WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.020 Tech news can feel kind of serious and dystopian sometimes. 00:00:04.020 --> 00:00:07.040 So let's lighten it up by heading to Mobile World Congress 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:11.520 in Barcelona and checking out some tech that's so wild and wacky, 00:00:11.520 --> 00:00:17.140 it makes me slightly uncomfortable. Lenovo brought a new extra tall boy concept laptop 00:00:17.140 --> 00:00:20.300 to MWC called the Thinkbook Flip. 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, 00:00:25.720 --> 00:00:29.640 the Flip's 18 inch display folds in half backwards, 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:34.400 making this PC the perfect choice for battleship heads. 00:00:34.400 --> 00:00:37.480 There's gotta be some battleship heads out there. 00:00:37.480 --> 00:00:42.120 For multiple monitor heads, there's the Lenovo's dual screen concept, 00:00:42.120 --> 00:00:45.360 a system that lets you attach extra displays to a laptop 00:00:45.360 --> 00:00:48.520 through Lenovo's Magic Bay magnetic connector. 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 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:59.340 so it's powered by the sun. Yeah, everything is indirectly, 00:00:59.380 --> 00:01:02.900 but this skips the middleman. There's also a solar powered battery bank 00:01:02.900 --> 00:01:06.140 and after wondering what Lenovo's AI stick was 00:01:06.140 --> 00:01:09.860 when it recently leaked, today I learned it has an NPU inside 00:01:09.860 --> 00:01:13.860 that can connect to a poor disadvantaged regular PC 00:01:13.860 --> 00:01:17.620 that was born with no AI processors at all. 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. 00:01:22.140 --> 00:01:26.660 Chinese company Infinix showed off the Zero Series mini 00:01:26.700 --> 00:01:30.180 tri-fold, a concept phone that makes way more sense 00:01:30.180 --> 00:01:34.300 than other multi-fold designs because it can go from normal phone size 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. 00:01:39.700 --> 00:01:42.820 Why is this the first time someone's thought of this? 00:01:42.820 --> 00:01:46.900 What are we doing? Infinix also showed off a solar powered phone 00:01:46.900 --> 00:01:50.060 and charging case that Mashable thinks is cool 00:01:50.060 --> 00:01:53.460 because you can charge it by pointing a light at it, 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 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. 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 00:02:08.580 --> 00:02:12.660 and makes a little drawing of a face to mimic the facial expression of a person 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, 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 00:02:24.700 --> 00:02:28.140 like fancy cameras and you can even attach modular lenses. 00:02:28.140 --> 00:02:32.060 While the Xiaomi Buds 5 Pro are the first earbuds 00:02:32.060 --> 00:02:36.140 with Qualcomm's S7 Pro chip and support for X-Pan. 00:02:36.140 --> 00:02:39.660 So they can stream audio over Wi-Fi, 00:02:39.660 --> 00:02:43.420 which is not the normal way to do that. That's weird. 00:02:43.420 --> 00:02:47.380 Not as weird though as Samsung's flex gaming concept, 00:02:47.380 --> 00:02:50.080 a handheld that folds in half. 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, 00:02:57.060 --> 00:03:01.060 does not make any sense because it's literally just a Galaxy Z Flip, but worse. 00:03:01.060 --> 00:03:05.380 What if we added another fold and kind of curled it? 00:03:05.380 --> 00:03:08.900 Why? It's Mobile World Congress. 00:03:08.900 --> 00:03:12.740 We're so wacky and different, not like those other tech conferences. 00:03:12.740 --> 00:03:17.260 We have SUVs from BYD that can launch drones out of the roof. 00:03:17.260 --> 00:03:20.980 So anyone can feel like the bad guys in a chase scene. 00:03:20.980 --> 00:03:24.580 I won't let you escape. We're gonna get them, kids. 00:03:24.580 --> 00:03:29.940 Yay! Seems like Google has finally blocked UBlock Origin 00:03:29.940 --> 00:03:34.220 on Chrome for nearly everyone with journalists and social media users 00:03:34.220 --> 00:03:37.500 claiming to have recently encountered this friendly little notice. 00:03:37.500 --> 00:03:41.860 Blocking those ads was fun, wasn't it? Well, it's time to stop. 00:03:41.860 --> 00:03:45.420 But there are some options available to the block heads. 00:03:45.420 --> 00:03:49.260 That's, I didn't mean it like that. There's UBlock Origin Lite, 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 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. 