WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.480 In the olden times, technology constantly blew people's mind. Like, fire make warm and cook meat? 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:11.040 Now, computer pretty much alive and soon cook me. 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:19.280 But not this me! Microsoft continues to herald its AI future by secretly putting an AI-assisted super resolution 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:25.120 feature in Windows 11. The tool was first discovered on Twitter by a user at Phantom of Earth, 00:00:25.200 --> 00:00:31.360 who posted screenshots from the 26052 preview build of Windows. Of course, 00:00:31.360 --> 00:00:36.080 since this was a hidden feature added by Microsoft, not just anyone could find it. 00:00:36.080 --> 00:00:38.000 You need to use an external tool to enable it. 00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:44.400 The feature can be used to make supported games play more smoothly with enhanced details. 00:00:44.400 --> 00:00:47.680 But seems to also work with native Windows apps and even 00:00:47.680 --> 00:00:53.360 windowed games, meaning it could potentially support older titles. According to Tom's hardware, 00:00:53.360 --> 00:00:58.560 your system needs a GPU with tensor cores or a processor with an NPU. But that's all part of 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:04.320 Microsoft's AI future. Starting this summer, AI processors will become standard for Windows PCs 00:01:04.320 --> 00:01:11.600 as part of the major OS overhaul everyone thought would be Windows 12, but is allegedly just an 00:01:11.600 --> 00:01:18.080 update to Windows 11 called 24H2, starring Kiefer Sutherland. The International Data Corporation 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:23.360 forecast 60% of PC shipments will be AI PCs within the next three years. 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:29.360 So it sounds like Microsoft will get their dream of a future full of hundreds of AI products 00:01:29.360 --> 00:01:37.680 all named co-pilot. There's only one pilot. There are many co-pilots. AMD was secretly funding 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:43.200 a project to make CUDA compatible with Radeon cards for two years. Now, that project is open 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:49.680 developer Andre Yannick originally created Zluda to enable CUDA support on Intel hardware, 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:54.960 but team red reached out to him after he abandoned it to see if he could adapt it to work on their 00:01:54.960 --> 00:01:59.760 graphics software stack. Now, apparently Radeon cards can run unmodified CUDA code, 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:06.160 i.e CUDA enabled software can run on AMD GPUs without any input from the software's developers. 00:02:06.240 --> 00:02:12.960 Not only does Zluda love it, work on both Windows and GNU slash Linux, 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:18.240 but as mentioned up top, it's now fully open source. AMD decided to stop funding Yannick's 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:24.000 development and due to a clause in his contract, that meant he could fos the hell out of it. 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:28.480 While the software shows promise, there are some caveats. We can't have anything nice. 00:02:28.480 --> 00:02:32.960 For example, code for NVIDIA optics, also known as Team Green's ray tracing API, 00:02:33.760 --> 00:02:40.560 but it does allow Radeon GPUs to run native CUDA code in Blender 4.0 faster than AMD's own 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:45.600 Radeon HIP code. Some people say AHIP, I say HIP, leading to quicker rendering. 00:02:45.600 --> 00:02:49.760 Yannick hasn't necessarily re-abandoned the project, but says without financial backing, 00:02:49.760 --> 00:02:54.800 he will only work on improvements he is personally invested in. He's fully self-actualized. 00:02:54.800 --> 00:03:00.720 Fortunately, that includes getting DLSS working on Radeon GPUs. Zluda's code is all on GitHub, 00:03:00.720 --> 00:03:06.320 so if you want to contribute, get forking started. If you get that joke, I'm so proud of you. 00:03:06.320 --> 00:03:13.040 Young Zluda is my rap name. Zluda! Yeah! Apple has apparently decided to settle the lawsuit it 00:03:13.040 --> 00:03:19.040 brought against chip startup Reavos two years ago. The Cupertino crew, who wrote this, initially 00:03:19.040 --> 00:03:24.480 alleged that Reavos led a coordinated campaign to recruit Apple's chip designers and instructed 00:03:24.480 --> 00:03:29.840 the poached employees to steal trade secrets on their way out the door, though the trade secrets 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:34.000 claim was actually dismissed a year later. According to filings, the settlement will allow 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:40.080 Apple to conduct a forensic examination of Reavos systems to recover any confidential information. 