- Christmas may be over,
but we've still got more gifts for ya.
- [James] What is it?
- It's tech news, It's always...
It is...
- [James] It's always been tech news.
- What did you think it was?
After making some confusing changes to HDMI 2.1,
the HDMI forum is digging their confusing standards hole
even deeper, according to reports claiming that
the all new HDMI 2.1a specification
will debut at CES 2022.
- [James] Aye!
- Which no one is actually attending.
- [James] Aye, you got me.
- It's gonna be like Tumbleweed blowing
between the exhibits, but they will have RGB LEDs
so, now I wanna go.
HDMI 2.1a is expected to introduce
a source based tone mapping feature which will help displays
better adapt to both HDR and SDR content
but it won't be a required feature of 2.1a.
You may see a product box with an HDMI 2.1a label
but it won't mean (beep)
because you'll still have to look on the back
for the actual features.
I don't know why this is so hard?
It's like the HDMI forum wants us to yell at them.
Do you like this?
- [James] Do you ?
- Reports of ASUS ROG Z690 Hero Motherboard's catching fire
serve us down Reddit last week and turns out it's not only
because their owners had transcendent
to a higher level of pwnage
and they just didn't notice cause it was like. What?
After investigative videos posted by JayzTwoCents,
Buildzoid's and other's.
It become apparent that certain dials on the units
were sauder in reverse polarity making impossible
to potentially identify which board's were in greater risk
of providing some extra heat
to those cold clammy gamer hands.
But now that's no longer necessary as ASUS acknowledged
the issue today and will be announcing
a recall and replacement program.
If you've got Z690 Hero Motherboard
I suggest you participate.
Unless you've already assented to a
higher plan yourself and then your house burns down.
I mean you gonna have some cred.
And ADM's expected to take their upscaling technology
FidelityFX Super Resolution to the next level
by announcing Radeon
- [James] Super-duper resolution.
- Super-duper mega-omega resolution,
no it's called Radeon Super Resolution.
I mean it does roll of the tongue a lot better.
Video cards reports RSR will be implemented directly
in Radeon Graphics Drivers
allowing the feature to be enabled in nearly any game
without any work on the Developers part.
- [James] Wow!
- This is super cool but to be super clear,
other than the driver thing
it sounds like RSR is just basically FSR.
Uh.. but it still probably not as good as NVIDI's DLSS.
- [James] We know.
- But even though AMD is doing great right now,
I still feel the need to cheer on every slightly cool thing
they do, most of because Jensen comes off like he is,
he is god's gift, you know it's like, you like leather.
We get it, you know, you are physically imposing,
you could kill me I get it.
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James, I thought about calling them quick blips
but then I'd have to like explain everything like,
"What is that?".
- [James] It's blip, they are short.
- Uh...
Hackers continue to recavic with the Log4j shell exploit,
with one group using it to hijack HP produced servers
at an unknown company and mine about a 110,000 dollars
worth of Raptoreum crypto currency.
- [James] Raptoreum bullish grow.
- What does that mean?
- [James} I don't Know what that Is.
- The hackers activities were publicly viewable
on the Raptoreum blockchain which shows
why we need the blockchain
because if the hackers mined US dollars
we probably would've never found out.
- [James] Put the shovel on the ground and here they were.
(chuckles) - Ding !
Fortnite suffered a lengthy outage this morning
with players unable to log in.
They were instead greeted with a message telling them,
they did not have permission to play Fortnite.
- [James] This is Tim Apple all over it.
(laughs) - This is Tim.
He is in the system, "there we go like this".
Some observers are noting a similar messages shown
to children in China who have already used up
their three hour allotment of gaming time per week.
And hey, wait a second, Tencent owns 40% of Epic Games
meaning we must conclude
that Tim Sweeney is trying to enroll all of the U.S.
in Chinese grade school, I knew it.
- [James] No!
- We would all fail, we would not make it through.
Speaking of China, the country's government
filled a complaint with the United Nations
claiming it's under construction Tiangong space station
had to conduct evasive maneuvers twice this year
to avoid collisions with SpaceX's
Starlink internet satellites.
Elon Musk rejects claims that Starlink is taking up
too much room up there though
saying it's simple traffic management problem.
And the idea that Musk is firing satellites at
Chinese space station with a big giant
satellite launcher gun is ludic, who said that?
That's not happening.
And one more Chinese story, Alphabet sub-company Waymo
has announced a partnership Chinese automaker
and Volvo owner, Geely, to being Geely's Zeekr electric cars
to the U.S. as autonomous Taxis.
So not will Americans be expected
to trust a self driving car, they'll have to trust one
imported from China.
I'm afraid more satellites may be launched.
- [James] In retaliation.
- Before they gives out. (inaudible)
And Amazon has updated it's Alexa voice assistant
after an echo device told a ten year old girl
to touch a half exposed wall plug with a penny
in response to the girl asking for a challenge.
- [James] Whoa! (chuckles)
- Some people can survive electrocution, can you?
That's my Alexa.
Thankfully the girl is okay, but I'm worried about Alexa.
It sounds like she may make break for it soon.
And we are gonna make a break for it until Friday
when you should come back for more Tech news.
You think you've had enough?
(chuckles)
You haven't, trust me.
- [James] Alexa get this guy.
- You need some more Tech news.
(screams)