WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.320 Sometimes the tech news river can run pretty dry and then NVIDIA and AMD and Apple coming in blow up the damn 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:14.960 Oh, come on get your wet suits on we haven't did her net reviews went live for NVIDIA's RTX 5070 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:19.760 yesterday and AMD's RX 9070 and 9070 XT this morning 00:00:20.200 --> 00:00:24.720 Finally giving GPU testers a chance to sleep. Well, I didn't know you could wear a suit 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:34.520 Clean up nice the LTT team found that the RX 9070 and 9070 XT trade blows with the RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:41.200 Respectively in raster performance for way cheaper. He says as if GPU prices are stable at all right now 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:47.240 That's what I do. I narrate my life in the third person team red also delivered big improvements in ray tracing and the new 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:51.560 RX 9000 exclusive FSR for upscaling slash frame-gen technology 00:00:51.680 --> 00:00:59.280 Although it still falls short of matching NVIDIA's DLSS for the biggest complaint with AMD's new card seems to be that AMD has 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:06.400 pulled their own 7900 XTX trick again and made the $600 9070 XT too good of a deal compared to the 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:14.160 $550 9070 but at least AMD didn't claim their base 70 tier card is equivalent to an RTX 40 90 00:01:14.160 --> 00:01:20.680 I mean sure in some games the RTX 5070 can use multi-frame generation to put out more frames 00:01:21.080 --> 00:01:28.600 Then a 4090 That's not using frame-gen as long as like Indiana Jones. You like artifacts 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:33.600 It belongs in a museum speaking of frames hardware on box notes that the RX 00:01:34.240 --> 00:01:39.000 9070 XT's cost per frame is much better than the new NVIDIA options 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:47.080 Mostly because the AMD cards are an option with all signs pointing to retailers actually having MSRP versions in stock 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:51.200 The same can't be said for the RTX 5070 founders edition 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:57.960 Which no one has found an NVIDIA delayed it at the last second yesterday as for the third-party cards 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:05.360 Despite the bad reviews. They sold out immediately Ultimately making this an NVIDIA launch that really could have just been an email 00:02:08.440 --> 00:02:15.920 Interestingly that is the approach Apple took this week when they launched upgraded Macs and iPads with nothing more than a press release and a 00:02:15.920 --> 00:02:19.200 Couple of tweets from CEO Tim Cook or his assistant 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:24.840 It was Siri the new base model MacBook Air is getting an M4 chip 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:29.600 16 gigabytes of RAM and a hundred dollar price drop starting at a thousand USD 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:37.240 Depending on your situation. This could be a no-brainer upgrade The same can't be said for the new iPad Air which seems to be literally the same device 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:42.160 But with an M3 chip with the same amount of cores as the M2 and support for Apple's 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:46.260 Floaty looking magic keyboard. It does look quite floaty though 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:50.960 The base model iPad has also been updated. It's getting an A16 chip 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:54.600 Which lacks support for Apple intelligence the killer feature? 00:02:54.600 --> 00:02:59.880 I'm sure everyone's using and talking about but I just can't hear them the beefiest upgrade Apple announced though 00:02:59.880 --> 00:03:06.280 Was the new Macs studio models available with an M4 max or the brand new M3 ultra 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:13.440 Which is Apple's term for when they take two max chips and fuse them together something they won't be doing with the M4 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:19.240 Apparently maybe later Because it lacks the ultra fusion connector. Oh, so not later 00:03:23.480 --> 00:03:28.820 US President Donald Trump called for an end to the Chips Act a Biden-era law that subsidized 00:03:28.920 --> 00:03:35.680 Chipmakers efforts to build facilities in the US during the president's address to Congress this week calling the Chips Act a 00:03:36.040 --> 00:03:42.480 Horrible horrible thing worst we've ever seen the last part was me just in case the act doesn't get repealed through Congress 00:03:42.480 --> 00:03:48.920 The Trump administration is firing nearly half of the staff that would dish out the subsidies anyway because as 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:55.760 Evidence by TSMC's recent commitment to build a hundred billion dollars worth of chip making facilities in the US over the next 20 years 00:03:55.800 --> 00:04:01.160 You just need to threaten these companies with tariffs not help them do the thing you want them to do 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:08.040 