Linus has always wanted to write one of these, so
ha, now I have to read what he puts on the prompter, which is uh fibbity
wibbity floppity schmoopity buckaroo buns. It's time for the tech news. If
you've never heard of The Wall, well, ha, okay, zoomer. Just kidding. I'm
actually talking about Samsung's updated version of their The Wall micro LED TV.
It's a giant display made of multiple seamless panels studded with micro LEDs,
which offer up to the deep blacks of OLED without the risk of burning. it's a
modular design, it can be configured into any number of shapes and sizes, a
feature Samsung is leveraging by increasing the maximum size to a
staggering 292 in at 8K resolution. As
long as you've got the million or so dollars it would cost to buy and power
64 of the modular panels that consume 150 watts each. Closer to the realm of
attainability is the new 75-in 4K micro LED display that they unveiled this
year. Not because you'll be able to afford it when they finally announce pricing or anything like that, but
rather because its stunning 58 pixel per inch density means that Samsung's
ability to tightly pack in micro LEDs
has improved by nearly 4x since they first showed off The Wall. And as new
things improve, well, prices tend to fall for the old stuff, right? Just like
they have been for OLED. Prices have been falling for the last few years at
luxury sizes like 65 and 77 in,
but LG and Sony both just announced that we can also expect a new smaller size in
their 2020 lineup. Exact pricing hasn't been given, but at just 48 in, the new
LG CX and Sony A9 models are expected to be priced significantly lower than their
55-in family members, while also offering the inky blacks, impressive
pixel response times, and accurate colors that OLEDs are first known for.
Man, you can basically use this thing as a computer monitor as long as your desk
is deep enough. Facebook is in the news again, and this time they're altering
their policy regarding deepfakes just in time for the 2020 US election race to
really start heating up. According to their manipulated media policy, parody
and satirical content is okay, but any video content meeting the following
criteria will be removed. If it's a synthesized product of AI or machine
learning techniques that appears authentic, or if it's been edited in a
way that would likely mislead the average person to believe that the
subject said words that they didn't actually say. Well, that's a start, but
I say they haven't gone far enough. Did you know that just under half of all
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below. Now for the quick bits. Not content to let AMD have all the
headlines, this year Intel partnered with Razer to show off the tiny Tomahawk
modular gaming PC featuring their compute element. What's a compute
element, you ask? Good question. Just like a normal gaming PC, you can choose
your own case, memory, storage, power supply, and graphics card, and then the
compute element is kind of like a motherboard. It's got all the IO, the
CPU goes on it, and it connects the rest of the components together, so it's a
motherboard. The difference is that you don't need to screw it into your case,
and when it's time to upgrade, you just rip your old one out and plonk in a new
one. Well, that's kind of cool. Good thing they're based on pricey mobile
processors, or building PCs would be too simple and I'd be out of a job. I don't
get that at all, but all right. With everyone else focused on peppering their
phones with as many cameras as they physically can, OnePlus is on a secret
mission to remove them all. The OnePlus Concept One is an aptly named concept
device that uses electrochemical glass, the kind you might see on fancy sunroofs
and energy-efficient Windows, to dim the light coming into the rear cameras under
overly bright conditions or even hide them outright when they're not in use.
Combined with the pop-up selfie camera, this means no visible lenses whatsoever.
Take that, Big Brother. I need a heckler to say I can still hear you, though.
Take that, Big Brother. I can still hear you, though. Oh, you.
Well, they tried. Intel ended up revealing more than they intended in a
reply on Twitter in late December. Performance engineer Frank Ober offered
to provide a developer with a upcoming Optane SSD, boasting that it's PCI Gen 4
capable, suggesting that Intel is very close to shipping their next-generation
3D XPoint memory. One small problem. What motherboard do you expect him to
use, Frank? Intel undoubtedly has unreleased PCI Gen 4 hardware in their
own Labs, but ironically, to get the most out of this new speed bump, Intel's
customers in the data center will be forced to go Team Red.
Little bit awkward. And finally, Sony has unveiled the logo for the
PlayStation 5. Thank you, Sony. You're so generous. Inspired by Microsoft's
ongoing descent into branding madness over the last couple of decades and the
constant mockery they received, over at Sony figured they'd take the safe path
and keep it simple, so it's a PS4 logo with a five taped over top of it,
basically. Unfortunately, Sony appeared to have underestimated the gaming
community's deep-rooted passion for trash talk, so the memes are coming hard
and heavy. Some of these are great. Thank you, guys. You brightened my day.
Keep it up. Just like TechLinked brightens your day every day, or at
least uh this week it does. Normally, it's just three days of the week, but
hey, how much brightness do you need? This is at least 1,000 nits. See you
tomorrow, nerds.