WEBVTT - Twitter Serves as a Shaky Stage for a Presidential Campaign Announcement 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:12.360 Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. Hey there, 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:16.320 and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:20.360 I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio and how the tech 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:23.360 are you. It's time for the tech News for Thursday 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:28.479 May twenty fifth, twenty twenty three. So, first thing, I 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.880 want to address our updates to a story I covered 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:36.600 on Tuesday, which was about an incident in Cardiff in 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:41.600 Wales where a pair of teenage boys died in a 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:45.160 traffic accident and word had gotten around that they were 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:48.880 in they were being pursued by police and that that 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:52.000 contributed to this accident. It caused the accident and there 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.360 were riots that followed. Now, initially reports were that the 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:59.000 police weren't involved at all and that this was misinformation 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:03.720 and it spread rapidly and that ended up creating the 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:09.400 situation that ultimately escalated into a riot. Since then, where 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:12.880 it has gotten out that CCTV footage has shown that 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.640 there was a police van that was following the boys. 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:20.160 The police in Cardiff have said that there still wasn't 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:24.160 a pursuit, but the footage shows that there was a 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:27.800 police van following behind the boys. The police have given 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:31.160 a timeline that suggests that the van actually turned off 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.760 from following them before the crash happened. I don't know 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:36.880 what the truth is at this point, but it is 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.319 important to follow up on it because obviously the initial 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:45.080 statement was about this being misinformation that then spread rapidly 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:48.280 throughout the community, and it may turn out that it's 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:52.080 not misinformation at all. So we'll have to continue to 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:56.200 watch the story and see what happens. Obviously, if it 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.680 turns out that the police were misrepresenting what was going on, 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:05.600 it is going to make a situation where police relationships 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:09.040 with the community are already on shaky ground much worse. 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.240 So we will keep an eye out to see how 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:17.240 this story continues. Yesterday, Twitter attempted to serve as the 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:22.440 platform for GOP presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis as he made 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:26.000 his announcement that he was officially launching a presidential campaign. 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:31.880 This had been long anticipated, yesterday was just the formal announcement. Now, 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.640 I say Twitter attempted to serve as a platform because 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:40.360 the Twitter space that Elon Musk created specifically for this 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:45.079 event became a cacophony when audio issues made it impossible 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:48.560 for anyone to say anything without it being a massive, 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:52.760 incomprehensible mess. Musk later said the problem was that Twitter's 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:56.840 servers were overloaded. Several tech news outlets have pointed out 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:01.360 that this event well well attended, virtually it wasn't a 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.919 small event. It still didn't come close to approaching other 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:10.160 large online only events that had, you know, several times 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:15.000 more people in attendance, but had fewer technical glitches. Whatever 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:18.880 the cause of the glitches, the launch did not go smoothly. 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:21.040 Now I'm not going to comment on the political side 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.239 of this, and you're welcome. Instead, I just want to 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:29.120 say the problems, the technical problems, really didn't come as 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.720 much of a surprise to at least the grouchy people 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.360 like me out in the tech space, because Musk effectively 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:40.960 gutted Twitter over the course of his ownership of the platform, 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:45.480 and since then, essentially a skeleton crew has had to 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:51.480 scramble to meet whatever sometimes apparently arbitrary goals Musk comes 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:53.120 up with, or at least that's how it looks on 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:56.360 the outside, And I fully admit I am looking at 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.360 this from the outside. I could be one hundred percent 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:04.480 off base with these observations and assumptions. So I don't 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:08.839 want to suggest that my view is the the sum 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.960 total of the truth. Just from the outside, it looks 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.880 like Musk keeps wanting Twitter to tackle these huge projects, 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:21.119 but with such a reduced workforce that it's it's kind 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.160 of setting the platform up to fail, which is unfortunate 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:26.400 because I'm sure the people who are actually working on it, 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:28.880 you know, they don't want things to fail, and they're 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:33.200 working hard, but they're doing so with a lack of 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:37.400 assets and resources. All right, now it's time to talk 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:42.680 about AI again, and to talk about Sam Altman, CEO 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:47.960 of open AI again. Now you might remember that very 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:53.040 recently Altman appeared before US Congress and said that AI 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:57.120 is a field where regulation is needed. And at the time, 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.960 I was kind of hopeful that this meant Altman was 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.480 really sincere in that belief and that he was going 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:07.520 to take an active role to really draft useful regulations. 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.599 But then you could also say, well, yeah, but Sam 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:14.640 Bankman freed said very similar things about cryptocurrency and regulations, 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.760 and then look where he's at right now, so that 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:22.560 maybe you shouldn't take these these statements at face value. 