- Okay, no resolutions,
but I do have a new year's realization.
- [Colton] What's that?
- Do you want to hear it? - Yeah.
- With the vaccine rolling out, I've never been more excited
to have strangers breathe on me again.
New year, new internet.
And unfortunately, for some,
that means websites devoid of Flash.
Yep. Adobe officially discontinued support
for the venerable web plugin.
Are you sad? - I'm sad.
- Which enabled endless animated cartoons
games and security problems.
Because unlike "Homestar Runner", hackers do have hands.
What was your favorite Flash thing, Colton?
Seems like you were remembering something.
- [Colton] Games, all the games.
- Every game. (Colton mumbles inaudibly)
You played every game? (Colton laughs)
Wow.
Flash is no longer available to download.
Although Adobe won't actually start blocking
Flash content from running until January 12th.
But don't worry, there are actually a lot of ways
to keep the Flash fire burning
including desktop players like Flashpoint
and the internet archive, which will keep thousands
of games playable online, via emulation.
So you can be reminded of a simpler time
when the most entertaining thing you could find
on the internet was stick figures
murdering each other in frankly, awesome ways.
- Stick Tack that's the one!
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- It was like Shao Shao, I think it was called.
Apple, in their infinite wisdom has apparently deemed
that the world is ready, now it's ready for foldable phones.
Reports are emerging that not one, but two foldable
iPhone prototypes have passed internal tests for durability.
One with two separate displays connected by a hinge
that may be able to fold forwards and backwards.
And another clamshell style phone
with a truly foldable screen about the size
of the Galaxy Z flip or Motorola Razr.
Insiders seem to think that Apple will go
with just one of these designs
which may or may not be called the iPhone flip.
But I don't think that's true.
They wouldn't just let Samsung have the satisfaction
of knowing that they copied their name.
That wouldn't be revolutionary at all.
Well, whatever the phone is called
we may see it launch in 2022.
There's lots of mays and mights in this story.
You know, Colton, you shouldn't be so wishy-washy in 2021.
- [Colton] I'll try.
- Just take a stand. - Maybe.
- like Apple. - Maybe.
Have the courage.
And one Intel stakeholder has taken a stand
and told team blue that it's time to stop.
That is to stop trying to manufacture their own chips.
That stakeholder is Daniel Loeb,
founder of activist hedge fund Third Point,
which recently acquired a nearly $1 billion stake in Intel.
In a letter to Intel's chairman Loeb argues that Intel
has fallen behind its manufacturing competitors
such as TSMC and Samsung, who are already working
on five and three nanometer process nodes.
While Intel has gotten stuck at seven nanometers.
Pfft. I can do seven nanometers.
Colton does seven nanometers- - Every day.
- Every day, he wakes up, seven, seven nanometers. (grunts)
But the real hurtful stuff is when Loeb points out
that Intel management gave themselves
extravagant compensation packages this past year
while the company lost $60 billion in market value.
Dang boy!
Now Intel had already said they're considering
outsourcing CPU production
but this letter might just tip the scales.
Sometimes you just need a letter
from an angry rich person to give you a kick in the pants.
I'm sorry, Elon Musk I'll do better.
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Wait. You're telling me we've done 2021 quick bits.
Incoming graphics cards watch out!
Listings for G-Force RTX 30 ADTI models
from gigabyte have been leaked
and Lenovo let slip some specs for the RTX 3050,
3050 TI and RTX 3060 non-TI all of which are unannounced.
Nvidia's having a gaming focused event on January 12th.
So they've got to announce some of these.
We all know they're coming
and that there won't be any stock.
So why are we even talking about this?
Apple making its own processors
has started a trend in the tech industry.
And now the European Union is jumping on
with the signing of a declaration to allocate
145 billion euros towards the design and manufacture
of semiconductors built on two nanometer process nodes.
That's a lot of euros and frankly, I don't know
how they're going to eat them all before they go bad.
That was the only joke I could think of for that one.
Euros kinda sounds like eeros. - I got you.
- Flash just died, but windows seven has continued to exist
in some kind of wraith-like state after Microsoft
officially ended support
for the beloved operating system one year ago.
ZD Net found that there may be over 100 million users
still using Windows seven, despite Microsoft
doubling the cost for extended support this month.
They are neither living nor dead,
they care not for money, only Windows Media Center.
Due to a breakdown in negotiations Huawei pulled games
made by Tencent from its app store,
but that's not supposed to happen, they're both controlled
by the Chinese government aren't they?
Well, a day later Huawei restored the games,
So I guess Daddy CCP made them kiss and makeup.
Meanwhile, since the summer, Apple has pulled
about 90,000 games from its Chinese app store
that weren't granted a license by Chinese authorities.
So that's authoritarianism for you.
And Ticketmaster has agreed to pay a $10 million fine
for hiring the employees of its competitor CrowdSearch
and using their logins to infiltrate CrowdSearch's
network and steal information with the intention
of choking off the smaller company's business.
Awesome. That's awesome.
That's what I need to start off my new year with.
I know it's shocking, right?
We don't need to start off the new year
with a reminder that people are horrible.
Great! Why did you put that story in Colton?
- [Colton] I'm sorry.
- I'm so frustrated.
This episode needs to end.
So come back on Monday for more tech news.
Oh, but also if you want to check out
what we think the biggest stories
of the year were check out the Christmas special.
I wear a robe. Colton was there too.
- [Colton] It was fun.
- So if you want to hang out.
- [Colton] Are you Santa Claus?
- Am I Santa Claus?
That's a reference.