- I'm gonna let you in on something.
We love tech news so much
that we even use technology to make this news show.
- [Man] What is this voice?
- Intel made a big deal last week about the fact
that it was launching its Arc mobile GPUs
and, well, they weren't technically lying,
but it turns out that the only market
they actually launched in was South Korea.
And in one laptop model,
the Samsung Galaxy Book 2 Pro. - Only good laptop.
- I mean, I get it, you know.
Hah, you thought Intel was
launch-launching Arc GPUs. (laughs)
You were confused, what an idiot.
This was just a little launch,
with a small L. - [Man] Oh yeah.
- Intel tweeted the clarification
in response to a user asking if they can, you know,
buy one of those things that apparently launched last week,
adding that laptops with Intel Arc will be available
for purchase by the end of Q2, so uh, late June.
Accordingly, one of the only other models
with Arc configurations, the Acer Swift X,
has had its release delayed
from the previously announced date of May 22nd.
All I can say is, you better get those GPU's
out to the rest of the world soon, Intel,
because gamers don't take kindly to broken promises,
and they can be very intimidating.
- [Man] And they are dangerous, David is.
- Epic Games has partnered with that famous maker
of easily-breakable toys, Lego, to build,
pun intended, a special section of the metaverse
just for kids, a plan that could end up
with no horrible consequences whatsoever.
- [Man] The ball pit.
- The two companies haven't exactly fleshed out
what this will look like, but they did confirm
that they'd have three principles in mind.
Ensuring children's safety and wellbeing,
protecting children's privacy,
and profiting lots and lots off of the wallets
that adults will be using to pay for this wholesome content.
Sorry, no number three, adult tools to give them control
over the digital experience of their children.
Those are all the things that you would expect them to say,
but if Roblox set the bar for a children's game
centered on building myriad virtual worlds,
well it shouldn't be too hard
for Epic and Lego to exceed that.
It just has to be not a scam
based on exploiting young developers.
- [Man] Oh, bam.
- Boom. - [Man] Got 'em.
- And in other partnership news,
Google is the latest tech giant to announce
that it is jumping on to the iFixit bandwagon.
Now I know bandwagoning has a negative connotation
but to be clear, we support this move.
- [Man] It's a good bandwagon.
- Google will provide slash allow iFixit
to sell genuine parts for all Pixel phones
from the Pixel 2 onwards, and iFixit will also provide
enhanced repair guides for said phones.
So does this mean Pixel owners can finally repair
those camera modules that have been straight up broken
for years with no conceivable way to fix it
other than to mail it to Google to fix themselves?
- [Man] I certainly hope so, my freaking Pixel 3
has been broken for like a year and a half.
- Wow, you did it Louis.
You did it.
Just like you got you.
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- [Man] Ahh!
- Canada was jealous when other countries
bullied tech giants into paying news publishers,
so our government has introduced new legislation, Bill C-18,
which will force platforms like Facebook or Twitter
to pay news outlets every time a user posts a news link.
Some similar bills in Australia and Europe were dropped
after Google and Facebook made deals with news conglomerates
to pay for including content
in those companies' official news services,
so hopefully Canada makes a similar deal.
- [Man] Yeah! - Yeah, that system works.
- [Man] News intimidate people.
- Apple has restored the smart voting iOS app
sponsored by prominent critic of the Russian government
Alexei Navalny, after removing it last September
in response to demands by Russian law enforcement.
Google had restored the Android version
days after removing it, but Apple only did so now
once the coast was obviously clear.
Is every, is everyone else calling out Russia now?
- [Man] We're all doing this?
- Okay, all right, everyone else?
Okay, we're good to go, green light.
- [Man] We are so brave.
- Courageous decision.
SpaceX successfully launched their first all-private crew
on a mission to dock
with the International Space Station this morning.
The crew consists of three businessmen
who paid $55 million each for the privilege
and an astronaut escort
who will presumably have to stop them
from pestering the scientists working there
with inane questions like "How do you poop up here"
and "Is that the earth?"
- Is that actually- - Is it actually? (laughs)
Great minds.
In other news about Elon, Tesla held a grand opening
for its giga-factory in Texas, where Elon Musk once again
drove the Cybertruck on stage and promised
that it would start shipping in just a couple of years.
Wow.
He also promised that a wider beta
of the company's full self-driving tech
will roll out this year, at which point,
the whole audience started nodding and saying,
"I've never heard him say that before. (laughs)
Gee gosh, gee willikers, Elon, thank you.
I love ya."
And Facebook un-deterred by its DM cryptocurrency project
crashing out and burning is apparently working
on a different digital coin known internally as Zuck Bucks.
- [Man] Zuck Bucks!
- Because how are we supposed to get to a dystopian future
where corporations have replaced national government,
says the defacto societal authority,
unless we have Zuck Bucks.
- [Man] We need a Zuck Buck!
- I see this as progress. - Dwight Schrute bucks!
- And we have progressed to the end of this video.
Come back on Monday for more tech news,
which ironically you'll have to use technology to access.
See how that works.
It's all connected.
- [Man] Oh dude, the vibe-
- It's tech linked. - [Man] Ahhhh.
(Linus laughs)
- Linus Bucks coming soon!