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:27.599 So over in the EU, Altman's tune is slightly different 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.560 than it was in the US. So I would say 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:34.880 that the EU has people who are far more skeptical 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:40.159 and concerned about AI than what you typically see here 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:41.919 in the United States. Not to say that people in 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.320 the US are totally cool with AI and they have 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.240 no worries, But in the EU, I think it's it's 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:52.479 more prominent. And in the EU, the EU has passed 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:57.240 a law called the AI Act, which categorizes artificial intelligence 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:01.120 into three different buckets according to perceived risks. So at 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:05.040 the very very top of this are unacceptable risks, So 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:09.640 these would be AI applications that would potentially violate citizens' rights. 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:13.080 So these would be applications that the EU would just 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:17.000 outlaw period like these, you cannot use AI to do 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.400 these sort of things, So this would be something like 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.960 China's social scoring system for example. That's where each person 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:30.679 would receive a score which really relates to how useful 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:34.520 and loyal they were according to the state. That would 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.680 be right out as a use of AI. Under this 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:42.080 are is a category called high risk AI systems. These 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:46.279 could potentially be useful, so they could have a social 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:51.680 benefit to them, but they're also potentially harmful. So because 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.960 of that anything that fell into this category would need 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.279 to follow a strict set of rules and regulations in 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.360 order to be legal in EU. So, in other words, 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:05.400 a high risk system would be allowable under EU law, 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:09.080 provided that the companies that were making and using those 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:13.480 systems abided by the rules and remain transparent and such. 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:18.320 Altman says that chat, GPT and the GPT Large Language 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:22.720 Model would fall into this high risk category as the 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:26.240 EU has defined it, and he objects to that. He 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:29.960 says that shouldn't be the case. And he also seems 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.800 to think that the rules and regulations are too restrictive 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:38.200 and that they are going to harm small companies that 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.679 wish to integrate AI. Now keep in mind those small 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:45.040 companies integrating AI. I think Altman's looking at those small 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.360 companies as customers, right, These are companies that would be 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:55.360 essentially licensing open AI's platforms for work. So that's you know, 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.920 he has a vested interest in this. So I guess 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.520 what Altman appears to be saying. This is my interpretation 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.920 is that he's all for regulations if he has a 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.560 heavy hand in making them so that you know, they 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.680 don't actually impede his business. But if a country or 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:16.880 a European Union creates rules independently, He's ready to take 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:21.520 his toys and go home. Or really, to quote him, 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:25.840 he said, quote, if we can comply, we will, and 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.600 if we can't, will cease operating. We will try, but 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:34.479 there are technical limits to what's possible. End quote. Meanwhile, 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:39.640 Brad Smith, Microsoft President, called on US lawmakers to form 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.080 rules that would limit or prevent integrating AI into critical 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:48.520 systems like say the US power grid or various water infrastructure, 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.400 that kind of thing. He also called for AI companies 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:55.079 to be held accountable if and when their tools cause problems. 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:59.400 And considering how Microsoft has really invested heavily in open 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:04.520 AI and integrated GPT into its Microsoft Being product, this 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:08.160 is a pretty interesting take. But Smith said, quote this 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:12.120 is the fundamental need to ensure that machines remain subject 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:16.319 to effective oversight by people, and the people who design 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:22.000 and operate machines remain accountable to everyone else's end quote. 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.560 So here's the thing I agree with that. I think 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.400 that is a reasonable thing to call for. I think 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.560 the world in general needs to come up with rules 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:36.040 for the design and integration of AI and limitations to 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:39.720 that right, like where AI should and shouldn't be used, 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.679 and how it should and shouldn't be used. And I 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.040 think those rules need to require companies to be as 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:49.120 transparent as possible. Just getting more and more complicated as 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:52.760 these AI models get more and more complex, and also 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:56.800 the rules need to make sense, they need to be effective. 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.000 They need to prevent companies from just having the protect 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:04.560 of rules being in existence as they continue to develop AI. 