WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:06.000 As like a tech guy, current events 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:10.160 mostly have me imagining whatif scenarios where I got into other 00:00:07.839 --> 00:00:15.599 hobbies. Like I could have uh done crochet news videos and been spared this 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:20.160 pain. The high of Nintendo's Switch 2 Direct yesterday, filled with juicy 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:25.359 details that gamers have been waiting on for years, was immediately followed by 00:00:22.400 --> 00:00:32.320 the inevitable emotional crash as fans grappled with the $450 price of the 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:34.320 console and games costing $80 to $90. 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:38.879 But just as some were starting to come to terms with it, Nintendo announced it 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:44.239 was delaying pre-orders for the Switch 2 in the US to assess the impact of the 00:00:41.760 --> 00:00:49.280 fresh tariffs. President Trump imposed shortly after the Switch to stream on 00:00:46.879 --> 00:00:54.160 dozens of countries, including China and Vietnam, where the Switch is at least 00:00:51.360 --> 00:00:58.719 partially produced. More on that later. Nintendo also explained why the Switch 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:03.680 2's backwards compatibility is a bit complicated. Its NVIDIA SOC is different 00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:08.640 enough from the Switch 1's that to make existing games playable, Nintendo had to 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:14.799 go for something in between a software emulator and hardware compatibility. 00:01:11.960 --> 00:01:20.159 something alive. Cut to the little guy cranking the gears inside. Hi, I'm a 00:01:18.080 --> 00:01:26.960 prisoner. The good news is that new NVIDIA SOC means the Switch 2 benefits 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:30.000 from Team Green's DLSS and ray tracing 00:01:26.960 --> 00:01:32.079 tech as well as G-Sync in handheld mode. 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:37.040 That was the only way Nintendo could save enough power to include dollar 00:01:34.479 --> 00:01:41.119 store Discord. Speaking of dollars, hold yours tight because Trump's 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:45.680 affforementioned tariffs are so wide ranging, they're expected to raise the 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:50.960 price of tech products and almost everything else, too. Gifting the stock 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:58.000 market with its worst day since 2020. The tariffs ranging from 10 to 49% with 00:01:54.880 --> 00:02:00.719 China's total tariff now at 54% were 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:06.799 supposedly meant to reciprocate tariffs placed on the US by the affected 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:09.119 countries. But economist James Surroouki 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:14.400 noticed Trump's numbers are actually based on America's trade deficit with 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:18.800 those countries divided by their exports to the US which the White House 00:02:17.040 --> 00:02:23.120 essentially confirmed. The whole approach is very strange and there's 00:02:20.959 --> 00:02:29.440 some evidence that the administration based the plan off chatbot responses. 00:02:26.720 --> 00:02:34.640 Ironically, this might mean that AI was used to hamper American AI companies who 00:02:32.640 --> 00:02:39.599 aren't sure whether these tariffs will apply to the heinous amounts of GPUs 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:44.879 they're stealing from the real victims, little gamer boys and girls. It seems 00:02:42.239 --> 00:02:50.400 like semiconductors are exempt, although Trump told reporters that tariffs on 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:52.720 chips proper will be starting very soon. 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:57.680 But products with chips inside them are not exempt and system integrators like 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:02.319 Main Gear are warning of price hikes of at least 20%. Then there's the executive 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:07.519 order Trump signed right after announcing the tariffs that closes the 00:03:04.959 --> 00:03:13.120 dimminimous loophole which made cheaper single packages exempt from tariffs. 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:18.080 Meaning that Teimu and Shien may lose their status as the go-to platform for 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:23.280 fans of filling your home with cheap garbage. Now, Trump did reiterate that 00:03:21.040 --> 00:03:28.640 he's open to reducing these tariffs for companies that offer something quote 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:34.239 phenomenal, like, according to Trump, if China approved the sale of Tik Tok 00:03:31.040 --> 00:03:36.959 before the April 5th deadline, which is 00:03:34.239 --> 00:03:43.440 tomorrow. Instead, China announced retaliatory tariffs of 34% on all US 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:48.560 imports alongside additional export restrictions on rare earth elements used 00:03:46.239 --> 00:03:54.640 in electronics manufacturing. Trump responded by saying China played it 00:03:51.040 --> 00:03:56.640 wrong. They panicked and then uh he 00:03:54.640 --> 00:04:03.439 extended the Tik Tok deadline by another 75 days and then that's it. This time in 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:06.159 a blessed return to non-tariff news. Now 00:04:03.439 --> 00:04:11.200 Intel and TSMC have reportedly reached a preliminary agreement to form a joint 00:04:09.040 --> 00:04:17.040 chipmaking venture. According to the information who got this information 00:04:13.519 --> 00:04:20.560 from sources of information, presumably 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:22.880 the deal would see TSMC take a 20% stake 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:29.040 in Intel's foundry business. A move that, if true, could help prevent Team 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:32.800 Blue from the toilet flush spiral it currently finds itself in. There have 00:04:30.960 --> 00:04:36.960 been a number of rumors about Intel mergers, acquisitions, and agreements in 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:42.080 recent months. So hopefully we finally get some real answers at the company's 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:43.600 Foundry Direct Connect on April 29th. 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Get the 00:05:51.440 --> 00:05:57.199 transparency you deserve from your news and save 40% on a ground news vantage 00:05:55.680 --> 00:06:01.440 plan by using our link in the description. I don't think there would 00:05:58.880 --> 00:06:05.759 be enough new developments in the crocheting world for a three times a 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:09.600 week news show. I don't want to assume. I I just haven't 00:06:07.319 --> 00:06:14.400 looked. Anyway, here's Quickbits. For Microsoft's 50th birthday, the tech 00:06:11.919 --> 00:06:19.919 giant gifted a ton of new features to its AI assistant, Copilot, which is not 00:06:17.280 --> 00:06:25.120 normally how birthdays work, but okay. Copilot can now do basically anything 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:29.360 ChatGpt and Gemini can do, including web search and deep research. It can 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:34.400 remember stuff you tell it to, see your computer screen, use your computer for 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:38.479 you with actions, and even generate yepy podcasts hosted by imaginary 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:43.360 Manhattanites, just like Google's Notebook LM. Speaking of, Notebook LM 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:48.560 can now search for more sources than the ones you feed into it. And MidJourney 00:06:45.440 --> 00:06:51.360 released V7, their first image model, in 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:56.240 almost a year. And you can kind of see why when it's prompted to do this studio 00:06:53.360 --> 00:07:00.000 Giblly thing. Ah, no. Um. Ah, no. That needs a few more minutes to cook. Put it 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:04.960 back. The PC gamer debate over whether NVIDIA's laptop GPUs should share the 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:10.120 same names as their desktop counterparts was given new fodder by notebook 00:07:07.280 --> 00:07:17.360 check.net, whose review of the Shanker Neo16 laptop showed the RTX 5090 version 00:07:14.479 --> 00:07:22.479 performing only 10 to 15% better than the RTX 5080 version. The gap between 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:27.520 the desktop versions of those cards is more like 55%. So, what are we supposed 00:07:24.960 --> 00:07:31.280 to do when someone says, "I got an RTX 5090." And then we're like, "Really?" 00:07:29.440 --> 00:07:36.560 And then they're like, "Yeah, I can't believe NVIDIA fitted into my new 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:40.720 laptop." What? Like, like, do we say, "Yeah, that's sick." And then go find a 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:45.919 couch to punch. What do I do? And a new social media platform has a bold new 00:07:42.960 --> 00:07:52.479 idea to keep the toxicity at bay. Only have the site open for 3 hours a day. As 00:07:49.440 --> 00:07:55.759 The Verge explains, it's called 7:39 due 00:07:52.479 --> 00:07:58.479 to its opening hours being 7:39 p.m. to 00:07:55.759 --> 00:08:03.840 10:39 p.m. Eastern time. And users get an email 1 minute before opening time to 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:07.120 let them know, "Okay, time to socialize. 00:08:03.840 --> 00:08:09.360 Post your meme nonsense or hot takes and 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:14.560 know that others are also definitely online to interact with it or not 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:21.199 interact with it, making it way more easy to tell if your post was not even 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:24.160 bad in an ironic way. The site's landing 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:31.599 page advertises no endless scrolling and no FOMO. I mean, it's a great 00:08:27.639 --> 00:08:34.719 idea. It's a great idea. Oh, an also 00:08:31.599 --> 00:08:36.719 great idea I just had was, "Hey, uh, 00:08:34.719 --> 00:08:41.760 what if you came back on Monday for more tech news?" Yeah, I know. It just it 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:46.159 just popped into my brain. I I actually have a lot of great ideas in my journal. 00:08:43.599 --> 00:08:46.159 Maybe I'll show you.