1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,720 Wait, so you're watching my video? To listen to my tech news? 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:12,280 Haha. Okay. Intel and ARM have announced a multi-generation agreement to make it easier for Intel's foundry 3 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,600 services to fabricate ARM-based chip designs. 4 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,760 It's a heartwarming story of two intense chip design rivals getting over their differences 5 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:23,600 and working together in the service of makin' more money. 6 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:28,880 Indeed, Intel shares rose on the news showing that in war, there's no winners, unless your 7 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:34,360 side wins. Now, before the processor nerds get too excited about the possibility of Intel branded processors 8 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:40,240 based on ARM technology, the deal actually involves ARM helping Intel to optimize Intel's 9 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:44,640 fab processes for producing ARM-based chip. Did I say chipped? 10 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:49,360 Chips. That should make it a lot easier for companies who do design such chips, like Qualcomm and 11 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:57,200 MediaTek, to hire Intel to actually make them. But if that's too boring for ya, just recall that Intel has described plans to produce 12 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:04,200 hybrid chips that combine x86, ARM, and RISC-5 CPU cores in a single package. 13 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:10,200 It may end up being the swamp water of computer processors, but it would be different and 14 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,560 special. Like me. 15 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:18,280 The RTX 4070, complete with the architecture named after Ada Lovelace, hit shelves tomorrow. 16 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:23,640 NVIDIA captured the innovative spirit of history's first computer programmer by releasing an arguably 17 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:28,880 overpriced GPU with only modest spec upgrades over the previous generation. 18 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:37,720 At $599, or $600 USD, NVIDIA says the card provides 1.8x the performance of the RTX 3070, 19 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:46,440 which launched at a price of $100 less. Oh, but that 1.8x jump only applies to games that support NVIDIA's DLSS 3 frame generation 20 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:51,040 feature. It's more like 1.3x in unsupported games. 21 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:56,320 Very cool. You know that a product launch is going to go well when the company community manager 22 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:01,280 feels the need to wade into Reddit and do damage control before anyone's even bought 23 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:07,120 one. The RTX 4070 isn't bad. In fact, it's really good and decent value for the money, all things considered. 24 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:11,520 But that all things considered includes the fact that NVIDIA is using its dominant market 25 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:16,840 position to keep discrete GPU prices high, even though sales have been dropping since 26 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:21,080 late 2021 and hit historic lows last December. 27 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:27,280 Despite that, NVIDIA's revenue actually increased by 64% year over year in 2022. 28 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:31,920 Now you, as a gamer, might feel slightly a bit ripped off by that, but think about it 29 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:38,240 from NVIDIA's perspective. Why produce more GPUs and sell them for a fair price when you can just sell fewer GPUs 30 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,240 and make that same, if not more, money? 31 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:44,240 Now don't you feel silly? 32 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:49,440 Twitter has recently purchased around 10,000 GPUs and hired talent from Google's AI-focused 33 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:54,720 subsidiary DeepMind to reportedly develop a new chat GPT rival. 34 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:59,440 This comes shortly after Elon Musk signed an open letter calling for a six-month pause 35 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:04,080 to all AI development beyond the current capacity of GPT-4, which apparently didn't stop the 36 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:09,040 bandwagon, so Elon had no choice but to hop on and try to catch up. 37 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:14,200 And can you blame him? Given recent struggles with advertiser retention, pivoting Twitter to another business model 38 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:20,000 isn't the worst idea. Well, I say Twitter, but Twitter Inc. as a distinct entity no longer exists, according 39 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:25,720 to a court filing in California, it has instead been folded into X-Corp, a company that has 40 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:29,880 no other notable holdings, so they might as well just have changed the name and saved 41 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:36,040 the paperwork. Fans of pointless trivia will note that X.com was the original domain of former Musk Project 42 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:41,800 PayPal, and that X-Corp is a company run by Spider-Man villain The Hobgoblin in the Marvel 43 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:50,440 Trading Card game for the Nintendo DS. X is also the name of Elon Musk's proposed Everything app, and I think there's one of 44 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:56,400 those letters in his kid's name too. The Everything app is a concept that does not make sense and never will, because a tool 45 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:00,200 that does everything is one that has been optimized to do nothing. 46 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:07,040 The Swampwater concept returns once again. A quick bit is like a forehead kiss from your favorite aunt, so this next segment is like 47 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:10,040 five whole kisses. 48 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:14,680 LinkedIn is rolling out their own verification program, but it isn't just to give subscribers 49 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:19,240 a pretty little button next to their name, it's to verify you are who you are and where 50 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:23,600 you work by submitting your government ID and verifying your work email. 51 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:27,680 Think of it like verification on Tinder, except instead of preventing you from squaring with 52 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:32,320 a catfish, it's to prevent impersonators from screwing your entire career. 53 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:36,640 And it's different from Twitter verification because it's free, like in the olden times. 54 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:40,360 Your dreams are over. I mean, dreams, the game is over. 55 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:44,600 Sony will be ending live support for Game Making Suite Dreams this coming September, which 56 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:48,960 is kind of surprising given that Dreams was released for the PS4 only four years ago to 57 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:54,600 great hopes and fanfare. Dreams will still be available for purchase and entirely playable, but it will be migrating 58 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:58,680 to a new server with a per player data cap for any new content. 59 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:03,760 So you can still create anything you can imagine as long as your imagination is under 5GB. 60 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:07,520 Universal Music has apparently told streaming platforms like Apple and Spotify to block 61 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:13,360 AI services from scraping melodies and lyrics from songs that it holds the copyright to. 62 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:19,200 And we do mean told, not asked. Universal Music is the second largest record label in the United States with a market share 63 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:25,040 of over 30%. Universal Music has also been sending out a massive number of takedown notices against 64 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:30,320 AI generated songs. While it's hard to sympathize with a massive faceless business conglomerate, AI companies 65 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:34,560 probably deserve more than a little pushback for treating the copyrighted production of 66 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:38,880 artists as a free training database. 67 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:42,200 But the artists signed it away anyway. 68 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:46,080 Monitor IO, a company that made a gadget that would continuously monitor your network speed 69 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:50,080 and status, announced they would be shutting down their business and monitoring service 70 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:56,160 this month. But in some bizarre twist, they decided that customers who bought a product for them should 71 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:59,400 still be able to use it? 72 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:03,760 They are providing an image that will allow the device to still be run when the company's 73 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:07,360 servers shut down. But April Fool's was days ago. 74 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:11,800 Is this bizarre or what? Tim Allen, where are you? 75 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:17,360 And the FBI is cautioning against using built-in USB ports at charging stations in public 76 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:22,080 places like airports and hotels because bad actors have figured out ways to infect your 77 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:26,520 devices with malware to access them remotely, proving once again how we can't have nice 78 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:33,280 things or even shitty things like airports. The FCC calls this juice jacking, which is not to be confused with that one Reddit post 79 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:39,040 who instantly regretted reading. So stay safe out there, use your own chargers, and avoid coconuts. 80 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:45,000 I don't get it either. I don't want to get it. But make sure you don't avoid coming back on Friday for more tech news, more ladders, 81 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,640 and if you do come back, we may tell you the etymological origin of the word news. 82 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:54,280 We may make it up, but only if we can think of something funnier than the truth. 83 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:58,280 It's just new, a clerk. Where are you going, James? 84 00:06:58,280 --> 00:06:58,880 I'm out of here.