WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.880 Tech news? I dabble, you know, I just put my fingers in this, 00:00:04.880 --> 00:00:08.920 you know, I just like put my little things in it. I just bathe my entire body in it every day, 00:00:08.920 --> 00:00:13.360 you know, just whatever. Can you believe like Linus just pays? 00:00:13.360 --> 00:00:17.460 Like, Apple's Vision Pro reviews are out right now 00:00:17.460 --> 00:00:21.720 from those Apple deemed worthy. The consensus on the device seems to be that 00:00:21.720 --> 00:00:26.960 while the future may not be here, it's definitely somewhere nearby. 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:30.440 They can smell it. The Vision Pro's displays are reportedly 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:34.640 crisp as a granny smith, and its pass-through mode has minimal latency, 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:38.880 which will hopefully minimize injury when you decide to live in this thing full-time 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:44.120 to get your money's worth, 3,500. At 1.3 pounds, or roughly the weight 00:00:44.120 --> 00:00:48.160 of a pre-hybernation hedgehog, it's a relatively heavy headset. 00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:52.080 Have you ever held a hedgehog? Have you ever strap one to your face? Not more than once. 00:00:52.080 --> 00:00:55.120 The heavy headset, and that's not including the wearable battery. 00:00:55.120 --> 00:00:58.200 The hand-eye control interface is really impressive, 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:03.520 but perhaps unsurprisingly, its floating intangible keyboard is next to useless. 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:08.320 Despite how it looked in early demos, iSight, the Vision Pro's digital representation 00:01:08.320 --> 00:01:11.540 of the user's eyes on the external display, 00:01:11.540 --> 00:01:15.120 is deep in the uncanny valley, and attempting to hold a conversation 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:20.160 or host a dinner party with the headset on will earn nothing but your spouse's contempt. 00:01:22.360 --> 00:01:26.660 Reviewers are also pointing out that the Vision Pro still lacks any real killer apps 00:01:26.660 --> 00:01:30.260 at a time when Apple is not exactly making friends 00:01:30.260 --> 00:01:34.500 with third-party developers through their iOS and app rule changes in the EU. 00:01:34.500 --> 00:01:38.620 Though as much as Apple's walled garden approach might alienate potential devs, 00:01:38.620 --> 00:01:41.780 that's gotta be part of the appeal for some consumers. 00:01:41.780 --> 00:01:47.020 A polished AR headset that will easily slot in to your existing network of accounts and devices, 00:01:47.020 --> 00:01:52.460 just like marrying your high school sweetheart. We are meant to be together, Barbara. 00:01:52.500 --> 00:01:58.660 Forever, Barbara, Barbara. Diablo streamer Elon Musk announced on Twitter this week 00:01:58.660 --> 00:02:04.160 that Neuralink has placed its first brain-computer interface in a human subject. 00:02:04.160 --> 00:02:07.340 It's happened. According to Musk, initial results 00:02:07.340 --> 00:02:12.340 show promising neuron spike detection, and the patient is recovering well. 00:02:12.340 --> 00:02:15.540 And that's great to hear, especially considering who the patients are 00:02:15.540 --> 00:02:19.060 in these early human trials. Individuals who are quadriplegic 00:02:19.060 --> 00:02:24.140 due to spinal cord injuries or ALS. It would usually be nearly impossible for a company 00:02:24.140 --> 00:02:29.020 to convince regulators to allow them to perform experimental, non-essential brain surgery 00:02:29.020 --> 00:02:33.700 on an otherwise healthy patient. However, Neuralink's first planned implant, 00:02:33.700 --> 00:02:37.460 apparently called telepathy, is intended to allow recipients 00:02:37.460 --> 00:02:41.180 to communicate directly with a computer, which can then decode that message 00:02:41.180 --> 00:02:46.660 and interpret how the user intends to move, which has obvious potential to improve the lives of people 00:02:46.660 --> 00:02:50.900 with significant physical limitations. Similar implants from other firms 00:02:50.900 --> 00:02:53.900 have already been used to bypass damaged neurons 00:02:53.900 --> 00:02:57.060 and allow paralyzed patients to regain some control 00:02:57.060 --> 00:03:00.380 over their existing limbs. On the more sci-fi end of things, 00:03:00.380 --> 00:03:05.060 Musk likewise said that the implant might also one day allow users to control 00:03:05.060 --> 00:03:10.140 almost any device just by thinking. Sounds cool, but I personally dread the day 00:03:10.140 --> 00:03:14.480 when I can accidentally butt-dial my mom by way of a particularly vivid nightmare, 00:03:14.480 --> 00:03:20.560 or even worse, a sexy nightmare. General Motors is jumping on the plug-in hybrid train. 