WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.120 It's a beautiful day. Don't let it get away. 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:08.280 It's a beautiful day. Woo-hoo! 00:00:08.280 --> 00:00:11.360 A laptop that appears to be one of Microsoft's 00:00:11.360 --> 00:00:15.080 upcoming Surface devices has shown up in a Geekbench listing. 00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:19.600 Powered not by Qualcomm's much-hyped Snapdragon X Elite, 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:24.120 an ARM-based chip that is supposed to overturn the x86-based global order. 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:30.360 I believe a plague of frogs is involved. No, this one is powered by a Snapdragon X Plus. 00:00:30.360 --> 00:00:34.120 That sounds like a lower-tier variant of the X Elite, 00:00:34.120 --> 00:00:37.720 which jibes with the specs in the Geekbench listing. 00:00:37.720 --> 00:00:43.800 The Plus has 10 cores to the Elite's 12. But it does still have 16 gigabytes of RAM, 00:00:43.800 --> 00:00:48.520 giving enthusiasts hope that the brain rot, causing some to think that eight gigabytes of RAM 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:51.800 is an acceptable baseline, may be limited to Apple. 00:00:51.800 --> 00:00:56.560 If you're out of the loop and wondering why anyone's making a big deal about ARM-powered laptops, 00:00:56.560 --> 00:01:02.480 because pretty much all of them suck, well, it's because it seems like these ones don't suck. 00:01:02.480 --> 00:01:07.040 And between Qualcomm's recent performance demos, Microsoft reportedly going all in 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:10.480 and using Snapdragon X Series chips in the new Surface lineup, they'll be announcing 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:13.840 on May 20th, and a leaked super-slim Lenovo 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:17.040 Snapdragon notebook, it's looking like the ARM-powered 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:23.160 Windows laptop revolution is upon us. Qualcomm teased a Snapdragon X-related announcement 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:26.480 for this Wednesday, they teased it on X, 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:30.360 which is exactly why you don't name things X, even if it's your favorite letter. 00:01:30.360 --> 00:01:34.640 It's everyone else's too, it's the coolest letter. Well, you're just gonna say your favorite letter is K? 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:39.280 That's just X being a little sassy. Meta announced it's making the operating system 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:44.080 that powers its MetaQuest headsets available to third-party device makers. 00:01:44.080 --> 00:01:47.920 And a few of them have already said they'll use it in their own VR headsets. 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:51.640 Though at the time of reporting, it was still unclear whether they had made that promise, 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:55.280 mostly to convince Mark Zuckerberg to get off their property. Sure, sure, just whatever. 00:01:55.280 --> 00:02:01.400 You can't fight us, Mark! Just stop making eye contact. It's clear that Meta wants the Quest's operating system, 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:07.400 which is calling Horizon OS, to become the Windows or Android of VR slash 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:11.160 Mixed Reality slash Spatial Compute. I don't know what to call this anymore, 00:02:11.160 --> 00:02:17.480 and we need to pick one. Leave your vote in the comments about what the catch-all term for headset stuff should be. 00:02:17.480 --> 00:02:23.080 Whatever it is, Meta wants to be the Windows of it. So the company is also opening Horizon OS 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:26.280 to other app stores. They've reportedly invited Google 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:29.680 to bring the Play Store over. For a Play Date, 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:36.680 Google probably just gave some excuse and left. So watch out for a slew of new Metaified metastasized headsets, 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:40.720 including a gaming-focused one from ASUS ROG, 00:02:40.720 --> 00:02:44.200 a productivity slash learning one from Lenovo, 00:02:44.200 --> 00:02:49.200 as well as a limited-edition MetaQuest inspired by Xbox. 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:54.240 So get excited, VR fans. There'll be a green one. 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:58.720 Now, part of the reason Meta's opening up their headset ecosystem is clearly to compete 00:02:58.720 --> 00:03:04.160 with Apple's walled garden approach, but it looks like Apple's $3,500 Vision Pro 00:03:04.160 --> 00:03:07.280 is already fading into obscurity without anyone's help. 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:11.720 According to Apple wise man, Mark the Germanizer, German, 00:03:11.720 --> 00:03:17.600 Apple retail stores are reporting a massive drop in demand in sales with prospective buyers 00:03:17.640 --> 00:03:20.880 regularly no showing to appointments they've booked. 00:03:20.880 --> 00:03:24.000 It's unclear how existing Vision Pro users feel 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:30.120 on the whole, but there have been many reports of discomfort, neck pain, and black eyes. 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:34.360 What are they doing in there? German himself testified that while he initially used 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:40.880 his own unit several times a day, he's down to maybe once or twice a week, even him? 00:03:40.880 --> 00:03:45.240 Germatron Prime? Apple is reportedly dealing with this heartbreak 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:51.280 by pitching the Vision Pro more heavily to businesses and highly skilled workers like surgeons. 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:58.320 The headset has an app for practicing surgeries, but one Brazilian doctor actually used it during surgery, 00:03:58.320 --> 00:04:01.760 which sounds kind of sketchy, but actually seemed pretty useful. 