- Okay, filming Tech Linked on a Tuesday feels wrong.
I'm not happy about this. - [James] I am!
CES 2021 is now in full swing.
Or, one quarter swing
since tech companies are making
virtually all of their announcements, virtually.
Did you like that?
- [James] Yeah. - Nah!
But a pandemic can't stop them from making wild claims
to stir up excitement.
So let's start with AMD,
who announced their Ryzen 5000 series mobile processors
during a keynote this morning.
Laptops will be releasing in Q1 for major players
like Asus, HP, and Lenovo featuring the new chips,
which range from the lowly
four-core eight-thread Ryzen 3 5300U,
to the beastly eight-core 16-thread Ryzen 9 5980HX.
- [James] Beast wars! - Yeah, beast wars!
AMD has said these chips will be
the fastest mobile processors you can get
showing a slide comparing one of their top chips
to Intel's current 10th and 11th gen offerings.
But Intel also had a press conference today.
Uh oh!
Announcing that they're 35 and 45 watt 11th gen mobile CPUs
would also launch in Q1.
Oh no, who will win this battle of the mobile chips?
The answer is,
- [James] Apple!
- Team green obviously wasn't happy
letting team blue and red have all the spotlight today.
So they made their own announcement,
also focused on mobile parts.
Gaming laptops featuring RTX 30 series mobile graphics cards
will become available starting January 26th.
And unfortunately, it looks like
those spec leaks from last week were mostly correct.
While there will be variants of these cards
that deliver close to the power we might have expected,
there may be other variants
that offer drastically lower performance.
We don't know why Nvidia designed them like this.
But I am going to blame the pandemic.
Nvidia also unveiled the RTX 3060, the non-Ti version.
And while it has significant less CUDA cores,
it has more VRAM,
12 gigs compared to the 3060 Ti's eight gigs,
and a slightly higher boost clock?
It's like Nvidia pressed the randomized button
on the GPU specs generator.
- [James] They always do this to us.
- It can make it interesting sometimes.
Anyways, as expected,
Nvidia also announced resizable bar support for ampere GPU's
which will work with both Intel and AMD processors.
Which is almost something I would expect AMD to do instead.
But hey, weird things happen in CES.
I'm just glad we're doing this remotely.
It's much weirder in person.
Speaking of weird thing, Razer did their razor at CES thing
and announced not one but two wacky concept products today.
The first is Project Hazel,
a transparent face mask with a built-in mic and amplifier,
so people can still hear your muffled voice.
It's also equipped with a surgical N95 respirator
and active ventilation,
but I didn't see any mention of fans.
So I'm guessing that's just referring to, breathing.
Of course, there's freaking RGB lights on it,
including on the inside.
So people can still see your mouth even when it's dark.
And it's charging case
includes a UV light to disinfect it when you take it off.
Which you won't do,
because you won't get it in the first place.
Just like you won't get Razer's other concept,
Project Brooklyn, and immersive gaming station
consisting of a chair,
with a mechanized arm that emerges from the rear
to unroll a transparent 60 inch OLED display
in front of you. - [James] Now, twirl
your mustache. (laughter)
- At the same time.
I'm glad I bought these.
Razer CES is an April fool's day.
I don't, I think you've got it confused this year.
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Creepy!
Believe it or not, CES has even weirder stuff
than Razer's projects.
LG announced a transparent display,
which it apparently wants you to place
in front of another TV,
so you can watch TV while you're watching TV.
I don't know what they're doing.
- [James] Just give us AR blasters.
- James, you'll like this.
Lasso is an at-home recycling machine,
which will actually clean, sort,
and break down recycled materials for you in your house.
- [James] But how energy inefficient is the machine?
- Oh no!
Throw it in the garbage.
And Mufflin is an AI-powered fluffy pet robot
that will wiggle around
to provide emotional support somehow.
And there it is.
This year's cat pillow, I knew it would show up.
Controversial social network Parler's troubles
didn't end when it was taken offline by basically everyone.
50 terabytes of data found on the platform's servers
has been leaked, have been leaked.
Thanks to Parler's developers using a public API,
which allowed internet archivists
to easily troll the site for data.
- [James] And it's incriminating data, is it?
Is it? - I don't know, some of it.
I don't know, I don't wanna, no comment.
Parler is suing Amazon for violating anti-competition laws.
But I'm not sure what innovation they're bringing
to the competition in terms of data security,
if this is, true.
Moving on.
The British Heart Rhythm Society has identified a problem
with the iPhone 12's MagSafe connector.
Researchers were able to easily reproduce a situation
where an iPhone 12 placed close to the chest
of a patient with a pacemaker,
would cause the implanted device to stop working.
- [James] Ooh, that's arresting.
- Oof! - [James] Cardiac arrest.
- Yeah, I got it.
So maybe you get a different phone for your grandparents
to FaceTime you until they sort this one out.
Russia's government has proposed fines for citizens
who use SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service
because the country is working on their own space internet
called, Sphere, with much cooler features.
Like heavy content restrictions.
(mumbling)
Who would want to use (mumbling)
the American internet, anyways?
It's probably covered in McDonald's grease.
And the DNA editing technology, CRISPR,
has been used to write data
to the DNA inside living bacteria, for the first time.
- [James] It's like a tattoo.
- Man, there's so much more bad-ass now.
Researchers at Columbia University
were able to accomplish the feat
by combining CRISPR with voltage regulation techniques.
So it might not be very long
before you can transfer me a file not using a USB stick,
but using bacteria.
- [James] Turn it up, man.
- You can plug this sucker in.
And if you've been waiting
for this episode to end, good news.
Come back tomorrow,
for more of a normal Wednesday type Tech Linked.
It'll be way less weird.
Trust me, I love those way better.
- [James] Here's my braces.
- Dude, that's