WEBVTT 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:05.120 Hey, thanks for waiting a whole week for fresh tech news while I was away. 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:08.960 I thought I had another week before I would be assaulted by wacky CES news 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:12.840 about sentient toilets or something, but apparently that's starting now, so strap in. 00:00:12.840 --> 00:00:17.240 LG has unveiled a bendable 45 inch OLED monitor 00:00:17.240 --> 00:00:22.240 at the apparently unprecedented resolution of 5120 by 2160. 00:00:22.680 --> 00:00:29.960 In their press release, unveiling the monitor, LG says it's set to be unveiled at CES next week, 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:34.400 where it has somehow already won three CES 2025 00:00:34.400 --> 00:00:39.720 innovation awards. I was expecting CES news to be more 3D printed sandwiches 00:00:39.720 --> 00:00:42.880 and less time paradoxes, but sure, let's roll with it. 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:47.720 Turns out those CES innovation award winners were actually announced in November. 00:00:47.720 --> 00:00:53.520 That's how I found out about Zeiss getting an award for their holographic transparent camera, 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:57.720 which has already been pre-ordered by Wonder Woman to go with her invisible jet. 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:03.280 Nope. An order that was placed in 1942. 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:08.200 No, stop it. The camera is apparently sensors built into the frame 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:12.840 of a window reconstructing an image from the ambient light that hits it, 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:18.080 which sounds just bonkers, but so does LG announcing a microwave 00:01:18.080 --> 00:01:22.960 with a built in 27 inch display. So you can easily check on your food, 00:01:22.960 --> 00:01:26.320 maybe keep gaming while you wait for your hot pockets, 00:01:26.360 --> 00:01:29.680 or if it's anything like LG's actual TVs, 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:34.080 get great product recommendations served directly to your kitchen. 00:01:34.080 --> 00:01:38.560 Hot food and hot deals? No, destroy it. 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:43.000 AMD was also expected to unveil their next gen GPUs at CES, 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:47.560 which were named the RX 8000 series at some point, 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:51.960 but multiple leaks now indicate that instead of an RX 8800, 00:01:51.960 --> 00:01:56.080 AMD will be announcing the RX 9070, 00:01:56.080 --> 00:02:00.320 skipping a generation number and copying NVIDIA's naming convention. 00:02:00.320 --> 00:02:04.840 AMD pulled a similar stunt with their CPU names, apparently having learned brand strategy 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:10.520 from the people behind popular movie franchises, Transmorphers, and Magic Wizard School, 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:13.160 starring Hermione Grinder. 00:02:15.440 --> 00:02:20.840 Bench Life claims the RX 9070 will actually launch at the end of January. 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:24.760 Fingers crossed that NVIDIA and AMD's plans to stockpile graphics cards 00:02:24.760 --> 00:02:28.680 before those tariffs hit pays off. Intel, a resurgent player 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:33.480 in the desktop graphics card space, is expected to unveil another gaming focused card, 00:02:33.480 --> 00:02:38.960 but apparently they're also prepping a battle mage powered Arc Pro GPU 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:43.720 with 24 gigabytes of memory, which is a lot, but hopefully not enough 00:02:43.720 --> 00:02:48.840 to remember Hermione Grinder, the top student at Chogboards. 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:50.160 Sorry, that didn't help. 00:02:53.880 --> 00:02:57.160 You're a special boy with magic powers. 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:04.480 Sorry, I'm so, okay, no, stop. OpenAI took the mask off on Friday 00:03:04.480 --> 00:03:10.120 and announced plans to transition into a mostly for-profit organization 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:15.440 with a bit of non-profit on the side. Previously, the capped profit ARM of OpenAI 00:03:15.440 --> 00:03:21.080 was controlled by the non-profit ARM, which was controlled by a board of directors 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:25.360 who didn't care about profit at all as long as robots took all our jobs. 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:30.280 But now the for-profit ARM will become a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:33.680 required to balance the interests of shareholders 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:36.840 and the public, and the non-profit 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:41.200 will have shares in that company. I mean, it's so much more simple 00:03:41.200 --> 00:03:44.600 for the purposes of more money. 