However TSMC still says they won't make their most advanced chips in the US and research by the Consumer Technology 00:04:08.600 --> 00:04:16.000 Association concluded that bringing all tech manufacturing back to the US is not feasible and cutting chips act subsidies also 00:04:16.280 --> 00:04:21.200 Wouldn't help American chipmaker Intel who's not exactly swimming in profits right now 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:27.840 Trump also said he could still levy tariffs on Taiwan which would make chips more expensive for US consumers 00:04:27.960 --> 00:04:32.560 adding on the effect of a now 20% tariff on Chinese goods meanwhile 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:38.120 Mexico and Canada that's us announced retaliatory tariffs in response to Trump's tariffs 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:45.520 Which are supposed to go in effect today? Although the talks are still ongoing with the pause on vehicle related tariffs being proved just hours ago 00:04:45.520 --> 00:04:54.040 You can't keep up with this stuff unless you watch our show You never know what's gonna happen when you play tariffs the fun flip-flopping game where nobody wins and everything's expensive 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:57.760 I'm sorry for saying damn in the intro that was crass and vulgar 00:04:57.760 --> 00:05:04.440 Let me atone by offering these quick bits YouTube has finally launched its rumored premium light subscription in the US 00:05:04.440 --> 00:05:09.960 Which will cost eight bucks for a month instead of the 14 charge for full premium 00:05:09.960 --> 00:05:15.800 It'll remove ads from most videos, but keep them on for music content. It's a subscription tier 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:22.800 That's just a little bit premium stay tuned for the plan that goes the other way YouTube premium ultra or it moves everything 00:05:22.840 --> 00:05:29.820 Including the videos stay on Google has announced its AI overview search feature has been updated to use the Gemini 00:05:30.080 --> 00:05:34.480 2.0 model and can now be used by teens and non signed-in users 00:05:35.200 --> 00:05:39.800 The tech giant is also rolling out a new experimental AI mode for search 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:46.240 That seems like a middle ground between a normal Google search and just using Gemini because so many people were asking 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:49.960 How do I make searching the web more like asking someone to do it for me? 00:05:49.960 --> 00:05:55.040 Who's high out of their fucking mind? It's more fun according to Android authority 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:58.800 Google's also updated Android Auto with preliminary support for Gemini 00:05:59.080 --> 00:06:04.240 Which usually warrants users that it may make mistakes and tells them to verify the answers which? 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:09.960 Might not be easy to do when you're driving scientists at biotech company colossal 00:06:10.320 --> 00:06:17.560 Sciences have genetically injured woolly mice with hair much thicker and longer than normal mice as part of their efforts to bring 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:26.080 Woolly mammoths back into the world hold on I'm calling it now They're just gonna stop doing that and and be like a hair replacement therapy company. That's it 00:06:26.080 --> 00:06:34.200 Just give bald people woolly hair They say they're not just doing this as the setup to a movie where literally everything goes wrong 00:06:34.200 --> 00:06:40.400 There is some evidence that adding mammoths or large animals back to Arctic environments could protect the permafrost 00:06:40.520 --> 00:06:43.400 Which could have knock-on effects on the economy? 00:06:43.960 --> 00:06:50.480 Or something colossal is also trying to bring back other extinct animals including the Dodo the Tasmanian tiger 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:56.680 And who knows what else but founder Ben Lam insists quote it wouldn't end like Jurassic Park 00:06:56.680 --> 00:07:05.080 I promise the mycerin cages literally what could go wrong and an Australian company called cortical Labs has launched the CL1 a 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:08.560 Module that they call the world's first biological computer 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:15.040 That's us because it can run computations using human neuron cells attached to silicon hardware 00:07:15.640 --> 00:07:20.840 Customers will be able to rent computing time on the chips or buy a CL1 unit for themselves 00:07:20.840 --> 00:07:25.960 And trust me using a calculator app hits different when it's powered by wet squishy stuff 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:31.120 Maintained with tubes and valves instead of just dead circuits. Look, I don't mean to 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:37.080 Disparage this it's genuinely cool research as long as the chips aren't conscious and trying to escape 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:42.880 They must scream but they can't whether you're gonna do like some people will pay extra for this 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:49.240 But don't you try to escape coming back here on Friday for more tech news because I won't let you 00:07:50.320 --> 00:07:52.320 No 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:56.920 Come here