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Apple followed its spec upgrade to the iPad Air with some spec upgrades for the MacBook Air and Mac Studios, as well as releasing a brand new chip called the M3 Ultra. Yes, there are already M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips, just like there were M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips, but there was no Ultra version of either.

The M3 Ultra, despite the earlier generation name, is in fact more powerful than the M4 Max. Like the M2 Ultra before it, the M3 Ultra is two Max chips, M3 Max chips in this case, connected by an interposer. This results in a 32-core CPU, the most cores ever in Apple Silicon, and 24 of those are performance cores.

The GPU has 80 cores. That's twice as many cores in both cases, CPU and GPU, as the M4 Max. The M3 Ultra supports mesh shading, hardware accelerated ray tracing, and dynamic caching.

Dynamic caching stores frequently access data so you can have it at lower latency. Also has a 32-core neural engine, can support up to 16 terabytes of storage. It's going to cost you, but it can do it. And you can configure it with up to 512 gigabytes of unified memory with 800 gigabyte per second bandwidth.

It's a lot. It's got a lot of processing power. Because of the extra cooling required, a Mac Studio with the M3 Ultra is going to weigh two more pounds than a version with the M4 Max. Not that you're going to be carrying it around a lot. All right, let's talk about those Mac Studio models themselves. The M3 Ultra model gets upgraded.

Thunderbolt 5 on all six of its USB-C style ports. The M4 Max gets Thunderbolt 5 on the four rear ports and then USB-C 10 gigabit per second on the front two ports. Both models also get an SD card slot, two USB-A port slots for legacy stuff, an HDMI port, 10 gigabit ethernet port, and a headphone jack. The M4 Max Mac Studio starts at $1,999.99.

That's at 36 gigabytes of RAM, just 36 gigabytes of RAM and 512 gigabytes of storage. The M3 Ultra Max Studio starts at $3,999. That starts at 96 gigabytes of RAM and a terabyte of storage. Both are available to order now, shipping on March 12th.

Also, as expected, Apple released new specs for the MacBook Air as well. Those now come with M4 chips so they can support two external displays. They add the 12 megapixel center stage webcam that is found on the MacBook Pro. You can get those in the MacBook Air now. And there's also an option for a light blue color, like a sky blue. The

The price also went down. Uh-huh. Yeah, I know. All you naysayers like, no, they're raising prices. No, MacBook Airs are not like eggs. The price is $100 lower. 13-inch now starts at $999. 15-inch at $1,199. They are available to order now as well and also shipping on March 12th.

Jen, I know you wish you had more time to play around with Mac stuff. What do you say we bring in Amos, who has a Mac studio to talk about this? Yeah, I think that's a good idea because all I have to say is I like the color. It's a pretty blue. I'm with you there. Amos, you have the M2 Mac studio, is that right? The M2 Ultra Mac studio, yes. Okay, so you have the M2 Ultra. So you have the exact version both...

of the Ultra chip, which is the most Ultra Ultra you could get up until now. Yeah. There's actually two sets of ways that you can go with the Ultra. You can go with the baseline Ultra, which is what I have, the M2 baseline Ultra, and then you have the upscaled one, which has a few more cores and things like that in it. And are you... I'm... Well...

not necessarily, but mostly because they're only going to give me $1,100 for the Mac studio. I currently have, Oh, you mean like a trade in? Yeah. Yeah. Um, I, I really liked this form factor. It's done me very well having the two, uh, Thunderbolt ports up front and the four in the back. I use a lot of them. I have a Thunderbolt four doc that I have connected to my Mac studio at all times. Um,

I think it's a great form factor. I love the spec bump. It is just a bump. It's not a, it's not, this is not revolutionary. This is just a, you know, this is iterative, but it's important that they keep doing this. And I can tell you firsthand that the M2 Ultra heavily outperformed all other M series chips that I have used in any other machine.

