Oh, hey. Uh, I got your order at Tech News here. Um, would you mind if I uh
just uh can you just close the door? Uh, just so I can take a photo just quick.
Just close the door. Okay, thank you.
So, is that is that how things are delivered now for anyone else? Cuz it's
weird. U anyway, tech news. Apple is planning some revolutionary changes to
iPhone. According to the latest newsletter from he who seeth all apples,
Bloomberg's Mark of House Germades, at
Apple's September event, we're going to get the iPhone 17 Air, the super super
slim device Gur says is meant to replace the iPhone 16 Plus. In exchange for its
increased risk of bending, you'll get less battery life, only a single rear
camera, and no SIM card slot, even outside the US. You know, life comes
with trade-offs. Thankfully, September's event will reportedly also feature just
a regular iPhone 17, 17 Pro, and 17 Pro
Max. Although, I predict even the most normie Apple fans will still be side
eyeing the slim one. That's probably worse. But what if they're the first of
their friends to get it? But 2026 is
when things get interesting with the iPhone 18 Fold. in case the name had you
stumped, that one's going to compete with the various other foldable phones,
finally giving the Apple stands an option. And then in 2027, 20 years after
the launch of the first iPhone, we're getting a special curved glass iPhone,
which previous rumors have described as having potentially no ports at all, just
a smooth, unbroken surface, like how Ken
dolls look under their tiny designer shorts. Just like ASRock's revolutionary
12volt high power GPU cable update. Uh,
which is a segue that made sense before I edited this script. Plof helped me
write it because he is a saint. And so is ASRock. Not only for making the 90°
connector dozens of you might have been asking for, but for making the pins
light green so you can easily tell if it's fully inserted into your GPU or
not. Imagine. And if you're still not satisfied, there's a nifty little NTC
sensor you plug in that shuts down your PC if it starts overheating. Something
that I have to assume just got invented this year. Or why wasn't it in there
already? Look, at this point, I don't even care if it was NVIDIA who started
this whole mess. I'm just happy to see somebody trying to fix it. Even if
they're wasting valuable marketing dollars trying to convince you to put
stickers on the otherwise blank connector, just some pizzazz. It's okay.
I've seen people spend money on stupider things like Elon Musk who says he's
starting a new AI company called Macro
hard.
But why? Well, he says it's a tongue-in-cheek name, but the project is
very real. He's claiming they can simulate everything software companies
like Microsoft do using AI. Now, I've
said this before, but Elon claiming that something will happen has been proven to
be pretty good evidence that it will not. Although, here's one exception to
that rule. Elon has gone through with his threat to have his other very real
AI company, XAI, sue Apple and OpenAI,
who have allegedly colluded to maintain monopolies in the smartphone and
generative AI markets. Now, he's accusing Apple of depprioritizing Grock
in favor of OpenAI and chat GPT. And
that's the only reason Grock never reached the number one AI app spot on
Apple's app store. It's definitely nothing to do with Grock identifying as
Mecca Hitler very recently. It also has nothing to do with today's sponsor,
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gone. What the heck? These are drill bits. I asked you for quick bits. God,
do I have to do everything around here? That's probably how teachers feel when
someone suggests arming them to help stop school shootings. But someone else
had a better idea. Drones. Why not slap
guns onto those bad boys, huh? And then just fly them into the schools during an
active shooting. Oh man. Well, that may soon be a reality because there's only
one governor of one state I can think of that would try this. If you guessed
Ronda Santis and Florida, congratulations. You win a trip to
Alligator Alcatraz. Oh man, you can tell PLO wrote these. Okay, unfortunately,
Florida's not getting a Netflix house. Oh man, they've started ticket pre-sales
and announced the opening dates for the event at Philadelphia November 12th and
Dallas December 11th. These are free to enter experiences uh spanning over a
100,000 square feet that feature their biggest and most successful shows like
Squid Game and Love is Blind. So, it's kind of like Disneyland, but you don't
pay to get in. Might speak to its quality. Uh, we'll have to see. Lunch
probably is less than $100, though. Something you might pay for soon is a
quirky new food delivery robot. Gee, I really hope all of those laidoff compsai
majors aren't looking for gig work in the next couple of years because it looks like clankers are coming for that,
too. Plof, you're going to get us killed
by the AI when it takes over. Okay. Uh, the Robo Mart RM5 has 10 lockers,
operates on public roads, and carries up to 500 lb of goods. Well, it's got me
beat. That's rude to me. Too bad it
doesn't have NVIDIA's new robot brain powering it. The Jetson AGX Thor devkit
is now on sale for 3500 bucks and ships
next month. Honestly, it sounds like a pretty good uh business strategy. You
buy the dev kit for thousands. Uh then once you've prototyped your robot, you
turn around and buy the Thor T5000 modules from NVIDIA for more thousands.
But hey, buy in bulk and save some money. If you need more than a thousand
Thor chips, they'll only cost you 3,000 a pop. Do you think that mom and pop
shops are buying like fleets of robots or something? I just And on the red team
side of things, hardware leaker Momo
leaked their 2026 and 2027 mobile road
map. We're getting a Zen 5 refresh called Gorgon Point with Stricks Point
NPU and graphics in that. Desktops will
get Zen 6 in 2026, but mobile has to
wait a bit longer before Gator range and
Medusa Point release for the more elite and premium laptops. Seems reasonable,
but we'll have to wait for Lisa Sue to confirm. Oh, I'm getting a fake con
phone call from Lisa Sue. Hey, Lisa, can you tell me a little bit about these
mobile processors? Ah, come on. I signed the NDA. What do you mean the one I
signed 5 years ago isn't valid anymore? You've got my signature. What more could
you possibly want? Tech news. Well, you
uh you'll have to come back on Wednesday for that. Or or the deal's off.
That goes for you, too.