WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.980 Today in tech news, events occurred and Person Slash Group is responsible. 00:00:04.980 --> 00:00:09.580 Others say Person Slash Group has been making the events occur for a long time period. 00:00:09.580 --> 00:00:14.380 More on that right now. The great ASUS warranty scandal of 2023, 00:00:14.380 --> 00:00:17.460 that's what I'm calling it, has gotten a little more interesting. 00:00:17.460 --> 00:00:22.320 Hardware busters have alleged that ASUS isn't the only AM5 motherboard manufacturer 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:25.860 exceeding the 1.3 volt SOC voltage limit 00:00:25.860 --> 00:00:29.700 meant to protect Ryzen 7000 X3D series CPUs 00:00:29.700 --> 00:00:35.020 from exploding. After testing a Gigabyte Aorus Master X670E board, 00:00:35.020 --> 00:00:41.020 hardware busters found that the SOC voltage exceeded 1.36 volts after updating the BIOS 00:00:41.020 --> 00:00:44.220 that supposedly applied the voltage safety cap. 00:00:44.220 --> 00:00:47.980 Not so much vindicating ASUS as implying Gigabyte 00:00:47.980 --> 00:00:50.980 and potentially other motherboard makers need to step up 00:00:50.980 --> 00:00:54.180 in the making sure your products don't blow up department. 00:00:54.180 --> 00:00:57.180 If we all explode, isn't it like none of us did? 00:00:57.180 --> 00:01:02.020 Let's do it. After this analysis went up, Bilzoid went to Twitter to claim that Gamer's Nexus 00:01:02.020 --> 00:01:06.820 was measuring the voltages wrong in their investigation of ASUS' motherboards 00:01:06.820 --> 00:01:09.820 and GN destroyed them with facts 00:01:09.820 --> 00:01:13.820 by just politely disagreeing and stating how they measured their results. 00:01:13.820 --> 00:01:19.700 Wasted. Nerds are discussing methodology and it is getting spicy. 00:01:19.700 --> 00:01:25.820 On Friday, hardware unboxed went off on a fan for suggesting they needed to keep their credibility 00:01:25.820 --> 00:01:29.100 stating they weren't going to stop reviewing ASUS products 00:01:29.100 --> 00:01:33.540 because A, reviewing their products is one way to call them out and B, 00:01:33.540 --> 00:01:37.700 because finding tech companies that haven't done a ton of anti-consumer crap 00:01:37.700 --> 00:01:43.140 is like finding a milkshake in a ton of crap. Like, cool, you found a milkshake, 00:01:43.140 --> 00:01:47.100 but are you sure it's chocolate? It's a poop joke. 00:01:47.100 --> 00:01:50.900 To be fair to ASUS, they did just publish an update clarifying 00:01:50.900 --> 00:01:53.900 that installing beta BIOSes to fix this problem 00:01:53.900 --> 00:01:57.060 does not void your warranty. That's right. 00:01:57.060 --> 00:02:00.660 Faced with a sizable controversy over their lack of concern for their customers, 00:02:00.660 --> 00:02:04.060 the company thought, wow, we should definitely address this. 00:02:04.060 --> 00:02:08.900 After the weekend, you coming to beers tonight? DJIF, bro. 00:02:08.900 --> 00:02:13.340 That's what they say in Taiwan, right? Man, when we did our ASUS poetry slam on Friday, 00:02:13.340 --> 00:02:16.660 we had no idea it would generate so much drama. 00:02:16.660 --> 00:02:20.500 So many feelings. This is clearly about us. People were crying in the audience. 00:02:20.500 --> 00:02:25.980 Apple is prepping for a win by ramping up testing of their next-gen M3 chips. 00:02:25.980 --> 00:02:30.220 According to German Sermon, Apple's been squirming to remove the worm 00:02:30.220 --> 00:02:35.220 in their Mac sales figures. Jacob isn't here, but he's here in spirit. 00:02:35.220 --> 00:02:38.380 They're sales figures which were down 31% last quarter. 00:02:38.380 --> 00:02:42.620 Sure, they could reduce MacBook prices and make it more affordable to buy one 00:02:42.620 --> 00:02:46.260 of their great products, but what if instead of that, 00:02:46.260 --> 00:02:49.980 they used the more expensive three-nanometer process for their M3 chips 00:02:50.060 --> 00:02:54.020 so they can add more cores and more memory? More high end, less low end. 00:02:54.020 --> 00:02:58.620 That's Apple's problem. Based. Indeed, German says the baseline M3 Pro 00:02:58.620 --> 00:03:02.460 will have two more CPU and GPU cores than the M2 Pro, 00:03:02.460 --> 00:03:05.980 which itself had two more CPU and GPU cores than the M1 Pro. 00:03:05.980 --> 00:03:09.580 Sets like a pattern. Every day, there will be another core. 00:03:09.580 --> 00:03:12.820 Until something changes. We're going to add cores. 