WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.760 Hey, do you ever think about medieval tech news? 00:00:03.760 --> 00:00:07.240 Like a town crier talking about advancements in trebuchets? 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:10.640 Instead of liking the video, they throw tomatoes and stuff. 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:16.240 Whether it's good or bad, you know everything. So Valve announced three new hardware products today 00:00:16.240 --> 00:00:20.960 and wait, three, three? 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:25.320 Amongst those announcements were a new steam controller and steam machine. 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:29.640 The controller is essentially the controls from the steam deck with no screen, 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:35.560 but with some improvements like magnetic joysticks and a controller puck, a wireless transmitter 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:40.840 that provides a fast stable connection to the controller and doubles as a magnetic charging station, 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:43.840 which IMO is a much better innovation 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:46.840 than the original steam controller from 2015, 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:50.160 which made its giant track pads its whole personality. 00:00:50.160 --> 00:00:54.320 As for the new steam machine, it's a little cube shaped steam OSPC 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:58.000 powered by a six core 30 watt AMD ZenFORCE CPU 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:02.200 and an RDNA 3 GPU, which is apparently powerful enough, 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:06.440 despite being the last gen to play games at 4K 60 00:01:06.440 --> 00:01:12.640 when AMD's FSR features are enabled. It will come in 512 gig and two terabyte variants. 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:16.560 And thankfully, Valve has given it interchangeable face plates 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:20.840 and a programmable LED light strip to help it look a little bit less 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:24.840 like the Xbox Series X had a baby with a Nintendo GameCube. 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:29.600 Not to say that's a bad thing at all. I mean, folks are already calling this new steam machine 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:34.600 the GabeCube, which this guy's custom steam deck boot animation 00:01:34.880 --> 00:01:38.760 was already prepared for three years ago. So come up with something else, I don't know. 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:42.280 But his holiness Lord Gaben's work was not yet finished, 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:46.680 for he walked across the water from his yacht to also reveal the long rumored 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:50.840 and long leaked steam frame VR headset. 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:54.520 It's got a resolution of 2160 by 2160 per eye 00:01:54.520 --> 00:02:00.920 and FOV of up to 110 degrees and is powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset. 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:04.680 Valve says the headset is a streaming first experience 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:08.320 with a six gigahertz wireless adapter included in the box. 00:02:08.320 --> 00:02:13.440 Although wireless VR using six gigahertz adapters has been the high-end home VR standard for a while now, 00:02:13.440 --> 00:02:17.160 not many, if any, VR headsets have described themselves 00:02:17.160 --> 00:02:20.520 that way, yet Valve also reiterates a couple of times 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:24.760 that steam frame is a PC and runs SteamOS 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:28.560 so it can play a growing number of games all by itself, 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:32.880 which could eventually grow even more if developers grab the developer kit. 00:02:32.880 --> 00:02:36.720 Possibilities are endless. The steam frame comes with a couple new controllers 00:02:36.720 --> 00:02:42.840 which can be tracked entirely by the frame's inside out tracking system quest style. 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:46.760 So no need for the Valve index's external tracking stations. 00:02:46.760 --> 00:02:51.080 Unfortunately, that also makes Steam's older VR controllers obsolete. 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:55.480 It won't work with this one. LTT put up a video so you can hear Linus's thoughts 00:02:55.480 --> 00:03:00.880 if you want, although one thing that wasn't covered in that video or in Valve's announcements 00:03:00.880 --> 00:03:08.000 is a price or release date for the new hardware. We've only got a vague promise of shipping in early 2026. 00:03:08.320 --> 00:03:11.840 Uncertainty, however, is nothing new for Valve diehards. 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:15.280 There also wasn't any mention of Half-Life 3, 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:19.280 but that hasn't stopped the folks on the subreddit from losing their minds about once again 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:22.960 being left in limbo. Please don't hurt us, Gaben. 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:27.360 Like buying a lottery ticket on your birthday. The hope is at an all-time high. 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:31.360 Germany has ruled that OpenAI violated copyright law 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:35.680 by training chat GPT on the lyrics of popular songs 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:39.640 and reproducing those lyrics in response to user prompts. 00:03:39.640 --> 00:03:42.800 Now that might not seem very infringy, 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:48.440 but the music industry makes a big deal about who is allowed to officially distribute music lyrics. 00:03:48.480 --> 00:03:54.640 The court decided that even short excerpts generated by chat GPT count as infringement, 00:03:54.640 --> 00:03:59.480 ordering the company to pay an undisclosed amount in damages to German artists. 00:03:59.480 --> 00:04:03.680 Now this music-related AI ruling comes just as AI-generated 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:07.080 music is, horrifically, becoming way more popular. 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:11.080 A fake AI country band called Breaking Rust 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:14.240 just hit number one on Billboard's digital song 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:17.920 sales chart with its new song, Small Town Dreams. 