- [James] Riley!
(grunting sounds)
- Ah, sorry, I was doing my cameo in the Spider-Man movie.
Oh, you didn't get one?
- [James] What?
- Oh, the other James didn't get one, either.
Franco.
We're doing it this week on They're Just Movies, ah!
Silicon Lottery, the company who found, certified,
and sold specific CPU's with guaranteed high-performance,
shut down a few months ago,
but Intel may be finding a way
to give you another chance at beating the house.
Just so you know, statistically, you will not.
A report indicates team blue will be releasing
special, pre-binned core i9-12900KS chips
with an all-core boost frequency of 5.2 gigahertz,
200 megahertz higher than their standard binned brethren.
- [James] Your mom's standard binned.
- Oh.
(chuckles)
I feel bad.
And it's eight performance cores are expected to handle
overclocking better as well.
They're basically like the Spartans of chips.
You ever played that game?
Spartan? Spartan 2000?
To be fair to Silicon Lottery, RIP,
Intel has released higher clocked KS chips before,
but the last one was the 9900KS back in 2019.
So the timing seems a little insensitive.
- [James] Too soon!
- I mean, obviously, obviously not for whoever's going to
drop $5,000 or whatever for this thing.
They should be sitting at home, pouting.
Like we are. It's only proper.
The official Bitcoin wallet app
in the world's first country
to make cryptocurrency legal tender is enduring
a flood of public complaints about identity theft
and mysteriously disappearing funds.
Thankfully, the ledger is public,
so everyone can see just how badly
the victims have been robbed.
Wait, that doesn't help.
The issues have eroded public sentiment in the country,
whose crypto-bro president
has seen the value of his investments dropped by nearly
6 million US dollars due to the recent fall
in Bitcoin prices.
Critics are also pointing out that government officials
who are being sanctioned by the US for financial corruption
have business ties to the official Chivo wallet,
leading some to speculate that the whole
"Bitcoin as legal tender" thing
may have just been a ploy to launder money.
The whole thing is a bit of a mess,
which is really sad for the regular people of El Salvador
who have been affected.
- [James] They have diamond hands, though.
- I mean, that won't help them at this point!
The only thing that will help them is if they get this
crypto volcano Bitcoin city project off the ground.
I'm crossing my fingers.
And there's a new entrant in the world of gaming laptops,
LG, who has historically focused on portability
rather than gaming performance.
Personally, I take my washer-dryer combo everywhere.
I'm going to my parents.
They need my help.
But LG's debutante looks like it's going to be no joke,
with an RTX 3080 Max-Q GPU,
an option for 32 gigabytes of RAM,
and a 300 Hertz IPS display.
It's also getting a USB 4 port,
in case you've been wondering where the heck
those are going to show up, as well as an ethernet port,
though it's a tad heavy at nearly six pounds.
- [James] That's a heavy port!
- The ethernet port.
(mimicking explosion noises)
It's due out early next year, with LG saying more details
will be coming at CES.
Hey, you know, what's not coming to CES? LMG.
Staying home this year, watching some Transformers.
- [James] Michael Bay marathon!
- It's been on my mind for some reason.
I am not Omnicron.
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Look, don't try to understand. They're just quick bits.
Amazon's ban on warehouse workers' phones
was suspended during the pandemic
and was due to resume next month.
But after a warehouse in Illinois was hit by a tornado
that claimed the lives of six people,
employees have been understandably concerned
about being able to communicate in emergencies.
Under pressure, Amazon has now put its plans
to reinstate the ban on indefinite hold.
Stay tuned for when they decide you can use your phone
within the new and improved sanity boxes.
It's not exactly easy to find a place where it's legal
to provide streams of pirated material,
but you definitely shouldn't try it in Malaysia,
as the country has recently upped the penalty for doing so
to a maximum of 20 years.
- [James] More like Lame-aysia. That was hard.
Company managers could also be found guilty
if they don't stop their employees
from participating in such behavior,
and I'm pretty sure the penalty wouldn't be house arrest
at the Koala Loompour Four Seasons.
In case you missed it,
Disney and YouTube TV have resolved a carriage dispute
that lasted a couple days, leaving sports fans in anguish.
What's going to happen!
YouTube TV customers lost the ESPN family of networks,
a huge draw for many viewers, as well as FX, ABC,
and other Disney channels,
though they're all now back on the platform.
Public disputes between content providers
and streaming carriers have become increasingly common
as the tech world fights to make sure the storied tradition
of segmenting services into
thousands of confusing price tiers is preserved.
It's the holidays after all.
What are we without traditions?
If you've had trouble finding a new Xbox,
it might make you feel a little better to see that
during this chip shortage,
not even Microsoft can get their hands on them.
The company had to use dev kits instead of retail consoles
to run a major Halo tournament over the weekend
because of supply chain problems.
It doesn't appear this affected the tournament that much,
other than to save space by not using fridge-sized consoles.
But if I were there,
it would feel a little like trying to throw a sticky grenade
and throwing a frag instead, like bounces right away.
I look like an idiot right now!
What is that guy doing?
And scientists have taught a Petri dish of living cells
to play the game Pong in just five minutes, guaranteed.
The so-called dish brain is comprised of human brain cells
and the scientific team used electrical impulses
to tell the cells where the ball is so it could whack it
like a paddle.
- [James] I would have called it Dish Wash Dog.
- Dish- dish dog.
Dish brain isn't as good at the game as a proper AI,
but if I know dish brain,
I wouldn't give up on dish brain just yet.
They've got some fire in them.
I think dish brain could take it to the nationals.
As long as ESPN is still around.
Talking about dish brain!
And you take yourself right out of here,
but come back on Wednesday for more tech news,
straight outta dish brain right here.