WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:07.759 Oh, I'm sorry. You wanted some happy golucky, positive tech news? Yeah, well, 00:00:05.279 --> 00:00:12.639 tech news ain't your friend. I'm your friend. I'm just trying to protect you. 00:00:09.760 --> 00:00:16.480 We know each other. 23 andMe, the DNA testing company, has filed for 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:20.800 bankruptcy nearly 20 years after pioneering the consumer genetic testing 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:25.279 industry while collecting a valuable horde of personal data that would make 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:28.960 Smog the Dragon blush. While the company says it will continue to operate during 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:34.160 the bankruptcy proceedings, during which it will seek to sell its assets, 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:36.719 co-founder and CEO Anne Wujiki announced 00:00:34.160 --> 00:00:41.920 she's stepping down so she can be better positioned to bid on the company 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:44.480 herself. Now 23 andMe says customers 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:48.960 genetic data is anonymized, but no one's sure whether to believe that. And with 00:00:46.879 --> 00:00:55.320 the eventual fate of their genetic data uncertain, privacy experts are strongly 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:59.520 advising customers to delete their 00:00:55.320 --> 00:01:02.960 DNA. How wouldn't that kill you? Oh, DNA 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:05.920 data. Oh, it looked like don't do the 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:10.560 first thing. Um, also 23 and me say that even if you delete your account, they'll 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:14.720 still retain a ton of data about you and your DNA, assuming you can still restore 00:01:13.119 --> 00:01:18.960 it from the recycle bin. Hey, who's ready for some new GPUs? These ones 00:01:16.880 --> 00:01:24.479 could be affordable, kind of. I'm talking about the 60 tier cards. 00:01:20.880 --> 00:01:27.040 NVIDIA's RTX 5060 and 5060Ti have had 00:01:24.479 --> 00:01:32.560 some specs leak courtesy of known Twitter hardware leaker Momo, who posted 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:39.920 a couple of HP's Omen desktops with an RTX 5060 Ti. Those models have 8 GB of 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:42.240 VRAM, but a 16 GB variant of the Ti was 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:46.640 spotted in a Best Buy listing. According to video cards with a z.com fun 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:52.640 spelling, NVIDIA is forcing their board partners to have at least one graphics 00:01:48.880 --> 00:01:54.720 card model priced at MSRP and it has to 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:59.040 be available to purchase on the launch date. I mean, have you ever heard of 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:03.520 such a thing? Video Cards also purports to know some other specs of the cards 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:10.520 which are scheduled to launch on April 16th according to WX Nod on Twitter. 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They're 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:56.800 features that were previously shown off under the name Project Astra, promising 00:04:55.120 --> 00:05:00.720 a future where you can carry on a conversation with your AI assistant 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:08.759 while it looks through your phone camera as if you're on one of the worst kind of 00:05:03.280 --> 00:05:11.720 video calls. And look, there's the sign. 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:17.440 Uh oh. Wow. An Italian court has ruled that 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:21.600 Google must block pirate websites listed under the country's piracy shield 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:26.960 system, replacing their original web addresses with fake ones on Google's 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:32.080 public DNS service, a tactic known as DNS poisoning. An Italian regulators 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:38.479 post on LinkedIn celebrated the ruling as a win against piracy, which seems a 00:05:35.520 --> 00:05:43.600 little ironic given that Italy invented the 00:05:40.520 --> 00:05:45.600 mafia. NVIDIA's latest GPU drivers have 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:52.000 reportedly caused the black screen issues that affected some RTX 50 series 00:05:48.320 --> 00:05:54.080 GPUs to spread to the RTX 40 series, 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:58.160 according to multiple Reddit posts from users suffering the same pain. 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:02.400 Apparently, rolling back to a previous driver sometimes fixes it, but then 00:06:00.320 --> 00:06:06.960 you're prevented from playing new games with up-to-date drivers. I don't know, 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:11.440 maybe Jensen's just trying to teach us a lesson. You know, just cuz that screen 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:16.880 is dark doesn't mean your mind has to be. Imagine something in those inky 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:21.039 depths. Oh god, it's coming this way. This was a mistake. The Philips Huegh 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:25.360 brand, which is now owned by Signify, is mostly made up of RGB enabled smart 00:06:23.280 --> 00:06:30.960 lights. But a reference to a Philips Huegh smart doorbell was spotted in an 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:39.000 app update. Interestingly, it doesn't change colors, but it does ask visitors, 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:39.000 who are you? 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:54.680 What the was that? And Penn State researchers have developed technology 00:06:51.840 --> 00:07:00.880 that can create what they call audible enclaves, little pockets of physical 00:06:57.440 --> 00:07:03.680 space inside which audio can be heard 00:07:00.880 --> 00:07:09.520 and nowhere else. The scientists say they've achieved this using self-bending 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:14.080 ultrasound beams and nonlinear acoustics, which I'm not here to explain 00:07:11.840 --> 00:07:18.720 to you. I could, but I'm only here to warn that if this gets widely adopted, 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:21.599 walking around in a city could sound like you're flipping through radio 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:25.680 stations. And if people hear something they like, they could suddenly stop and 00:07:23.520 --> 00:07:29.680 then you got a sidewalk pileup on your hands. We must destroy this technology 00:07:27.840 --> 00:07:32.919 immediately. To hear about more tech abominations that shouldn't exist, come 00:07:31.440 --> 00:07:39.319 back on Wednesday. What? Some of it will be 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:39.319 happy. Whatever.