10,460 --> 00:04:14,680 have the legal right to train their commercial models on unlimited amounts of copyrighted 53 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:19,900 works. The House Administration Committee published a statement implying that the firing may 54 00:04:19,900 --> 00:04:25,660 have been influenced by Trump's good old buddy and ex-AI founder Elon Musk, likely disliking 55 00:04:25,660 --> 00:04:30,620 that report, along with the leaders of every other AI company, almost all of whom are embroiled 56 00:04:30,620 --> 00:04:36,460 in AI copyright lawsuits up to their ketamine holes. 57 00:04:36,460 --> 00:04:40,260 Ketamine holes. Ketamine holes. They all have fun. 58 00:04:40,260 --> 00:04:43,740 I feel like they should take a break and check out our sponsor holes. 59 00:04:43,740 --> 00:04:46,860 How does those gums feel, Riley? 60 00:04:46,860 --> 00:04:51,980 Tell you what. Flap them around a bit while I do these quick bits. What does that mean? 61 00:04:51,980 --> 00:05:00,140 Yow! Was that Samsung's new Odyssey OLED G6, the world's first 500Hz OLED gaming monitor? 62 00:05:00,660 --> 00:05:07,980 Was it? I don't know. It's launching in Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia for around $1440. 63 00:05:07,980 --> 00:05:14,580 They always get the good stuff. Before launching worldwide later this year, it's a 27-inch, 1440p display just like LG's 64 00:05:14,580 --> 00:05:20,620 OLED GX7, but the key difference here is that its refresh rate is 20Hz faster. 65 00:05:20,620 --> 00:05:25,100 You'll notice your last few games of popular hero shooter Marvel Rivals, or equivalent 66 00:05:25,100 --> 00:05:28,940 title, have probably sucked, and now you know the reason. 67 00:05:28,940 --> 00:05:36,820 You gotta check this out. 68 00:05:36,820 --> 00:05:42,980 Accident-prone fitness tracker company, Whoop, is once again offering its users free 69 00:05:42,980 --> 00:05:48,660 hardware upgrades. Customers revolted last week when Whoop went back on their original promise of a free tracker 70 00:05:48,660 --> 00:05:53,180 upgrade reportedly offered to any user who had been a member for six months or more. 71 00:05:53,180 --> 00:05:58,900 But Whoop says that was a typo in an old support article, and once found the company amended 72 00:05:58,980 --> 00:06:03,580 it to their actual policy, which is that you get a free upgrade if you had six or more 73 00:06:03,580 --> 00:06:09,620 months remaining on your membership. And that seems to be true, according to both a company blog post and a Forbes interview 74 00:06:09,620 --> 00:06:16,140 from 2021. Fast forward to today, and Whoop is now offering free upgrades for users with 12 months or 75 00:06:16,140 --> 00:06:20,980 more remaining on their membership. So that's definitely worse, but not as worse. 76 00:06:20,980 --> 00:06:25,780 Please stop yelling at us. And Whoop, there it is. 77 00:06:25,780 --> 00:06:30,340 Google's VO2 video generator, capable of turning images into five-second clips, will 78 00:06:30,340 --> 00:06:36,580 be included for free on Honor 400 and 400 Pro phones when they come out May 22nd. 79 00:06:36,580 --> 00:06:39,900 This will put the incredible power of deepfakes in everyone's pocket, which is exactly the 80 00:06:39,900 --> 00:06:45,780 type of danger that led fresh new Pope Leo XIV to choose his name. 81 00:06:45,780 --> 00:06:51,380 The previous Pope Leo presided over the Industrial Revolution, and this Leo sees the AI revolution 82 00:06:51,380 --> 00:06:54,460 posing similar risks to human dignity and privacy. 83 00:06:54,460 --> 00:07:02,340 Heck. It came out that Google will pay Texas a groundbreaking $1.375 billion to settle a data privacy violations 84 00:07:02,340 --> 00:07:07,220 case. Hey, can we get a settlement to compensate for all the extra thinking we have to do to 85 00:07:07,220 --> 00:07:10,940 figure out whether any given image or video of the new Pope is AI? 86 00:07:10,940 --> 00:07:16,140 There's no way he has that much drip. Is that his coat? Or is that a part of his body? 87 00:07:16,140 --> 00:07:22,380 Over a week ago, gaming news site Giant Bomb was hit by a blast of layoffs by its owner, 88 00:07:22,380 --> 00:07:25,420 Fandom. What should I say, former owner? 89 00:07:25,420 --> 00:07:29,860 Because the site's staff just bought Giant Bomb from Fandom, with the Jeff Scrubb and 90 00:07:29,860 --> 00:07:33,900 Bacalar taking ownership of the Giant Bomb website and podcast. 91 00:07:33,900 --> 00:07:43,820 Here's hoping they don't cross any wires. And get hyped for a mind-blowing next-gen tech product, wood. 92 00:07:43,820 --> 00:07:49,340 A company called Invent Wood is ramping up to begin mass production of what they call 93 00:07:49,700 --> 00:07:55,300 Super Wood, a specialty-treated wood that is stronger and lighter than steel. 94 00:07:55,300 --> 00:08:00,660 And prettier, the grain. Now I think there's something we said here about wood being better for the environment 95 00:08:00,660 --> 00:08:06,140 than steel. But there's also the fact that Super Wood could be alluding to Superman, who's the 96 00:08:06,140 --> 00:08:10,900 man of steel, which is now weaker than wood. I don't know, there's something there. 97 00:08:10,900 --> 00:08:16,380 But University of Maryland researcher Lian Binghu published this method to strengthen 98 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:20,100 wood back in 2018, when you were 6 years old. 99 00:08:20,100 --> 00:08:24,460 And is now one of the founders of Invent Wood, which is launching its huge manufacturing 100 00:08:24,460 --> 00:08:29,180 facility this summer. So if anything happens to them, look to Big Steel. 101 00:08:29,180 --> 00:08:32,900 The Invented Wood. The man of steel. 102 00:08:32,900 --> 00:08:36,140 Oh, now we're on to something. Trying to keep your wood down. 103 00:08:36,140 --> 00:08:40,540 Now look at your screen once again on Wednesday, when we'll be back with more tech news. 104 00:08:40,540 --> 00:08:45,260 More tech wood. It'll be so good. You might, you wrote that, you might get wood. 105 00:08:45,340 --> 00:08:47,220 Yeah, but we can't say that. Tech wood.