- Tech news (beep).
(beatboxing comedically)
That's the intro.
Now that the metaverse is definitely a thing,
and not just a buzzword
being used inappropriately everywhere,
Apple is getting serious about it's long-rumored AR headset.
Renowned Apple leaker and rumormonger, Ming-Chi Kuo,
says Apple will launch the device
in the fourth quarter of 2022,
with two processors,
a lower end chip to handle sensor data
and another one
with the same level of computing power as M1.
This is gonna be like having a Mac mini
strapped to your face?
- [Behind Camera] The Macoverse.
- (laughs) The Maculous.
Immaculate inception.
Kuo says to expect a headset
with 4K OLED displays for each eye,
made by Sony,
and the ability to operate untethered,
not from the app store, though, (laughs)
from an iPhone or Mac.
Zuckerberg won't even know what hit him.
But, maybe it won't hit him though
'cause he's so good with the arms up.
He's ready.
He was like, (grunting loudly). (laughs)
You know what I'm talking about, though?
- [Behind Camera] I don't know, I can imagine.
- [Riley] No, it's from the Meta...
- [Behind Camera] Okay.
- It's from the Meta thing.
It's a meme.
While America struggles with what to do
about big tech's growing power,
other nations are makin' moves.
Italy is the latest country
to take a shot at the oligarchs,
announcing around 10 million Euro fines
for both Apple and Google,
for neglecting to inform users
about how their personal data is being collected and used.
- [Behind Camera] What's the matter you?
- Aw, come on!
- [Behind Camera] Capiche?
- This is what we think of as Italians.
That's like neglecting to boil the water
before you put the pasta in.
- [Behind Camera] A little olive oil in there.
- A little salt. (laughs)
Both companies are appealing the fines,
even though 10 million is a drop in the bucket
compared to the tens of billions of dollars in revenue
the companies have made so far this year.
And this is actually the second round of fines
Italy has issued this week,
slapping Apple and Amazon
with a combined $230 million fine a few days ago
for collusion regarding restrictions
on sales of used Apple products.
- [Behind Camera] Ciao.
- (laughs) Fines, which are also being appealed,
but I doubt they're gonna get anywhere.
Have you tried arguing with an Italian person?
It's impossible. (laughs)
And SpaceX successfully launched
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART mission,
this week, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.
As it's name implies,
the mission will see a spacecraft
deliberately smash into an asteroid
to see whether we could redirect one
on a collision course with Earth.
♪ Space garbage! ♪
(laughs) Space garbage.
♪ Meet space garbage. (laughs) ♪
♪ His boy, Elon. ♪
All right.
Unfortunately, there's no nuclear weapons
or Bruce Willises involved in this mission.
♪ Grimes, his wife. ♪
(laughs) And the asteroid is actually two orbiting bodies,
the larger, Didymos, and the smaller, Dimorphos,
which are about to be forcefully broken up
even though they did nothing wrong.
But, NASA's also undertaking a less violent mission
on the surface of Mars,
using a seismograph set up by the InSight lander
to image the first few hundred meters
under the planet's surface.
Although, if we happen to cross paths
with the martian mole people,
things might get ugly.
Because they're- Have you seen them?
They're just, I can't look...
They're real.
- [Behind Camera] Mole people.
- (laughs) What?
You're just like the musical accompaniment.
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Quick Bits!
- [Behind Camera] Gotta have 'em!
- Gotta eat 'em.
- [Behind Camera] Can't live without 'em.
- Num-nums.
- [Behind Camera] Careful when you poop 'em.
- (laughs) What?
The good news for Linux gamers just keeps on coming.
Valve has added support for Nvidia's DLSS
to it's latest Proton build,
which will allow the tech to work in games that support it.
Unfortunately, Valve's own Steam deck
won't receive any benefit from this,
as it runs on an AMD processor.
But, the deck will support
Team Red's own FSR sharpening method
when it launches next year.
So, let's just celebrate the fact
that gaming on Linux is more of an option than ever,
especially if you don't mind troubleshooting
for a few days beforehand.
- [Behind Camera] Let's game!
(imitating whipping sound)
- The UK has introduced a bill
that would ban the use of default passwords
on smart home devices.
We're talking real dumb dumb stuff like,
"Password, Admin, 1-2-3-4-5."
- [Behind Camera] Hey, that's mine!
- (laughs) You should have tried the best one,
"Password1."
Default passwords can make things super easy for attackers,
like the ones that stole data from a casino in 2017
by accessing an interconnected fish tank.
(laughs) Were the fish in on it?
We may never know.
- [Behind Camera] That's fishy.
- They were sadly flushed without a trial.
Nvidia has made the image-generating AI
behind it's Canvas software even better.
Now, you don't even have to draw something
for the algorithm to transform it
into a realistic landscape,
you can just type some words
and the machine will create something
that looks straight out of a stock photo library.
Unfortunately, you can't type just anything in there,
as the system was trained on 10 million images
of landscapes only!
- [Behind Camera] No cheese?
- No!
So, whatever gross thing you're thinking of right now,
will have to stay locked up
in that messed up head of yours, man.
Seriously, you should get some help.
Cheese in that scenario?
- [Behind Camera] Still life?
Classic.
(giggling happily)
- Microsoft's backwards compatibility program
for old Xbox games has been awesome,
especially since many titles have benefited
from the company's FPS boost technology.
But now, Xbox's Jason Ronald-
- [Behind Camera] Known as J-Ro.
- (laughs) By you.
Has said further rollout of FPS boost is on hiatus,
as his team is starting to find limitations
in their current technique.
Which sucks.
But, it's also surprising that Microsoft
would just admit they're having trouble with something.
That's that's big of them.
This kinda feels like the old days,
right down to the forcing people to use their browser.
And French car maker, Renault,
has shown off a quad rotor flying version
of it's classic Renault 4 hatchback, called the AIR4.
- [Behind Camera] Sued by Apple.
- (laughs) Gotcha!
The company said, "It's designed for the roads of the future
that are visualized to be in the air."
(talking quietly behind camera)
(laughs) That's what they meant to say.
Which I'm guessing is an idea
based off of "Back to the Future II"?
Because, roads in the... That's not...
Anyways, the AIR4
is powered by 22,000 Ah power batteries.
But, that doesn't matter 'cause you can't buy this thing.
It's just cool, just look at it.
This is- That's all you're supposed to-
There's no analysis here, okay?
It's just, "Oh! Couldn't it nice!"
- [Behind Camera] "Would you look at that!"
- "Ah! It's a flying car!"
- [Behind Camera] "Just look at it!"
- (moaning comedically) (laughs)
What's not nice is that this episode has to end.
Come back on Monday for more tech news,
and I'll show you all my Black Friday purchases.
- [Behind Camera] 22,000 million Ah batteries.
- (laughs) A thousand of them individually.
Just kidding, I didn't buy anything.
Minimalism.