Hey what's up guys, I'm ThioJoe, and you might've missed a lot of the coolest tech news
This week, so that's what we're going to go over
We've got a bunch of stories that I think you guys are going to find pretty interesting
If you didn't hear about these
So let's just jump right in and get started
First of all, biggest thing is probably that Intel has released a new type of memory
That they're saying is going to change everything, and you know what? I think I belive them
So it's this new technology called 3D XPoint
Which is part of a larger optain technology framework
Or actually it's 3D cross point technically.
And basically the whole idea is
That this type of memory is going to be literally a thousand times faster than a SSD
And almost as fast as RAM potentially
about it is that you could use this type
of card as either so if you wanted to
use it just a super-fast storage you
could do that or if you wanted the
operating system to use it as kind of
maybe a slower version of extra ram if
it needs it it could be that as well
right now this technology is pretty new
they just released one of the first
cards for it and it's mostly going to be
used for data centers until further
notice so don't expect it for consumer
PCs, but they will come out eventually so
if you want to do like 4K video editing
where it reads it pretty much instantly
and you don't have any juddering in the
timeline or if you're gaming because if
the developers know that these people
that are going to be playing the games
have way faster storage they don't have
to try to accommodate super slow storage
and only have small graphics they could
have maybe a super duper amazing high
setting for the people that have this
super duper amazing high-speed storage
and one of the funniest things is this
type of memory is so fast that it's
pretty much limited by current computer
technology so the bus speeds on your
motherboard or even the operating system
itself might not be expecting to have a
hard drive this fast it might not be
able to deal with it especially since
the read and write technology is a
little bit different; it reads and writes at
the single bit level and that's not
really how current hard drives work so
we might have to wait until the
operating systems and the motherboards
and all that catch up
to this new type of technology and Intel
has said that they are going to keep a
close guard on this they're not going to
license it out to anyone and make sure
that they're all the only ones that are
selling it must be pretty good if
they're doing that so this is definitely
something to keep an eye on if you start
hearing more about it don't be surprised
because I think this could be a big deal
I mean it's a completely new type of
storage that we might be seeing and who
knows maybe in the future it'll
completely replace even SSDs next up we
got a cool little quick story by Apple
they are releasing a red iPhone 7 and 7 plus
this is a special edition and the idea
it's red because it's going to be for
the charity project red which the idea
is to raise money for AIDS to eradicate
aids around the world or whatever so the
idea is you buy this phone money goes
towards it and i believe by now it
should be on sale so you can go on their
website get one if you've been thinking
about getting an iPhone 7 or 7 plus and
you haven't yet maybe this is one you
might want to get if you really like red
check it out moving on Google Maps lots
of us use it I'm sure but they added a
brand new feature that is pretty big and
I think they should have added it a long
time ago shareable location details you
can now send your location to your
contacts and they can hopefully open up
the app and see exactly where you are
and you can actually give them access
for a certain amount of time where they
can track you in real time so this could
be useful in a lot of different
situations, I don't know, maybe if you're trying to
meet someone up at the park or something
and you're saying oh I'm at this place
trying to describe it this makes it so
much easier it's right through the
google maps app they can open it up see
it and you can even share it with groups
of people so this way it makes finding
your friends a lot easier when you need
to and you could do it for only 30
minutes or so so they're not tracking
you all day every day still pretty cool
I think this could be useful just so you
know about it next up is a Kickstarter
that I thought you guys might find kind
of cool some of you are going to be like
what is the point of it it's a special
new ruler that they made the designers
of the Kickstarter called a Lindland
ruler and the idea is that this ruler
has four different measurements on it
two of them are like digital and two of
them are real world I guess you could say so
it does centimeters inches pixels and
Picas if you don't know what those are
well you probably know inches and
centimeters pixels the idea is it will
measure the amount of pixels something
is if it's assuming 150 pixels per inch
and picas is a unit of measurement for
fonts and typefaces and it's pretty easy
to understand if you ever seen a
12-point font that is one pica in size
so this is good for designers or
something like that I don't know if you
do a lot of design work or you want to
measure a photo or something you want to
see how many pixels it is this might be
kind of cool so I ordered one it's like
25 bucks I don't know if anyone else
would find it useful at all but I
thought it's pretty cool those of you
who ride the train might be interested
