oh I'm so excited to do the tech news
day I'm practically bursting here I
don't believe you apple is continuing its streak of subtly announcing new
products on its website with the new 16-in Macbook Pro and of course MKBHD
already has a video up about it guy but
that's neither here nor there the new model replaces the 15-in MacBook Pro in
Apple's lineup with a 9th gen 6 or eighth core Intel processor up to 64 GB
of memory and up to 8 tab of storage and
the radon 5300 M or 5500m gpus maxed out
it can cost you $6
60100 but the truly big news here Apple
got rid of their stupid butterfly keyboard instead they reinvented their
existing scissor switch based magic keyboard from their desktop machines and
stuck it into this one they also brought back the Escape key Jesus and it made
the laptop slightly thicker to accommodate a bigger battery for 11
hours of battery life Apple listening to their critics and making changes that
prioritize function or form what timeline is this oh it's the one where
Phil Schiller said that kids who use Chromebooks won't succeed there it is Intel is in hot
water after they didn't quite tell the truth concerning vulnerabilities in
their processors you see researchers told Intel back in September 2018 about
a series of flaws collectively known as zombie load Intel refers to them as MDS
Intel told the research Searchers to not disclose the vulnerabilities until they could de develop a patch you know that's
fair in May 2019 Intel released a patch saying the flaws were fixed but not all
of them were Intel asked the researchers to stay quiet again until yesterday when
the company said another flaw was discovered and they fixed that now too
but the researchers say that's still not the whole picture serious MDS
vulnerabilities persist in Intel
processors that the company has known about since May the researchers have now
decided to go public with it suck at Intel they're hoping it'll finally light
a fire under Intel's butt disclosing and patching security flaws is obviously a
delicate balance between public awareness and Public Safety but Intel's
had more than a year to figure this out that's that's not even lose marks for
lateness situation that's just a fail maybe they just operate better it's a
fail and Facebook's having some trouble getting regulatory approval for its
Libra cryptocurrency so the house of Zuckerberg is just launching a less
complicated digital payment system Facebook pay is essentially the
company's version of venmo allowing users of Facebook and Facebook Messenger
naturally to buy in-game purchases apparently those games event tickets and
products from businesses as well as send and receive money directly from other
users support for WhatsApp and Instagram will apparently be added in the future
I'm sure we can trust Facebook with our money right I mean yeah the iOS Facebook
app was just caught activating phone cameras while people were simply scrolling through the Facebook app but
they said that was a bug yeah it was just a bug guys fine it's fine you shall
be assimilated I've never seen a bit so quick that it could out quick a new
leaks of the Motorola Razer foldable phone popped up today just hours before
Motorola will be launching it for real this evening by the time this video goes
up you may have a better idea of what it is than we do right now so let us know
what's it like does it look okay do I do I need it I need it I'm out of here
while Google claims their medical data collection initiative known as project
Nightingale is all completely above board the US Department of Health and
Human Services has initiated an investigation just to make sure despite
the fact that patients didn't know their data was being sucked up Google says
it's not a big deal guys don't worry about it meanwhile Google also is
working on a banking initiative called Cash with a CH I don't know guys this is
getting really dystopian really fast it's fine at least there's Facebook and
Google at least there's two yeah we'll have two to and Amazon no and WeChat new
streaming service Disney plus launched yesterday and promptly gathered more
than 10 million signups across Canada the US and the Netherlands the dark
shadowlands the nether regions for context Netflix has about 60 million
subscribers in the US but that's after years of operation so things are looking
pretty good for the mous house right about now although a big chunk of users
might just call it quits after the free 1we trial expires if they don't uh fix
all the issues that are propping up like how David's chomecast doesn't work and
they cut out the Simpsons jokes and stop freaking editing out old Star Wars
movies and Guido did I say
Guido Scoundrels that's a different one Scoundrels rumors are starting to
percolate regarding NVIDIA's upcoming 7 nanometer Amper gpus with the latest
information saying that we could peep them in March at GTC the gpus were
apparently going to be announced earlier but were delayed for undisclosed reasons
I mean who knows what's going on in Jensen's head or Jean Jacka pocket just
constant screaming and it's time to Have Courage because the chromium based Brave
web browser is officially launching as version 1.0 Brave automatically blocks
trackers and invasive ads it claims to be faster than vanilla Chrome and is
apparently going to pay users to see ads
in the future what a waste of time it's not every day that I get excited about a
browser you know but that money is certainly getting me close all right
that's enough come back on Friday for more Tech news when we're going to know
more about what's going on than you do hopefully that's the way it should be
wait what's going on right now