00:04:01.760 --> 00:04:06.240 He was able to reference x-rays, see a live feed from the tiny surgery cam, 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:10.240 and tweet about how crazy it was. Cutting up this dude's shoulder right now 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:13.600 and he's not reacting at all. It's awesome. 00:04:13.600 --> 00:04:17.440 Can I take surgeries? We doing this? Yeah, I got the quick bits. 00:04:17.440 --> 00:04:21.760 You got the attentional resources? 00:04:21.760 --> 00:04:25.840 It's for the trade. It doesn't. Intel doesn't appear to have done anything 00:04:25.840 --> 00:04:31.880 to mitigate the stability issues reported by owners of the company's 13th and 14th gen processors, 00:04:31.880 --> 00:04:36.360 other than to say they're looking into it. So other companies are stepping in. 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:41.840 Systems builder Falcon Northwest released a guide to modifying some BIOS settings that may help, 00:04:41.840 --> 00:04:45.460 while ASUS has released a BIOS update for its motherboards 00:04:45.500 --> 00:04:51.980 with a new Intel baseline profile that should help your CPU calm the F down. 00:04:51.980 --> 00:04:57.620 I mean, can you imagine being born into the world basically overclocked to your limit already? 00:04:57.620 --> 00:05:04.060 You'd be Bradley Cooper and limitless and it would be awesome. EK Cooling, a bastion of the PC liquid cooling space, 00:05:04.060 --> 00:05:07.340 is in the midst of a financial and emotional meltdown, 00:05:07.340 --> 00:05:12.460 according to a report from Gamers Nexus. The company has apparently left suppliers, employees, 00:05:12.460 --> 00:05:16.060 and contractors unpaid for as long as four months, 00:05:16.060 --> 00:05:20.260 in large part due to holding large amounts of unsold inventory. 00:05:20.260 --> 00:05:24.300 But the situation has been exacerbated by what sounds like bad management, 00:05:24.300 --> 00:05:28.220 a cease and desist letter sent to a former employee for sharing his story, 00:05:28.220 --> 00:05:31.260 and infighting between EK Cooling's US branch 00:05:31.260 --> 00:05:34.860 and its Slovenian headquarters. It all sounds pretty messed up. 00:05:34.860 --> 00:05:38.860 So we can only hope that cooler heads prevail. I'm sorry, that's... 00:05:38.860 --> 00:05:42.900 Google isn't expected to launch the Pixel 9 for another five months, 00:05:42.900 --> 00:05:47.420 but we've already had our first leaked photos of a prototype Pixel 9 Pro, 00:05:47.420 --> 00:05:51.900 which appears very similar to renders published by OnLeaks back in January. 00:05:51.900 --> 00:05:58.140 According to Russian language website RosetteKid, the new prototype contains a Tensor G4 SoC 00:05:58.140 --> 00:06:03.100 and comes with a hefty 16 gigabytes of RAM to the eight pros 12 gigabytes, 00:06:03.100 --> 00:06:07.500 because Google would really like their phones to run local AI without cooking themselves 00:06:07.500 --> 00:06:10.980 from the inside out. A potentially less reliable leak 00:06:10.980 --> 00:06:15.740 has also claimed that the upcoming Pixel 8a will be more expensive than the 7a, 00:06:15.740 --> 00:06:19.220 but Google lacks ground to complain about unreliability 00:06:19.220 --> 00:06:24.460 as the company has released its second patch this month to fix glitches that caused missing phone calls 00:06:24.460 --> 00:06:28.220 and text messages, which are pretty much a phone's most important job. 00:06:28.220 --> 00:06:31.260 Otherwise it's not even a phone. At least it used to be. 00:06:31.260 --> 00:06:36.980 UK retailer Curries has dropped the price of the MSI Claw Gaming Handheld 00:06:36.980 --> 00:06:40.300 by 25% only weeks following its launch 00:06:40.300 --> 00:06:43.500 with the Core Ultra i7 one terabyte model 00:06:43.500 --> 00:06:46.860 dropping from 800 to just 600 pounds. 00:06:46.860 --> 00:06:50.520 Awkwardly, this makes it 100 pounds more expensive 00:06:50.520 --> 00:06:54.260 than the Core Ultra i5 512 gig model, 00:06:54.260 --> 00:06:58.600 which hasn't dropped. Further, both models are still priced significantly higher 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:04.320 than a brand new one terabyte OLED Steam Deck, which by all accounts is just better. 00:07:04.320 --> 00:07:07.420 Notably, Curries has had an exclusivity deal with MSI 00:07:07.420 --> 00:07:10.860 and is the handheld console sole retailer in the UK, 00:07:10.860 --> 00:07:14.180 which just goes to show that you should really check whether your partner is poorly optimized 00:07:14.180 --> 00:07:19.140 and non-competitively priced before you consider going exclusive. It's just basic research. 00:07:19.140 --> 00:07:23.660 On the flip side, the claw has received a Intel GPU driver update 00:07:23.660 --> 00:07:27.540 that can boost performance by up to 43 and a half percent. 00:07:27.540 --> 00:07:31.580 And it even comes with a free copy of Skull and Bones, if that sweetens the pot, 00:07:31.580 --> 00:07:36.880 which honestly it probably doesn't. And Tinder is getting a new share my date feature, 00:07:36.880 --> 00:07:42.120 which surprisingly has nothing to do with polyamory and everything to do with user safety. 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:46.280 Now, rather than screenshotting the details of your hiking date in the deep woods 00:07:46.280 --> 00:07:50.280 with a complete stranger, you can share the details directly from the app, 00:07:50.280 --> 00:07:54.680 including to non-Tinder users, so that your mom knows what to tell police 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:57.840 when you go missing. This is, this is dark. 00:07:57.840 --> 00:08:02.000 I'm sorry. Tinder created this feature after user data showed 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:06.720 that 51% of singles under 30 told their friends the details of their dates 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:10.240 beforehand. Gosh, I wonder which half of the population 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:15.600 thought to do that. But both halves of our viewers are equally important to us. 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:20.280 The top and the bottom. So we hope we'll see you on Wednesday for more tech news.