- Sure, there is a way to get your tech news
without watching this show
but I wouldn't recommend it.
I tried it.
It's weird.
Meh.
The company formerly known as Facebook,
Meta, has issued a warning to the continent of Europe,
the whole thing, that it would pull its social platforms
out of the EU if they're not allowed to continue storing
vast troves of European user data on its US-based servers.
Oh my God, what a threat.
No, Facebook, don't.
(presenter chuckling)
What will Europe do without Instagram and Facebook?
More likely, they care about WhatsApp.
Meta's threat comes after a European Union court ruling
stating that US data protection laws
weren't up to par with European standards,
which led to a regulator in Ireland deciding
that the steps Facebook was taking
to protect the user data.
(people in background laughing)
This is turning into a weird accent.
We're inadequate.
Was it a password123 situation?
We don't know.
If that decision is upheld later this year though,
Facebook would be forced to end data transfers
from the EU to the US.
So Europeans, you might be interfacing
with the last IG thirst trap you'll ever see.
(people in background chuckling)
(presenter slurps)
Enjoy it, thots.
- [Background Audience] Double tap, again.
- [Presenter] Facial recognition technology has been
struck another blow in the US with the IRS
announcing the cancellation of a controversial plan
that would've required citizens to verify their identity
using the tech when logging into the tax agency's website.
Ha, talk about dystopian.
- [Background Audience Member] Verify.
(presenter chuckling)
- I just wanna do my taxes, man.
- [Background Audience Member] Verify.
- The walk back comes after members of both
US political parties,
both, all two of them,
voice their concerns to the head of the IRS
about the system called ID.me.
It was concerning on a number of levels
like not only would taxpayers
be forced to upload images
of themselves to a database
that's already a huge target for hackers
but also it's the IRS.
Everybody hates them and now we're sending selfies.
- [Background Audience Member] They don't deserve that.
- It's not right.
And the US governments ban on Huawei and ZTE Tech
came back to bite them when the $1.9 billion set aside
by the FCC to help pay for swapping equipment
was dwarfed by the $5.6 billion in requests
sent in by carriers.
You see, you're not buying the made in China stuff anymore.
It's all real leather.
- [Background Audience Member] Ohhh.
- But it's not like the FCC was completely out to lunch.
Originally, they thought it would all cost $1.8 billion,
but they upped it to $1.9 billion to be safe.
- [Background Audience Member] Perfect cover.
Yeah, that's good.
- FCC chairwoman, Jessica Rosenwartze,
says they'll work with Congress
to ensure there's enough funding available
to help everybody.
It'll just involve printing some extra money, is all.
- [Background Audience Member] Yeah!
- No harm in that. Invest in bitcoin.
- [Background Audience Member] In places fun in the pool.
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- Many have tried to catch the quick bits,
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Although traditional new iPhone season isn't until the fall,
Apple might just have something for you next month
if you're in the market for a lower cost device
and who isn't in this economy?
A new iPhone SE is set to be announced early in March,
featuring 5G support, a better camera, wireless charging,
and even a top end A15 processor,
making it the only iPhone worth getting, in my opinion.
Androids have the iMessage reactions now.
- [Background Audience Member] Ha ha!
- We can do anything.
- [Background Audience Member] What do you want,
a lightning connector?
- You get a whole new text that says so and so liked.
It sucks.
After gutting its Stadia games division,
Google is advancing talks with game developers,
such as Capcom and Bunge,
to license out Stadia's infrastructure.
The idea is,
we're giving up on this.
(person in background laughing)
- The idea is third party developers could
use it to offer their own streaming services.
Looking at you, Sony, yours sucks.
Or offer streaming games on other platforms,
such as consoles.
The best part,
they don't have to use the Stadia name anywhere.
- [Background Audience Member] What is that?
- You don't like that word?
(presenter chuckles)
Wi-Fi 6E routers and products
have been a little hard to come by
and according to one analyst, that's never going to change.
Although, 6E is the newest Wi-Fi standard.
The first devices featuring Wi-Fi 7 are set to
start coming out next year.
And because of the chip shortages
and supply chain issues affecting 6E's availability,
most consumers don't simply appear to care
that much about Wi-Fi 6E
because what is it?
Use regular numbers.
License plates are confusing.
- Tech people could probably help a bit.
- It's extra spectrum allocation actually,
- Six extra
- Six S it works for works for Apple.
Nissan's European division will be focusing
on EVs after reviewing new European rules
regarding car emissions and deciding it would be too
expensive to design a new lineup
of internal combustion engines on the continent.
However, this doesn't apply
to the US where the rules are looser
and demand for gas engines is still high
especially in pick em up trucks, which isn't surprising
if you've ever sat through a block
of commercials during NFL game.
- I have not done that.
- Also, capitalism wins in the US.
There's a lot of rich people in oil, so
- It's a lot of electricity
- And Ubisoft has heard the criticisms
over its decision to get into NFTs loud and clear
and they're doing something about it.
They're offering free NFTs to their employees.
You wish you worked there.
Ubisoft's employees were no happier about
the company's decision than gamers were.
So, the brass tried to change their minds
by giving them NFTs, a virtual hat,
- Hey, free hat!
- One virtual fedora per crew please.
I'm gonna bet this will do more to cause griping
at the water cooler than it will to actually convince anyone
that NFTs are a good idea.
- Put the hat on the water cooler in the game,
and then everyone's happy.
- Yeah. A little AR app you can look at the hat
and it's a good idea to end this video,
too much tech news can hurt the brain.
Come back on Wednesday more tech news.
Yep. Yep.