WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.980 Shall I compare the tech news to a summer's day? 00:00:03.980 --> 00:00:08.460 Why would I do that? They have nothing in common. At their unpacked event this morning, 00:00:08.460 --> 00:00:13.300 Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S24, S24 Plus, and S24 Ultra, 00:00:13.300 --> 00:00:17.140 packed with new features powered by Galaxy AI, 00:00:17.140 --> 00:00:21.580 which as we'll see in most cases actually means Google AI. 00:00:21.580 --> 00:00:24.940 These companies are showing so much PDA, it's making me a little uncomfortable. 00:00:24.940 --> 00:00:29.380 The S24s all support Wi-Fi 7 and are powered by the slightly tweaked 00:00:29.380 --> 00:00:32.460 Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 4 Galaxy. 00:00:32.460 --> 00:00:37.420 At least in the US. Everyone else is going to get a Samsung Exynos processor, 00:00:37.420 --> 00:00:43.060 which have historically sucked. Promising 53% better ray tracing performance 00:00:43.060 --> 00:00:49.020 and the Twitch streamer that Samsung referred to as Pokemon said she's excited about that 00:00:49.020 --> 00:00:53.820 because ray tracing is one of the main reasons she's a PC gamer, even though consoles have it too 00:00:53.820 --> 00:01:00.740 and you're talking about gaming on a phone anyway, it doesn't matter. The S24 Ultra has a peak brightness of 2,600 nits, 00:01:00.740 --> 00:01:04.100 beating the iPhone 15 Pro and Pixel 8 Pro 00:01:04.100 --> 00:01:07.340 and making this Samsung guy say it's perfect for him 00:01:07.340 --> 00:01:12.820 since he loves gaming outdoors. I love gaming outdoors myself. 00:01:12.820 --> 00:01:17.940 There's just something about the squinting and the sweaty and or cold fingers that really works for me. 00:01:17.940 --> 00:01:22.460 I wanna fight a bear. As for camera upgrades, interestingly, 00:01:22.460 --> 00:01:26.500 the S23's 10X optical zoom has been cut in half. 00:01:26.500 --> 00:01:30.020 The S24 can only do 5X optical zoom 00:01:30.020 --> 00:01:34.940 and 10 times at optical quality, although it is the first Samsung phone 00:01:34.940 --> 00:01:38.460 with five times optical zoom on 8K video 00:01:38.460 --> 00:01:41.820 and it can still do pretty good digital zoom up to a hundred times, 00:01:41.820 --> 00:01:44.900 which Mr. Beast was very excited about. 00:01:44.900 --> 00:01:50.460 He's always excited, just loves life. Samsung built the S24 Ultra with a titanium frame 00:01:50.460 --> 00:01:56.620 because that went so well for the iPhone 15 Pro, added brand new stronger Corning Gorilla Armor 00:01:56.620 --> 00:02:01.140 and is offering the phones in a range of gender-neutral colors. 00:02:01.140 --> 00:02:04.780 Thank goodness, I do not wanna seem like a p***y. 00:02:04.780 --> 00:02:10.060 Then there's the new AI features presented with the tagline Epic just like that, 00:02:10.060 --> 00:02:15.620 which has to be written by AI. The S24 lineup supports real-time translation 00:02:15.620 --> 00:02:20.900 in voice calls and text messages and in the latter, it can even translate your tone 00:02:20.940 --> 00:02:25.420 if you don't make words good. Generative edit can replace parts of a photo 00:02:25.420 --> 00:02:28.780 and fill outside the edges using Google's Imogen 2 00:02:28.780 --> 00:02:32.380 while Instant Slomo will insert AI-generated frames 00:02:32.380 --> 00:02:35.460 to your existing video if you wanna see what your skateboard trick 00:02:35.460 --> 00:02:41.340 would look like if you were dreaming or high on something. Galaxy AI features use some on-device processing 00:02:41.340 --> 00:02:46.940 powered by Google's Gemini Nano model or extra cloud processing, if you enable it, 00:02:46.940 --> 00:02:50.440 using Gemini Pro, which can summarize text in notes, 00:02:50.440 --> 00:02:54.880 voice recorder, and Samsung keyboard. That's not all Google helped Samsung with. 00:02:54.880 --> 00:03:01.240 On January 31st, the Galaxy S24 series will be the only phones other than the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:06.200 to support Circle to Search, which lets you circle anything in any app 00:03:06.200 --> 00:03:10.520 to Google it with Google Lens. Galaxy phones starting with the S24 series 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:14.400 will also now get seven years of security and OS updates, 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:17.680 just like pixels. Plus, now that Samsung's QuickShare 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:22.920 works with every Android phone, it's definitely the airdrop of Android now. 00:03:22.920 --> 00:03:29.600 Samsung and Google, why are you guys together all the time? And why did Samsung announce they're making a smart ring? 00:03:29.600 --> 00:03:32.880 OMG, Samsung's gonna propose? 00:03:32.880 --> 00:03:36.880 I couldn't think of a cuter tech giant couple. 