WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.700 Welcome back to The Tech News Show. You watch instead of Googling stuff, I guess. 00:00:04.700 --> 00:00:09.700 I'm Riley Murdoch, but you know, feel free to disagree. 00:00:11.120 --> 00:00:15.880 More than 50 Chinese tech companies have announced plans to use a new connector standard 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:19.720 that makes HDMI, DisplayPort, USB4, and Thunderbolt 00:00:19.720 --> 00:00:25.640 seem like two cans with a string between them. The appropriately named General Purpose Media Interface, 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:29.360 or GPMI, supports 96 gigabits per second 00:00:29.360 --> 00:00:33.400 of data bandwidth and 240 watts of power delivery 00:00:33.400 --> 00:00:38.760 over a USB Type-C connector, which beats every other consumer standard on the market. 00:00:38.760 --> 00:00:45.400 But there's also a GPMI Type-B connector with double the specs, supporting 192 gigabits per second 00:00:45.400 --> 00:00:49.560 and 480 watts. Now, there aren't great pictures of the Type-B, 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:54.560 but it appears to resemble a USB-C plug stretched sideways, 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:59.400 thus making the hole bigger so pictures can slide through more easily. 00:00:59.400 --> 00:01:03.600 The computer won't have to fold them in half anymore. The GPMI standard has been licensed 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:09.400 by the USB Implementers Forum, and TV manufacturers like TCL, Hisense, and Huawei 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:12.540 are on board, so GPMI products and cables 00:01:12.540 --> 00:01:15.800 could very well arrive on non-Chinese shores 00:01:15.800 --> 00:01:19.400 soon enough for the price of $200,000 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:24.840 the way tariffs are going. A modder has managed to flash a Radeon RX9070 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:28.600 with the BIOS of an RX9070 XT, 00:01:28.600 --> 00:01:34.620 increasing its power draw and clock speeds in basically the GPU equivalent of the billionaire guy 00:01:34.620 --> 00:01:37.760 who injects himself with his son's blood to make him stronger. 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:42.120 He's basically his own son now, and the fabric of time is in danger. 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:47.280 Anyway, the modder, who goes by Gerdy on the German language PC games hardware forums, 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:50.440 found that the XT's BIOS also unlocked 00:01:50.440 --> 00:01:56.840 more overclocking headroom, allowing an RX9070 to match the 9070 XT's performance 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:00.880 in 3D marked tests, despite having a lower number of cores. 00:02:00.880 --> 00:02:06.320 The hybrid card is apparently stable, although its ultra low power mode doesn't work, 00:02:06.320 --> 00:02:09.440 and one of the forum members encountered some freezes 00:02:09.440 --> 00:02:13.200 when they tried it in their setup. You know, it's like how the billionaire guy 00:02:13.200 --> 00:02:16.520 sometimes has a little seizure where his eyes roll back in his head, 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:19.820 and he sees horrifying visions of his inevitable galactic conquest, 00:02:19.820 --> 00:02:23.360 like should he accept his dark destiny, or could he avoid slaughtering billions 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:26.560 to become an immortal worm king? You get glitches with these kind of things. 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:30.320 We're still learning things about the Switch too. For example, Nintendo confirmed 00:02:30.320 --> 00:02:33.440 that the console doesn't have Hall Effect joysticks, 00:02:33.440 --> 00:02:38.400 despite the original Switch Joy-Cons notoriously having issues with Stick Drift. 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:44.160 Nintendo hasn't said how they addressed that issue, but maybe they used a newer joystick technology 00:02:44.160 --> 00:02:47.640 called Tunnelling Magneto Resistance, or TMR, 00:02:47.640 --> 00:02:52.200 which the Verge wrote about here, and I'm only really mentioning because it involves quantum mechanics, 00:02:52.200 --> 00:02:56.960 which tickles my brain a little bit whenever I hear about it. Despite the Stick Uncertainty, though, 00:02:56.960 --> 00:03:00.200 developers told Steven Toteo at Gamephile 00:03:00.200 --> 00:03:04.360 they are extremely happy with the console's horsepower, 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:09.740 a claim that vibes well with these screenshots of Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition 00:03:09.740 --> 00:03:13.640 that CD Projekt Red says were taken on the Switch too. 00:03:13.640 --> 00:03:17.020 They look good. Even if the Switch 2 looks great, though, 00:03:17.060 --> 00:03:20.580 fans are still calling for Nintendo to drop the price. 00:03:20.580 --> 00:03:25.220 But as the man chosen at birth to one day become the current Nintendo of America president, 00:03:25.220 --> 00:03:29.140 Doug Bowser, told Wired, the company is assessing the impact 00:03:29.140 --> 00:03:33.720 of Trump's new tariffs, which they didn't factor into the price of the Switch 2 00:03:33.720 --> 00:03:38.220 because they couldn't have, meaning if the price is changing at all, 00:03:38.220 --> 00:03:42.020 it ain't going down, all right? Not going down tonight. 