WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.480 Whoa! Sorry, I was just up in the sky getting tech news. 00:00:07.480 --> 00:00:12.840 From God? Didn't even put it on tablets or anything, I just had to memorize it. 00:00:12.840 --> 00:00:17.880 Xbox has revealed some details about its next-gen console in a surprise update from President 00:00:17.880 --> 00:00:24.200 Sarah Bond, who promised an Xbox experience not locked to a single store or tied to one 00:00:24.200 --> 00:00:28.800 device. That's why they're working closely with the Windows team, to ensure that Windows is 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:32.040 the number one platform for gaming. Okay, just hold up. 00:00:32.040 --> 00:00:38.880 Back up for a second. What are we talking about here? New Xbox consoles with Steam and the Epic Game Store? 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:42.720 But then she mentions Windows. Are the next Xbox consoles just PCs? 00:00:42.720 --> 00:00:50.240 Well, Bond also announced a multi-year partnership with AMD to co-engineer a portfolio of devices, 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:54.800 including our next-generation Xbox consoles in your living room and in your hands. 00:00:54.800 --> 00:00:58.760 Okay, that sounds like they are indeed making next-gen, 00:00:59.440 --> 00:01:04.180 Xboxes. But what does that even mean when they're telling us that anything with an internet 00:01:04.180 --> 00:01:08.840 connection is an Xbox? I wish they'd just come out and say what an Xbox is. 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:13.520 Do we need to go over how you can't use the word you're defining in the word's definition? 00:01:13.520 --> 00:01:17.120 What is an Xbox? This is an Xbox. Okay, but what is that? 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:28.460 An Xbox? YAH! This lack of clarity leads to some outlets like Xbox Era calling this official confirmation 00:01:28.460 --> 00:01:32.140 that native handhelds are indeed planned after all. 00:01:32.140 --> 00:01:38.140 But I don't see how you can think that when Microsoft called the ROG-Xbox Ally X an Xbox. 00:01:38.140 --> 00:01:43.660 I mean, they even reused the same graphic of the Ryzen processor from the ROG-Xbox Ally reveal 00:01:43.660 --> 00:01:47.340 in the new video supposedly talking about native Xbox handhelds. 00:01:47.340 --> 00:01:51.740 I can't make head or tail of this yappin'. If you wanna try your hand at figuring out 00:01:51.740 --> 00:01:55.900 what Microsoft has been smoking lately, this Chad Redditor aggregated 00:01:55.900 --> 00:02:00.780 all the next gen Xbox developments that have happened since the 2023 leak. 00:02:00.780 --> 00:02:05.580 So activate your Sherlock brain and give it a go. Multiple reports of Switch 2 owners 00:02:05.580 --> 00:02:09.500 being banned from Nintendo's online services have popped up this week, 00:02:09.500 --> 00:02:14.540 as gamers tried to use the popular MiG Flash microSD adapter cartridges 00:02:14.540 --> 00:02:18.380 that allow you to play Switch games without modding the console. 00:02:18.380 --> 00:02:23.340 Whether those be pirated copies or backups of games you've legitimately purchased. 00:02:23.340 --> 00:02:28.140 MiG Flash was just updated to support playing Switch 1 games on Switch 2 00:02:28.300 --> 00:02:31.980 but seems like Nintendo was ready and waiting to ban a bunch of people, 00:02:31.980 --> 00:02:36.380 all of whom insist they were only playing their own backed up games. 00:02:36.380 --> 00:02:41.820 But can we trust random Redditors? After all, this one called BS on the whole thing. 00:02:41.820 --> 00:02:46.460 They've been playing on the MiG Flash and they're not banned. Oops, scratch that, they got banned. 00:02:46.460 --> 00:02:50.780 They were so mad they went and stole nearly 3,000 Switch 2 consoles 00:02:50.780 --> 00:02:54.460 from the back of a truck in Texas. You can't ban all of them, Nintendo. 00:02:55.180 --> 00:02:57.100 That was a joke about that Redditor. We don't know. 00:02:58.780 --> 00:03:03.980 The mysterious new owner of the most popular game mod hosting platform, Nexus Mods, 00:03:03.980 --> 00:03:08.620 has been revealed by who else? Redditors. You guys are getting extra representation 00:03:08.620 --> 00:03:12.700 and tech link today and honestly, it's about time. Anyway, turns out Nexus Mods 00:03:12.700 --> 00:03:17.260 is now owned by a company called Chosen, a gaming startup accelerator 00:03:17.260 --> 00:03:21.260 whose website says we partner, we amplify, we conquer. 00:03:22.060 --> 00:03:26.780 Uh, I don't like that. But if you actually read the rest of the site, 00:03:26.780 --> 00:03:30.700 they try to differentiate themselves from normal Corpo investor people 00:03:30.700 --> 00:03:35.100 and it does sound like there's some humanity and gaming passion involved, 00:03:35.100 --> 00:03:39.660 but what do I know? Just in case, keep your pitchfork in attack position. 