- Guys, it's time to forget about
all the crazy stuff going on out there,
and focus on what really matters.
The tech news, feel it.
Apple may have changed course and added more ports
to their latest Mac Book Pro models,
but there are still companies out there with the courage
to make a laptop with no ports at all.
A Concept Notebook has been making the rounds online,
designed by a company called Craob.
I'm guessing the name comes from crabs,
which also have no ports.
They're almost completely smooth.
They have a cloaca maybe?
The Craob X is incredibly thin
at just seven millimeters in height,
presumably because all the circuitry
for its non-existent ports has been removed
and placed into with wireless charging brick,
which magnetically attaches
to the back of the laptop display,
and offer some USB-C ports and SD card slot and more.
Look, we're all for minimalism, but even I can admit,
this is taking it a bit too far.
Being that smooth, it's unnatural.
You need some crevices.
Gamers Nexus has once again exposed some shady practices
by a tech company with their latest video,
in which they detail their experience
returning an unopened product to Newegg,
only to be denied a refund due to customer caused damage.
Newegg must've failed to mention all the little customers
that come inside the box.
He can't do anything about those bacteria.
(narrator laughs)
The product in question was a $500 motherboard
mint in the box,
but Newegg said the CPU pins were bent maybe by a ghost.
The Gamers Next's investigation prompted many customers
to share their own negative experiences with Newegg returns,
and Newegg has apparently been calling Steve
like a clingy ex, so hopefully
this leads to some positive changes at the retailer.
I think we can all agree, we don't want another NCIX.
And ensuing dumpster refugees.
And in NFT news, the verge thinks
they can just come out here,
and tell everybody that actually
we're all gonna call them "nefts" from now on.
(narrator laughs)
Neft?
I mean, on the plus side, it's one syllable,
instead of three, but on the other hand,
just who the (beep) does the verge think they are?
Nefts?
I'm gonna say "nefts" too many consonants.
Whether NEFT catches on or not,
the Verge doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon,
even though EA did just walk back, its earlier comments
about incorporating NFTs into their games,
the token seemed too simultaneously be gaining steam,
while also suffering from negative publicity
with recent reports about NFTs
being used for money laundering, and a confirmation from
the formerly Facebook backed Diem association,
that they're selling off their assets.
Meanwhile, the rest of us are "neft", asking what's NEFT?
(narrator laughs)
- [Audience] It's either minting colors now?
- What?
- [Audience] They're making colors in NFTs
where the person thinks
they're gonna have the royalties every time.
- You can mint NFT of the color red?
- [audience] Yes. (audience laughs)
- Ooh, I feel a different Riley coming on.
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We've tried everything else.
Trust me, this is it.
This is what you get.
The New York times has acquired
the massively popular word guessing game "Wordle",
for a sum of money somewhere in the low seven figures,
marking a real juicy payday for the simple apps creator,
Josh Wartell, that's still hilarious.
But if you're concerned that the free game
will eventually be put behind a paywall, good news.
The web version can be saved as simply as any webpage,
and will still update with a daily word
for potentially years from now.
Everybody wins.
Is everybody winning here?
Not having some kind of dystopian takeaway seems weird.
I don't know.
The newest Beta for the default Android messages app,
translates iMessage tap back reactions into emoji,
instead of displaying a duplicated message that says,
"Jim loved" at the start,
making communication between the phone ecosystems
feel more human and less like an alternate universe
where everyone only speaks in third person.
Riley really loved that.
European privacy regulators from 28 countries,
led by the Belgian Data Protection Authority,
have ruled that websites pervasive popups
asking for consent to collect user data
are actually illegal.
Under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR.
Even though that regulation was the sole reason
they were created in the first place.
Ad tech industry group, IAB Europe,
which developed the practice
has been issued a $283,000 fine.
And the group is now considering legal action
against the fine, because it's been like four years.
What did it...
Are we sure this fine isn't just because
boomer politicians realize what the popups are for?
They're like, "What is it?"
"Hey, wait a second."
The monitor refresh rate arms race has just intensified.
Chinese screen manufacturer BOE
has just announced a 10 ADP monitor,
that can hit 500 Hertz.
It'll be a while before the tech rolls out
in products from companies like ASUS or Gigabyte,
but just knowing it's out there as nice.
For crypto haters, maybe this is a different way
to go to the moon,
and maybe the frames will win the games after all.
David - [David] Yeah.
You're competitive, you don't play Kemp.
You're don't just playing Castlevania all the time now.
- [David] All the time.
- Now that doesn't...
You don't need frames for that.
And Hey, wait a second.
Wasn't Nvidia supposed to give more details
about the G-Force RTX 3090 TI by the end of January?
It's February 2nd.
And it's probably even later than that,
if you're on the upside down part of the world
from where we are, well, it gives team green?
I thought you were gonna release it so everyone
would remember how upset they are at you
for continually releasing new, more expensive
versions of GPU's instead of just
upping the stock of existing cards?
Now we're even more upset.
(narrator groans)
The only way to get over this is to come back on Friday
for more tech news.
Until then, I guess you'll have to go back
to thinking about non-tech stuff.
Godspeed.