00:03:42.020 --> 00:03:45.620 Before the quick bits, I'm not saying you should Google stuff 00:03:45.620 --> 00:03:48.860 instead of watching the show. I watch almost every episode. 00:03:48.860 --> 00:03:54.660 I think they're doing a great, I mean, they're doing their best. Tariffs continue to royal, great word, 00:03:54.660 --> 00:04:00.820 the global economy, with Trump threatening to place an extra 50% tariff on China. 00:04:00.820 --> 00:04:04.800 If the country doesn't rescind its 34% tariff 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:10.460 that it announced in retaliation for Trump's reciprocal tariffs announced last week. 00:04:11.540 --> 00:04:17.740 Snip, snap, snip, snap. It's crazy. The extra 50% would bring the US's total tariffs on China 00:04:17.740 --> 00:04:22.740 to 104%, and Trump said the country has until April 9th 00:04:22.900 --> 00:04:27.260 to make the change, by which point global stocks may have reached Atlantis. 00:04:27.260 --> 00:04:31.180 But hey, humans are smart. We're adapting to the new conditions. 00:04:31.180 --> 00:04:35.240 For example, Apple reportedly flew five cargo planes 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:39.660 full of iPhones and other products into the US in the last week of March, 00:04:39.660 --> 00:04:44.980 giving their warehouses a few months of supply before those hefty tariffs were put in place. 00:04:44.980 --> 00:04:48.340 Hey, big market opportunity for smugglers. 00:04:48.340 --> 00:04:52.420 You know, jobs are being created. Over in the UK, a judge has ruled 00:04:52.420 --> 00:04:56.620 that Apple's fight with the government over access to its users encrypted data 00:04:56.620 --> 00:05:01.100 cannot take place in secret, despite secrecy rules laid out 00:05:01.100 --> 00:05:05.140 in the Investigatory Powers Act, which the Home Office used 00:05:05.140 --> 00:05:08.420 to demand Apple provide them with a software backdoor. 00:05:08.420 --> 00:05:13.740 The ruling is a win for privacy advocates, while another UK law just coming into effect this week 00:05:13.740 --> 00:05:18.660 is a win for advocates of skimming online reviews and not realizing halfway through 00:05:18.660 --> 00:05:22.660 that it doesn't make any freaking sense. I'm trying to buy a cordless drill, 00:05:22.660 --> 00:05:26.140 and this is an essay about a hairdryer? 00:05:26.140 --> 00:05:29.620 Is it a two-in-one? I'm wasting so much time. 00:05:29.620 --> 00:05:32.960 Colossal Biosciences, the genetic engineering firm 00:05:32.960 --> 00:05:36.260 whose woolly mice went a bit viral a few weeks ago, 00:05:36.260 --> 00:05:39.660 has now claimed to have successfully brought back 00:05:39.660 --> 00:05:42.820 the dire wolf, a species that went extinct 00:05:42.820 --> 00:05:47.220 around 11,000 years ago. I'm very much summarizing here, 00:05:47.220 --> 00:05:51.460 but the company says they scraped some dire wolf DNA off of some fossils, 00:05:51.460 --> 00:05:56.820 combined it with gray wolf DNA, and edited it to get something similar 00:05:56.820 --> 00:06:00.540 to a real dire wolf with twin males 00:06:00.540 --> 00:06:05.940 who are now about six months old. It's being called the world's first de-extinction, 00:06:05.940 --> 00:06:09.700 brought to you by a younger John Hammond who loves hooded leather jackets. 00:06:09.700 --> 00:06:14.420 He actually kind of looks like John Snow, which does not bode well for any of us. 00:06:14.420 --> 00:06:18.180 As cool as all of this sounds, this company gives me major red flags. 00:06:18.180 --> 00:06:23.860 They named the twins Romulus and Remus, which, you know, fine, that's cool. 00:06:23.860 --> 00:06:29.740 The mythical founders of Rome, et cetera, followed by a female named Khaleesi. 00:06:29.740 --> 00:06:33.700 Blake Lively? They also love meming. 00:06:33.700 --> 00:06:37.420 I feel like these people saw Jurassic Park as an instruction manual. 00:06:37.420 --> 00:06:43.180 Also, a few years ago, scientists found that dire wolves aren't technically wolves 00:06:43.180 --> 00:06:46.460 and are more closely related to African wild dogs, 00:06:46.460 --> 00:06:50.220 which don't look like wolves, so I don't know what. Cool, though. 00:06:50.220 --> 00:06:57.980 And Kawasaki unveiled the Corleo, a concept vehicle, rideable robot horse cat thing. 00:06:57.980 --> 00:07:01.500 It's powered by 150 CC hydrogen-fueled engine, 00:07:01.500 --> 00:07:05.980 and it will apparently carry you just fine as it leaps over icy chasms, 00:07:05.980 --> 00:07:09.580 something ATV owners have been itching to do, basically, forever. 00:07:09.580 --> 00:07:12.740 It's got AI, apparently, so it seems like it could act 00:07:12.740 --> 00:07:17.460 like something in between a vehicle and a real horse, 00:07:17.460 --> 00:07:20.320 and if it's good, you can feed it an apple. 00:07:21.660 --> 00:07:28.220 Like, it's good, like a computer, because it's, oh, and I don't have anything to give you 00:07:28.220 --> 00:07:33.540 if you come back on Wednesday for more tech news, unless, well, I'm already giving you something. 00:07:33.540 --> 00:07:36.940 It's the tech news. What, you want something else, too? 00:07:36.940 --> 00:07:38.420 I just Google it.