- Hey, wait a second. It's supposed to be Black Friday.
It's not,
it's not black at all!
There's blue and orange and-
- [Riley] It's very colorful!
- And white everywhere. - That's on purpose.
- NVIDIA is in some hot water
after an earnings report revealed
that they apparently sold
$175 million worth of RTX 30-series graphics cards to...
Ah, yes, they brought back the old villain,
"Star Wars"-style, cryptocurrency miners.
The cards are, of course, already in high demand,
but Ethereum miners are particularly interested
since changes to the currency coming in December
will make order hardware less effective at mining it.
Some fans are furious at NVIDIA,
thinking that the new GPUs aren't in stock
because they've all been bought up by miners.
But unless my math is way off,
that 175 million is only around 6%
of the total 2.7 billion that NVIDIA made in GPU sales
during the third quarter of 2020.
And given that every other major recent product launch
has also had stock problems,
we probably shouldn't be quite so quick
to attack NVIDIA for things
other than the things we already attack them about.
- [Riley] Like, get a different jacket, Jensen.
- Amazon is also in hot water for,
well, multiple reasons.
The first one is the company's
shared network program, Sidewalk.
Amazon plans to use a portion of all the network bandwidth
from all of its connected devices,
from Echo smart speakers to Ring smart doorbells,
to generate one giant network,
meaning your Alexa-enabled devices
will be directly connecting to your neighbor's devices
and to who knows how many other gadgets
that happen to be in the vicinity.
The feature will also be enabled by default,
with consumers having to manually opt out
if they find the idea somewhat disconcerting.
- [Riley] I do!
- The other reason to be mad at Amazon today is,
well, it's Black Friday, allegedly,
meaning that more attention is being called
to the company's questionable treatment of its employees.
Amazon workers are protesting unrealistic expectations
and low wages across the world today,
even though the corporation is giving full-time staff
a Christmas bonus of 300 whole dollars.
Company-wide, these bonuses amount to $500 million,
which seems like a lot until you hear that Amazon
is expected to pass $100 billion this quarter
for the first time.
I mean, honestly, I'm happy for Jeff Bezos.
Being successful like him is a lotta hard work.
He personally carries a lot of those packages.
- [Riley] He's flying his rocket.
- On his back. - Yeah.
- And get ready for some changes
coming to Windows next year.
Leaks have given us a peek at what Microsoft is working on,
including Cloud PC which would, fittingly,
provide access to a could-based Windows PC
that one could access through any browser.
Microsoft also plans to ship Windows 10X
in the first half of 2021
along with it's dual-screen Surface Neo
and other midrange laptops and tablets,
although it will not run Win32 apps natively,
which will be, well, interesting.
And thanks to Window 10's new baked-in support for Linux,
Microsoft is apparently working on a feature
that would allow users to install Android apps
straight from the Microsoft store.
That is awesome! - Huh!
- I've been waiting for years to use Twitter on my computer.
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- Quirk Brats! They just keep coming, don't they?
German developer Alexander Graf
apparently managed to install the ARM version of Windows 10
on an Apple M1 Mac inside a virtual machine,
seemingly proving Apple's claim
that Microsoft could make official support possible
if they would just change that gosh darn licensing policy.
And while this is cool,
the real question that we have to ask is:
why would you wanna run Windows 10 on ARM on anything?
It kinda sucks.
The E.U. has voted in favor of developing a system
that would require tech manufacturers
to provide a repairability rating label for their products
in what looks like a win for right-to-repair advocates.
The repairability ratings would be part
of a standardized system,
hopefully incentivizing companies to make their products
more like things that you could fix
instead of things that you could use
for a little while and throw away.
I've heard of those. - Oh?
- I think my grandpa had one. - Oh! Can you get one?
- Another Microsoft story here:
the company is also in hot water
for the Microsoft Productivity Score,
a feature that was added to Microsoft 365 last week.
What the hell is this?
It lets bosses track how their employees
use Microsoft's suite of tools,
which sounds like a fancy way
to describe workplace surveillance.
"Oh no, is Linus reading this?
Forget I said anything. Go to the next story."
No, I think that's not cool.
- [Riley] Yeah! Hey!
Let's get 'em, boss! - Yeah.
"Doom" has been installed on yet another device
that it was never meant to be run on.
YouTuber stacksmashing has managed to play it
on Nintendo's new tiny Game & Watch,
although it does chug pretty bad.
Honestly, this has gotta be the one redeeming story of 2020.
There really is no telling
where they'll install "Doom" next.
To the moon! - M1 Mac!
- Oh! They could install it on the moon lander!
And Germany's national rail operator, Deutsche Bahn,
has announced that they are planning
to replace their diesel-powered trains
with ones powered by hydrogen.
Oh, wait a second. Germany?
Um, I don't wanna be the one to bring this up,
but did you forget about another
little hydrogen-powered transportation endeavor
you guys undertook?
You know what? It doesn't matter.
Pumping train cars full of hydrogen seems like a great idea.
Humans-
- [Riley] Humans can breathe it, right?
- They don't need to breathe anyway.
- [Riley] Yuck.
- And I just can't stand any more of this,
so come back on Cyber News Monday...
Cyber News Monday, that's what we're calling it.
- [Riley] Cyber News Monday! - Yeah.
That's what it's called from now on.
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- [Alex] What is going on?