- This is driving me crazy. Cause I got this feeling something important happened today.
And I just, I can't remember. It's like, it's a political thing.
All right. The white house website got dark mode.
Neat. LG is thinking about ditching the smartphone business,
according to the Korean,
according to CEO kwon Bong-Seok, The Korean Herald reported
that the company's big cheese revealed in a message to staffers, that it is about time
for LG to make a cold judgment regarding a sale, withdrawal
and downsizing of the company smartphone business in response to fierce competition.
But this news comes only a week after LG teased their rollable smartphone at CES.
Now what are we supposed to do with that thing? Stick it at our pipes and smoke it.
Kwon's considering the move because of his self-perceived failure
to make LG's mobile division profitable by 2021.
I mean, I don't know who made the decision to tie the wacky flip-up LG wing in with "Songbird",
that horrible looking movie about COVID starring the guy from "Riverdale" but,
that probably didn't help either, bad decisions, they haunt you forever, right?
Fresh leaks of Intel's Alder Lake-S processors are haunting the internet, specifically
a 16 core model with DDR5 memory, that does sound spooky.
An entry in the SiSoftware database described a hybrid design processor that has shown up in leaks before.
It's got eight high performance, hyper-threading capable cores, in addition
to eight power efficient cores for a total of 24 threads.
But the presence of DDR5 is a new detail
as is the chips boost clock of 4 GHz, allowing this sample to perform substantially better
than the one shown in previous leaks. Now, these are desktop processors and I'm not sure
what use efficiency cores will have when, you know,
battery life isn't really in the picture, but hey, maybe Intel knows something I don't,
I certainly hope Intel knows something I don't. And a week after announcing the RTX 3060,
NVIDIA may be planning to reintroduce the RTX 2060
and 2060 super into the market. French enthusiast site, overclocking.com claims
that sources have told them NVIDIA has distributed new GPU stock
to board partners as a way to have something,
anything on shelves that gamers can actually freaking buy.
If this is true, it's pretty ridiculous.
I mean the GPU stock shortage has gotten apparently this bad
to the point where we are re releasing old products so consumers have some way to spend their money.
In case you were hoping for a deal, it looks like the RTX 3060 may not launch
with a founder's edition which means that most cards will be priced above the 3060's, $329 MSRP.
Maybe we were wrong. Maybe we all should have pre-ordered these cards
when they launched. Now look at us, poor schmucks.
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All right, time for the graphics Bites, ever heard of them? The European commission has issued fines,
totaling 7.8 million euros against Valve
and five steam publishers, including ZeniMax, Capcom and Bandai Namco.
The EC says that the company's restricted sales in some European regions, but not others,
which is against EU antitrust rules.
Valve plans to appeal of course, saying that geoblocking actually helps prevent publishers
from raising prices in less affluent regions. But regardless, if the fines go through,
it shouldn't be too much of a burden thanks to that sweet, sweet Dota money.
- [Man] Only works in the game though. - [Presenter] And M1 Mac book users are complaining about
a Macalester big server that activates the screen saver
and renders laptop unusable. Huh, should have bought a Windows laptop.
They don't have any bugs, like, for instance, that crashes your whole PC
when you open a certain path, and file Explorer, PCMR bro.
Virgin orbit has finally managed to live up to their name
with the successful launch of the LauncherOne rocket
into orbit becoming the first company to do so with a liquid fueled rocket deployed from a 747.
Looks like Richard Branson will finally get his access card
to the super secret billionaire space station where Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos spend
all their time probably, glaring at each other.
But living longer, you know that right? - [Man] Thanks to relativity.
- [Presenter] The company formerly known as Oculus, Facebook reality Labs is apparently researching
a way to reduce the screen door effect in VR headsets, involving rapidly
and minutely shifting the entire display.
So basically, they're gonna make a vibrator that goes right on your face.
Sounds horrible or great, depending on what you want the headset for.
And the Japanese researchers have developed a super conducting processor said
to be 80 times more efficient than traditional seven nanometer alternatives.
And if that doesn't get you excited enough this bad boy is made
of super conducting niobium and built from adiabatik quantum-flux-parametrone.
Is that a real word? What is this line? I mean there's more
than 20,000 Joseph's injunction switches.
Woo, woo, it's getting hot in here.
I gotta take off my LTT Store merch. Ah, this tech news, you know what,
it's too much, it's too hot to continue. So come back on Friday for more tech news
which will also be very hot because we have only the hottest news for you,
the very hottest viewers, we can finally joke about it.
- [Man] Oh, man, it's like nostalgic now.