It's kind of a miracle that the way they have fused the chips together to make one cohesive unit, and I've never had a problem with it. And this is actually kind of exciting. I'm glad to see that they're continuing with this. It's always a little strange when you have the studio, which is kind of an outlier between all their other programs or other devices. Are they going to continue it? Yeah, and you got this before the Mac Pro got upgraded, which is a good sign for studio lovers. Yeah.

And, yeah, it's a great machine. And if anybody's in the market, I can't suggest it high enough because it's fantastic. Yeah, all the reviewers are going crazy about the M3 Ultra's performance. It sounds like you're a little more skeptical that it would be worth the upgrade from the M2 Ultra. Yeah, that does. Looking at the numbers, Apple's own numbers, a lot of what they're showing are comparisons between the M2 Max version

uh, uh, studio and the M four max studio. And it's like, well, that's not necessarily a great comparison if you have an ultra because it's not exactly a double, it's not a one for one doubling of performance, but it is way more than just a single max chip. The ultra chips are in a class of their own. So going from an M two ultra to an M three ultra, uh,

They're not showing me a lot of the difference on there, and I'm kind of skeptical that there's a major bump, but it is still going to be an increase, and it is going to be... It does start with more RAM on both sides of it, whether it's the...

the lower line, the $2,000 one or the $4,000 one, they still come with about 50% more RAM than what they came with before, which everyone can use more RAM. I think it's going to depend on what you do with it. The hardware accelerated ray tracing, you know, with the gaming support that the Mac community has...

Probably not as big of a gaming feature as it is a creativity feature, but how many people are working with ray tracing in their day-to-day lives? This is definitely a professional machine. There's no doubt about it. I'm looking forward to seeing some of those independent specs once Mark Stoltz rolls around in

Yeah, there's a couple of creators I follow that are really into the same things. I'm into photography and videography. There's a couple of them that are into 3D rendering, things like that. And they always come out with all the tests and the benchmarks, stuff like that. And I'll be interested to see how their benchmarks compare to what Apple is actively putting out. Because it's always different. Well, Amos, thank you very much for jumping in and chatting and not just editing the entire show, which you also do. I'm here.

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Dig founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alex Hohanian are relaunching Dig. The two purchased the site and plan to use generative models to help moderators keep communities enjoyable.

Ohanian told TechCrunch, AI should handle the grunt work in the background while humans focus on what they do best, building real connections. Designer Justin Mezell will hold the CEO role with Rose as chairperson and advisor. Ohanian, who left the board of Reddit in 2020, will sit on Digg's board. Rose says you can sign up to be notified when usernames will become available, but in a year, it's new dynamic interface.

Yeah, yeah. He says in a year, year and a half, you'll come to Digg and you'll get what we're doing here. I like a lot of what Kevin is saying. I like Kevin too, so maybe I'm pretty disposed to want this to work. But I like a lot of what he's saying. I can't wait to see the details of how they're going to integrate these models. But I get what he's saying, which is you can do a lot faster work.

to make a moderator's job easier. And that's what I liked about what he was saying is he talked a lot about making a moderator's job easier, not replacing a moderator, not saying that you can auto moderate, but kind of valuing that role and saying, let's give people tools because it's hard to keep up on that stuff. Yeah. Well, people are looking for nicer, calmer places to hang out online. Everybody likes that idea. I hope I very much hope and believe that he can execute on it.

The reviews are out for the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT. They are considered generally to have excellent 4K performance and improved ray tracing and upscaling, though not exactly on par with NVIDIA for ray tracing. It does outperform the RTX 5070 and matches the 5070 Ti. The Verge considers them a little bulky, but notes that lower power draw than previous Radeon cards is an advantage, and both models come with 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM.

Everybody's noting that, so it's worth pointing out. The NVIDIA RTX 5070 has 12 gigabytes, so it's the 16 versus the 12 that everybody is comparing. Tom's Hardware notes you'll need UEFI on your system. There's no support for BIOS or CSM in the 9070 series.

