welcome back to the tech news show you watch instead of googling stuff I guess i'm Riley Murdoch but uh you know feel free to disagree uh more than 50 Chinese tech companies have announced plans to use a new connector standard that makes HDMI display port USB 4 and Thunderbolt seem like two cans with a string between them the appropriately named generalurpose media interface or GPMI supports 96 Gbits per second of data bandwidth and 240 watts of power delivery over a USB type-C connector which beats every other consumer standard on the market but there's also a GPMI typeB connector with double the specs supporting 192 Gbits per second and 480 watts now there aren't great pictures of the TypeB but it appears to resemble a USB C plug stretched sideways thus making the hole bigger so pictures can slide through more easily the computer won't have to fold them in half anymore the GPMI standard has been licensed by the USB implementers forum and TV manufacturers like TCL Highense and Huawei are on board so GPMI products and cables could very well arrive on non-Chinese shores soon enough for the price of $200,000 the way tariffs are going a modder has managed to flash a Radeon RX970 with the BIOS of an RX970 XT increasing its power draw and clock speeds in basically the GPU equivalent of the billionaire guy who injects himself with his son's blood to make him stronger he's basically his own son now and the fabric of time is in danger anyway the modder who goes by Gertie on the German language PC games hardware forums found that the XT's BIOS also unlocked more overclocking headroom allowing an RX970 to match the 9070 XT's performance in 3D Mark tests despite having a lower number of cores the hybrid card is apparently stable although its ultra low power mode doesn't work and one of the forum members encountered some freezes when they tried it in their setup you know it's like how the billionaire guy sometimes has a little seizure where his eyes roll back in his head and he sees horrifying visions of his inevitable galactic conquest like should he accept his dark destiny or could he avoid slaughtering billions to become an immortal worm king you get glitches with these kind of things we're still learning things about the Switch 2 for example Nintendo confirmed that the console doesn't have Hall effect joysticks despite the original Switch Joy-Cons notoriously having issues with stick drift nintendo hasn't said how they addressed that issue but maybe they used a newer joystick technology called tunneling magnetoresistance or TMR which The Verge wrote about here and I'm only really mentioning because it involves quantum mechanics which tickles my brain a little bit whenever I hear about it despite the stick uncertainty though developers told Steven Totio at Gamefile they are extremely happy with the console's horsepower a claim that vibes well with these screenshots of Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition that CD Project Red says were taken on the Switch 2 they look good even if the Switch 2 looks great though fans are still calling for Nintendo to drop the price but as the man chosen at birth to one day become the current Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser told Wired the company is assessing the impact of Trump's new tariffs which they didn't factor into the price of the Switch 2 because they couldn't have meaning if the price is changing at all it ain't going down all right not going down tonight instead we're getting down with our sponsor ODU and their full suite of business management software which brings together pretty much everything you need to run your business in one platform one pot you could say like a chickenpot pie which has all of your essential nutrients to survive i don't think I ate lunch and ODO's easy to use with a userfriendly and customizable interface just like one of Gam's classic pot pies they're portable odo's got everything with apps to manage sales and inventory tracking accounting invoicing project 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country has until April 9th to make the change by which point global stocks may have reached Atlantis but hey humans are smart we're adapting to the new conditions for example Apple reportedly flew five cargo planes full of iPhones and other products into the US in the last week of March giving their warehouses a few months of supply before those hefty tariffs were put in place hey big market opportunity for smugglers you know jobs are being created over in the UK a judge has ruled that Apple's fight with the government over access to its users encrypted data cannot take place in secret despite secrecy rules laid out in the Investigatory Powers Act which the Home Office used to demand Apple provide them with a software backdoor the ruling is a win for privacy advocates while another UK law just coming into effect this week is a win for advocates of skimming online reviews and not realizing halfway through that it doesn't make any freaking sense i'm trying to buy a cordless drill and this is an essay about a hair dryer is it a twoin one i'm wasting so much time colossal Biosciences the genetic engineering firm whose woolly mice went a bit viral a few weeks ago has now claimed to have successfully brought back the direwolf a species that went extinct around 11,000 years ago i'm very much summarizing here but the company says they scraped some direwolf DNA off of some fossils combined it with greywolf DNA and edited it to get something similar to a real direwolf with twin males who are now about 6 months old it's being called the world's first deextinction brought to you by a younger Jon Hammond who loves hooded leather jackets he actually kind of looks like Jon Snow which does not bode well for any of us as cool as all of this sounds this company gives me major red flags they named the twins Romulus and Remis which you know fine that's cool that the mythical founders of Rome etc followed by a female named Khesi Blake Lively they also love memeing um I feel like these people saw Jurassic Park as an instruction manual also a few years ago scientists found that direwolves aren't technically wolves and are more closely related to African wild dogs uh which don't look like wolves so I don't know what um cool though and Kawasaki unveiled the Corio a concept vehicle ridable robot horse cat thing it's powered by 150cc hydrogenfueled engine and it will apparently carry you just fine as it leaps over icy chasms something ATV owners have been itching to do basically forever it's got AI apparently so it seems like it could act like something in between a vehicle and a real horse and if it's good you can feed it an apple like like it's like a like a computer cuz it's and I don't have anything to give you if you come back on Wednesday for more tech news unless Well I'm I'm already giving you something it's it's the tech news what you want something else too