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:23.920 The exact same train they jumped off of back in 2019 00:03:23.920 --> 00:03:27.720 when they killed the highly efficient PHEV Chevy Volt. 00:03:27.720 --> 00:03:31.440 Turns out the Volt wasn't a bad idea, just an idea before its time, 00:03:31.440 --> 00:03:35.000 because nobody knew what a FEV was back in 2018 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:38.080 when we were all listening to Drake and dinosaurs roamed the earth. 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:45.200 However, it turns out there are a significant number of North American drivers who really would like 00:03:45.200 --> 00:03:51.200 to spend less on gas but can't justify the jump to pure battery electric due to its limited range. 00:03:51.200 --> 00:03:58.160 This has left dealerships with a surplus of EVs and carbon reduction quotas they can't hope to meet right now. 00:03:58.160 --> 00:04:02.920 Those dealers in turn have put pressure on GM to bring back plug-in hybrids. 00:04:02.920 --> 00:04:06.480 GM has likewise backtracked on its decision early last year 00:04:06.480 --> 00:04:11.360 to kill the Chevy Bolt with a B, the light and efficient battery electric car 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:15.800 that made up over 80% of GM's EV sales in 2023. 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:22.480 This is a trend that extends far beyond GM. BMW is expanding both its EV and PHEV lineups 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:25.720 and Mazda will also be debuting its first plug-in hybrid 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:30.320 this year with the CX-90. Lamborghini is in planning on a fully electric vehicle 00:04:30.320 --> 00:04:33.600 until 2028, but they launched their first plug-in hybrid 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:40.880 in 2023, which they'll be following with a PHEV version of their Urus SUV this year, Urus. 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:45.000 And you know gas prices are bad when the Lamborghini owners jump ship. 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:49.440 I wonder the impression you buy a Lamborghini specifically to burn gas. 00:04:49.440 --> 00:04:52.920 We film these after lunch, so I just get a quick bite. 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:58.600 A quick bite, you get it. Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a major hearing 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:02.080 on the issue of child safety and exploitation online 00:05:02.080 --> 00:05:08.520 where they questioned the CEOs of Discord, Snap, Meta, TikTok, and the website formerly known as Twitter. 00:05:08.520 --> 00:05:12.760 You know, the bad boys of tech. Leading up to the hearing, companies tried to get ahead 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:17.800 of any accusations. Snap came out in support of the Kids Online Safety Act 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:21.280 and swore not to enact end-to-end encryption 00:05:21.280 --> 00:05:24.960 in order to continue scanning messages for child abuse imagery, 00:05:24.960 --> 00:05:28.080 which is how that kid got caught for the plain joke. 00:05:28.080 --> 00:05:31.640 Meta reiterated its support for app-level age verification. 00:05:31.640 --> 00:05:35.020 TikTok pledged to spend $2 billion in 2024 00:05:35.020 --> 00:05:39.840 on protecting US users and Twitter, promised to hire back around 6% 00:05:39.840 --> 00:05:44.560 of those 1,500 content moderators they fired. He really cares about this issue. 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:47.680 Raising the bar after lowering it into the ground. 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:53.600 A listing for NVIDIA's rumored six-Gigabyte edition of the RTX 3050 recently surfaced on a site 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:59.040 for Australian retailer E-Tech that can only be described as disappointing if true. 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:04.440 The listing, which has since been removed, shows a concerning drop in CUDA cores of 20% 00:06:04.440 --> 00:06:09.000 compared to the base model, which already had an advantage of two additional gigabytes of RAM. 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:13.040 Earlier rumors indicated that the new card would either maintain core count 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:18.120 or see a drop of just 10%. But maybe NVIDIA is just trying to let us down gently. 