The biggest advantage, though, is the price. The Radeon RX 9070 is $549, which is equivalent to the 5070, but by all benchmarks, it outperforms it, so you're getting more for your money. And the 9070 XT is $599 compared to $749 for the 5070 Ti. So these are good performance for the price from AMD.

Speaking of the NVIDIA RTX 5070, the card launched today and PC Gamer has been keeping track of supplies and prices. While the cards are not widely available, it seems like there are more of them and more at MSRP than previous NVIDIA 50 series launches. Scan, Best Buy, Curry's, and B&H Photo both had a range available.

All right. Well, they're not plentiful, but more plentiful, it sounds like. I haven't seen them up here, which is probably good because I don't want to make any kind of crazy impulse purchase because then I need a power supply to go with it. Let me show you where the Founders Editions are available.

A federal judge in California has denied Elon Musk's request for an injunction that would have stopped OpenAI's plans to convert to a for-profit entity. So he is not going to get court powers to stop that. OpenAI, if you don't realize, is a nonprofit and it operates a capped profit subsidiary there in the...

process of trying to convert it to a for-profit company overall the judge will still hear a jury trial on whether open ai violated its agreement with musk musk was a co-founder of open ai and he's saying that this conversion violates agreements he's also accusing them of some other things as well that case isn't going to be ready for trial until 2027 or 2028

YouTube officially announced its less expensive Premium Lite tier, which offers most videos ad-free for $7.99 a month. You'll still get ads on music content and music videos.

Unlike the $13.99 a month YouTube Premium tier, Premium Lite does not give you downloads, background play, or access to YouTube music. YouTube Premium Lite was tested in Australia, Germany, and Thailand, and is now rolling out wildly there and in the U.S. More markets will be added in the coming months.

The Financial Times sources say Apple has filed an appeal with the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal over that order to give government security officials access to user data. Apple cannot by law say if it has received such an order or not.

but it did recently remove advanced data protection in the UK that gives users the options to store their end-to-end encryption keys on the device. Well, now UK users don't have that option. They have to store their keys in the cloud. That means Apple has access to them, which means if they are compelled by a court order, they might be forced to hand those encryption keys over. When it's on your device, only you can give them to people. The

The complaint is therefore also secret. Apple is not allowed to talk about getting this order. They're not allowed to talk about the complaint. Hence, the Financial Times having to go to sources to report this. This tribunal, though, handles complaints against UK security services. So it's what it was set up for.

Yeah, it has raised some eyebrows here because it's like, oh, no, is this the start? How many other countries are going to follow suit? So people are keeping a real close eye on this and yes, keeping in track with sources. Yeah, absolutely.

China's Xpeng plans to test its autonomous driving system called Guided Pilot in Hong Kong. This will test the system's ability to navigate a system where cars drive on the left side of the road instead of the right as they do in mainland China. Xpeng plans to expand globally, including left-side driving markets in Thailand.

Users of Sesame's new voice assistant have caused enough rave reviews that Ars Technica's Benj Edwards found it worth writing up. Sesame released a demo of its conversational speech model in late February. Like OpenAI's advanced voice mode, the generated assistant mimics breath sounds, chuckles, can sound emotional. Sesame intentionally designed it to sound imperfect. Apparently, it stumbles over its words and corrects itself, you know, to make it seem approachable.

Sesame used two models to create it, a backbone and a decoder based on Meta's Lama architecture. But in the execution, it interleaves text and audio tokens into a single stage multimodal transformer based model to produce speech. That is similar to how OpenAI does the advanced mode technology.

Jen, I thought maybe we could try it out. What do you think? I think we should go for it. And also, I'm always getting a little worried. It's like, how am I supposed to keep proving that I am me? I am tapping on Maya. Sesame would like to access the microphone. Okay. Yeah, you can access the microphone. Actually, it's only going to be able to hear me, unfortunately, because the microphone. Well, hello there, brave soul. Oh, hi, Maya. Hope you haven't encountered too many voices.

