- Can you hear that?
The very wind is whispering its secrets to me.
And for some reason the wind always whispers
about tech news. Nothing else.
LG is working on a wacky new phone design
with not folding but swiveling screens.
A report from Korean news outlet ET News describes
a concept device called the LG Wing,
which features a 6.8 inch display that rotate sideways
to reveal a second four inch display underneath.
And then under that screen is that...
No, I'm just kidding. There's just two screens.
This design extensively allows the user
to use an on-screen keyboard
while still enjoying whatever landscape content
is playing on the main display.
There's also a graphic that indicates
the second screen could be useful to display bar graphs.
The report says the Wing is expected to launch
in the second half of this year.
So we'll have to see whether this thing actually comes out
and confirms once and for all
that phones have officially jumped the shark.
You might say LG is just wingin' it at this point.
(laughs sarcastically)
I added that one on my own.
Riley takes the responsibility for it.
This morning Epic Games announced Unreal Engine 5
in the form of a jaw dropping live demo running
on the PlayStation 5
as part of the new Five-Club initiative.
That last part isn't real. I'm sorry.
I Unreal Engine demos are always visually impressive,
but this one actually brings along some new tech
that could have a big impact on game development.
Unified allows developers to import
a super high-detail model,
like a statue made of 33 million triangles
without having to manually render its details
into flat textures.
A process known as "baking".
And game devs, I know it's more complicated than that.
I'm sorry.
More importantly, doing this won't incur
a huge performance hit.
I mean, do you know how many triangles we're talking here?
Like, so many triangles.
Epic also announced that developers
can use Unreal Engine for free
until their game makes $1 million in revenue.
And that that policy is being extended retroactively
for any games that launched after January 1st, 2020.
Wow. I mean, I would have taken
the sick looking tech demo running on PlayStation 5
all by itself.
But they're like, free Unreal Engine and triangle stuff.
That's just the (bell rings) cherry on top.
And Zoom might be addressing its security problems,
but the company's efforts will not help you
if you click a fake Zoom link.
Yep, hackers are spreading fake links
to Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams meetings
in elaborate new phishing scams according
to a report from Check Point Research.
The bad guys are registering domains
that pose as the official services,
sending out invite emails to victims
who then click the link and accidentally download malware.
Oof, I guess it's time for all of us to switch
to VR meetings.
It's not even really a joke.
Spatial, the VR conferencing app
has just made its collaboration platform free-to-use
on the Oculus Quest, iPhone, Android
and through a web browser.
And this is happening just as everyone's tired
of being Zoom-bombed.
Although it's only a matter of time
before Spatial gets 100 tiny knuckles avatars,
popping up saying, "they know de wae!".
(laughs sarcastically)
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AMD has announced a confusing new game store,
called Robot Cache.
Which lets you buy and then resell games
for 25% of the original price
when you are done with them.
And then when you're not gaming,
you can use your PC
to mine a platform exclusive credit called Iron,
which you can then use to buy more games.
Okay, first of all, who benefits from,
"reselling digital games?"
And second is this a cryptocurrency thing?
First the backwards-compatibility snafu and now this?
What's going on over there Team Red?
Quibi, the short form mobile-focus video streaming services,
reportedly not doing too well,
and Company Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg blames
everything that has gone wrong on the Coronavirus.
I mean, it is true.
A service meant to be watched on-the-go launched
just as people were told not to go anywhere, ever.
And I feel a little bad.
But we really need another video service guys?
The FBI has officially accused China's government
of sponsoring hacking attacks meant
to steal COVID-19 vaccine research.
Presumably whichever country comes up with a vaccine first
would have bragging rights
about being a more advanced country and saving the day
which is obviously the whole point of making a vaccine.
So hey, good job, China I guess.
In other news, the Chinese government
is also dropping rocket parts in Africa.
Reports from the African country Cote d'Ivoire,
described chunks of metal falling from the sky,
right along the trajectory where the core
of China's Long March 5B rocket was falling back to earth
after it inadvertently entered an unstable orbit.
China is going to be launching a lot of rockets
as they build their space station.
So hopefully this doesn't become a regular occurrence.
And Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shared a little video
of himself removing what he called
the world's largest graphics card from his oven at home.
The unit is probably a server-based product
that we will hear more about tomorrow at the GTC Keynote.
But honestly, that's not what's got me curious.
What I wanna know is,
hey, Jensen, where's your leather jacket?
I thought it was actually fused to your spine.
Alright, that's it for this one guys.
Come back on Friday for more tech news.
hopefully by then the wind will have
something new to whisper.
It's always whispering.
That wind.
(Imitating whispering wind)