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:23.160 Because it's a digital fart? 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:26.960 Small Town Dreams, what does AI know about small towns? 00:04:26.960 --> 00:04:32.440 It lives in a data center surrounded by concrete and the soothing roar of jet turbines nowadays. 00:04:32.440 --> 00:04:35.480 However, it's not the end of real music just yet. 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:38.680 Unlike the more well-known Billboard Hot 100, 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:44.720 the company's digital song sales chart only counts digital downloads, not radio plays, 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:48.160 keeping our grandparents' ears just a little bit safer 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:51.480 after a Deezer survey found that 97% of listeners 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:55.600 couldn't tell AI-generated songs from human ones. 00:04:55.600 --> 00:05:01.000 So I guess that we all deserve the slop. Now, to be clear, the quick bits were around 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:06.080 during the medieval ages, but all they'll say about it is that they missed the mutton. 00:05:06.080 --> 00:05:10.680 I keep asking. Hackers are reviving Google's discontinued Nest thermostats 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:14.360 with an open-source project called No Longer Evil. 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:18.600 The custom firmware reroutes traffic to a reverse engineered server 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:21.960 tricking the devices into thinking Google turned them back on. 00:05:21.960 --> 00:05:25.040 Meanwhile, Google's fighting a Chinese fishing ring 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:29.440 called Lighthouse, suing the group for its fishing as a service campaigns 00:05:29.440 --> 00:05:33.320 that may have compromised up to 115 million credit cards 00:05:33.320 --> 00:05:38.840 in the US alone with just one operation. So for once, Google's the good guy 00:05:38.840 --> 00:05:43.880 and so are the thermostat hackers for fixing the bad guy thing that Google did. 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:47.920 Okay. Microsoft's Windows chief, Pavan Davaluri, 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:53.160 said on Twitter this week that Windows is evolving into an agentic OS 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:57.280 that will use AI to proactively act on your behalf. 00:05:57.280 --> 00:06:01.920 The internet unsurprisingly pushed back with a collective, please don't. 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:06.120 The post got absolutely cooked in the comments with some people saying that nobody wants this 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:11.960 while others took the time to beg for Microsoft to just bring back Windows 7, wasting keystrokes. 00:06:11.960 --> 00:06:17.000 I mean, let's be... So yeah, Microsoft wants Windows to predict your questions before you ask. 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:20.600 But will it be able to predict everyone switching to Linux instead? 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:23.720 Ba-ba-ba-boop, ba-ba-ba-boop, gotcha. 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:30.160 Sony just announced a cheaper, Japanese language only PS5 exclusive to Japan. 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:35.000 It's the first time they've region locked a console since segmenting different models of the PS2 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:39.480 way back in 2000. Now like Nintendo's Japan only switch to model, 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:45.380 this special PS5 is an attempt by Sony to make the console more affordable domestically. 00:06:45.380 --> 00:06:50.940 Meanwhile, Sony also revealed a new 27 inch PlayStation branded gaming monitor, 00:06:50.940 --> 00:06:55.940 boasting a truly unremarkable 1440P panel at 240 Hertz 00:06:55.980 --> 00:06:59.660 that somehow drops down to 120 Hertz if you plug it into a PlayStation. 00:06:59.660 --> 00:07:02.780 But it does have a new snazzy charging hook 00:07:02.780 --> 00:07:06.220 for your controller. At least something's getting plugged in 00:07:06.220 --> 00:07:09.780 because it sure isn't that you're imported PS5 00:07:09.780 --> 00:07:14.580 because you can't get it here. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 00:07:14.580 --> 00:07:20.700 just unveiled research showing proposed needle injectable chips that zip through your veins 00:07:20.700 --> 00:07:25.340 and park themselves in your brain. No craniotomy required. 00:07:25.340 --> 00:07:28.580 These wafer thin devices hitch a ride on immune cells, 00:07:28.580 --> 00:07:31.580 sneak past the blood brain barrier, okay, 00:07:31.580 --> 00:07:36.260 and deliver targeted electrical therapy to stubborn conditions like Alzheimer's, 00:07:36.260 --> 00:07:39.300 multiple sclerosis, and even brain tumors. 00:07:39.300 --> 00:07:42.300 I mean, hey, Neo used needles too, didn't he? 00:07:42.300 --> 00:07:45.620 When can we get the Kung Fu update? That's what this is for. 00:07:45.620 --> 00:07:50.740 And a humanoid robot built in Russia made its stage debut earlier this week, 00:07:50.740 --> 00:07:55.220 briefly stumbling like an inept drunkard before crashing onto the stage, 00:07:55.220 --> 00:07:58.980 scattering its parts on the floor. It was actually sad to watch. 00:07:58.980 --> 00:08:06.580 It wasn't a great introduction to the rubber faced robot, but at least AI dolls, AI dolls, okay, 00:08:06.620 --> 00:08:10.780 promotional images show the bot got some smooches. 00:08:10.780 --> 00:08:15.580 The clankers are stealing our potential partners now, honestly, predictable. 00:08:15.580 --> 00:08:20.860 A robotics company that does seem to be doing well is China's UBTECH, or UBTECH, 00:08:20.860 --> 00:08:25.100 who announced over $112 million in orders this year 00:08:25.100 --> 00:08:28.580 for its Walker S2 humanoid robot model. 00:08:28.580 --> 00:08:34.060 But they announced it with a terrifying Star Wars-esque droid army video, 00:08:34.300 --> 00:08:39.300 and China apparently thinks that's totally fine, I guess. 00:08:41.180 --> 00:08:44.420 And ended this tech news episode has, 00:08:44.420 --> 00:08:49.220 come back on Friday for more. All this talk of armies and the medieval ages 00:08:49.220 --> 00:08:52.820 has me wanting to play, wanting to watch Excalibur 00:08:52.820 --> 00:08:58.620 and play Age of Empires. So I'm out of here to absolutely do those two things.