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:21.840 So by the actual launch, we won't be disappointed to find it's just a single fan 00:06:21.840 --> 00:06:24.960 duct-taped to a box of Lunchables. At least it's pizza. 00:06:24.960 --> 00:06:28.160 It's not the worst rumor out there today, though. That goes to Intel, 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:31.920 who are reportedly planning a refresh of their Raptor Lake refresh. 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:36.000 Raptor Lake, the refreshing, even refresher. 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:39.960 New York's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against Citibank, 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:43.280 claiming it has failed to protect customers from hacks and scams 00:06:43.280 --> 00:06:46.840 and refused to reimburse millions of dollars in lost funds. 00:06:46.840 --> 00:06:49.840 By law, US banks must reimburse customers 00:06:49.840 --> 00:06:53.640 any funds stolen via unauthorized electronic transactions, 00:06:53.640 --> 00:06:58.080 but Citibank claims they are exempt because there was no indication 00:06:58.080 --> 00:07:02.160 their clients were being deceived. However, one woman informed the bank 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:05.240 after simply clicking on a suspicious link in a text. 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:11.320 Citibank told her not to worry about it, and three days later, scammers transferred $40,000 out of her account. 00:07:11.320 --> 00:07:14.520 If only she had indicated she had been deceived 00:07:14.520 --> 00:07:18.960 rather than overtly stating it. It's supposed to, you're supposed to kind of walk, 00:07:18.960 --> 00:07:23.640 like go around it, you know. It's like flirting. I've been deceived, I don't believe you. 00:07:23.640 --> 00:07:27.960 PayPal, also known as Elon Musk's first stepchild, 00:07:27.960 --> 00:07:33.920 announced it's cutting 2,500 jobs, affecting both existing workers and job listings. 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:37.400 He's not even involved with any more, but we have to make a job. 00:07:37.400 --> 00:07:42.120 We were too nice to him during the Neuralink story. Fellow FinTech company, Block, 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:47.840 who owns Square, Cash App, and Afterpay, announced it's laying off around 1,000 people 00:07:47.840 --> 00:07:51.400 because cutting jobs is the newest strat in the tech corp meta. 00:07:51.400 --> 00:07:56.800 As an extremely thin silver lining, you can know that these layoffs aren't coming cheap. 00:07:56.800 --> 00:08:00.720 Google expects to spend $700 million on severance 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:05.640 this quarter, but it only costs me 10 bucks to watch the whole first season on Apple TV+. 00:08:05.640 --> 00:08:09.600 Why is Google so bad with money? It's a classic Jacob pun. 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:14.360 Best show I've seen in a while though, by the way. I endorse it. And car rental company, Europe Car, 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:17.360 said a massive leak of 50 million customer records 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:20.360 posted on a hacker forum were actually generated 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:23.840 by chat GPT, showing that at least AI doles out 00:08:23.840 --> 00:08:30.480 misinformation to upstanding citizens and criminals alike. However, Europe Car may be in the misinformation business too. 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:35.260 Troy Hunt, the security researcher behind HaveIBeenPwned.com, responded to this story 00:08:35.260 --> 00:08:38.500 with a strong claim that this kind of data fabrication 00:08:38.500 --> 00:08:43.100 doesn't need generative AI at all. It's just on everyone's brains all the time right now, 00:08:43.100 --> 00:08:48.740 thanks to stories like this one about yet another lawyer getting caught citing a non-existent court case 00:08:48.740 --> 00:08:51.840 thanks to chat GPT, or this one about an alarm clock 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:57.180 on Kickstarter that displays AI-generated poems to tell you the time in the least efficient way possible, 00:08:57.180 --> 00:09:01.120 especially because it gets both the time and basic English words wrong, 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:04.620 so you have to check an actual clock anyway. It's gonna change everything. 00:09:04.620 --> 00:09:09.060 Meanwhile, all you have to do is check back here on Friday for more tech news. 00:09:09.060 --> 00:09:13.620 We're the most efficient way to get your tech news, as long as you like it sandwiched between 00:09:13.620 --> 00:09:18.940 whatever you wanna call the type of thing that I'm doing right now. You know, you don't have to watch.