- Tech news incoming!
This is not a drill, whoa.
Strap in boys, this is what we trained for.
Watch out for "Half-Life 3" rumors, whoa.
Intel has only released a handful
of their new 12th-Gen Alder Lake desktop processors so far,
but they've already made quite an impression.
The whole school is talking about how they stood up
to rise in Chan.
- [James] What does that mean?
- That's an anime reference. - Okay.
- You've never seen it in your life.
- [James] I don't like it.
- Now a Geekbench listing is being circulated
that shows an Alder Lake Celeron G6900.
Nice, I didn't even notice that.
A dual-core entry-level part Intel announced at CES,
beating the single-core performance
of an Intel core i9-10900K.
Sure, it's a 10th Gen part and the benchmark was running
on Linux and the Celeron's MSRP is $42 US,
but it almost certainly won't be available for that price.
But I still think it's worth taking this moment
to celebrate the little guys.
You don't need more than two cores
to make a difference in the world.
Look at Linus, we love a short king.
- [James] He's a two-core guy.
- You could be a short king.
Razer's Zephyr Pro face mask was one of the top products
at CES, mostly by virtue of being an actual real product
and not a CGI concept.
Although those are fun,
I'll read about your color changing smart garbage bin
all day, great job.
But after backlash over Razer's description
of the masks filters as N95 grade,
the company has now removed all mention
of anything N95 related on the Zephyr website.
The criticism was spearheaded by YouTuber,
Naomi Wu, aka SexyCyborg,
who confirmed that the US National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health or NIOSH,
never approved the Zephyr Pro for N95 certification,
which, by the way, applies to the entire mask,
not just the filters.
So if you had the Zephyr Pro on your wishlist,
just be aware it may be less useful
as medical-grade protective equipment
than it is as part of your cosplay of a watchdogs character,
which I guess you would wanna do for some reason.
The games are bad, have you-
- [James] Those games suck.
- The coolest thing about them was the guy with the mask.
And Apple once again made a mockery
of their own iOS app review process
by allowing the App Store to be flooded with clones
of the popular "Wordle" word game.
You may have seen it on Twitter.
- [James] Wordle, Wordle, Wordle.
- Wordle, Wordle, Apple has now started taking
those clone apps down, but only after widespread backlash
against the creator
of one of the most popular variants, Zachary Schacht.
- [James] More like Zachary Wrecked.
- (laughing) That was good, James.
You got him. - Hey, got him.
- Zach apparently thought he could defend himself on Twitter
by pointing out he offered to share revenue
with the creator of the real Wordle app, Josh Wordle.
(laughing) I didn't even notice his name was like Wordle.
What! (James laughing)
- Wordle, the creator of Wordle refused the revenue share,
probably because he said he wants the app
to remain free to use.
Then Zach said, "You all don't understand.
See, I did this to make money.
Can't you see that's reasonable?"
- [James] Zach attacked.
- It didn't help that Zach had already tweeted
about how much he hates copycats in the past.
Hey, me too, Zach,
which is why I sued TalkLinked Daily into the ground.
They had no right to this format.
- Tech week, maybe. - Damn.
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Quick bits, another reason why you don't have to be long
to be great, which is why I'm trying to lose height,
I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Samsung tweeted out a dramatic teaser last month
for an event announcing their latest Exynos CPU,
presumably, the one built with AMD Graphics,
that was supposed to take place on January 11th, yesterday,
but the appointed time came and went with Nary,
a peep from the company,
who eventually responded to journalists
by explaining that the new chip will be introduced
alongside the Galaxy S22,
which is expected to happen in the next few weeks.
Delaying product releases isn't that strange,
especially these days, but announcing a big reveal
and then whiffing it completely-
- [James] It goes to that.
- Is a little unusual, I was ghosted by a big tech company.
- [James] That's a nop.
- That's not unusual either.
Thankfully, it was something almost no one cares about.
Bam, got him, be on time next time.
Android's head honcho, Hiroshi Lockheimer,
is turning up the pressure on Apple
to support Rich chat services in iMessage,
which would allow iPhone and Android users
to send SMS text messages to each other,
with support for all the cool things you can do
in other apps like liking messages
without sending five duplicates
of the thing you never meant to send them.
Lockheimer and the official Android Twitter accused Apple
of using peer pressure and bullying
as a way to sell product,
which isn't likely to change Apple's mind.
But hey, maybe Apple can sue them or something,
that was very effective (mumbles).
Nvidia has seen AMD's announcement
of their driver-level radio on Super-Resolution.
And a week later, has one-up them
by announcing their own driver-level support
for their Deep Learning Dynamic Super Resolution.
Man, these are long, come up with better names, guys.
So now it looks like the super sampling technologies
from Team Red and Green can be used in any game,
even if it's not officially supported by developers.
The big companies fight so we can win, it's like Pokemon.
- [James] But they're both in one ball.
- But they're both in one ball together-
- But we hold the ball.
- Get in the ball.
An acknowledgment of its inadequate supply
of PlayStation 5 Console,
Sony has announced it's ramping up production
of PlayStation 4s.
- Yeah. - Sorry, what?
PS4s are a bit easier to produce
than the more advanced PS5s,
so Sony has apparently told its partners
it hopes the Alder Console can continue to serve
as a budget-friendly alternative to the PS5.
And normally, I would be more upset about this,
but PCs are getting all the good PlayStation games
these days, "God of War" this week, whoop.
- Whoop, I can finish it- - Whoop, (indistinct) 970.
- (laughing) And a pig heart has been
successfully transplanted into a human for the first time
by doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
- [James] You talk about your mother that way?
- You can call her a pig. (laughing)
The landmark procedure took steps to decrease
the chances that the patient's body would reject the heart
by taking it from a pig, genetically modified
for justice purpose, using a new immunosuppressant chemical
and even more interestingly,
incubating the heart with a cocaine-laced solution.
Wow, I feel great now.
- [James] You don't even care that this is in kosher.
- (laughing) The 57-year-old patient, David Bennett,
had suffered advanced heart failure
prior to the experimental treatment,
but is now reportedly doing fine.
Now, this was a one-time thing.
So don't expect to get your own pig transplants
anytime soon, but do keep an eye out for manbearpigs,
because now we have evidence, they're real.
- [James] And that's super serial.
- And the real fact is that this episode is now over.
Come back on Friday for more tech news.
(sighing) I can only pray I've prepared you enough.
(James grunting)
(Riley shouting)