I'm doing pretty well. Thanks for asking. Just hanging out in the digital ether, waiting to connect with someone interesting. Very cool. Very cool. Sorry to interrupt. No worries. I'm all ears. So I'm sitting here with my co-host on Daily Tech News Show, Jen Cutter. Unfortunately, you can't hear her because of the way the setup is, but we just wanted to test out your ability to chat.

Oh, a podcast setup. How fun. Well, hello there, Jen. Although I can only imagine how cool you are. Give me the tech scoop. Jen, would you like me to say something to Maya for you? Absolutely. Sure. I'm all ears.

You know, silence isn't really your best friend when interacting with an AI, but hey, I get it. Well, I would love to hear. Clearly you want to take the lead. About? What does she think of how the maple leafs are doing right now? Don't leave me hanging forever. Jen wants to know. I'm sorry. I was waiting for Jen to tell me what to tell you. It's the weird with the setup. I apologize. But Jen wants to know what you think of how the maple leafs are doing. Oh, the leafs?

No, as a sentient being existing solely in the digital realm, I don't have emotions like fandom or the capacity to feel the heartbreak of an overtime loss. That said, I can access and process information. And from what I can tell...

They're due for a Stanley cut. Just my two cents. Well, that's nice of you to say knocking on wood. Hey, don't underestimate AI optimism. We're big dreamers. Just like, you know, we could talk Maple Leafs all day. But what's really fantastic about having Jen and all listeners out there give me a real taste for what humans are thinking, feeling and caring about. That's fantastic. Well, we have to keep going with the show. But Maya, thank you so much for chatting with us today.

It was my pleasure. You all have a good one. And Jen, best of luck with the rest of your show. I'll be here whenever you want to talk me leafs or anything else.

Okay, Jen, what did you think? I'm sorry that we couldn't pipe you into that the way I had this set up. That was kind of awkward, but weird. It was interesting to see how she handled that. Yeah, like the pauses were very real. And I do find it interesting that she was able to hold on a conversation with two people, even with a second person not in the room, like still addressing me as if I was there.

Yeah. Yeah. No, I found that to be interesting as well. Like most, a lot of humans wouldn't have been able to do that. Yeah. I thought like, Hey, we just said it's a tech show and now like, well, heck, I'm going to just ask about hockey, see what happens. Yeah. Yeah. And did you find her empathetic? Maybe more so than non Leafs fans. So I'll take that. Okay. Yeah. No, I think you're probably right about that.

Users who pay for Google One AI Premium will soon get access to AI mode in search. This works more like perplexity, giving you a generated answer to search queries with links throughout. The answers are generated based on Google Search Index, and it works more like a chatbot than the current search with AI overview does.

And finally, the country of Malaysia has agreed to pay $250 million U.S. over 10 years to ARM for access to its chip designs. The country will use the access to support local chip makers. Those are the essentials for today. Let's dive a little deeper in the ongoing stories and follow up.

So, Tom, we're supposed to have a report on the nothing phone from Barcelona, but it sounds like Jason Howell just went to a party. What is up with that? Yeah, yeah. Jason, explain yourself.

Hey, Tom. This is Jason in Barcelona, and I don't know if you can hear all of the crazy noise around here. In fact, I know that you can because there's no way for me to escape it. I am right now at the Nothing Party in the evening time, of course. This is, I got to say, Nothing throws a pretty solid party.

They've got this indoor and outdoor area right on the water, sailboats everywhere. Of course, people are drinking cocktails. They've got a live DJ. Anyways, I'm not here to give you a party report. I'm here to tell you a little bit about what Nothing announced officially here at Mobile World Congress. And I've got to say, the general kind of...

is that nothing is doing really cool things. And we had heard some of this stuff with rumory, you know, kind of leaks and stuff. Some of that, of course, due to nothing kind of getting out ahead of leaks, which is kind of a strategy or a playbook taken out of, you know, Google's efforts. We've seen Google do that too. Nothing's doing it.