00:03:44.600 --> 00:03:47.880 This is exactly what Elon Musk was trying to prevent 00:03:47.880 --> 00:03:51.520 when he filed an injunction against OpenAI in early December, 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:57.760 a filing that just received public support from a non-profit, ooh, irony maybe, 00:03:57.760 --> 00:04:01.880 called ENCODE, who even had one of the Godfathers of AI, 00:04:01.880 --> 00:04:05.680 Jeffrey Hinton, on board. I'd never heard of ENCODE before, 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:11.360 but apparently they're run by young people concerned about where AI is heading. 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:17.040 While Elon is an old guy, just mad that this is happening after he left. 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:21.080 This is not right to do without me. 00:04:21.080 --> 00:04:25.440 Quick bits. They're here and then they're gone. 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:32.920 Like most things. YouTube is testing a new floating action button 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:37.080 in the Android app, kind of like Google's I'm Feeling Lucky button. 00:04:37.080 --> 00:04:42.000 It just starts playing a random video to distract you from those pesky thoughts. 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:46.400 They actually started testing this a year ago with a simple black play button, 00:04:46.400 --> 00:04:52.400 but in the more recent tests spotted by nine to five Google, the button now says play something, 00:04:52.400 --> 00:04:57.120 play something, anything. Also, I love how nine to five Google's example 00:04:57.120 --> 00:05:00.520 of the something is a video by nothing. 00:05:01.520 --> 00:05:05.480 Is this what you want? iOS 18 appears to enable a feature 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:08.720 called Enhanced Visual Search by default, 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:14.880 which lets you identify landmarks in your photos, but requires sending some photo data to Apple. 00:05:14.880 --> 00:05:20.360 As pointed out by app developer Jeff Johnson, Apple says they do this privately, 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:23.480 but it's a weird move for a privacy-focused company 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:26.600 like Apple to just decide that you're probably okay 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:29.600 with Apple seeing your photos in this scenario. 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:35.360 I mean, that what happens on your iPhone stays there, billboard was all the way back in 2019. 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:39.160 Things have changed. You can't just walk around not knowing 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:43.400 that that's the Arc de Triomphe. Oh, it's like a big door. 00:05:44.400 --> 00:05:48.720 Embarrassing. NVIDIA's VP of robotics, Deepu Tala, 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:53.720 told the Financial Times this week that the chat GPT moment for robotics 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:58.280 is just around the corner. But NVIDIA would say that a gold rush is imminent 00:05:58.280 --> 00:06:02.160 when they're the one selling shovels and shovel accessories. 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:04.360 Oh yeah, that puppy needs a scope. 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:12.640 But they might not just be advertising their services. There have been many advances in robotics recently. 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:17.000 Researchers at Stanford and Johns Hopkins just demonstrated surgical robots 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:21.440 learning to complete tasks simply by watching videos for the first time. 00:06:21.440 --> 00:06:26.240 The training data was mostly TikTok ASMR. I mean, it turns out robots get the tingles too. 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:31.120 And Meta has figured out they should probably use some of their immense wealth to do something 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:37.840 about the software update that has bricked some users Quest 2, 3 and 3S headsets for weeks. 00:06:37.840 --> 00:06:41.040 While they initially said owners would simply have to buy a new device 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:44.480 if theirs was out of warranty, this week the tech giant indicated 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:48.400 some users might be considered for a free replacement 00:06:48.400 --> 00:06:52.400 regardless of warranty status. I mean, what else can we expect 00:06:52.400 --> 00:06:58.440 from the company that thinks it's a good idea to flood Facebook and Instagram with AI bot accounts 00:06:58.440 --> 00:07:02.320 so you can have even more fake friends you never see in real life? 00:07:02.320 --> 00:07:06.520 Speaking of which, you can see me again on Wednesday and I'll give you more tech news. 00:07:06.520 --> 00:07:10.800 It'll be New Year's Day. So maybe we can turn over a new leaf in our friendship, 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:11.680 which is real.