- Aha. You fell for my trap.
You clicked on this video to get tech news,
and now I'm going to give it to you. (laughs)
You fool. Showed them.
- [James] Riley gonna give it to ya.
(dramatic singing)
♪ TechLinked. ♪
- The launch of Nvidia's rumored RTX 3080Ti
has reportedly been postponed to February
from its original launch in January.
The potential information comes from igor'sLAB,
who also claims that the RTX 3060
will launch around the same timeframe in two flavors.
One with 6GB VRAM and one with 12GB.
It was believed that Nvidia would unveil these cards
in January during virtual CES.
And indeed, Nvidia has announced an event for January 12th
called GeForce RTX game on.
It wasn't on before now it is.
Now there are some rumors
this event could focus on
mobile RTX 30 series laptops instead,
but either way,
it's actually a great time for ray tracing
because today the Khronos Group
released ray tracing tools for the Vulkan graphics API
and it's new SDK and the latest GPU drivers
from Nvidia and AMD.
Meaning AMD cards
will soon be able to use ray tracing better
in more games, including Quake II RTX,
which supports AMD ray tracing as of yesterday.
James, do you see what's possible when we worked together?
- [James] You sound like an Nvidia shell.
They probably twisted your arm to say that.
- Oh, Oh. Ah.
After basically all of America's attorneys general
sued Facebook for antitrust violations,
Texas and 10 other states are now suing Google
for allegedly making an illegal agreement with Facebook
to control the digital advertising market.
They're in cahoots.
- [James] Oh, look up will you?
- Have you heard that word before?
Together the two tech giants basically have a duopoly.
There's another one.
On web-based advertising.
So it's not that far fetched of a claim.
The lawsuit is only the latest salvo in an ongoing battle
over big techs monopolistic
and privacy compromising business practices,
which is why the EU
is drafting two new pieces of legislation.
The Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act
will fine tech giants as much as 10%
of their worldwide revenues
for offenses like stifling competition
and not allowing users to uninstall pre-installed apps.
- [James] EU is always so much ahead of us.
- Eat it bloatware!
Meanwhile, Facebook hasn't really taken the hint
of the sort of cultural milieu
and it's taken out a full page newspaper ad
claiming, they're standing up to Apple
who is updating iOS 14,
with the ability for users
to opt out of personalized tracking for ads.
Facebook claims the move will devastate
those who depend on such personalized ads
to survive, you know, small businesses like,
AliExpress.
And in an earnings call with investors,
Cyberpunk 2077 developers CD Projekt Red
has apologized for misleading Sony and Microsoft
about the game's readiness for launch
on PS4 and Xbox one.
For reference, the game performs so poorly
on last gen consoles
that the developer has offered players refunds.
But oh, they didn't actually have any plan
for how those refunds would work.
So, now the support teams for PlayStation
and Xbox are being swarmed by angry players
demanding refunds and not getting them.
CD Projekt Red apologized for that in the call too.
Man! The cyberpunk drama over bugs
and inadequate performance has been hot this week,
but a strange side effect James,
do you want to hear about it?
It's been the praise given to Stadia
over how well the game performs on that service.
Stadia also just got Ubisoft plus games
and it's officially available on iOS
through the official beta web app.
- [James] It's happening!
- How did this story become about Stadia so quickly?
- [James] What a twist.
- Ah, it's that negative latency.
I prepared that joke.
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Hey, there's actually more reasons
to dislike CD Projekt Red.
In case you were wondering...
- [James] You are so seedy.
- Ah! The developer's game platform,
gog.com was going to host Devotion.
The game by Taiwanese developer Red Candle Games,
which was banned from Steam
after pressure from China.
But after Red Candles announcement,
Gog tweeted that they had decided
not to list the game on their store
after receiving many messages from gamers.
- [James] (chanting) Bend the knee, bend the knee.
- (laughing) So not only did they apparently
renege on a deal, they're lying about it.
Although we can't be sure about that second part I guess.
There are a lot of gamers in China.
- [James] Did you just say renege?
- Renege.
- Renege? It sounds like,
it looks like a French word.
The UK has proposed legislation
that would make the resale of gaming consoles
and computer components purchased by automated bots,
AKA scalping, illegal.
Scalping event tickets is already illegal in most places.
So this wouldn't be that outlandish.
Imagine, actually being able to buy new tech
at MSRP from the store and not from Craig in the alley,
The value of Bitcoin reached an all-time high
of $20,632 U.S. dollars on Wednesday.
- [James] Go HODLing.
- I don't know what that means.
After reaching a low point of $3,600 in March.
And now it's actually up another 8% at $21,123.
But my only question is,
once coins get that big,
how will we use them in laundry machines?
I've got some investigating to do.
The U.S. FDA has given emergency authorization
to the country's first Corona Virus test
that can be self administered at home
without a prescription.
It's about 90% accurate
and made by Australian company Ellume.
The test will reportedly be available in drug stores
for probably an hour.
'Cause it'll sell out.
Scalpers! Stop them!
And software engineer Ben Carter
has developed a custom chip
for the Super Nintendo console
that enables ray tracing.
And the footage is just as glorious as it sounds.
Just look at those beautiful reflective pixels.
Am I being cyberpunked?
I hope not.
This performs better than that game anyway.
Well, that's it for this one, cyber peeps.
Come back on Friday for more tech news.
I promise I won't trick you again for that one.
I already got my Jimmy's from this episode.