- I thought it might be nice if we talked
about some tech news.
Would you like that?
- [Riley] God, Carlton!
- Woo!
This week Arm unveiled a prototype
for a plastic based flexible microchip
the company has creatively dubbed 'PlasticArm'.
They've got to have some Germans
on the naming committee over there.
- [Riley] It makes perfect sense!
- Oh yah!
We've seen bendy chips before, but not like this.
With a 32 bit cortex M zero CPU
and with over 18,000 logic gates,
PlasticArm is about 12 times more powerful
than the other flexible chip designs out there,
they might as well be stickers.
Which is one application for these chips,
thanks to costing drastically less
than rigid silicon based chips.
PlasticArm could be built in a product packaging or labels,
which could, for instance, detect if food has gone bad.
That's right, an Arm engineer said,
"We'll be putting processors on lettuce
"or anything else you can think of."
Ew gross.
That's what you thought of?
- [Riley] It probably seems like you were thinking it.--
- Nasty.
No, I'm not thinking of anything.
- [Riley] Gross.
- I'm obviously not thinking.
Good news for anyone with an RTX 3090 made by EVGA
that was bricked while playing the new MMO New World.
The company says they'll replace the busted GPU's for free!
That's nice of them.
Some are saying this is the least EVGA could do
since the prevailing theory is that the hardware
was more to blame here than the game itself.
Although Amazon has patched the frames cap
in the games menu, just in case.
I can't say I feel too bad for the victims here.
Since they made the choice to A,
buy the most expensive gaming card on the market
and B, play New World.
But why are we making fun of New World?
It's not even out yet.
Anyways, if you've been turned off
of RCX 3090s forever,
the radio on 6600 XT looks like it will be announced soon.
So you'll have an opportunity to make a more balanced
purchasing decision.
- [Riley] Don't buy--
- Choices!
- [Riley] Expensive things.
- And more good news for the right to repair movement.
The federal trade commission has voted unanimously
to create new policy enforcing customers' rights
to fix items ranging from smartphones to farm equipment.
The vote comes after US President Biden issued
an executive order calling for such policy.
And with any luck, this will lead to new laws,
preventing Apple and other companies
from discouraging third-party repairs.
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- [Riley] Oh, he's gonna make funny--
- Riley, wait!
No. Why would you put that in there?
- [Riley] What do you mean?
- Riley, wait, no!
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That's the digestive system for you.
Many major websites and platforms, including Amazon, Steam,
the PlayStation network, and even Costco--
- [Riley] No, not Costco!
- Experienced a brief outage yesterday
thanks to a DNS issue experienced
by major web infrastructure company, Akamai.
Did I pronounced that right?
- [Riley] Sure.
- Beautiful.
The issue was fixed after a few hours,
but I don't feel comfortable using the web when everything
can just disappear like this.
So I'm going to go back to reading books.
- [Riley] You don't read books.
- I read books.
- Do you? - Yeah.
Atomic habits by James Clear, just read it.
I'm trying to become a better person, Riley.
Epic games has filed a new complaint
in their lawsuit against Google,
including new information about how the web giant tried
to block Epic from hosting Fortnite
on Samsung's Galaxy store.
Because while they're waiting for the Apple case
to be decided, might as well just remind Google
that they care, you know?
- You don't want to leave them on read.
- [Riley] Read.
- Read. Fudge!
Did I just swear? Sorry for swearing.
Two democratic senators introduced a bill yesterday
that would remove section 230 protections
from social platforms if their algorithms
are found boosting health-related misinformation,
fueling more debate about the control that Twitter,
Facebook and the rest have over what people are
and aren't allowed to say online.
Like I'm confused about things that I can say.
Can I say, fudge (beep).
- [Riley] Stop it!
- All right. Sorry about that.
Kaseya, the IT services provider
to around 1500 companies that
were affected by a ransomware attack
has obtained a master decryptor key from a third party
that is now being used to free the imprisoned data.
Kaseya got the key after wandering around the dungeon
for what felt like days until they saw
a weird shaped block that it turned out,
had to be rotated in order to get to the chest.
A guide would have been handy in this case.
And the Tokyo Olympics kicked off this week
with a suitably Japanese musical fanfare
from a ton of classic video games,
including Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy and Monster Hunter.
You think there'd be some Nintendo titles represented,
but nope,
that company is probably too busy suing it's fans
for not wanting to pay $90 for a 10 year old game.
- [Riley] (indistinct)
- It's unbelievable.
I want to play it, but I'm not paying that much.
That's it. I'm done.
Come back on Monday for more tech news.
I promise we won't yell at you this time.
It was just, it's just been a lot today. It's been a lot.
- [Riley] We're here for you.
- Thank you.
No! No!
(singing)