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Welcome back to The Tech News Show. You watch instead of Googling stuff, I guess.

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I'm Riley Murdoch, but you know, feel free to disagree.

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More than 50 Chinese tech companies have announced plans to use a new connector standard

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that makes HDMI, DisplayPort, USB4, and Thunderbolt

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seem like two cans with a string between them. The appropriately named General Purpose Media Interface,

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or GPMI, supports 96 gigabits per second

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of data bandwidth and 240 watts of power delivery

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over a USB Type-C connector, which beats every other consumer standard on the market.

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But there's also a GPMI Type-B connector with double the specs, supporting 192 gigabits per second

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and 480 watts. Now, there aren't great pictures of the Type-B,

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but it appears to resemble a USB-C plug stretched sideways,

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thus making the hole bigger so pictures can slide through more easily.

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The computer won't have to fold them in half anymore. The GPMI standard has been licensed

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by the USB Implementers Forum, and TV manufacturers like TCL, Hisense, and Huawei

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are on board, so GPMI products and cables

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could very well arrive on non-Chinese shores

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soon enough for the price of $200,000

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the way tariffs are going. A modder has managed to flash a Radeon RX9070

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with the BIOS of an RX9070 XT,

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increasing its power draw and clock speeds in basically the GPU equivalent of the billionaire guy

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who injects himself with his son's blood to make him stronger.

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He's basically his own son now, and the fabric of time is in danger.

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Anyway, the modder, who goes by Gerdy on the German language PC games hardware forums,

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found that the XT's BIOS also unlocked

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more overclocking headroom, allowing an RX9070 to match the 9070 XT's performance

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in 3D marked tests, despite having a lower number of cores.

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The hybrid card is apparently stable, although its ultra low power mode doesn't work,

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and one of the forum members encountered some freezes

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when they tried it in their setup. You know, it's like how the billionaire guy

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sometimes has a little seizure where his eyes roll back in his head,

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and he sees horrifying visions of his inevitable galactic conquest,

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like should he accept his dark destiny, or could he avoid slaughtering billions

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to become an immortal worm king? You get glitches with these kind of things.

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We're still learning things about the Switch too. For example, Nintendo confirmed

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that the console doesn't have Hall Effect joysticks,

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despite the original Switch Joy-Cons notoriously having issues with Stick Drift.

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Nintendo hasn't said how they addressed that issue, but maybe they used a newer joystick technology

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called Tunnelling Magneto Resistance, or TMR,

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which the Verge wrote about here, and I'm only really mentioning because it involves quantum mechanics,

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which tickles my brain a little bit whenever I hear about it. Despite the Stick Uncertainty, though,

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developers told Steven Toteo at Gamephile

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they are extremely happy with the console's horsepower,

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a claim that vibes well with these screenshots of Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition

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that CD Projekt Red says were taken on the Switch too.

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They look good. Even if the Switch 2 looks great, though,

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fans are still calling for Nintendo to drop the price.

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But as the man chosen at birth to one day become the current Nintendo of America president,

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Doug Bowser, told Wired, the company is assessing the impact

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of Trump's new tariffs, which they didn't factor into the price of the Switch 2

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because they couldn't have, meaning if the price is changing at all,

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it ain't going down, all right? Not going down tonight.

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Before the quick bits, I'm not saying you should Google stuff

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instead of watching the show. I watch almost every episode.

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I think they're doing a great, I mean, they're doing their best. Tariffs continue to royal, great word,

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the global economy, with Trump threatening to place an extra 50% tariff on China.

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If the country doesn't rescind its 34% tariff

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that it announced in retaliation for Trump's reciprocal tariffs announced last week.

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Snip, snap, snip, snap. It's crazy. The extra 50% would bring the US's total tariffs on China

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to 104%, and Trump said the country has until April 9th

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to make the change, by which point global stocks may have reached Atlantis.

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But hey, humans are smart. We're adapting to the new conditions.

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For example, Apple reportedly flew five cargo planes

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full of iPhones and other products into the US in the last week of March,

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giving their warehouses a few months of supply before those hefty tariffs were put in place.

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Hey, big market opportunity for smugglers.

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You know, jobs are being created. Over in the UK, a judge has ruled

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that Apple's fight with the government over access to its users encrypted data

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cannot take place in secret, despite secrecy rules laid out

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in the Investigatory Powers Act, which the Home Office used

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to demand Apple provide them with a software backdoor.

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The ruling is a win for privacy advocates, while another UK law just coming into effect this week

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is a win for advocates of skimming online reviews and not realizing halfway through

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that it doesn't make any freaking sense. I'm trying to buy a cordless drill,

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and this is an essay about a hairdryer?

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Is it a two-in-one? I'm wasting so much time.

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Colossal Biosciences, the genetic engineering firm

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whose woolly mice went a bit viral a few weeks ago,

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has now claimed to have successfully brought back

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the dire wolf, a species that went extinct

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around 11,000 years ago. I'm very much summarizing here,

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but the company says they scraped some dire wolf DNA off of some fossils,

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combined it with gray wolf DNA, and edited it to get something similar

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to a real dire wolf with twin males

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who are now about six months old. It's being called the world's first de-extinction,

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brought to you by a younger John Hammond who loves hooded leather jackets.

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He actually kind of looks like John Snow, which does not bode well for any of us.

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As cool as all of this sounds, this company gives me major red flags.

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They named the twins Romulus and Remus, which, you know, fine, that's cool.

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The mythical founders of Rome, et cetera, followed by a female named Khaleesi.

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Blake Lively? They also love meming.

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I feel like these people saw Jurassic Park as an instruction manual.

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Also, a few years ago, scientists found that dire wolves aren't technically wolves

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and are more closely related to African wild dogs,

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which don't look like wolves, so I don't know what. Cool, though.

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And Kawasaki unveiled the Corleo, a concept vehicle, rideable robot horse cat thing.

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It's powered by 150 CC hydrogen-fueled engine,

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and it will apparently carry you just fine as it leaps over icy chasms,

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something ATV owners have been itching to do, basically, forever.

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It's got AI, apparently, so it seems like it could act

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like something in between a vehicle and a real horse,

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and if it's good, you can feed it an apple.

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Like, it's good, like a computer, because it's, oh, and I don't have anything to give you

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if you come back on Wednesday for more tech news, unless, well, I'm already giving you something.

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It's the tech news. What, you want something else, too?

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I just Google it.