- Ha-ha!
It's CES, yeah.
(chuckles) (hands clapping)
Oh, this show floor looks a lot like our studio though.
- [Jono] What are you gonna check out first, Riley?
- The COVID exhibit.
(laughing)
(Jono laughing)
- So far, there isn't actually a ton of CES news
since most of the big press conferences
are happening tomorrow,
but Samsung started things off early
by announcing the world's first 4K 240 Hertz monitor,
the Neo G8.
Also with the quantum mini LED backlight,
which will help contrast and color accuracy, I think?
James isn't here to correct me.
Do you know about that, Jono?
- [Jono] Yeah, it's gonna be awesome.
- You use TVs.
Samsung also showed off a second gen Smart Monitor
with an included magnetic webcam and support
for cloud gaming services.
So, you can finally throw that nasty PC in the trash.
Gross.
Samsung TVs are getting some upgrades.
There will be some models with no bezels at all,
as well as support for 4k, 144 Hertz content,
which will come in handy for the cloud gaming support also
in the new TVs.
But it's CES, so Samsung left room
for some real wacky stuff too.
Like the Eco Remote that now harvests wifi radio signals
as well as solar energy to power itself.
And, of course, the crucial NFT management feature,
which will let you display your NFT art on the TV.
This one is a particularly beautiful piece.
The look in the apes eyes is, I just,
I just can't describe how stupid it is.
Microsoft apparently thought the world rolled into 2022
without much fanfare.
So, they thought they'd make things a bit more interesting
by refusing to fix a date check bug
in the company's exchange servers.
The systems were unable to parse the new confusing date
of January 1st, 2022-
There's too many twos.
Which got emails stuck in the queue, crashing servers
and sending IT admins scrambling to figure out
if it was really the Russians or Y2K,
the sequel, Revengeance.
Y2K two,
too many twos.
Many thought the bug was a security issue
since one of the workarounds involved
disabling anti-malware services.
But as Microsoft confirmed,
when they issued an emergency patch,
it wasn't anything so dangerous.
You can go back to worrying about the other terrifying
things on your mind now.
And Dell is introducing more weird concept products.
This time under its Alienware brand, Project Nyx
is essentially a powerful household server
that would run games and let users stream them
to any number of devices, a smart TV, a laptop,
phones or tablets, all while using the same controller.
And Nyx could apparently do this for multiple users at once,
running up to four games simultaneously.
Now, this sounds pretty wild,
but I'm gonna reserve judgment until they release
a trailer depicting an incredibly beautiful family
that are all massive gaming nerds,
pushing each other around the house to play their game
on different screens.
They have so much fun together.
(laughing)
I wish I was with them.
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Jono, can I tell you something?
- [Jono] Yeah.
- Sometimes it's hard to keep the bits quick.
I keep that inside most of the time.
Two years after hitting a $1 trillion market cap,
and one year after hitting a 2 trillion cap,
Apple has become the first American company
to hit 3 trillion.
- [Jono] Woo hoo!
- Although they-
You're happy about this?
(chuckling) - [Jono] Money, baby.
- Yay, the economy.
Although they dropped back
below the mark shortly afterwards.
It seems like they'll hit it again though
since the company has tripled its valuation
in under four years.
It's like my personal boycott isn't doing anything.
We call Tim Cook Tim Apple all the time.
It's like, nobody cares.
They'll just keep buying...
(horn blowing)
- [Jono] Take my money, Tim Apple.
Take it.
- It's you, you're the problem.
AT&T and Verizon have rejected a request
from the Federal Aviation Administration
to continue delaying their rollout of 5G C-band frequencies
saying the FAAs concerns over aircraft interference
aren't actually concerning because the same technology
is used in much of Europe and quote,
"The laws of physics are the same
in the United States and France."
- [Jono] Oh.
- It seems like
an obvious thing. - [Jono] I don't think so.
- These days you really have to spell it out
for some people.
- [Jono] Disagree.
(sniggering)
- The latest gaming company to express interest in NFTs
is Square Enix who didn't announce any specific plans,
but did confirm in a letter written
by president, Yosuke Matsuda,
that they're gonna do something since NFTs are,
and this is a paraphrase on my part,
so hot right now.
Matsuda did acknowledge reservations
expressed by gamers who play to have fun,
but there are also gamers who play to contribute
to their own crypto meta-wallets.
And they deserve to give Square Enix money too.
- [Jono] I want my [Indistinct].
- It's the Christmas spirit.
A faulty software update to HP Enterprise servers
at Japan's Kyoto University caused the permanent erasure
of 77 terabytes of research data,
as well as its backups effecting about 34 million files
from 14 research groups.
They didn't say what they were researching, but it is Japan,
so it may have been more stuff
like the lickable flavor screen we talked about last week.
And if that never comes to market,
I'm gonna be stuck licking my screen
and tasting absolutely nothing.
It sucks, every day, this is my life.
- [Andy] I'll put wasabi on your screen.
- Oh, thanks, Andy.
That'll help.
And, of course, Kohler is using CES to talk up more
of it's weird bathroom tech,
like a bathtub kit that will let you tell a voice assistant
to fill the tub to a certain level for you,
as well as its stillness bath, featuring custom scents,
water vapor and RGV LEDs.
We've seen all of this before,
but 2022 is apparently the year it actually hits the market.
So, it's a sign, this is the year we get fancy baths.
Things are gonna get better.
That's what that...
If you've got the fancy baths, positive thinking,
other things will follow.
And I'm positive you should show up tomorrow
for more tech news.
Yeah, that's right.
We're doing five episodes this week.
If you don't come back,
you will be less informed and you may even regret it.
And I'll miss you.