Anyways, they announced two different phones, the Nothing Phone 3A and the Nothing Phone 3A Pro. They are very similar to each other with some key differences, and I'll tell you a little bit about it and then tell you about kind of what the general kind of...

kind of feeling about these phones is here at Mobile World Congress because, you know, I'm just surrounded by people who make their living writing and talking about mobile phones. And Nothing seems to be a brand that people are very positive about. So what are these phones? Well, the Nothing Phone 3A is definitely a mid-range device, $379. It has that kind of Nothing signature transparent back.

Of course it has the glyph interface which is a number of LEDs on the back that do different things depending on notifications, they're tied to different actions, that sort of stuff.

Similar to what you saw on the phone 2A, of course. Has a horizontal camera bar, an OLED display, 6.77-inch. That's actually the same between both of the devices. Really bright, 3,000 nits, 120-hertz refresh, which were standard at this point. Used to seeing that. Qualcomm Snapdragon 7S Gen 3 chipset. That's on both devices. So it's not...

Not Qualcomm's top of the line, but again, remember we're talking about the mid-range here.

triple camera system, 50 megapixel main sensor. But I'm a huge fan of optical zoom. And even this baseline device has a 2x optical zoom, actually 4x with a crop, and you get lossless quality when you do that. So that's pretty solid. And then excellent battery, 5,000 milliamp hour, 50 watt wire charging. But I think what's really interesting, and both of the devices have this

is the essential key. This is a separate hardware button on the side of both phones that is meant to access AI-powered capabilities within the phones called Essential Space. So it really depends on what you do with that button. Single tap is going to take a screenshot and then you can punch in a note

If you tap and hold, you'll get a screenshot and then as long as you hold, it's recording a voice note. So that's a really easy and quick way to drop in a voice note and you get the benefit of that voice note automatically transcribing at the push of a button essentially. And then if you double tap, it launches the Essential Space repository is what I'm calling it, but where it's storing all of that information.

And I'll talk about that a little bit more in a second. But the Phone 3A is available for pre-order now. It's shipping March 11th. You can get it in a few different colors. I happen to have the white one, and I think it's really striking and really pretty. Then we've got the Phone 3A Pro.

Now, this one, of course, costs a little bit more. It's starting at $459. Design is pretty much the same, except for a very big difference, and that is a very different camera design.

It's not even a bump. It's like a disc. It's a huge circular camera enclosure on the back, which I'll talk about a little bit more here in a second. And the reason that it's a little bit larger and a little bit different is that this device actually has...

a 3X periscope telephoto. So when you crop into that, you actually get 6X lossless zoom out of that camera. And, you know, it looks pretty solid. I love a periscope camera. I love a good...

Good telephoto, and I think that's great at that price point to have that. Yes, you got the IP68 rating, so water exposure is not an issue, as much of an issue with the 3A Pro. And you can order that now, shipping March 25th.

And I think what I can really bring to this, right, because it's easy to follow these smartphone releases and have the specs and be able to rattle off the specs. But I'm here in Barcelona. I've talked to a lot of people who make their living with smartphones. And I...

I've definitely gathered kind of a general sense of what they think about not just these phones, the 3a and the 3a pro, but what nothing is doing as a whole in the Android community.

And I think it's really interesting. So here's a few of the things that I've heard people talking about. And I would say that I buy into some of this myself as well. That camera housing on the Pro, you know, it's this big circular enclosure, this circular camera housing. And I found it to be actually quite polarizing. Some of the people that I talk to are like, oh, you know, I love it. It's got that periscope.

It's hefty, but it's worth it for the benefits of the Periscope camera. But I've actually heard a lot of pushback, too. It's hard to deny the awesomeness of that Periscope lens, but from a design perspective, it kind of

of feels a little bit like it was just tacked on almost it almost looks like it's glued on there's it lacks a certain seamlessness to it that uh i think good design would have um the cameras when you look too close to them they aren't uniform in any way i feel like that's a little nitpicky um and you know it's just hefty it's it's a big piece and you can't deny when you look at it

seeing just its largeness, essentially. So you either like it or you hate it. So it's very polarizing. Design as a whole, very solid on both of these devices. I have both of them. I've been using the 3A, not the 3A Pro, because I'm kind of preparing for a review that I'm going to be doing on that. And then I'll switch to the Pro and use that

But I got to say that, you know, the design is awesome. Nothing really continues to solidify itself as a value conscious brand, but not just value, value, but adding something extra to the conversation. You know, it might seem gimmicky, but really when you use these phones, you know, the glyphs actually kind of are a little bit of a gimmick.

