WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.800 Look, I know you're expecting to see Riley, but his lips are tired. 00:00:04.800 --> 00:00:07.800 Don't say that. Don't worry, Riley. You rest those smackers. 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 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:20.200 to Mark Gurman, known by the Greeks as the Oracle at Grummanopoulos. 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 00:00:26.200 --> 00:00:31.920 release the first foldable iPhone with a display crease that's barely there in 2027. 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:36.840 But apparently, later in the year, Apple is going to celebrate the 20th anniversary of 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:43.320 iPhone by launching a mostly glass curved iPhone without any cutouts in the display. 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 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:54.280 Samsung's discontinued edge design from back when you were 6 years old, but at this 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 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:03.920 tripping here, whether it's Apple or no Girm limits himself. 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:08.400 But 2027 is apparently also the year Apple will launch their smart glasses to compete 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 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:20.000 Mac. But at least they have the common decency to hold off on that until 2028. 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:23.120 We're reasonable people. We'll all be dead by then. 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:26.280 We'll want to start saving up for these probably very expensive devices. 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:30.680 So make sure you don't accidentally delete an email titled Lopez voice assistant class 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 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:43.320 or so per device from Apple's recent settlement over Siri spying on people by accident. 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 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:53.560 launches it. Show us your wrist, Apple, so we can slap them. 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:59.520 References to a version of the Intel Arc B580 with 24 gigabytes of VRAM were spotted 00:01:59.520 --> 00:02:05.360 in a regulatory filing submitted by card manufacturer Max Sun, which is exciting because all PC 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 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:13.400 to you. Pat! Pat, no! 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 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 00:02:24.200 --> 00:02:27.600 in Taiwan. Well, I'll be there. Oh. 00:02:27.600 --> 00:02:30.600 Eatin' noodles, goin' for a walk. Yeah. Ah, first time. 00:02:30.600 --> 00:02:33.600 Do dumplings? First time dumplings. Stinky tofu? 00:02:33.600 --> 00:02:36.600 People burn their mouths, I heard. I gotta be careful. You've never been there. 00:02:36.600 --> 00:02:40.920 Another Max Sun filing also mentioned an NVIDIA RTX 5050, my favorite name so far, with 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 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 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:56.480 is reportedly implementing some pretty hefty price hikes across its lineup of GPUs. 00:02:56.480 --> 00:02:59.640 And of course, they're gonna blame the tariffs, but... 00:02:59.640 --> 00:03:02.720 What? Why are you pausing? 00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:05.800 What? Say something. What? 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 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:16.160 other by 115% for a period of 90 days. 00:03:16.160 --> 00:03:20.560 In an extremely rare joint statement that was also probably pretty awkward to write, 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 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:33.200 will drop from 145% to 30%, while China's tariffs on American goods are going from 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 00:03:39.640 --> 00:03:43.160 as, okay, can we quit the bulls*** now? 00:03:43.160 --> 00:03:48.280 Not quite, because this tariff reduction does not apply to small packages under $800 coming 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 00:03:54.680 --> 00:04:00.280 up to $200 on June 1st. De minimis to the max. 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:04.680 Trump also put a pause permanently on the director of the US corporate office, Shira 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:10.460 Pearlmutter. One day after her office published a preliminary report arguing that AI companies might not 00:04:10.460 --> 00:04:14.680 have the legal right to train their commercial models on unlimited amounts of copyrighted 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:19.900 works. The House Administration Committee published a statement implying that the firing may 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 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 00:04:30.620 --> 00:04:36.460 in AI copyright lawsuits up to their ketamine holes. 00:04:36.460 --> 00:04:40.260 Ketamine holes. Ketamine holes. They all have fun. 00:04:40.260 --> 00:04:43.740 I feel like they should take a break and check out our sponsor holes. 00:04:43.740 --> 00:04:46.860 How does those gums feel, Riley? 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? 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? 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. 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 00:05:14.580 --> 00:05:20.620 OLED GX7, but the key difference here is that its refresh rate is 20Hz faster. 00:05:20.620 --> 00:05:25.100 You'll notice your last few games of popular hero shooter Marvel Rivals, or equivalent 00:05:25.100 --> 00:05:28.940 title, have probably sucked, and now you know the reason. 00:05:28.940 --> 00:05:36.820 You gotta check this out. 00:05:36.820 --> 00:05:42.980 Accident-prone fitness tracker company, Whoop, is once again offering its users free 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 00:05:48.660 --> 00:05:53.180 upgrade reportedly offered to any user who had been a member for six months or more. 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 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 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 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 00:06:16.140 --> 00:06:20.980 more remaining on their membership. So that's definitely worse, but not as worse. 00:06:20.980 --> 00:06:25.780 Please stop yelling at us. And Whoop, there it is. 00:06:25.780 --> 00:06:30.340 Google's VO2 video generator, capable of turning images into five-second clips, will 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. 00:06:36.580 --> 00:06:39.900 This will put the incredible power of deepfakes in everyone's pocket, which is exactly the 00:06:39.900 --> 00:06:45.780 type of danger that led fresh new Pope Leo XIV to choose his name. 00:06:45.780 --> 00:06:51.380 The previous Pope Leo presided over the Industrial Revolution, and this Leo sees the AI revolution 00:06:51.380 --> 00:06:54.460 posing similar risks to human dignity and privacy. 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 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 00:07:07.220 --> 00:07:10.940 figure out whether any given image or video of the new Pope is AI? 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? 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, 00:07:22.380 --> 00:07:25.420 Fandom. What should I say, former owner? 00:07:25.420 --> 00:07:29.860 Because the site's staff just bought Giant Bomb from Fandom, with the Jeff Scrubb and 00:07:29.860 --> 00:07:33.900 Bacalar taking ownership of the Giant Bomb website and podcast. 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. 00:07:43.820 --> 00:07:49.340 A company called Invent Wood is ramping up to begin mass production of what they call 00:07:49.700 --> 00:07:55.300 Super Wood, a specialty-treated wood that is stronger and lighter than steel. 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 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 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. 00:08:10.900 --> 00:08:16.380 But University of Maryland researcher Lian Binghu published this method to strengthen 00:08:16.500 --> 00:08:20.100 wood back in 2018, when you were 6 years old. 00:08:20.100 --> 00:08:24.460 And is now one of the founders of Invent Wood, which is launching its huge manufacturing 00:08:24.460 --> 00:08:29.180 facility this summer. So if anything happens to them, look to Big Steel. 00:08:29.180 --> 00:08:32.900 The Invented Wood. The man of steel. 00:08:32.900 --> 00:08:36.140 Oh, now we're on to something. Trying to keep your wood down. 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. 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. 00:08:45.340 --> 00:08:47.220 Yeah, but we can't say that. Tech wood.