to hear that there's a new train type
tested in Germany that is powered by a
hydrogen fuel cell that's right a
hydrogen-powered train and they did the
first test and there's going to be a few
more tests later and apparently it's
going to be used for commercial just
everyday use for passengers I guess
possibly even by the end of the year now
if you don't already know the best thing
about hydrogen-powered fuel cells is
that when you burn hydrogen to create
energy the only thing it releases is
water there's no greenhouse gases or
anything like that it's just water comes
out so it's possibly one of the best
environmentally-friendly fuels out there
maybe not exactly when you go to
actually make the fuel but at least when
you're burning it it doesn't release
anything except water so that can be
pretty useful although it might not be
the most efficient method of powering a
train, apparanty this is supposed to
go up to about 87 miles per hour at top
speed this first test it only went up to
about 50 miles an hour so I don't know
if they just weren't pushing it hard
enough or maybe they need to really work
on their efficiency but either way it's
still pretty cool and I think this could
pave the way to a lot more energy
friendly things in the future if it's
successful moving on you guys may have
heard that Twitter is going to be
launching a subscription version of
Twitter and you're gonna have to pay for
the premium version and not exactly true
but I do want to talk about it basically
twitter has
tweetdeck software that you guys might
have heard about maybe not it's
basically like this app that they
created a web app which lets you manage
multiple Twitter accounts it adds some
extra features and it's mostly used for
professionals or people like journalists
who manage a bunch of accounts and they
are possibly going to be making a
premium version of this app so you might
read stories that Twitter's created this
premium version of Twitter but really
it's just of this one app that they have
with Twitter so it's not really a
premium version of Twitter now the
reason they're doing this of course is
that Twitter is really not doing well
financially they've never done well
they've never turned a profit did you
know that Twitter loses hundreds of
millions of dollars every single quarter
so why are they still in business they're
being propped up by you know venture
capitalists and that sort of thing but
anyway the whole idea is that Twitter's
not be doing well they haven't been
selling enough ads to get close to
turning a profit and I guess they're
hoping that this premium version of
tweetdeck will maybe help that I don't
know I think twitter's in trouble I
think they're focusing on the completely
wrong thing is there instead of trying
to fix spambots they're like worrying
about people being mean I don't know I
think twitter's in trouble but if you
hear about this and that's what that is
next you guys may have heard me talking
about 4k TVs but what if i told you that
you can now buy an 8k monitor from dell
it's true i talked about this from CES
actually in january i saw this thing
they showed it off at the dell booth and
now you can buy it it costs a whopping
five thousand dollars but for that price
you will get a resolution of let me not
get this wrong 7680 by 4320 so it's four
times a 4k monitor which would be 16 x
1080p and just looking at the pictures
do you see that tiny little line at the
bottom yes that's the windows taskbar I
don't know how you'd be able to see you
would have to enable some windows 10
scaling or something like that you'd
never be able to read anything on the
monitor it's kind of funny it's a 30 1.5
inch monitor IPS
got a hundred percent adobe RGB colour
space coverage srgb and apparently
ninety-eight percent DCI so this thing
is definitely for creative work not
exactly something i would need any time
soon and I don't even know what kind of
graphics card you need to power it
though I could imagine 8k gaming would
be an interesting thing to try maybe
it's gaming you could try gaming an 8k
it'd be more like a slideshow in any
case though I do like this whole trend
of making higher resolution monitors and
TVs it just means that the lower
resolution but still high resolution
stuff is going to get cheaper finally
YouTube is making a big change that I
think everyone's going to welcome they
are getting rid of annotations remember
there's ugly boxes that people would pop
up and overlay on videos telling us Oh
click here Oh click here all over the
place cover up the whole screen yeah
those aren't going to theirs they're not
going to be a thing anymore or at least
in new videos they were called
annotations I'm sure you guys are very
familiar with them and fortunately and
they're just going the way of the dodo
YouTube is going to replace them
completely with cards there's a little
pop-out things you know those and end
screens which are the things at the end
of the video that you can click on
mostly because the cards and end screens
work on mobile annotations never did and
apparently most people on YouTube
actually use mobile to watch which is
kind of interesting I'd never watched
YouTube on my phone very rarely I don't
know why you guys do it it's so much
easier like you have to hold up the
phone to watch on to just sit back on
your computer anyway you don't have to
worry about annotations anymore at least
on new videos they were so annoying and
now they're going to be going away so
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