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I'll Take An Android PC, Please · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: I know that you came here for tech news. I
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  Speaker 1: know that you didn't come for reviews of Walmart's in
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  Speaker 1: house brand baked goods. That's for the show I do
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  Speaker 1: after this one. They're all terrible, by the way, on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Even they don't want you to buy them. Why do
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  Speaker 1: you keep buying them? They're like the plastic food you
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  Speaker 1: see in Ikea. You're not supposed to eat them anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Android laptops and desktop computers are indeed coming, as confirmed
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  Speaker 1: by Google exec Rick Osterlo at Qualcomm Snapdragon Summon event
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  Speaker 1: this morning, after years of intense yearning for such devices
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  Speaker 1: by people like me who know full well that it
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  Speaker 1: would be just like a normal PC, but worse. What's
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  Speaker 1: wrong with me? Somehow? I know the Samsung Dex people
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  Speaker 1: are already yelling at me in the comments I said
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  Speaker 1: I wanted it well. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amone doesn't think
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  Speaker 1: it would be worse. He's seen this PC version of Android,
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  Speaker 1: and he, a man with a bit of financial interest
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  Speaker 1: in the sale of qualcompowered Android devices, thinks it's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: I trust him. Look at this bro moment between these two,
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  Speaker 1: Rick smiling. It's like he built Android for PC. In
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  Speaker 1: his garage. This official confirmation follows Google's president of the
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  Speaker 1: Android Ecosystem, Samir Samat, casually mentioning to tech Radar earlier
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  Speaker 1: this year that they're combining chromo as and Android yeap
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  Speaker 1: just you know, combining them. You know, figured you out well.
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  Speaker 1: Today Samir confirmed that this synthesis is happening next year. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't care. Qualcom also announced their second
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  Speaker 1: gen X series laptop processors, the Snapdragon X two Elite
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  Speaker 1: and X two Elite Extreme. The Extreme is mostly identical
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  Speaker 1: to the Vanilla X two Elite minus some higher clocks,
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  Speaker 1: but is significantly different than the X two Elite, the
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  Speaker 1: other one with six less cores. Are you confused by
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  Speaker 1: my explanation? You should tweet a Qualcom about it because
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  Speaker 1: what is this? Having learned nothing from their previous round
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  Speaker 1: of obses 'zely over hyped marketing for the first gen
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  Speaker 1: X series, which otherwise were pretty cool, Qualcom claims these
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  Speaker 1: unreleased chips are the fastest and most efficient processors for
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  Speaker 1: Windows PCs period, fastest. I'm not going to touch it.
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  Speaker 1: Steam briefly hosted malware earlier this week when an update
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  Speaker 1: to the game Blockblasters introduced malicious code. Now it turns
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  Speaker 1: out Steam doesn't necessarily validate the updates to its otherwise
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  Speaker 1: verified games, though it's expected under five hundred users were affected.
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  Speaker 1: The scam made headlines after Latvian pump dot fun streamer
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  Speaker 1: and cancer patient Rivo Plavnik's aka Rostaaland had thirty two
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars in cryptos stolen after a seven hour stream
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  Speaker 1: which included playing blockblasters. This isn't even the first time
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  Speaker 1: this year a game has been pulled from Steam for
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  Speaker 1: hosting or redirecting to malware, but Plavnik's heart wrenching circumstances
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  Speaker 1: elevated the story to mainstream media. Fortunately, that lost cryptocurrency
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  Speaker 1: was actually made up by donations from the community. But
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  Speaker 1: for its part, Valve has delisted block blasters and seems
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  Speaker 1: to have notified users who played while the malicious build
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  Speaker 1: was active, but hasn't mentioned any plans to scan updates
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  Speaker 1: for malware. Because it's that like a skin, you can
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  Speaker 1: get encounter strike or something. I'm pretty busy and Video
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  Speaker 1: will invest up to one hundred billion dollars in open AI,
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  Speaker 1: raising antitrust concerns as the biggest provider of AI Accelerators
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  Speaker 1: takes a massive stake in one of the biggest AI
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  Speaker 1: companies now. Although the Trump Administration's Big Beautiful Bill took
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  Speaker 1: steps to limit the power of AI regulation, the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Justice did say last week that protecting competition supports
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  Speaker 1: the AI innovation it wants to encourage, So it might
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  Speaker 1: be taken a little look see at this deal. Open
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  Speaker 1: Ai isn't wasting any time though, in putting the promised
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  Speaker 1: funding to good use. It's working with Oracle and soft
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  Speaker 1: Bank to build five new data centers for its Stargate
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  Speaker 1: initiative that will bring the total planned capacity to seven
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  Speaker 1: gigawatts seven points, no, just seven, which Wired says is
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  Speaker 1: roughly the power consumption of seven nuclear reactors. Well, if
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  Speaker 1: the AI bubble isn't bursting quite yet, could we at
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  Speaker 1: least get some AI tools that are actually useful? I
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  Speaker 1: mean at least. Google is still trying to do something
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  Speaker 1: interesting with their new Google Labs mix Board. It's a
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  Speaker 1: concepting board app now in beta, which is similar to
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  Speaker 1: Adobe's firefly boards or fig jam and it's meant to
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  Speaker 1: explore visual ideas, generate mood boards, and apparently put Google
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  Speaker 1: eyes on a bunch of birds. There is also mind
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  Speaker 1: makes psychoactive drugs without the trip. That may not sound
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  Speaker 1: like a thing that psychedelic drug enjoyers would enjoy, but
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  Speaker 1: Microsoft has introduced a micro fluidic cooling breakthrough. They're claiming
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  Speaker 1: a three times improvement and pulling heat away from the
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  Speaker 1: package the chip by first cutting hair sized channels in
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  Speaker 1: the silicon and then running coolant through them. They use
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  Speaker 1: AI to map the hotspots and direct the fluid. So
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  Speaker 1: we're officially at the point where AI is physically improving
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  Speaker 1: a dime. That's why I sell my company's electricity back
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  Speaker 1: speaking of power, Thanks to Logitech's new solar powered keyboard,
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  Speaker 1: use in complete darkness, which should appeal to many of you.
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  Speaker 1: It costs one hundred bucks and has an AI button
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  Speaker 1: that pulls up Copilot or Gemini, depending on your OS,
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  Speaker 1: because those are tools that use a lot of power.
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  Speaker 1: The reason any of this matters is the predecessor of
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  Speaker 1: For whoever's been waiting to upgrade, I guess it's finally
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  Speaker 1: really caught my eye is this wild active cooling setup
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  Speaker 1: Hello performance, goodbye tower cooler compatibility. But apparently it's worth
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  Speaker 1: it because they're claiming nearly forty percent more heat dissipation
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  Speaker 1: over standard heat spreaders. And now it's time for me
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  Speaker 1: to spread my my wings. This little bird's gonna fly
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  Speaker 1: the coop for now, but don't worry. I'll be back
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  Speaker 1: on Friday for more tech news. Ka