WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.440 If a tech newsman falls in the woods and there's no one around to hear, 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:08.560 will there be anything for him to report? Hmm, who can say? 00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:12.800 This is why I stay indoors. Rumors about Windows 12 requiring a subscription 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:16.120 swirled this week after German site DeskModder 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:22.040 found references to a subscription addition in a Canary Channel Windows 11 Insider preview build 00:00:22.040 --> 00:00:27.560 that is absent in other Windows 11 builds. Nine way, you might be saying, 00:00:27.560 --> 00:00:33.280 if you speak terrible German. And you might be right, while outlets like Neowyn initially supported 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:37.040 DeskModder's hypothesis, Windows Central, the world's premier experts 00:00:37.040 --> 00:00:40.600 in looking outside, have argued that this subscription language 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:43.600 isn't referring to the client version of Windows 12, 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:47.840 but a newly discovered IoT Enterprise subscription edition 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:51.560 of Windows 11. However, the subscription language 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:55.420 could be a reference to new features in the future version of Windows 00:00:55.420 --> 00:01:00.080 that will require a subscription, such as the inevitable rollout of the consumer version 00:01:00.080 --> 00:01:03.240 of the Windows 365 cloud PC service. 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:06.760 And Windows 11 is only gonna have more AI stuffed into it. 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:10.400 I could easily see Microsoft charging to have Bing attend meetings for you 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:14.800 and make you sound smarter, like every plot line involving twins. 00:01:14.800 --> 00:01:18.800 Except Danny DeVito and Earl Schwarzenegger. I'm just imagining them both doing impressions 00:01:18.800 --> 00:01:21.760 of the other. I'm just a tiny little guy. 00:01:23.160 --> 00:01:26.340 Epic game CEO Tim Sweeney said at a recent conference 00:01:26.380 --> 00:01:29.820 that his company will start charging non-game developers 00:01:29.820 --> 00:01:34.420 for their use of Unreal Engine next year, which means that Tim Sweeney 00:01:34.420 --> 00:01:37.420 may have only just realized non-game developers 00:01:37.420 --> 00:01:42.620 are using the service. Like, for example, green screen-based gaming news shows. 00:01:42.620 --> 00:01:46.260 What do you do? What, stop that. What do you do? Stop it, stop. 00:01:46.260 --> 00:01:50.260 Good, great. Unreal Engine has been free for any user to download 00:01:50.260 --> 00:01:54.120 and use since 2015, with Epic starting to take a 5% cut 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:58.660 after any game built with it surpasses $1 million in revenue. 00:01:58.660 --> 00:02:04.100 But that's not what the Mandalorian is. It's a streaming TV series that started out promising 00:02:04.100 --> 00:02:08.020 before beginning the slow and arduous process of destroying its credibility among fans. 00:02:08.020 --> 00:02:12.460 And they didn't have to pay Tim Sweeney a cent for their virtual set pieces. 00:02:12.460 --> 00:02:17.660 Unreal Engine is being used by producers of film and TV shows, VTubers with mocap setups, 00:02:17.660 --> 00:02:21.140 and Coldplay, who brought BTS back as holograms 00:02:21.140 --> 00:02:24.380 after the K-pop group was tragically killed. 00:02:24.380 --> 00:02:29.380 What? They're alive? What about Tupac? 00:02:29.380 --> 00:02:32.860 No? Crap. Who are you talking to? 00:02:32.860 --> 00:02:36.900 Huh? Anyway, Sweeney admitted at Unreal Fest 00:02:36.900 --> 00:02:40.540 that Epic Games figured out that they had a financial problem 00:02:40.540 --> 00:02:44.180 10 weeks before they decided to lay off over 800 people. 00:02:44.180 --> 00:02:47.580 But how is Tim Sweeney supposed to know that free Unreal Engine access, 00:02:47.580 --> 00:02:50.700 giving away free games and starting then losing 00:02:50.700 --> 00:02:54.820 a massive lawsuit with Apple will cost so much money? 00:02:54.820 --> 00:02:58.500 Meta's new AI has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons. 00:02:58.500 --> 00:03:04.260 It came out last week that the company's new AI chatbot was trained on public Facebook and Instagram posts, 00:03:04.260 --> 00:03:09.380 though they excluded posts only shown to friends and family to respect consumers' privacy. 00:03:09.380 --> 00:03:14.020 Meta then took all that money they saved by trolling their own platforms for training data 00:03:14.020 --> 00:03:17.220 and passed those savings on to celebrities and influencers 00:03:17.220 --> 00:03:23.460 by paying the millions to use their faces and likenesses for their weird experimental fictional AI characters. 00:03:23.460 --> 00:03:28.220 But how else could they get Charles D'Amelio to make sure our dance moves aren't sus? 00:03:28.220 --> 00:03:32.780 Meta's new EMU AI image generator also couldn't avoid controversy this week. 00:03:32.780 --> 00:03:37.660 Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp users have been using the new sticker generation tool 00:03:37.660 --> 00:03:42.140 to make stickers of Elon Musk packing some dub, dubong, 00:03:42.140 --> 00:03:45.140 dubong hunkeros. Is that a real word? 00:03:45.140 --> 00:03:49.340 No, it's a euphemism for breasts, but it's also complete nonsense. 