1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,020 Tech news can feel kind of serious and dystopian sometimes. 2 00:00:04,020 --> 00:00:07,040 So let's lighten it up by heading to Mobile World Congress 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:11,520 in Barcelona and checking out some tech that's so wild and wacky, 4 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:17,140 it makes me slightly uncomfortable. Lenovo brought a new extra tall boy concept laptop 5 00:00:17,140 --> 00:00:20,300 to MWC called the Thinkbook Flip. 6 00:00:20,300 --> 00:00:25,720 But instead of rolling the display back down to normal size like the Thinkbook Plus shown at CES, 7 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:29,640 the Flip's 18 inch display folds in half backwards, 8 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:34,400 making this PC the perfect choice for battleship heads. 9 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:37,480 There's gotta be some battleship heads out there. 10 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:42,120 For multiple monitor heads, there's the Lenovo's dual screen concept, 11 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:45,360 a system that lets you attach extra displays to a laptop 12 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:48,520 through Lenovo's Magic Bay magnetic connector. 13 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:54,880 Lenovo went kind of wild with the concepts this year. They also had a yoga concept laptop with a solar panel 14 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:59,340 so it's powered by the sun. Yeah, everything is indirectly, 15 00:00:59,380 --> 00:01:02,900 but this skips the middleman. There's also a solar powered battery bank 16 00:01:02,900 --> 00:01:06,140 and after wondering what Lenovo's AI stick was 17 00:01:06,140 --> 00:01:09,860 when it recently leaked, today I learned it has an NPU inside 18 00:01:09,860 --> 00:01:13,860 that can connect to a poor disadvantaged regular PC 19 00:01:13,860 --> 00:01:17,620 that was born with no AI processors at all. 20 00:01:17,620 --> 00:01:22,140 Here you go. Go make some slop with your friends. But guys, that's just the beginning. 21 00:01:22,140 --> 00:01:26,660 Chinese company Infinix showed off the Zero Series mini 22 00:01:26,700 --> 00:01:30,180 tri-fold, a concept phone that makes way more sense 23 00:01:30,180 --> 00:01:34,300 than other multi-fold designs because it can go from normal phone size 24 00:01:34,300 --> 00:01:39,700 down to medium phone size and then down again to like a little GoPro type form factor. 25 00:01:39,700 --> 00:01:42,820 Why is this the first time someone's thought of this? 26 00:01:42,820 --> 00:01:46,900 What are we doing? Infinix also showed off a solar powered phone 27 00:01:46,900 --> 00:01:50,060 and charging case that Mashable thinks is cool 28 00:01:50,060 --> 00:01:53,460 because you can charge it by pointing a light at it, 29 00:01:53,460 --> 00:01:58,180 which would be perfect for when I'm trapped in a cave and I don't wanna hold both my flashlight and my phone 30 00:01:58,180 --> 00:02:02,540 so I can just point the flashlight at the phone. And I mean, problem solved at that point. 31 00:02:02,540 --> 00:02:08,580 But to offset the usefulness of those concepts, Infinix also had a phone with a back that changes color 32 00:02:08,580 --> 00:02:12,660 and makes a little drawing of a face to mimic the facial expression of a person 33 00:02:12,660 --> 00:02:17,980 after their picture's taken. I don't know when this would ever be useful or wanted, 34 00:02:17,980 --> 00:02:24,660 but the other stuff was cool. All right, what else? The Xiaomi 15 and 15 Ultra are phones that look and act 35 00:02:24,700 --> 00:02:28,140 like fancy cameras and you can even attach modular lenses. 36 00:02:28,140 --> 00:02:32,060 While the Xiaomi Buds 5 Pro are the first earbuds 37 00:02:32,060 --> 00:02:36,140 with Qualcomm's S7 Pro chip and support for X-Pan. 38 00:02:36,140 --> 00:02:39,660 So they can stream audio over Wi-Fi, 39 00:02:39,660 --> 00:02:43,420 which is not the normal way to do that. That's weird. 40 00:02:43,420 --> 00:02:47,380 Not as weird though as Samsung's flex gaming concept, 41 00:02:47,380 --> 00:02:50,080 a handheld that folds in half. 42 00:02:51,060 --> 00:02:57,060 Okay, that actually makes a lot of sense. I want that. Samsung's other concept, the asymmetric flip, 43 00:02:57,060 --> 00:03:01,060 does not make any sense because it's literally just a Galaxy Z Flip, but worse. 44 00:03:01,060 --> 00:03:05,380 What if we added another fold and kind of curled it? 45 00:03:05,380 --> 00:03:08,900 Why? It's Mobile World Congress. 46 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:12,740 We're so wacky and different, not like those other tech conferences. 47 00:03:12,740 --> 00:03:17,260 We have SUVs from BYD that can launch drones out of the roof. 48 00:03:17,260 --> 00:03:20,980 So anyone can feel like the bad guys in a chase scene. 49 00:03:20,980 --> 00:03:24,580 I won't let you escape. We're gonna get them, kids. 50 00:03:24,580 --> 00:03:29,940 Yay! Seems like Google has finally blocked UBlock Origin 51 00:03:29,940 --> 00:03:34,220 on Chrome for nearly everyone with journalists and social media users 52 00:03:34,220 --> 00:03:37,500 claiming to have recently encountered this friendly little notice. 53 00:03:37,500 --> 00:03:41,860 Blocking those ads was fun, wasn't it? Well, it's time to stop. 54 00:03:41,860 --> 00:03:45,420 But there are some options available to the block heads. 55 00:03:45,420 --> 00:03:49,260 That's, I didn't mean it like that. There's UBlock Origin Lite, 56 00:03:49,260 --> 00:03:53,580 which is made by the same developer, Raymond Hill, and it's compatible with Google's new 57 00:03:53,580 --> 00:03:59,660 Manifest V3 extension standard, but it's had to sacrifice some of its power to do so. 58 00:03:59,660 --> 00:04:04,060 You could switch to Firefox, which has promised to continue supporting Manifest V2 59 00:04:04,060 --> 00:04:07,580 and V3 extensions, but ooh, wait a second. 