- You might look at me
and simply see a man just reading tech news.
If so,
well done.
That is accurate.
- [Man] Yes, got it! (laughs)
- Apple is finally getting rid
of that horrendous design decision
that forced the rest of the industry
to copy against our will, the iPhone's camera notch.
- [Man] Why'd you make this? Why?
- That's right. A long last.
We're finally gonna see an all-screen iPhone 14
without any, sorry, what's that?
Oh, they're replacing the notch
with two punch hole cutouts
that take up even more room on the display?
(man laughing)
Perfect, that's, wow,
courageous.
(man laughing) To make things worse,
a leak shows that the iPhone 14
and 14 Max will actually still have the notch
with the new cutouts available on the pro models.
(everybody laughing)
On the plus side,
they'll probably have M1 chips or something,
'cause that's just so easy for them.
I can only assume Apple isn't scared of any backlash
because according to the company's Q2 earning reports
they're making more money than ever,
with huge boosts in services revenue
and sales of M1 Macs.
Meanwhile, those hoping for an ARM-based laptop
not made by Apple will reportedly be waiting until June,
2023. - Wow!
- Which is Qualcomm's estimated release date
for its PC chips.
So, strap in for more weird Apple design decisions
because you're all gonna buy their stuff anyway,
you people. (man sighs)
Stock shortages over the past years
have made it hard for PC enthusiasts,
but we may be on the precipice
of a grand graphics card Renaissance.
- Oh! - Some real fancy
fan designs coming up,
stone calms, archways everywhere,
Vitruvian Man!
(James laughing) - [Man] That's culture.
- Because a leak has seemly confirmed
that AMD's next-gen GPUs
and the heavily anticipated Phoenix APU
will indeed be built with the new RDNA 3 architecture,
which is expected to enable
a quantum leap forward in performance.
A quantum is small. - Oh.
- Quantum leaps
- [Man] No, "Quantum Of Solace".
- So small, they big?
(man chuckles) "Ant-Man"
In response. It looks like NVIDIA have changed
from developing their next-gen Lovelace GPUs
as simple refreshers of their existing and pure lineup
to a full-on, (chuckles)
a new, a full-on new architecture,
which would again mean higher performance
graphics cards for all of us.
And let's not forget about Intel.
CEO Pat Gelsinger confirmed in the company's earnings call
that they definitely, certainly,
for sure are going to release their desktop graphics cards
in Q2, probably the last day though.
So, there's no doubt (man chuckles)
in his mind.
This is unquestionably not a hilarious prank
they've been playing for four years,
no way José. (man faintly speaking)
- Would be
a really good prank. - No way
José! - Ah!
(James chuckles) Sorry.
- And Epic Games has picked another epic fight with Google
before their Fortnite trial has even begun.
But this time,
it's about Epic's latest acquisition, Bandcamp.
which I've been a member of many times,
predictably on Twitter. (man faintly speaks)
You see, Bandcamp has always
used their own billing system
instead of Google Play Store billing.
But Google recently decided
it was actually going to enforce its policy
requiring Android apps to use Google's billing system,
which Epic thinks isn't fair, obviously,
'cause they're epic.
This is Open App Market,
die-hard Tim Sweeney we're talking here.
The man loves picking fights.
Epic filed an injunction to get Bandcamp
out of paying a 10% cut to Google.
That's a lower rate than the standard of 30%,
but it would apparently force Epic
to change Bandcamp's business model,
which currently sees artists
receiving a whopping 82% of the profits
from this sale of their music, - Whoa!
- [James] which is way (chuckles) too much.
What do they do?
They just sit around all day?
(speaks in gibberish) (man laughing)
I'm having fun.
- [Man] I live in my parents' basement,
(James scoffs) creating things.
- We all live in our parents' basements.
- [Man] That's true.
- What about all the hard work
Google is doing to get their music out there?
Programming is hard. Playing piano, it's fun.
Google employers are walking around,
handing out mixtapes.
they want you to sit there,
trying so hard. (James chuckles)
- Oi, Riley! (man laughing)
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Ah!
- Quick Bits are one of those lenses
we can look through to see the world.
I wouldn't recommend it.
It gets real trippy. - Ah,
(indistinct)
- Snap Inc. has revealed its first selfie drone,
a $230 palm-size square yellow pancake thingy called Pixy.
The drone can float, orbit, or follow you,
basically my dating strategy,
without having to use a controller.
In fact, you're unable to control it at all.
Pixy is its own sentient being
and will take selfies how it wants to,
whether or not you like...
Is it still a selfie?
Active Vision has revealed the latest perk
of Call of Duty Warzone's RICOCHET Anti-Cheat system,
the ability to make regular players invisible to cheaters.
The best part is the effect only activates
once a cheater starts shooting at someone
which I hope will lead them to stop the shooting
and just observe, watch what your actions are doing.
It's not good. Don't cheat.
Bobby Kotick is watching.
- [Man] probably be cheering them on actually.
- You don't even know I'm tea bagging you.
The Central African Republic,
And if you're rusted on your geography,
that's the actual name of the country,
has become the second nation in the world
to officially accept Bitcoin as legal tender,
following El Salvador, earlier last year.
Was that last year? I don't know.
The move hasn't proved to be
especially popular one in El Salvador
after multiple scandals over its implementation.
So, hopefully, the CAR has a better time with it,
instead of promising magical volcano-powered crypto cities.
This will be tree-powered.
(man laughing)
Is that where rubber comes from? I'm ignorant.
- [Man] We all want the volcano cities. We all know it.
- In science news, a company called AppliedVR,
which is testing a virtual reality system
for treating back pain,
I'm listening as an old man,
is partnering with healthcare data company, Komodo Health,
to conduct trials using artificial control groups.
That means instead of recruiting volunteers from college
to a trial who then don't receive experimental treatment,
- Gotcha. - AppliedVR's trial data
will be compared with existing databases
of anonymized patient health records,
which could save time and resources.
Faster science would be a good thing.
Although the new method is still being evaluated.
Wait, how does VR treat back pain?
It's like look up in the sky,
(man laughing)
stay there. - Ahk!
- Now, look to the right. (chuckles)
- [Man] There it is.
- [James] And Japan has done a Japan,
by using a heavy-duty humanoid robot,
operated by a regular flushy worker to repair rail systems.
That's everything Japanese in one sentence.
The West Japan Rail Company
says the mech allows workers to manipulate heavy equipment
and objects without exposing them, the people,
to the risk of electric shocks or falling,
just whoops, (laughs)
while also riding some measure of protection
in the event of an attack by aliens
or heavily mutated iguanas.
- [Man] Happens every week.
- Or moths.
Good job, Japan. Never stop dreaming.
It's time to stop this MechWarrior. I wanna get off.
So, come back on Monday for more tech news.
Once again, read by a human being.
I'm sure we'll be in
(indistinct)
at some point.
- [Man] Yeah, we'll get that going.