- Welcome back. I'm James Strieb, your host for...
(snickers) This is stupid.
Linus took our spot, so now we have to do this.
You like curtains? (chuckles)
- [Riley] This looks great!
- NVIDIA is buying Arm for a reported $40 million.
If you're not familiar with it, Arm is a big company.
They're the company behind the architecture
that powers the processors inside
the most popular smartphones,
and even some supercomputers!
Although NVIDIA is better known to many consumers
as the maker of gaming GPUs,
(laughs) they've also invested heavily
in artificial intelligence systems
like their autonomous vehicle platform.
This acquisition of Arm could help NVIDIA
become a leader in the AI space,
as it foresees its partnership with Arm
as a way to gets its technology into smartphones
and IoT devices, which are increasingly using
on-device machine learning.
Think about how your current phone
might use AI to enhance the photos you take,
because your normal ones suck.
- [Riley] Oh, I see. - You're a good person.
The merger should be finalized within a year and a half,
and NVIDIA says it'll still license Arm technology
to a broad range of customers,
even if they don't wear leather jackets.
- [Riley] That's nice of them.
- TikTok may have found new life in the United States,
as reports indicate that they've agreed
to partner with Oracle, based out of California.
The U.S. government had originally threatened
to ban TikTok because of national security concerns
due to the fact that it was owned by Chinese firm ByteDance,
and not necessarily because of the thottery on there
is off the charts. (Riley whistles)
- I mean... - [Riley] It's stratospheric!
- Since then, TikTok has been searching
for an American buyer, and although Microsoft
and Walmart and Google were all in the mix for a while,
those talks reportedly broke down.
Oracle isn't as well known
in the consumer side of things as the companies mentioned,
as they typically sell their products more
to large businesses than individual consumers,
but the deal could help Oracle's branding,
and the company has stated it anticipates
creating a 20,000 new jobs-a
in the United States. (laughs)
- [Riley] Wait. 20,000? - That's a lotta jobs.
For some reason I'm picturing TikTok command center,
like what they have at NASA,
except all the screens show meme videos.
- [Riley] Sir! - And they're all-
- [Riley] There's a developing meme
off the starboard bow!
- Look at this portrait mode monitor!
Starboard bow, hooah!
We've already seen a lotta phones
that try to do something more interesting with their screen
than just have it be just that standard,
flat, candy bar shape,
and LG have unveiled another take on this trend.
Called the LG Wing, it has two OLED screens,
one stacked on top of the other.
The top one looks conventional enough,
but you can rotate it 90 degrees
to reveal a second, smaller screen underneath,
with the whole thing resembling the letter T.
LG calls this Swivel Mode
and apparently has big plans for it,
such as using it for camera controls
when you're taking a picture.
It's like a built-in selfie stick.
- [Riley] Ah! - Hmm.
Though of course there has to be actual developer support
if we want to see the future really take off.
It's a cool idea though, LG. Thank you.
You would do well to remember though
that putting a second screen on something
doesn't mean people will automatically rush out and buy it.
Remember the Wii U?
- [Riley] Don't- - Exactly.
- [Riley] D'oh.
- I never saw one in real life.
- [Riley] Really? (James snickers)
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Name one bit that's better than the Quick Bits, huh?
I'll wait.
You can't! (chuckles)
A massive data leak from Razer
has exposed customer addresses,
contact information and order details.
Good thing I don't buy their crap.
- [Riley] Okay.
- Just jokin'. I don't, but...
Fortunately, there were no passwords
or credit card data in the leak,
but hackers could use the info to reach out to victims
with phishing scams and actually sound believable
because they have their order information,
so if you ordered anything from Razer,
you might wanna read every email using this face.
- [Riley] Yeah, that'll work.
- Wait a second, this just in:
AMD has just released the designs
of their RX 6000 graphics cards inside of "Fortnite"?
- [Riley] Huh?
- God damn you, 2020.
The Twitter announcement was enough, okay?
You can go onto the Creative Island in "Fortnite"
and check it what it looks like.
It looks like a normal graphics card.
- [Riley] It's got three fans!
- [James] Wow. - [Riley] Whoa.
- [James] I guess we're gonna have to wait
until October 20th?
- [Riley] 8. - 28th, October 28th,
for the real announcement.
Wow. There's nothing on this paper. (chuckles)
The Oculus Quest 2 has leaked in an official promo video.
An officially leaked promo video.
It doesn't quite confer much
except the physical design and the fact
that it's been upgraded from a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
to a Snapdragon XR2, which is designed
specifically for AR and VR hardware.
It's also got 6 gigabytes of RAM, up from 4,
and an almost-4K display,
which means nearly 2K per eye.
- [Riley] So close. - Too many air quotes.
Ah, okay, more details are expected
at Facebook Connect on September 16th,
like the device's refresh rate
and whether or not we'll need to let Mark Zuckerberg
eat our souls in order to use it.
- [Riley] My guess is: yes.
- He's got a big tummy.
Microsoft's xCloud streaming service
is set to go live tomorrow,
and there's a pleasant surprise for those of us
who are planning to take advantage of it.
More than 150 Xbox games will be available to play,
up from the 100 originally reported.
It's certainly good news, though unfortunately
"Flight Simulator" isn't on the list.
I mean, nothing says realistic flight
like trying to look at a 747 cockpit
through a tiny phone screen, but hey,
woulda been nice, okay?
And U.S. Customs has some egg on its face today
after putting out a press release about how
it seized a large shipment of counterfeit Apple AirPods
at JFK Airport in New York.
Problem is it doesn't look
like they were fake AirPods at all.
Instead, Customs and Border Protection tweeted out photos
of what appear to be actual OnePlus Buds.
So if you thought I was a jerk
in my review on ShortCircuit of those
and you said, "Just because they have stems
doesn't mean they're ripoffs of Apple," hah, you're wrong.
I was right. - [Riley] What?
- They are totally blatant ripoffs
and the government agrees with me,
okay boomer.
So that's our show.
Tune in next week, when we will have our regular set back.
And why do I have two cameras? It's weird.
- [Riley] Two is better than one.
- I'll just look in the middle of them.
Goodbye, everyone.
- [Riley] Don't do this, James.