Well, this is the last Tech Link before the literal tsunami of tech news that's
going to be hitting us next week during CES. So, I just want to say it's been a
slice, ladies and gentlemen. I hope you brought your water wings. It looks like
AMD might be giving us our first look at fourth gen Ryzen at CES this year
because benchmark entries have leaked that mention a Ryzen 7
4800U. That U means that you better be
aware that it's a mobile APU targeted at what would be pretty beefy laptops, but
without too much power consumption. The user benchmark listing describes it as
an 8 core 16thread part with a base and boost clock of 1.8 and 3.6 GHz,
respectively. This leak follows the initial one last week and is bolstered
by a 3D Mark Fire Strike result that showed a Ryzen
4800H scoring higher than an Intel
9880H, one of the fastest Coffee Lake H processors out there. So, while this
information should still be taken with a grain of salt, AMD might be starting to
transfer some of its desktop success over to laptops
uh bracket need bracket. Thank you,
Riley, for that. Not sure if I was supposed to read it. I forgot that that
way. It looks like Samsung thinks CES has already started because the company
just officially announced the Galaxy S10 Lite and Note 10 Lite. They're extremely
similar in many ways with 6.7 in screens, 4,500 mAh batteries, and whole
punch front-facing cameras. The biggest difference between them is that one has
a pen. Whoa, you got one, too. Or
stylus. Stylus. Stylus. and the other
one doesn't. We don't have any pricing information yet, but what we do have is
a much more interesting Samsung Tease, a subsidiary of the company called Star
Labs is working on what they call an artificial human that has absolutely
nothing to do with Samsung's existing AI assistant, Bixby. This uh fake person is
called Neon. And if you interact with What the hell is this? I don't know. If
you interact with it, you'll apparently be left wondering which one of you is
real. That's That's what they say. Seriously, that's almost as stupid as
the gamer socks. This kind of vague, bull, overpromising, ultra futuristic
teasing is what CES is all about. And you know what? It actually warms my
heart. I can't wait to find out what the heck neon is cuz it's probably like a
voice activated reading lamp or something. And then that'll be funny.
And that's not even the wildest CESTs we've had so far from Samsung. Even the
company's R&D ARM called Cabab will also be showing off a gadget that analyzes
hair loss patterns and recommends a specific course of action. And it's al
there's also an app that uses your phone's selfie camera to detect finger
movements so you can type without a keyboard. There's also Pibo Pibo an AI
assistant in the form of a creepy robot that is always looking at you. Vouch, a
system that detects virtual touch input, so you can point at things and activate
them without physically touching them, like
go and a video calling app with Samsung
branded Mimmoji that lets you text chat instead of use your voice. On the non-
Samsung side of things, Zen is bringing air power style charging pad to market,
topped with tempered glass so you can see its 16 charging coils. And Coler is
showing off a shower head with a built-in Alexa speaker. Like the speaker
is in the shower head. Yeah. Nobody's seen that before, I think. Yeah, someone
had one. I did a video about it. Alexa, play this. No. Alexa, though. That's
actually not even that weird compared to the stuff that I know we're going to be
seeing next week. It's going to be freaky. Now, it's time for the ginger snaps. Ginger snaps activate. The
mysterious swarms of drones that have been plaguing Colorado and Nebraska
since December 23rd are still plaguing.
The drones appear to be large, around 6 feet across, and have been spotted in
swarms as large as 30. The FAA is investigating, but local sheriffs, this
is a real news story. Yeah. Local sheriffs have encouraged residents to
refrain from shooting them down. We don't know what kind of a strange entity
might retaliate. Also, it's a federal crime. You thought I'd just make it up.
I I don't know. Sounds pretty weird. Google has disabled links from Xiaomi
Smartome products to Google Nest and home devices after owners of Xiaomi
smart cameras reported receiving images from other people's
cameras. Xiai said that the issue occurred due to an update and that it
wouldn't occur if the cameras were linked to the company's Mi Home app. Um
then it would correctly send people's images straight to the Chinese
government instead of stopping by other people's houses first. Much simpler and
more efficient. The Google Pixel 4a is on the way and On Leaks has produced
renders of what the phone will look like based on the information they've
received so far. If it's accurate, the Pixel 4a honestly looks like a way
better phone than the Pixel 4 with a rear fingerprint reader, a headphone
jack, and a hole punch front-facing camera instead of a gigantic bezel full
of sensors. And it will apparently be cheaper. Does Google get this whole
budget is worse, premium is more better? Budget is more money, right? Yeah. Uh,
no. Apple has renewed its agreement with Imagination Technologies to produce GPUs
for the company's various mobile products. Apple seemingly dropped the
company like a hot potato in 2018, but it looks like Oops, this is awkward.
Turns out we weren't quite ready to develop our own dedicated GPUs. So,
uh, come on back, please take me back.
And OnePlus is teasing the Concept 1 phone that they'll be showing off at
CES, which features rear-facing cameras that magically disappear because the
electrochemical glass that covers them can go from transparent to opaque. I'm
not sure that anyone was asking for this, but like, you know, ooh, I'm not
taking a picture right now. Ooh, my phone doesn't have any cameras. Like,
but bam, now it does. Didn't see that coming. And that's it for this one,
guys. Come back on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and Thursday, and Friday
because we've got five TechLinked episodes next week. CS.
Oh, I'm tired already. And I'm not even going. What?