- Ah, yes see, there is tech news today.
How did I know that?
I'm slicker than snake shit baby?
Nvidia has been a very bad giant tech corporation lately.
So the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission
has just fined it for failing to disclose
how big of an impact cryptocurrency mining had
on its revenue growth in 2018.
In investor communications Nvidia made it sound
like miners buying up stock of GPUs
didn't really contribute to a profit increase
in its gaming business when in actuality,
crypto miners, we're a big part of that.
And you know what?
I don't even need these
'cause they actually make that blurrier.
They're for, that's for computer use.
- [Riley] It really had an impact though.
- Lying, that's pretty bad.
The fine must be pretty big.
It must be.
Yeah, no it's $5.5 million, a veritable slap on the wrist
for a company that made 7.6 billion
in just the last quarter of 2021 alone.
- [Riley] Yeah, me too, me too, me too.
- The SEC has ordered Nvidia
to stop with holding information from investors
which I'm sure will work.
This is a society.
- [Riley] Just tell them to stop and bam.
- This only works in Europe or anything.
Almost two years after suing Apple
and getting Fortnite kicked off iOS,
Epic Games has finally made a deal
to bring it back for everyone sort of.
There's always a sort of.
Fortnite is now free to play through Xbox Cloud Gaming
meaning it doesn't matter
whether you're on Android, Windows or an iPhone or iPad.
You can open a browser and buy V-Bucks
to your heart's content
or your parents' wallet's content whatever it is.
Nvidia has had an iOS compatible version of Fortnite
available through a limited time closed beta on GeForce now
but this solution only requires you
to have a Microsoft account to play.
Epic CEO, Tim Sweeney, what a sweetheart,
originally didn't want Fortnite on xCloud
but he's apparently had a change of heart
but you can still go against his wishes
to keep Fortnite off Steam Deck
by playing it through the Microsoft Edge beta.
Feels good to stick it to the man.
Hey sweetie.
Society, who needs it? Anarchy.
- [Riley] Just meet you in the wilds.
- Backwards hat.
And Apple, Google and Microsoft have joined forces
to kill all passwords
using a giant password guillotine actually.
- [Riley] On the moon.
- No, the last letter it's gone.
The three tech giants just announced a partnership
with the FIDO Alliance F, F-I yeah.
- [Riley] Yeah. - FIDO Alliance
which stands for Fast Identity Online apparently.
What's the D? ID.
Okay, fast ID online.
Okay, I get it apparently to push forward
a secure sign-in method called Passkey.
Basically any website or app you want to sign into
would simply push a request to your phone
then you just unlock and authenticate with a pin
or a fingerprint or something.
So basically it's like two-factor authentication
but getting rid of the one factor that sucks
because yeah, you might be a creative genius
at making unique passwords but that's a bit like saying
you're the best at shaping your mashed potatoes
into a perfect well to pour the gravy in.
Like, good job, I can't do that.
- [Riley] You can't do that?
- Not when I'm eating with two knives.
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Quick bits.
This one is just quick bits.
- [Riley] Just like grandma made them.
- Remember when they fired CEO of Arm's China division
Allen Wu went rogue, stole the company seal
and refused to leave the office?
- [Riley] That's what I did.
- He lives here now.
He doesn't shower.
Well, despite Arm China's board voting him out last week
and Arm announcing that the issue was resolved,
now the company's employees have rallied behind him
writing a letter in support of Wu.
This is like Trump, who has again, refused to step down.
The corporate mutiny in the year of our Lord 2022.
I guess it's time to resolve this
with the only method that's sure to work, a dual.
Allen Wu versus the SoftBank robots.
- [Riley] Live streaming.
- Meta has shown off impressive tech demos
of nearly photo realistic VR avatars in the past
but the company's actual playable avatars
basically look like Nintendo Miis.
- [Riley] Shots fired.
- Speak for yourself Riley.
But that might change thanks to a new processor
developed by Meta for the sole purpose
of rendering those fancier avatars in VR.
I think we can take this to the next level.
We need chips for rendering every specific thing
in every video game ever
and then we'll all be lining up at Best Buy
to get the processing unit for food.
- [Riley] Yeah, people will use 'em for food.
That's the thing.
- Chip shortage is famine.
Rumors are pointing towards
AMD's next-gen RX 7900 XT graphics card
as the first consumer GPU with support for PCIe Gen5,
a standard that doubles the bend with a PCIe Gen4
and which will be supported
by AMD's upcoming AM5 compatible motherboards and CPU.
All three components are expected to launch
by the end of 2022
so prepare yourselves and pepper your angus for a new tech
that could perform significantly better than current models.
That's not always a given these days.
- Oh wow. I can't, I'm so-
- And neither is that launch date.
We'll see.
Oh my God, look.
It's a swarm of drones that can track a person
through a dense bamboo forest without human guidance.
Great. Made by a scientist from China's Zhejiang.
I'm- - [Riley] Definitely saying
that wrong. - Bad at Chinese words.
Sorry, Andy's laughing at me.
- [Andy] I'm sorry.
- Zhejiang University.
The drones can communicate with each other
which allows them to break formation to avoid obstacles
and then reconstitute themselves
sometimes in the form of a face
like at the end of the "Matrix 3",
possibly into a deadly Megazord of some sort.
The last part we kinda just added.
The researchers say that the drones could be useful
for a disaster relief or disaster creation.
No, they actually said that and ecological surveys,
it's hilarious.
And in case you thought fuellesss electric vehicles
were the only way for it,
a south African mining company called Anglo American,
woo, on the list of canceled company names,
has just deployed the world's largest truck
powered by a hydrogen fuel cell engine
specifically a two megawatt unit
built by Seattle company, First Mode.
So they can make the environment a little better
while gouging materials out of the ground.
- [Riley] You give and you take, you know.
- That's life. We like buying stuff
and we all knew this was coming
but the tech news is gone but you can not be gone.
On Monday, we'll be back.
Will you?