look I just thought it would be nice if we talked about some tech news I wasn't
trying to say anything weird about your mom the Crackdown by social media
platforms on controversial statements made by US president Trump and his
supporters have only intensified since Wednesday when a mob of people assaulted
the Capitol building in Washington DC leading to five deaths and dozens of
casualties Facebook Instagram and twitch have said they're suspending Trump's
accounts indefinitely in order to prevent the platforms from being used to
incite violence while Twitter released the temporary lock on the president's
account yesterday before permanently suspending him today I didn't see the
tweets that caused the permanent suspension but I'm sure we can all imagine them Twitter also banned Trump
devotees Michael Flynn who called for Trump to declare martial law and redo
the election and Trump's former lawyer Sydney Powell over on YouTube videos
that make claims of election fraud are now automatically being suspended and
receiving Channel strikes Reddit has taken down the r/d Donald Trump
subreddit and twitch removed the infamous POG ch emote because the guy
whose face it depicted sort of called for more civil unrest on Twitter but
then twitch announced the POG chab emote would live on but that it would feature
a different face every 24 hours for their foreseeable future wow it is wild
out there right now guys yeah I'm bad too what about James that is not poggers
it's not pogers at all but don't think about that stuff guys think about all
the amazing products that we're getting a sneak peek of thanks to Virtual CES
getting progressively less and less content every year to wait until it's actually supposed to start Acer's got a
4K 144hz HDR 400 monitor on the way and
Sony announced all of their 2021 TVs will have Google TV built in but if you
want even more Google in your home the next nest Hub will use project solely
radar to track your sleep patterns ooh I need it jlabs have these open air
speakers you can clip onto your glasses to make your funky frames look decidedly
less so and arcx has a giant finger ring
with a joystick to control devices through Bluetooth that's actually kind of cool I like that I also like coler's
smart tub which can add fog in response
to voice commands this bath needs to be spookier the whole internet including us
made a bit of a big deal about whatsapp's recent update to its terms of
use which made it seem like the messaging app was now beginning to share
your data with its parent company Facebook Elon Musk who's now the richest
man in the world congrats dude even suggested that we all switch to Signal
another messaging app with end to end encryption Well turns out the joke's on
us because as wired points out WhatsApp has actually been giving Facebook our
data since 2016 and the recent terms of use update basically just provides more
information on how they process your data that data includes your phone
number logs of how long and how often you use WhatsApp this is basic stuff
guys device information even location information but Facebook says they still
can't see the content of your encrypted messages unless they bring in Mark and
tell him to use his xray reptilian Vision so most of the time there's
nothing to worry about oo quick bits can't hide from me
I'm going to find them all Apple appears to be getting serious
about its Ambitions to launch a self-driving vehicle at some point as
reports emerged this morning that the Tech Giant and car maker Hyundai were in
talks of some sort Hyundai's value surged by9 billion before the company
issued a statement saying the talks were still like super early so like don't get
all we're texting excited we're it's
super casual right now speaking of hearsay and rumor mongering pictures of
a new NVIDIA graphics card called the AR RX 360 Ultra have leaked the thought
seems to be that this Ultra card will have 12 gigs of RAM while the vanilla
RTX 360 will have 6 gigs but I'm just confused like the ultra branding is
similar to the RTX super branding but it just says Ultra so why didn't they just
call it I'm over leaks man this is stupid I don't want to talk about that
any anymore ever after this one because
scri M that's his name a legendary
figure in the it's a it's a screen name James we have those uh legendary figure
in the swi hacking scene claims to have found references to a Nintendo switch
pro model which would support 4K in docked mode and feature an upgraded OLED
screen in handheld mode I'm actually not excited about this because it would just
make me sad about the switch that I do have I hate talking don't make me do and
the ill- fated mobile streaming service kiby quebe has been scooped up by Roku
who will include the services shows in a free channel available on Roku devices
the deal was reportedly closed for significantly less than 100 million
which could mean anything really oh kibi
you deserve better than this and actually I wouldn't know that because I
didn't sign up I refused to quibble about that and I also don't know how
long we can continue this charade so come back on Monday for more Tech news
will you please