00:03:49.340 --> 00:03:54.060 Okay. And then someone used it to create hot Karl Marx 00:03:54.060 --> 00:03:57.860 who has even bigger Bedonga gongs, hana hoogs. 00:03:58.900 --> 00:04:05.020 Thankfully, some more cultured individuals have used the tool properly to give Waluigi a gun. 00:04:06.740 --> 00:04:10.060 Go ahead, Nintendo, don't give him his own game. See what happens. 00:04:10.060 --> 00:04:13.940 Quick bits fill me with joy. It's too much for my body to handle. 00:04:13.940 --> 00:04:18.660 The pressure alone makes it immeasurable pain. Please, make it stop! 00:04:18.660 --> 00:04:22.980 Just kidding, I beg. Apple apparently seriously considered switching the default search engine 00:04:22.980 --> 00:04:27.740 for private browsing on the iPhone and Mac from Google to DuckDuckGo, 00:04:27.740 --> 00:04:32.140 the internet's number one bird-themed search engine. As part of the current antitrust case 00:04:32.140 --> 00:04:37.060 against Google search, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg 00:04:37.060 --> 00:04:41.380 testified that from 2017 to 2019, they were in talks with Apple 00:04:41.380 --> 00:04:46.260 because even in incognito mode, Google's browser tracking can be hard to duck. 00:04:47.140 --> 00:04:50.420 DuckDuckGo pitched similar proposals 00:04:50.420 --> 00:04:53.580 to Mozilla, Opera, and Samsung, but eventually gave up 00:04:53.580 --> 00:04:58.460 because it concluded that Google's contract with each company was the biggest thing ducking them over. 00:05:01.020 --> 00:05:06.420 TSMC and Samsung are allegedly struggling to make large enough yields of three nanometer nodes, 00:05:06.420 --> 00:05:10.580 with the companies only achieving 50% and 60% yields respectively. 00:05:10.580 --> 00:05:15.300 That's a big problem for Samsung because they need to get up to 70% yield 00:05:15.340 --> 00:05:19.180 if they wanna get orders from Qualcomm. On the other hand, this might be for the best 00:05:19.180 --> 00:05:23.900 as by some analyses, the three nanometer node is barely worth switching to. 00:05:23.900 --> 00:05:28.660 And the three nanometer node is also being blamed for overheating iPhone 15 Pro chips 00:05:28.660 --> 00:05:31.900 as if that phone needed any more things to go wrong with it. 00:05:31.900 --> 00:05:35.860 Now the display is burning in too. What happened with this phone, Apple? 00:05:35.860 --> 00:05:40.740 Tim Cook likes his chips fried. Ratings.com has been running an extensive burning test 00:05:40.740 --> 00:05:43.980 on three OLED PC monitors. For about five months now, 00:05:43.980 --> 00:05:49.980 they've been playing CNN's 24 seven news on the two existing OLED monitors with Samsung panels 00:05:49.980 --> 00:05:54.540 and one with an LG panel. The Samsung panels are already showing burn in, 00:05:54.540 --> 00:05:57.740 though that may be due to their higher brightness according to PC Gamer, 00:05:57.740 --> 00:06:02.260 though they also point out that the sample size of three is a bit small, which is weird 00:06:02.260 --> 00:06:06.460 because my doctor is always telling me that three is too many legs for a person to have. 00:06:06.460 --> 00:06:10.700 But I know he's just jealous of how fast I'll be able to run once I get another one. 00:06:10.700 --> 00:06:14.900 I'll find it. Luxury fashion house Prada has announced a partnership 00:06:14.900 --> 00:06:19.020 with Axiom Space to design NASA's next gen lunar spacesuits 00:06:19.020 --> 00:06:22.100 for the 2025 Artemis III moon mission. 00:06:22.100 --> 00:06:27.980 The Axi-moo, it's not how you say it, spacesuit named after how Prada acquires feathers 00:06:27.980 --> 00:06:30.060 for its hats. Axi-moo. 00:06:32.500 --> 00:06:38.100 For fashion. Will be designed with the aim of increasing mobility 00:06:38.100 --> 00:06:42.540 and protection on the lunar surface. No word yet on whether it will be cerulean 00:06:42.540 --> 00:06:46.300 or the usual white. Another goal is to address comfort 00:06:46.300 --> 00:06:50.020 and the human element neglected in the design of legacy suits. 00:06:50.020 --> 00:06:55.020 And as such, each Axi-moo suit will come with a safiano leather clutch 00:06:55.020 --> 00:07:00.260 and heels no taller than two inches. When we meet the aliens, they'll be impressed. 00:07:01.540 --> 00:07:05.820 First impressions are so important. We were going to ignore you, but wow. 00:07:07.020 --> 00:07:12.740 And Google Japan has once again found themselves with a surplus of both money and tabs of LSD. 00:07:12.740 --> 00:07:17.580 So they decided to make a keycap that is a wearable cap 00:07:17.580 --> 00:07:22.620 that functions as not just a single key switch but an entire keyboard. 00:07:22.620 --> 00:07:27.580 How? Well, thanks to an internal gyroscope, you can select another character to type 00:07:27.580 --> 00:07:32.860 by turning the hat before you press it. Finally, a reason to turn your hat to the side 00:07:32.860 --> 00:07:37.460 that isn't a very out of date attempt at impersonating one of the youths. 00:07:37.460 --> 00:07:40.860 Hello, fellow kids. And you'll be very out of date 00:07:40.860 --> 00:07:46.380 if you don't come back on Monday for more tech news and then the youths will laugh at you. 00:07:46.380 --> 00:07:47.460 You don't want that?