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:45.200 Speaking of in-depth analysis, iFixit has published part two of their Vision Pro Teardown, 00:03:45.200 --> 00:03:49.120 where they discussed the actual display resolution of the device. Turns out, 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:54.640 the horizontal resolution falls a bit short of the 4K standard, explaining why Apple didn't 00:03:54.720 --> 00:04:02.400 refer to their panels as 4K. Plus, the average pixels per degree is 34, like me. While that's 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:08.000 great in terms of modern headsets, it's almost one-third the PPD of an iPhone 15 Pro Max held 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:14.640 one foot away from your face, like me. This may help explain why Mark Gurman thinks it could kill 00:04:14.640 --> 00:04:20.160 the iPad as Apple's Mac replacement in several years. According to some of the device's designers, 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:25.440 it'll take four generations for the device to reach its ideal form. I'm guessing that's the 00:04:25.440 --> 00:04:31.840 one where it's actually worth what they're charging for it. When it comes to brightening my day, 00:04:31.840 --> 00:04:37.600 I always think of one thing. The sun! Ha! If I were to think of two things, the second thing would be 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:43.440 quick bits. According to reports, Xbox Head Phil Spencer, the whole head, had an internal town 00:04:43.440 --> 00:04:48.640 hall last week where he told employees they would keep making consoles. And that's great news, 00:04:48.640 --> 00:04:53.200 because it means the new reports that Microsoft Surface Team is going to be developing the next 00:04:53.200 --> 00:04:59.440 Xbox devices could be legitimate. Specifically, Xbox Insider Mag claims there will be two next-gen 00:04:59.440 --> 00:05:05.200 Xbox devices, but only one will be a traditional console. The other will be a dockable handheld 00:05:05.200 --> 00:05:10.160 that can both stream games from the cloud and run games locally. Pretty soon, you'll be able to 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:14.880 verbally berate eight-year-olds from the comfort of a coffee shop, where they're not allowed. 00:05:14.960 --> 00:05:21.680 NVIDIA has launched a new workstation GPU with the unusual name RTX 2000 A to generation. Not to 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:29.440 be confused with the RTX 20 series of gaming GPUs, nor the RTX A2000, which this card is replacing. 00:05:29.440 --> 00:05:34.560 Is that clear? NVIDIA's confusing decisions continue in the specs. The new card's interface 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:41.280 is limited to PCIe 4.0 x8 instead of x16. And while memory has been bumped to 16 gigabytes, 00:05:41.280 --> 00:05:48.640 its interface was downgraded from 192 to just 128-bit bus for a 22% lower memory bandwidth overall. 00:05:48.640 --> 00:05:56.480 But at $625, the RTX 2000 A to generation is also 22% more expensive than the RTX A2000 00:05:56.480 --> 00:06:02.080 when it was launched. So the math is perfectly aligned with what we've come to expect here. 00:06:02.080 --> 00:06:07.440 Ten days ago, Google announced that YouTube had hit over 100 million premium subscribers, 00:06:07.440 --> 00:06:12.880 and now Google One has reached the same milestone, possibly indicating that the Venn diagram of Google 00:06:12.880 --> 00:06:18.480 users willing to pay for an additional cloud storage and to get rid of ads is just a circle. 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:23.360 100 million might sound like a lot, but it's nothing compared to Apple's billion-plus paid 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:29.120 subscribers for Apple Music, Apple One, and iCloud Plus. Honestly, it's kind of weird knowing that 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:35.440 YouTube Premium has fewer subscribers than MrBeast. Engineers at MIT have created a stamp-sized sticker 00:06:35.440 --> 00:06:40.800 that monitors the health of a patient's internal organs using ultrasound, or at least it does in 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:47.200 rats. Ultra rats. Just joking. But humans, much like ultra rats, have organs inside their bodies, 00:06:47.200 --> 00:06:51.840 so it's still pretty exciting. This small, wearable ultrasound would allow continuous monitoring, 00:06:51.840 --> 00:06:56.480 meaning it could catch sudden changes in a transplant patient's condition before it's too late, 00:06:56.480 --> 00:07:03.360 especially if they are rodent of some kind. They are so smart. Humans? No, the rats. They figure this out. 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:09.120 And this year's Super Bowl ads were full of AI! Yeah! Several companies decided to shell out 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:14.960 for NFL spots to show off their new fancy software. Microsoft talked about co-pilot for the 17,000th 00:07:14.960 --> 00:07:20.640 time. Google showed off an accessibility feature to help the visually impaired take selfies, 00:07:20.640 --> 00:07:25.040 and Etsy demonstrated how you can buy cheese for the French. They don't need our cheese. 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:30.240 Coca-Cola took a slightly different tactic by parodying the infamous AI-generated beer commercial 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:34.720 to advertise their new sports drink has no artificial sweeteners because nothing in sport 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:39.520 should be artificial. Everything should be natural, except the amount of head drama. 00:07:39.520 --> 00:07:43.760 Actually, it's probably natural. It's paranormal, actually. The ghost in the helmet. 00:07:43.760 --> 00:07:47.760 And it's only para-natural for you to come back on Wednesday for more tech news. It comes in 00:07:47.760 --> 00:07:51.920 multiple flavors. Just lick your screen and find them all. No, don't. What? Do it.