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.360 So by that I mean this, Okay, So if there's 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:11.520 no rule, like there's an absence of rules, companies can 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.760 actually be a little nervous as they operate. Right, you 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.320 have no rules, you have no oversight, But that means 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.319 that if you do something really bad, there's going to 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:25.760 be a big ruckus and perhaps an overreaction to the ruckus, 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.959 which means that you end up harming yourself more than 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.040 you would have if you just made a set of 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:35.480 rules and abided by them. Now, when you make rules, well, 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:39.280 that means that you do have these these rules, these restrictions, 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:43.000 but usually not everything's covered, right. There are often gaps 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:47.240 or loopholes. So if you do something unanticipated but something 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.640 that isn't covered by the rules, your defense is, well, 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:52.720 there's nothing in the rules that says, you know, I 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:56.079 can't make AI that automatically denies credit to people who 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.000 come from such and such a place, because historically we 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:04.280 know all those folks default on loans or whatever. Rules 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:09.240 that are intended to protect the public sometimes have an 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:13.200 odd way of protecting the perpetrators of bad deeds. That's 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.600 what I'm saying. Like, if there were no rules, then 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.200 you might have a much larger reaction. If there are 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.920 rules and whatever you did wasn't covered by them, then 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.520 you can say, hey, I was following the rules. Yeah, 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.880 this bad thing happened, but I wasn't breaking the law. 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.800 So creating rules does need to be done, but it 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.600 needs to be done with care and critical thinking. And 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.200 it also has to be an ongoing process. It's not 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.640 something you do once and then you walk away. According 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:42.040 to a research firm called Watchful Technologies, TikTok has been 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:46.200 testing an AI chatbot in Apple mobile devices. In the 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:50.120 TikTok app, the chatbot is called Taco and I don't 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.840 know if it only works on Tuesdays. Oh, hang on, 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:57.880 it's actually spelled Takoh. The chatbot is meant to help 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:02.440 with discovery, so users apparently activate this chatbot and converse 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.280 with it to help find stuff they like or to 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.520 answer questions they have. They might have a question of 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:12.240 what does it mean if my toilet won't flush or whatever, 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:16.880 and then the AI agent will find videos that somehow 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.600 relate to that kind of thing. Now, according to the researchers, 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.920 Taco's purpose seems mostly just to keep people on TikTok 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:25.880 longer and keep them watching videos. So it's not like 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.439 Taco's posing as a best friend or something like that, 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:33.880 but rather augmenting the recommendation algorithm to find stuff that's 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:38.360 going to maximize users time on the app. Okay, we're 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:39.920 going to take a quick break. When we come back, 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:51.240 we've got some more tech news to cover. We're back, 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:55.960 so yesterday. On Wednesday, Meta held another round of layoffs, 0:12:56.040 --> 0:13:00.240 hitting somewhere in the neighborhood of six thousand people time. 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:04.000 The jobs affected were mostly on the business side of 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:09.320 Meta's operations, as opposed to, you know, like the tech side. Reportedly, 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:14.319 morale is in pretty bad shape in Meta. There were 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.439 a couple of articles I saw this morning that we're 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:20.840 saying things like Meta employees are trying to avoid being 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:24.360 included in a future round of layoffs by essentially creating 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:28.400 work like they're manufacturing work for them to do. It's 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:32.040 kind of like the bosses coming look busy kind of mentality. 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:36.480 Others at Meta appear to have no motivation to work 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:38.440 at all, because you know, when you don't know whether 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.560 or not you're going to have a job the next day, 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.000 it can really do a number on you. I have 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.640 been there, and it is tough now. According to tech Crunch, 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:52.840 this most recent round of layoffs should theoretically be the 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:58.200 last major layoffs for the foreseeable future. Meta has indicated 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.320 that it was aiming to eliminate ten thousand jobs the 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:05.320 spring total across layoffs, and this one was the second 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:08.200 round of layoffs, so they have definitely hit that ten 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.920 thousand mark. And since late last year, Meta has handed 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.679 around twenty one thousand staff they're walking papers and has 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:21.000 also put a a hiring freeze on thousands of open positions. 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:24.640 Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's CEO, has called twenty twenty three the 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:29.040 Year of Efficiency, indicating that Meta had a bloated workforce 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.880 that wasn't really representative of the actual amount of work 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.280 that needed to be done. In other words, we got 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.000 more people than we have work for them to do. Also, 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:41.640 the company continues to face some pretty hefty costs which 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.680 might be motivating some of these cutbacks. That includes a 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:48.960 more than one billion dollar fine that came down from 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.000 the EU earlier this week. To learn about that, just 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:57.480 listen to Tuesday's episode of Tech Stuff. Apple has announced 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:02.560 a truly ginormous deal with the company Broadcom that will 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.760 see these two companies making five G components in the 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:09.720 United States. So, according to an article in courts, Apple 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:13.080 will invest somewhere in the neighborhood of four hundred thirty 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:18.840 billion dollars to boost US manufacturing, largely in the five 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.800 G realm, but the connectivity space in general. So over 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.400 the last couple of years, Apple has been looking for 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:29.360 ways to decrease its reliance on Chinese manufacturing for various components. 