00:03:36.880 --> 00:03:41.560 But that marriage may get off to a rocky start. It's otherwise been a bad week of news for Google 00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:45.740 who are reportedly laying off hundreds of employees from their ad sales team. 00:03:45.740 --> 00:03:49.120 For at least the last few months, the company has been moving staff away 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:54.260 from serving its largest advertising clients as it increasingly automates those services 00:03:54.260 --> 00:03:57.680 through AI-powered products like Performance Max. 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:01.080 Essentially, Google is replacing many of its former sales force 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:04.360 with the AI created by Google's own engineers, 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:07.840 which has got to make the water cooler talk a little awkward. 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:14.120 Perhaps trying to avoid further negative attention, Google also quietly updated its incognito mode disclaimer 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:18.320 in a canary build of Chrome to inform users that the company is, in fact, 00:04:18.320 --> 00:04:23.320 collecting their information while they're in incognito mode and they always have been in the aftermath 00:04:23.320 --> 00:04:28.640 of a class action lawsuit. In not Google's fault, but definitely Google's problem news, 00:04:28.640 --> 00:04:33.600 a recent study by German researchers has confirmed that Google search results 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:37.440 are indeed getting worse, as are all other search engines, 00:04:37.440 --> 00:04:40.800 because they're absolutely swamped with SEO spam. 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:45.360 Worse, Google's attempts to address this flood of informational sewage seems to have only 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:50.680 a minor temporary impact. But there was one bright spot in Google's week so far. 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:56.000 Turns out that the noticeable slowdown on YouTube for ad blocker users wasn't a punishment from Google, 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:59.760 but a bug within ad block and ad block plus itself 00:04:59.760 --> 00:05:04.100 after their recent update. Guess we'll chalk one up for the little guy, 00:05:04.100 --> 00:05:07.440 the massive international conglomerate little guy. 00:05:07.440 --> 00:05:10.800 The Supreme Court has declined to hear either Epic 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:13.880 or Apple's appeal in their longtime legal dispute 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:18.800 over Apple's iOS store rules, meaning that the case is mostly over 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:26.480 and the lower court's ruling stands. I say mostly because now Apple is seeking $73.4 million 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:31.480 from Epic in order to cover its legal fees. And Apple needs the money, 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:36.840 considering how it was overtaken by Microsoft as the world's most valuable company just last week, 00:05:36.840 --> 00:05:41.320 despite Apple selling the most phones out of any OEM in 2023. 00:05:41.320 --> 00:05:44.760 Basically broke. I mean, Tim Cook hasn't left his office. 00:05:44.760 --> 00:05:51.080 He's just sobbing. As a refresher, the lower court ruling wasn't totally in Apple's favor, 00:05:51.080 --> 00:05:56.200 however, and they will be forced to relax their anti-steering policies for the US App Store 00:05:56.200 --> 00:06:00.760 and allow app developers to direct users to alternative payment methods. 00:06:00.760 --> 00:06:04.520 However, according to Apple's newly revised App Store guidelines, 00:06:04.520 --> 00:06:10.320 Apple will still take a commission on those sales, 12% for members of the App Store small business program 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:15.960 and 27% for everyone else. Thus, while this doesn't eliminate App Store fees, 00:06:15.960 --> 00:06:21.480 given the sheer number of developers involved, it does make them harder for Apple to collect and enforce. 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:27.520 It'd be like if instead of lowering taxes, the government just banned the IRS from snooping. 00:06:27.520 --> 00:06:33.160 Snooping dropped the G. Some are born quick, some achieve quickness, 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:38.480 others have quick bits thrust upon them. This episode is all about the modified quotes. 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:43.840 With the US presidential election coming this year, OpenAI has announced new rules intended to prevent 00:06:43.840 --> 00:06:47.760 its AI tools from being used to propagate political misinformation, 00:06:47.760 --> 00:06:53.960 including banning chatbots intended to impersonate government officials or political candidates. 