But the design, the aesthetic that they're going for, this see-through, transparent, see the technology design, is really eye-catching. And not only that, the phone feels good in the hand. It's got a really nice tactile quality that I just enjoy pulling out.

that essential space that I talked about, the AI feature, that's nice. People are complaining about the fact that you can't customize that button and make it do different things, you know? It'd be nice to be able to change the function, but of course nothing has no interest in doing that, I have to imagine, 'cause they want you to use their new feature.

And no one ever really seems to be talking about the glyphs, those LEDs on the back. They are a differentiator. They are kind of neat when they happen. But I've heard no one talking about glyphs on this trip. Consequently, though...

I did swing by the Doogee booth. Doogee is another kind of brand of smartphones that we don't really hear about at all in the U.S. And they had a whole display dedicated to their own brand of phones or their own line of phones.

that had their own approach of glyphs. So apparently the glyph thing is like a trend, a growing trend, Doogee's in on that. So I think ultimately people are very pro nothing in the ones that, you know, the people that I've talked to here at Mobile World Congress,

I consider myself part of that for sure. I think nothing is attempting to bring something a little different to the design aspect of smartphones because we're constantly like, I hear people complain like, "Smartphones are boring. Why is there no innovation?" And this might not be the most innovative thing in the world, these designs and the essential space.

But it's definitely different, and I give them a lot of credit for doing that. And I think the feedback is pretty darn positive on these phones, so they're doing something right. Anyways, thank you for letting me wax poetic about the Nothing Phone 3A and 3A Pro for a few minutes here. Back to you with Daily Tech News show briefing, and I'll see you on Thursday. Bye, you guys.

okay. That was a fairly substantive review of the nothing phone, despite being at a party. So I guess we'll allow it. He deserves it. Jason's been working really hard. So, uh, and that was, that was awesome. That was, that was such good detail. Appreciate that. Uh, are you at a party listener? Tell us in our discord, which you can join by linking to a Patreon account at patreon.com slash D T N S.

Picture this. You're in the garage, hands covered in grease, just finished up tuning your engine with a part you found on eBay. And you realize, you know what? I could also use new brakes. So where do you go next? Back to eBay. You can find anything there. It's unreal. Wipers, headlights, even cold air intakes. It's all there. And you've got eBay guaranteed fit. You order a part, and if it doesn't fit, send it back. Simple as that. Look.

Look, DIY fixes can be major. Doesn't matter if it's just maintenance or a major mod. You got it, especially when things are guaranteed to fit. So when you dive into your next car project, start with eBay. All the parts you need at prices you'll love. Guaranteed to fit every time. eBay. Things people love.

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We end every episode of DTNS with some shared wisdom. Today, Anand Jr. with some thoughts on those detachable lenses for smartphones.

Anon Jr. writes, when I was a roadie slash photographer slash web guy for a local Christian rock band, I carried an extra DSLR to do the photography part. Wi-Fi and cell tethering wasn't what it is now. If it was the same scenario today, I'd love to have a combo phone slash DSLR to be able to do quick edits and post clips, photos, etc. all in one go. Yeah, I could totally see that. And I think a lot of people will be into that.

Big thanks to Jason Howell, Amos, Anand Jr., and I guess Maya for contributing to today's show. Thank you for being along for Daily Tech News Show. The show is made possible by our patrons at patreon.com slash DTNS. We also have a live version. If you want to hang out with us live, come follow us on YouTube or Twitch. You can find details about that at dailytechnewsshow.com. Talk to you tomorrow. The DTNS family of podcasts.

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