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:31.680 There are a lot of different reasons to pull out 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:35.360 of China, ranging from optics because it doesn't always look 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:37.600 good to be doing business with a country that has 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:41.840 a pretty awful human rights record all the way to 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.200 practical things like supply chain issues if you want to 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:49.080 be super cynical. But it's not really easy to just 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:54.440 extract from China, largely because companies like Apple depend upon 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:58.680 the lower, the much much lower costs of labor in 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:02.960 China to keep production costs down. Recently, a manufacturing facility 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.800 in India actually announced it would no longer manufacture Apple 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:13.440 components because Apple's demands regarding costs of production meant that 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:17.440 this Indian company their profit margins were nearly non existent. 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:21.480 I mean, potentially the company would end up losing money 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.120 to make stuff for Apple because Apple was saying, We're 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.560 not going to pay you more than X amount, and 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:31.480 meanwhile it costs why amount to make the stuff. So 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.520 there are companies in other places where Apple has previously 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:39.440 tried to move to avoid working in China that have 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.800 already kind of bulked because of this issue. You know, 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.880 the fact that unless Apple is willing to pay the 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:51.560 amount that is acceptable within that country for labor, then 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:53.440 it's just not going to get done. So a move 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:56.360 out of China is likely going to mean increased prices 0:16:56.440 --> 0:17:01.120 on items in the long run. Global economics are super complicated. 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.680 The attorneys general for several states here in the United 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:08.399 States have banded together to level a massive lawsuit against 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:12.640 a telecommunications company called Avid Telecom, and, according to the lawsuit, 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:18.240 this one telecommunications company facilitated billions of robocalls to people 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:21.080 who had previously signed up on the national Do Not 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.480 Call Registry. So that registry is supposed to protect the 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.480 people who sign up to it from receiving nuisance and 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:31.720 unwanted calls, primarily telemarketing calls, but also things like scams 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.919 and stuff. Citizens can actually designate the types of calls 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.520 that they are willing to receive. So if you want, 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:39.159 you can go to and you're in the US, you 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.879 can go to the Do Not Call Registry, sign up 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:46.240 for free, and even indicate which calls you don't mind getting. Anyway, 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.280 the problem is that, at least according to this lawsuit, 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:53.639 Avid Telecom allowed telemarketing calls and scams and such to 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:56.560 go through when they absolutely should not have been able to. 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:00.320 The lawyer for Avid Telecom denies the charges, saying the 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.480 company acted in accordance with the law and expressed disappointment 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:06.040 that all these Attorneys general didn't just sit down for 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:10.119 a civilized discussion before bringing a nasty lawsuit. We'll have 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:14.400 to see where this goes from here. Sony held a 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:19.200 PlayStation event this week, a PlayStation showcase event, and unveiled 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:22.879 a new handheld gaming device that will be capable of 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:28.040 playing any non VR game streamed from a nearby PlayStation five. 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:31.680 So essentially, you're running the game on your PlayStation five, 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.800 you're just streaming it to this handheld device that's within 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.960 a certain range of that PS five. It doesn't even 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.399 have an official name yet, but the internal name for 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.440 the handheld is Project Q. So Project Q will be 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.439 dependent upon a console. It will not be able to 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:51.159 play games natively. You can't just take it on the 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:53.960 go like you would with a Nintendo Switch. It kind 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:57.480 of looks like someone took a modern PlayStation controller, cut 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.439 it in half, and then shoved an eight inch screen 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.679 in between the two halves. I'm not crazy about this design, 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:06.000 but I'm also in the minority of folks who don't 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:09.920 like PlayStation controllers in general. I know I'm bonkers. Anyway. 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.159 That's about all we know so far about Project Q. 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:15.520 Sony didn't have information on how much folks should expect 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.359 this to cost or when it will come out. If 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:20.439 it's on the more expensive side, that's kind of a 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:22.760 deal breaker in my book. But then I also don't 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.479 own a PS five yet. I might actually change that 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:28.240 next month. Because I'm thinking about buying myself one as 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:32.960 a Berthday present, but I'm pretty sure i'll skip Project Q. Finally, 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:37.840 South Korea successfully launched a rocket carrying eight satellites earlier today. 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:42.440 The rocket, called Nuri, launched in the afternoon in South Korea, 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.720 and according to South Korea's Ministry of Science, it achieved orbit. 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:49.199 The office also reported that the primary satellite on board 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:53.120 the next SAT two has already established communications with Korea's 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:57.399 station in Antarctica. And as for the other satellites, at 0:19:57.400 --> 0:19:59.520 the time of this recording, there was actually questions if 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:02.960 one of them microsatellites failed to deploy properly from the rocket. 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:05.479 I don't have more information on that just yet, but 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:07.879 South Korea is now the seventh country to achieve a 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:11.000 launch carry more than a ton of payload into orbit. 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.080 And that's it for the tech News. I hope you 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:17.720 are all well and I'll talk to you again really soon. 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:28.520 Tech Stuff is an iHeartRadio production. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:32.560 visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:37.399 to your favorite shows.