00:03:12.820 --> 00:03:16.900 However, German determined that the M3 Pro currently being tested 00:03:16.900 --> 00:03:21.180 has 36 gigabytes of memory, which is four more than the highest spec 00:03:21.180 --> 00:03:26.060 of the M2 Pro MacBooks. So like two 18 Gigabyte sticks in dual channel, 00:03:26.060 --> 00:03:30.420 this makes me physically uncomfortable. It would be so cool. 00:03:30.420 --> 00:03:36.220 Oh, just so I can think of something else, Mark German said the long-awaited 15-inch MacBook Air 00:03:36.220 --> 00:03:39.700 will come out equipped with an M2 chip just in time for summer. 00:03:39.700 --> 00:03:43.100 So get ready for that MacBook's announcement to be overshadowed by the announcement 00:03:43.100 --> 00:03:47.940 of Apple's VR headset at WWDC. You can go live in Apple's world. 00:03:48.220 --> 00:03:52.540 Tim Cook will send you to sleep. And the European Union has given their blessing 00:03:52.540 --> 00:03:55.740 for Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, 00:03:55.740 --> 00:04:01.180 the company that had a dream of being judged not by its leader's history of sexual harassment allegations, 00:04:01.180 --> 00:04:05.420 but by the content of its game library. I ain't gonna rip on that. 00:04:05.420 --> 00:04:08.860 We're gonna leave that alone. Sometimes you just make a Martin Luther King joke 00:04:08.860 --> 00:04:14.180 for no reason. Now the EU didn't do this for nothing. The merger approval is subject to conditions 00:04:14.180 --> 00:04:17.140 that Microsoft suggested to assuage concerns 00:04:18.100 --> 00:04:22.500 that this would affect the cloud gaming slash cloud game streaming market, 00:04:22.500 --> 00:04:26.660 which a lot of people care about. The European Commission's concerns were that 00:04:26.660 --> 00:04:32.500 since cloud gaming is still a young market, the availability of games like Call of Duty could affect it. 00:04:32.500 --> 00:04:35.780 If Microsoft were to make Codd exclusive to Game Pass Ultimate, 00:04:35.780 --> 00:04:42.100 the company would be able to virtually monopolize the preteens who just learned a new slur demographic. 00:04:42.100 --> 00:04:46.900 A key segment for advertisers. In fact, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority 00:04:46.900 --> 00:04:50.420 blocked the merger because of similar concerns about the cloud gaming market. 00:04:50.420 --> 00:04:53.420 As a compromise, Microsoft offered a 10-year plan 00:04:53.420 --> 00:04:56.900 to provide licenses to consumers in the European economic area 00:04:56.900 --> 00:05:00.700 that would allow them to stream any Activision Blizzard PC games they own 00:05:00.700 --> 00:05:04.100 using any streaming service and a corresponding license 00:05:04.100 --> 00:05:07.580 to any streaming service platforms to provide that capability. 00:05:07.580 --> 00:05:10.620 So what happens when that license agreement is up? 00:05:10.620 --> 00:05:14.940 Who cares? We'll probably all be killed by self-aware AI by then. And I'm looking forward to it. 00:05:14.940 --> 00:05:20.020 Live for now. I bribed the mayor so we could include all five quick bits. 00:05:20.020 --> 00:05:25.100 Just don't tell anyone. The Pixel 7 is this summer's hottest phone, 00:05:25.100 --> 00:05:29.660 a sentence that will make sense once I let you know that Pixel 6 and 7 users have reported 00:05:29.660 --> 00:05:32.780 a sudden unexplained bug that's causing their phones to overheat. 00:05:32.780 --> 00:05:37.940 The apparent cause is a recent app update that's causing the Google app to suck up battery life 00:05:37.940 --> 00:05:40.100 like a wild cherry Capri sun. 00:05:41.540 --> 00:05:44.660 In some cases, these issues have cut usable screen time 00:05:44.660 --> 00:05:48.940 in half. Phones are likewise charging slower and running dangerously hot, 00:05:48.940 --> 00:05:52.140 prompting some users to turn their pixels into popsicles 00:05:52.140 --> 00:05:56.060 by sticking them in the freezer. Nutritious and delicious. And they take great photos. 