00:03:39.660 --> 00:03:43.580 After the cat was out of the bag, the Chosen team addressed community concerns 00:03:43.580 --> 00:03:47.500 in a pinned comment underneath founder Dark Ones Post 00:03:47.500 --> 00:03:51.260 explicitly saying they won't sell mods, charge a download fee, 00:03:51.260 --> 00:03:55.580 or claim ownership of the mods, they won't revoke lifetime premium licenses, 00:03:55.580 --> 00:03:59.580 and generally, things will apparently largely stay the same, 00:03:59.580 --> 00:04:02.780 although they did admit to never having made a Skyrim mod 00:04:02.780 --> 00:04:07.100 and that's all I needed to hear. Pitchfork, volley, fire! 00:04:11.500 --> 00:04:14.860 Sorry, sorry, I had to get the quick bits from the other guy. 00:04:14.860 --> 00:04:19.420 Valve's updated Steam Performance overlay and the latest Steam Client beta 00:04:19.420 --> 00:04:25.100 can now differentiate between traditional frames and frames generated by DLSS, 00:04:25.100 --> 00:04:29.820 FSR, or XCSS, colloquially known as fake frames. 00:04:29.820 --> 00:04:35.420 The overlay also now has metrics for CPU, GPU, and memory, which is cool, 00:04:35.420 --> 00:04:38.780 but I'm gonna be turning this on and only looking at the top left 00:04:38.780 --> 00:04:43.580 because I wanna enjoy those extra frames and be mad about it the whole time. 00:04:43.580 --> 00:04:47.820 Donald Trump is once again extending the already extended deadline 00:04:47.820 --> 00:04:51.180 for TikTok's owner BiteDance to agree to a sale 00:04:51.180 --> 00:04:54.380 or have the social media app banned from the US, 00:04:54.380 --> 00:04:59.100 although it seems like there is perpetually also a third option to extend the deadline. 00:04:59.100 --> 00:05:03.660 June 19th was going to be midnight on the TikTok doomsday clock, 00:05:03.660 --> 00:05:08.220 but every time that minute hands gets close, wouldn't you know it, midnight keeps moving. 00:05:08.220 --> 00:05:11.580 Is this a daylight savings thing? Are the farmers pranking us? 00:05:11.580 --> 00:05:14.780 Google has added another test in Search Labs. 00:05:14.780 --> 00:05:19.740 Users who opt in can now try using live voice interaction in AI mode. 00:05:19.740 --> 00:05:23.260 So you can talk to Gemini while it Google stuff for you? 00:05:24.300 --> 00:05:27.660 That could be useful if you get more results than they show in this demo. 00:05:27.660 --> 00:05:30.940 There's just like little cards. But something that's way more useful 00:05:30.940 --> 00:05:35.260 is the new ability to directly upload video files for Gemini to analyze. 00:05:35.820 --> 00:05:40.620 Maybe if you put in the recent Xbox videos and you can ask Gemini if it knows 00:05:40.620 --> 00:05:45.100 what the hell an Xbox is. Honda of all companies just successfully launched 00:05:45.100 --> 00:05:49.580 and landed its own reusable rocket shocking the space industry. 00:05:49.580 --> 00:05:54.220 The 20.6 foot rocket reached an altitude of 889 feet 00:05:54.220 --> 00:05:58.780 in the Japanese town of Taiki before gracefully returning to Earth, 00:05:58.780 --> 00:06:02.300 extendable legs, and all. Honda, you dog! 00:06:02.300 --> 00:06:07.340 You had this in the bag the whole time? Why didn't you tell anyone? I mean, it turns out they did, kind of. 00:06:07.340 --> 00:06:10.860 In 2021, they said they were looking into doing space stuff, but no one cared. 00:06:11.580 --> 00:06:15.820 No one ever asks how Honda's doing. And Generalist, a company founded 00:06:15.820 --> 00:06:21.180 by an ex-Google DeepMind researcher, has shown off their robot hands being really good 00:06:21.180 --> 00:06:24.860 at general purpose tasks, like flicking small items into bins 00:06:24.860 --> 00:06:30.380 and putting boxes together all while dealing with that same damn hockey stick again. 00:06:30.380 --> 00:06:33.980 Please, sir! The robot switches hands while zipping a backpack 00:06:33.980 --> 00:06:37.180 without missing a beat and deals with even more abuse. 00:06:37.180 --> 00:06:40.620 Oh my God, stop! I'm trying to work! But what's more impressive? 00:06:40.620 --> 00:06:44.220 That or Australia approving lab-grown meat, 00:06:44.220 --> 00:06:47.340 specifically Quail, that a company called Forged 00:06:47.340 --> 00:06:52.780 has turned into luxury food items, like a Quail candle that melts 00:06:52.780 --> 00:06:55.340 so you can dip stuff in it? Robots? 00:06:55.900 --> 00:07:00.380 Meatwax. I don't know, but you better meatwax me back here 00:07:00.380 --> 00:07:02.060 on Friday for more tech news. 00:07:04.700 --> 00:07:07.180 Honestly, that's just hitting me now how weird that sounds. 00:07:08.220 --> 00:07:09.980 You don't have to meatwax anything if you don't want to.