- Oh, hey guys, just here at the mall
to pick up some tech news.
What, where I get it from.
The global chip shortage has affected
all kinds of sectors that use technology,
that being all of them,
but the automotive industry has had enough.
Ford and General Motors
have announced partnerships
with various chip makers,
including GlobalFoundries, TSMC,
NXP Semiconductors, and Qualcomm,
which the company say opens the door
to joint R and D and manufacturing
that could ease the burden
of tightened supply lines
and increase the supply of cars
with more advanced features.
Okay, cool.
So how exactly will they do this?
Yeah, they don't know.
The announcements didn't mention
any specific actions any of the companies
will take to achieve their goals,
but look, you gotta start somewhere.
Step one is saying we're gonna
fix the supply shortage.
Step two is...
I'm an ideas man.
NFTs are a polarizing subject right now,
but thankfully,
someone made a place where everyone
is welcome to download all the NFTs.
You heard that right,
every image linked to an NFT
on the Ethereum and Solana blockchains
is currently downloadable
as part of a 20 terabyte torrent file
hosted on thenftbay.org,
'cause that's like The Pirate Bay, 'cause...
The site was put up by an Australian developer
named Geoff Huntley
as a way to hopefully comment on
and educate the public about the nature of NFTs.
As you may know, NFTs aren't an image,
they're a token that may be linked to an image
hosted on a server somewhere.
And now, also hosted
in a 20 terabyte torrent file
so you can max out your internet connection
to own the crypto bros.
Whatever you think about them,
it looks like NFTs' normalization
cannot be stopped with the latest innovation
being virtual commemorative tickets NFTs
given to NFL fans.
You can give it to your kids, say,
"I was there and this proves it."
The twist is that your kids
are NFTs too in this example,
that's the future.
And Facebook is backtracking a bit
with a new test that will
give a subset of users control once again
of what they see in their newsfeed.
Users in the test group will be able
to turn up or turn down the amount of content
they see from specific friends, groups,
and pages on their personal Facebook homepage.
The move is likely a response
to general criticism of the way
Facebook and Instagram's algorithms
just make society worse.
But meta is also probably trying
to get ahead of proposed legislation
that would force social media companies
to give users the option
for an algorithm-free feed.
That's a trend we're seeing
across multiple companies.
Apple's new self repair service
is undoubtedly a response
to activist shareholders
and pressure from the FTC,
and Twitter recently dropped support
for Google's AMP system for news article links,
which has also come under scrutiny recently.
Could it be that the internet
might be getting better?
Now it's time for quick bits,
brought to you by Samsung,
who is reopening two of their most popular
Samsung Experience stores in Canada,
one at Yorkdale Mall in Toronto
and the other here at Metrotown Mall in Burnaby.
It's right, I'm in it.
And trust me, it is a vibe.
Why are you looking at me?
With new repair services, product training
and mobile pickup areas,
living the Samsung experience
is easier than ever.
And to celebrate, Samsung is given Canadians
the chance to win a wireless charger trio
or Galaxy Smart tag.
So kind.
Very Canadian.
To enter, just post a photo of yourself
at a Samsung Experience store with #SamungCanada,
#SamsungContest and tag
and follow Samsung Canada on Instagram.
Click the links below
to learn more about the giveaway
and to find a Samsung Experience store near you.
Maybe I'll meet you there (laughs).
Look, quick bits are gonna happen in your life.
At some point,
you'll have to deal with them.
Xbox boss Phil Spencer is a bad ass boss.
Why?
He recently told Axios that he hopes
to see the gaming industry as a whole
embrace legal emulation,
a concept that I think would give
Nintendo executives a collective aneurysm.
Xbox has certainly been talking the talk here,
between backwards compatibility
and game streaming,
you can play games from the original Xbox
on the latest model
and games from the new Series X
on the last gen Xbox One.
So keep being yourself, Phil.
Phil, Phil, Phil, Phil, Phil, Phil, Phil.
That's good enough for me (laughs).
He did make Elder Scrolls 6
an Xbox exclusive though.
I'll allow it.
MediaTek has long been the lesser cousin
to Qualcomm in the world
of arm processor manufacturers,
but the company's latest chip,
the Dimensity 9000,
could give snapdragons a run for their money.
It's the first chip built with both
arm's new V9 architecture
and TSMC's is four nanometer process,
so this thing that may just be
the new mobile chip king,
at least until November 30th
when Qualcomm has an event scheduled.
You get to sit on the throne
for a little while though, at least,
and that's fun.
Apple's long rumored autonomous car
has gotten some fresh rumors
to keep the mill going, courtesy of Mark Gurman.
He says the car, codenamed Project Titan,
is expected to launch in 2025
with a custom Apple chip
and no steering wheel or even pedals.
Why would you need that anyways
when Apple knows how to drive your car the best?
It's just like the iPhone.
Sideloading?
Everything worth downloading is in the App Store.
Apple knows best, but no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, don't, shh, shh,
sleep now.
Warner Brothers has taken the wraps off
it's Super Smash Bros style fighting game,
which is bafflingly not named Warner Smash Bros,
big mistake.
You can pit DC heroes like Superman
against Shaggy from Scooby-Doo
and Arya Stark from Game of Thrones?
Is this how weird the first
Smash Bros felt when it came out?
Does everyone in the game
have kryptonite or something?
What is the lore here?
And a teen in Hamilton, Ontario
was just arrested for stealing
36 million US dollars,
or 46 million Canadian,
in cryptocurrency last year
using a SIM swapping technique
to hijack someone's two-factor authentication.
Police were able to locate the team
because they used the money
to purchase a rare online username,
which is what anybody
would use millions of dollars for.
I'm gonna blame this on NFTs somehow.
But don't blame me for ending this episode
because it's over.
Come back on Monday for more tech news,
we'll be back in the studio.
But at first, I gotta get some bubble tea,
because there's,
is there a bubble tea place here?
I haven't been here in a while (laughs)
and play with some folding phones.
(laughs)