This is a hammer, but
this is the tech news. It might be hard
to believe that AMD has been around for 50 years. The golden anniversary been
married for that long or had to shop for an anniversary gift for your
grandparents. So, fittingly, AMD has released gold editions of both the Ryzen
7 2700X and Radeon 7. While it doesn't
look like either product will actually be gold colored, they will come in gold
packaging with a CPU featuring the CEO Lisa Sue's signature. Both products will
come with copies of The Division 2 and World War Z, as well as a commemorative
t-shirt. You should pick up both a CPU and graphics card right now. If you have
a gold system, I guess, but it's not even gold. Why did they even do this?
Like, we made a freaking gold CPU. Come on, AMD. Now, despite Samsung's folding
phone, well, folding due to high failure rates, other phone manufacturers think
they can pull it off. A new foldable Motorola Razor might be in the works.
And the newest revision looks to feature a screen that folds vertically,
hearkening back to the days when having a flip phone made you the cool kid in
high school. Do you remember that? These were awesome. They were so sick. Keep in
mind, these rendered images of the new Razer aren't official, but seeing
Motorola filed a patent in 2018 for a similar device, this could be very close
to the real deal. There's no word when it might come to market, but it's
speculated to be cheaper than the Galaxy Fold. So, if nothing else, at least when
you break it, it'll be easier to replace. You buy two instead of one.
Yeah. Just skip the middleman. Just H.
But maybe instead of a foldable phone, you want one that uh blows. Yeah. Oh,
like with the fan on the inside. Okay. The Chinese company Nubia is coming out
with just such a fan phone dubbed the Red Magic 3. Although other phone
manufacturers have had external fan attachments for gaming orientated
devices, the Red Magic 3 appears to be the first one that has a real internal
fan built in. Its internal specs look pretty solid for a flagship tier device,
including a 90 Hz display. And seeing that the overheating has been a
legitimate issue with other gaming phones, this might turn out to be a
pretty o cool cool idea. Yay. Got it. It's set
to launch in Europe, Canada, and the US in late May. Just in time to put the
phone's fan to the test outside in 30° heat. Nothing, Colton. It's going to be
Come on. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, it is good. On to the quick bits. Driving can
be expensive, but Jaguar Land Rover wants to pay you for driving their cars,
and not just by sticking tacky ads all over the side. Instead, the automaker is
starting a program that will pay drivers in crypto for sending info about traffic
and road conditions to help aid in both navigation services and local transit
authorities. Jaguar also wants drivers to be able to use said crypto to
automatically pay for things like tolls and beverages. So, sharing this info
might save you a minute the next time you go to Tims or somewhere that
actually has respectable coffee. Oh, come on. Tims is great. It's garbage.
Ever since Burger King got them. Next time you're using Chrome browser on your
smartphone or tablet, be wary that you might notice something funny happening
with the address bar. One developer recently noticed that it would be quite
easy for an attacker to replace it with a fake address bar once you start
scrolling. Hopefully, Google fixes this kind of attack before like some hacker
sees a video about this exploit and gets
an idea to do that. Did Wait, we just
did that. Yeah. Oh. Uh, don't do that,
hackers. No. What is now unsurprising news considering how many high-profile
data breaches there have been lately, there's been a high-profile data breach.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A pair of researchers
have discovered a huge Microsoft database that is just sitting
unprotected and contains bunch of information like names, addresses,
income, and marital status of over half of the households in the US. Microsoft
hasn't commented on this, but you should think twice before fudging your salary
numbers on your next hot date. Or just don't lie to your dates, cuz that's bad,
I guess. So, yeah, don't lie, kids. A new industry report indicated that once
2022 rolls around, 20 million gamers will have switched from PC to console.
That's the wrong way. Why are they doing that? Although most of the attrition is
expected to be with gamers who are using relatively cheap PCs, all market
segments should be somewhat affected due to continued innovations and
improvements in the console space. Of course, 20 million actually isn't a huge
number when you consider how many there are in PC gaming, like 1.3 billion. But
then again, how many of those do you think are just dads playing solitaire?
Probably a lot. Yeah, they're probably just leaving cuz they don't play the good games like the original Halo. And
if Sony officially releasing information about the PlayStation 5 got you all
rearing and ready to go to buy a new console, you might want to temper that
excitement a bit cuz you can't have it until 2020. So, the earliest you might
see one is next spring, but it's more probable that Sony will launch it around
the holidays in 2020 to maximize hype. So, you'll want to wear your battle
armor to the mall around Christmas time to get it, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Or or
just be a tech YouTuber and have them send it to you. Oh. That's That's what
I'll do. Actually, I don't even play consoles. I don't even want to sing that. I'm not getting one. But yeah, I
guess that's it. Goodbye.