00:05:56.060 --> 00:06:00.580 A great summer treat. Users have tried rolling back to a previous update 00:06:00.580 --> 00:06:04.620 and even full factor resets, neither of which seemed to work. 00:06:04.620 --> 00:06:09.100 All there's left to do is wait for Google to hurry up and fix their $600 butt warmers, 00:06:09.100 --> 00:06:13.740 which is of little comfort here in Western Canada where the country is literally on fire. 00:06:13.780 --> 00:06:17.900 A startup called Telly wants to give you a TV for free. 00:06:17.900 --> 00:06:22.860 All it costs is everything. The television comes with a second banner like screen 00:06:22.860 --> 00:06:26.820 which will be fully or partially taken up by ads, 00:06:26.820 --> 00:06:30.380 pretty much at all times. And the TV may collect information 00:06:30.380 --> 00:06:34.900 about the content you watch and may also track the physical presence of you 00:06:34.900 --> 00:06:38.340 and any other individuals using the TV at any time. 00:06:38.340 --> 00:06:43.420 Now, as we mentioned, you can get the TV for free or you can opt out of sharing all your data 00:06:43.460 --> 00:06:47.100 and pay $500 to keep it if you are okay 00:06:47.100 --> 00:06:50.980 with installing a billboard in your living room. 00:06:50.980 --> 00:06:55.300 If I let them install a probe in my head, they pay me. The dystopia is here. 00:06:56.660 --> 00:07:01.620 I've always wanted Cyberpunk 2077 to be real. A private company called Rea Space Activity 00:07:01.620 --> 00:07:07.380 has received funding from the US Space Force to rescue the Spitzer Space Telescope. 00:07:07.380 --> 00:07:12.540 The observatory was launched 20 years ago and remained mostly operational until three years ago 00:07:12.540 --> 00:07:16.300 when communication stopped working. I'm not saying it's aliens, 00:07:16.300 --> 00:07:20.420 but in a plan backed by multiple groups, including Lockheed Martin, 00:07:20.420 --> 00:07:24.940 a small craft would be sent to act as a relay between Spitzer and Earth, 00:07:24.940 --> 00:07:29.100 within spits in distance, you could say. The eventual hope is to use the telescope 00:07:29.100 --> 00:07:33.260 as an early warning system for dangerous asteroids because if we have enough time, 00:07:33.260 --> 00:07:36.420 we won't have to send Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck. 00:07:36.420 --> 00:07:41.300 Again, they are so tired of this. Zelda, tears of the kingdom players are getting creative 00:07:41.340 --> 00:07:46.260 by using the in-game mechanics to build tanks, planes, and even mechs. 00:07:46.260 --> 00:07:50.220 But also, many, many, many, lots of penises. 00:07:50.220 --> 00:07:56.140 There's just so many. You can build anything. More like tears of the schwingdom, am I right? 00:07:56.140 --> 00:08:01.340 Okay. You can make anything you can imagine, which is mostly f***ing you. 00:08:01.340 --> 00:08:07.100 Nintendo severely overestimated my imagination. Perhaps as revenge for the golden turd players received 00:08:07.100 --> 00:08:10.380 for rescuing all 900 Koroks in Breath of the Wild, 00:08:10.380 --> 00:08:15.500 a lot of creative energy has gone towards torturing the annoying creatures in different ways, 00:08:15.500 --> 00:08:19.460 involving crucifixions. And I have to assume penises as well. 00:08:19.460 --> 00:08:22.500 We've never said the word this many times in a show. Oh, wow. 00:08:22.500 --> 00:08:25.540 Everyone is freaking out about the era of 100 Gigabyte games. 00:08:25.540 --> 00:08:28.780 Meanwhile, Nintendo fit an open world war crime simulator 00:08:28.780 --> 00:08:32.140 into 16.3 gigs. What about penis crucifixes? 00:08:32.140 --> 00:08:37.460 We'll get there. And the creator of the Oculus, Palmer Lucky, tweeted, 00:08:37.460 --> 00:08:40.580 quote, the apple headset is so good. 00:08:40.580 --> 00:08:43.820 End quote. What else did he say? Nothing. 00:08:43.820 --> 00:08:47.300 Did he go into more detail? No. Are we sure he's actually touched an apple headset? 00:08:47.300 --> 00:08:51.980 Not really. Is this the real Palmer Lucky? Well, there's a blue check mark next to his name, 00:08:51.980 --> 00:08:55.180 but what does that even mean anymore? Anyway, the headset's going to be announced 00:08:55.180 --> 00:08:59.020 June 5th probably, but will it be expensive? Almost certainly. 00:08:59.020 --> 00:09:02.460 But it will cost you nothing to come back on Wednesday. And why wouldn't you? 00:09:02.460 --> 00:09:05.540 Don't you like us? We're cool. 00:09:05.540 --> 00:09:09.460 We're cool people, right? Not just my mom thinks so. 00:09:09.460 --> 00:09:10.660 She doesn't watch the show.