60 00:04:07,580 --> 00:04:11,140 Didn't Mozilla change their terms of use to say they can do horrible things 61 00:04:11,140 --> 00:04:15,020 like abduct my pets and eat them? Well, it certainly seemed that way, 62 00:04:15,020 --> 00:04:18,500 but the company has now rewritten the rewritten terms 63 00:04:18,500 --> 00:04:23,500 to clarify that nothing was being changed about how Firefox operates. 64 00:04:23,500 --> 00:04:28,300 The terms were apparently updated, adding that scary sale of data language 65 00:04:28,300 --> 00:04:33,220 to comply with the broad legal definition of sale of data, 66 00:04:33,220 --> 00:04:37,780 as seen in California's Consumer Privacy Act, where doing pretty much anything with data 67 00:04:37,780 --> 00:04:42,260 is referred to as a sale. And I would have loved if that's how things worked 68 00:04:42,260 --> 00:04:46,220 when I had a commission-based job. Just made a sale. 69 00:04:47,500 --> 00:04:52,380 I'm on fire today. Oh man, some of that stuff was way too wacky and wild. 70 00:04:52,380 --> 00:04:59,060 Hey, let's bring it back and enjoy some quick bits. They're more refined, erudite, good word. 71 00:04:59,060 --> 00:05:03,940 Qualcomm is working on its second-gen Snapdragon X series SOCs, 72 00:05:03,940 --> 00:05:07,140 which may feature up to 18 CPU cores, 73 00:05:07,140 --> 00:05:13,820 48 gigabytes of integrated RAM, and support for discrete graphics cards, gaming laptops, 74 00:05:13,820 --> 00:05:18,240 according to reference design seen by German tech site WinFuture. 75 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:23,240 The chips are reportedly not expected to launch until next year, and one of them may be called 76 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:27,120 the Snapdragon X2 Ultra Premium, 77 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:31,080 which should solve one of the main reasons not many people picked up the first gen, 78 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:36,600 not a long enough name. It's got 33.3 repeating percent more name words, by now. 79 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:41,880 TSMC announced this morning it will spend an additional $100 billion 80 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:45,720 to build more chip manufacturing facilities in Arizona. 81 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:50,280 The move was also announced later in the day by US President Donald Trump. 82 00:05:50,280 --> 00:05:55,760 It's unclear whether TSMC agreed to do this to avoid Trump's favorite thing, tariffs, 83 00:05:55,760 --> 00:06:01,640 or whether the move was already planned, but either way, the US is gonna get more chip manufacturing 84 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:08,000 so they can fulfill some of their military leaders' dreams of blowing up TSMC if China invades Taiwan. 85 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,780 They'll be good. YouTube is planning to lean more into being a platform 86 00:06:12,780 --> 00:06:16,240 where you can subscribe to other streaming services 87 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:21,200 like Paramount Plus and Max, according to a report from the information. 88 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:26,800 YouTube's TV app is being redesigned to display this kind of content on the homepage, 89 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:30,080 similar to how Amazon Prime and Apple TV Plus 90 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:34,920 also host content from other services. So when you scroll through and click on something 91 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:40,240 that you think you can watch because it's listed on the streaming service that you pay for, you actually can't watch it. 92 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:44,040 You have to subscribe to another streaming service hosted on the first streaming service, 93 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:48,360 which is just so convenient. That would've probably be cool to see how far down the rabbit hole we could take this. 94 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:52,160 And Firefly Aerospace has become the first private company 95 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:58,280 to successfully land a craft on the moon, a feat it proved by posting this photo of, 96 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,400 I mean, I guess it's the moon. 97 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:06,840 It must be. The landercraft, called Blue Ghost, 98 00:07:06,840 --> 00:07:10,760 was also able to capture this photo of the lunar sunrise, 99 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:14,920 which could easily have been photoshopped or AI generated by anyone on their phone. 100 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:19,840 Look, this is really cool. I just, like they took that photo, you know, 101 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:24,880 but I can make it a photo just like that. I'm just saying, landing on the moon, big whoop. 102 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:29,120 I'm just saying, listen, hey, look, eyes on me. 103 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,240 Wednesday, more tech news, okay? 104 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,600 Are we cool? Are we good? Huh, you gonna show up here? 105 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:38,680 I'll have good tech news for you. I'm working hard, okay? 106 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:40,360 Deal? Deal.