00:03:59.660 --> 00:04:04.060 You could switch to Firefox, which has promised to continue supporting Manifest V2 00:04:04.060 --> 00:04:07.580 and V3 extensions, but ooh, wait a second. 00:04:07.580 --> 00:04:11.140 Didn't Mozilla change their terms of use to say they can do horrible things 00:04:11.140 --> 00:04:15.020 like abduct my pets and eat them? Well, it certainly seemed that way, 00:04:15.020 --> 00:04:18.500 but the company has now rewritten the rewritten terms 00:04:18.500 --> 00:04:23.500 to clarify that nothing was being changed about how Firefox operates. 00:04:23.500 --> 00:04:28.300 The terms were apparently updated, adding that scary sale of data language 00:04:28.300 --> 00:04:33.220 to comply with the broad legal definition of sale of data, 00:04:33.220 --> 00:04:37.780 as seen in California's Consumer Privacy Act, where doing pretty much anything with data 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 00:04:42.260 --> 00:04:46.220 when I had a commission-based job. Just made a sale. 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. 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. 00:04:59.060 --> 00:05:03.940 Qualcomm is working on its second-gen Snapdragon X series SOCs, 00:05:03.940 --> 00:05:07.140 which may feature up to 18 CPU cores, 00:05:07.140 --> 00:05:13.820 48 gigabytes of integrated RAM, and support for discrete graphics cards, gaming laptops, 00:05:13.820 --> 00:05:18.240 according to reference design seen by German tech site WinFuture. 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 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:27.120 the Snapdragon X2 Ultra Premium, 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:31.080 which should solve one of the main reasons not many people picked up the first gen, 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. 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:41.880 TSMC announced this morning it will spend an additional $100 billion 00:05:41.880 --> 00:05:45.720 to build more chip manufacturing facilities in Arizona. 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:50.280 The move was also announced later in the day by US President Donald Trump. 00:05:50.280 --> 00:05:55.760 It's unclear whether TSMC agreed to do this to avoid Trump's favorite thing, tariffs, 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 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. 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:12.780 They'll be good. YouTube is planning to lean more into being a platform 00:06:12.780 --> 00:06:16.240 where you can subscribe to other streaming services 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:21.200 like Paramount Plus and Max, according to a report from the information. 00:06:21.200 --> 00:06:26.800 YouTube's TV app is being redesigned to display this kind of content on the homepage, 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:30.080 similar to how Amazon Prime and Apple TV Plus 00:06:30.080 --> 00:06:34.920 also host content from other services. So when you scroll through and click on something 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. 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:44.040 You have to subscribe to another streaming service hosted on the first streaming service, 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. 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:52.160 And Firefly Aerospace has become the first private company 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, 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:03.400 I mean, I guess it's the moon. 00:07:03.400 --> 00:07:06.840 It must be. The landercraft, called Blue Ghost, 00:07:06.840 --> 00:07:10.760 was also able to capture this photo of the lunar sunrise, 00:07:10.760 --> 00:07:14.920 which could easily have been photoshopped or AI generated by anyone on their phone. 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:19.840 Look, this is really cool. I just, like they took that photo, you know, 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. 00:07:24.880 --> 00:07:29.120 I'm just saying, listen, hey, look, eyes on me. 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:32.240 Wednesday, more tech news, okay? 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:35.600 Are we cool? Are we good? Huh, you gonna show up here? 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:38.680 I'll have good tech news for you. I'm working hard, okay? 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:40.360 Deal? Deal.