00:06:53.960 --> 00:06:57.600 Though considering that OpenAI has also banned AI girlfriends 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:01.200 and its own GPT store is still packed to the rafters 00:07:01.200 --> 00:07:05.360 with robo waifus, it's not entirely clear how well enforced 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:09.640 these new rules will be. OpenAI has likewise silently deleted language 00:07:09.640 --> 00:07:14.240 from its terms of service, banning military use of chat GPT. 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:17.280 So I'm personally looking forward to this November 00:07:17.280 --> 00:07:22.480 when an AI-powered Hatsune Miku gets voted into the White House in a landslide 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:28.080 and immediately declares war on someone. It's gonna be the cutest war you've ever seen. 00:07:28.080 --> 00:07:33.720 Time for the Miku Fizz. Huh, Hatsune? Dell's pretty cool CAM memory technology, 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:37.280 they announced a few years ago, was adopted as a new standard 00:07:37.280 --> 00:07:43.240 by the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association last month under the name LP-CAM2 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:46.680 and modules were unveiled by Micron last week. 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:51.000 The new standard allows for the benefits of faster LP DDR memory 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:55.720 without soldering it directly to the motherboard and it requires much less space 00:07:55.720 --> 00:08:01.020 than the existing SODIM standard. I feel bad for SODIM being replaced, 00:08:01.020 --> 00:08:06.960 but I kind of had it coming with a name like that. Executives of Fujitsu have finally acknowledged 00:08:06.960 --> 00:08:12.160 that the company should help compensate the victims of the British post office scandal 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:17.960 where over 900 postal service contractors were falsely charged with theft and fraud 00:08:17.960 --> 00:08:21.960 between 1999 and 2015 due to errors caused 00:08:21.960 --> 00:08:26.320 by the buggy Fujitsu accounting software. Fujitsu has also admitted 00:08:26.320 --> 00:08:31.440 that the company knew the software was defective even as it helped the Royal Mail 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:36.400 prosecute hundreds of innocent people leading to imprisonment, bankruptcy, 00:08:36.400 --> 00:08:41.160 and at least four suicides. Postal workers traditionally hold a place of trust 00:08:41.160 --> 00:08:44.200 and respect in British society and many children grew up 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:47.920 watching classic stop motion cartoon Postman Pat. 00:08:47.920 --> 00:08:51.360 Little did they know that the show would end with poor Pat doing hard time 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:56.160 after he gets framed for high crimes and misdemeanors by a malfunctioning computer. 00:08:56.160 --> 00:08:59.480 I had never heard of this story before today and it's wild. 00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:04.680 Non-profit organization Fairly Trained has launched a new certification program 00:09:04.680 --> 00:09:08.120 for AI models that respect relevant copyright 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:12.520 similar to the Fair Trade label on coffee and other similar goods. 00:09:12.520 --> 00:09:17.360 Fairly Trained was founded by stability AI's XVP for audio, 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:22.440 Ed Newton Rex, cool name, who reportedly left the company over concerns 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:27.680 that they were exploiting creators. In order to acquire the Fairly Trained stamp of approval, 00:09:27.680 --> 00:09:33.440 generative AI models must have clear permission to use all of the copyrighted material they're trained on. 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:38.880 Wow. Now, if only we had some way to tell which AI models are gluten-free, non-GMO, and organic. 00:09:38.880 --> 00:09:44.160 It's none of them. And Will I Am is launching a serious XM podcast 00:09:44.160 --> 00:09:47.840 and co-hosting it with an AI. Because of course he is. 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:51.240 Will.i.am is so 3008 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:56.720 that he has already transcended mortal concerns like how to spell names without periods 00:09:56.720 --> 00:10:02.880 in the middle of them. Naturally, his AI co-host name is spelled Q-D-Period-P-I, 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:06.600 but pronounced Q-D-Pi. Again, of course. 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:10.840 The AI is powered by Williams AI app, FYI, 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:13.600 which stands for Focus Your Ideas. 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:19.280 What tremendous advice from the writer of the 2005 masterpiece, My Humps. 00:10:21.240 --> 00:10:25.760 And you better write a comment promising to come back on Friday for more tech news. 00:10:25.760 --> 00:10:32.440 We won't have an AI co-host as far as you know, but seriously, there's no AI here. 00:10:34.940 --> 00:10:35.780 There isn't.