- Yeah, I know you want me to do tech news,
but if I do that, then you've won.
(gentle music)
Ah, I can't say no to that face.
Look at 'em, they're so cute.
- [Guy] Little chonker.
(laughter)
- Facebook has undergone scandal after scandal
the past couple of years, but this week,
the company may face its largest reckoning ever
thanks to the Facebook papers,
a trove of leaked external documents that expand on
and add to the issues brought up by
the now infamous whistleblower,
and certified bad-ass, Frances Haugen.
She's so infamous I still don't know how
to say your name though.
- [Guy] The Haugen!
- The Haugen!
The papers describe Facebook suppressing
an internal integrity team trying to limit the spread
of harmful content on the platform.
There's a story about Facebook failing to remove
human trafficking groups
after a BBC investigation and only succeeding
after apple threatened to ban them from the app store,
and there's much more we don't have time to cover.
But Facebook's troubles don't end there,
because an antitrust lawsuit filed against Google last year
has been fully unredacted,
revealing claims that Google and Facebook
colluded to manipulate the online advertising market,
surprise, surprise,
assuring their dominance over other ad bidding platforms.
- [Guy] What are Coke and Pepsi doing?
- Hey, what about the small pops?
Well, they don't call them pops.
Sodas, we're Canadians.
- [Guy] Mom and Pop pop shops.
(laughter)
- So if you weren't looking forward
to spending time with your family over the holidays,
at least there will probably be some juicy testimonies
before Congress to watch
(soft laughter)
Politics. CSPAN gets me going.
In other leak focused news
that is significantly less scandalous,
videos depicting what looked like
the rumored Oculus Pro headset
have been posted on Reddit.
- [Guy] Ah, Zuch's back.
- Zuch never went away.
The videos look similar to the introductory ones
shown when firing up a standalone Quest headset
for the first time.
And the headset itself in the videos
looks a lot like a prototype
that Facebook VP of VR, Andrew Bosworth,
- [Guy] we call him Boz. - The Boz.
showed up on Twitter recently.
Like the Quest,
it looks like this headset operates wirelessly
and without requiring a connection to a PC,
with a dock nearby for charging the strapless controllers.
Sounds sexy.
- [Guy] Live on the dangerous side, throw it at any time.
- If it's for it's for pros
they're not going to be flailing their arms
around like fools.
If these leaks are legit Facebook could give us a look
at the Oculus pro on October 28th
during their Oculus connect conference.
And that just reminded me that Facebook owns Oculus.
Damn it, This is dumb news.
I don't want to see this headset.
Tesla has been testing out a beta version
of its full self-driving feature,
but as you may have already worked out
putting beta and self-driving into the same sentence
is kind of uncomfortable
because only alphas drive cars.
Elon Musk has admitted that
the beta software has some issues
resulting in it being pulled.
Specifically It's having problems with left turns.
Very Zoolander-esqe problem there.
While some users have said
that they're getting false collision warnings,
although it's obviously good
that these issues are being spotted in beta,
as opposed to a final release,
I have to wonder about releasing a beta publicly
to people who are, you know, actually driving
- [Guy] In school zone.
- The kids, no! - Think of the children!
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- [Guy] But mostly the balls.
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Quick bits, did you forget about 'em?
Aww, okay, lets go, lets do it.
Leaked benchmarks make it look like Intel's
12th Gen Alder Lake processors
are going to arrive real soon with some banging performance.
(awkward noises)
Never let me on Tik TOK.
A CPU Z benchmark was spotted showing the core i5-12600k
beating a Ryzen 5 5600X by nearly 50%
in a multi-threaded test.
Something that team Ryzen is usually better at.
- [Guy] Not anymore.
- [Riley] that's even more exciting
thanks to the 12600K having four
lower powered efficiency cores,
which you think would drag it down.
But don't judge a core by its efficiency designation.
I've met some pretty powerful small cores,
and they were really nice too
- [Guy] Big PP core.
- You ever been in a small core neighborhood?
Intels fight with AMD may be going strong,
but team blue and red do agree on one thing.
- [Guy] Team Purple.
- They're merging.
Both companies CEOs have predicted
that the current chip shortage
will last all through next year,
And finally let up in 2023.
The news comes as Intel's latest earnings report
show poor laptop sales that were caused by,
you guessed it, The aforementioned chip shortage
and not AMD laptops being really good,
That couldn't,
(mumbling)
There's no way.
X-Box players looking for more storage
will have a new expansion option come December.
A 2 terabyte drive that costs more than an Xbox series S
or at least that used to be true.
The NBME drive will go for $400 supposedly,
which is even more egregious considering
you can get a non-X-Box specific one for around $250.
You know, the kind that PS5 would support.
Bam. Yeah, console, keep it alive.
The console war.
In other X-Box news,
a new update will give you a dashboard
that renders natively in 4k,
a proper night mode and streamlined quick settings.
But more importantly Nvidia
just added GeForce Now support to the edge browser.
- [Guy] Just now?
- Yeah
(excited noises)
and that runs on X-Box.
Meaning you can stream steam games
from the cloud on your X-Box.
What even is an X-Box now or X-Box later.
- [Guy] See ya.
- And if you don't have enough RGB,
Razer has a smart face mask to sell you,
that's right.
Its crazy Zephyr mask from earlier in the year,
comes with a dual fan N95 filter system
and an app to customize your look.
Because nothing says I'm taking the pandemic seriously,
like a light show on your face.
I mean, I don't know.
- [Guy] Hey, I'm not trying to get laid.
I'm trying to social distance,
This tells the world that.
Step away, potential partners. - Stay away.
Message received.
The masks Sans filter kits will set you back $100.
And can you really put a price on safety?
I can put a price on continuing this video
cause it's too damn high.
So come back on Wednesday for more tech news.
the tech newsatron has to recharge.
we've been trying to get it fixed for so long,
you can't just pump it out every day, James.