WEBVTT 00:00:00.210 --> 00:00:03.920 - This is driving me crazy. Cause I got this feeling something important happened today. 00:00:03.920 --> 00:00:07.070 And I just, I can't remember. It's like, it's a political thing. 00:00:07.070 --> 00:00:10.830 All right. The white house website got dark mode. 00:00:10.830 --> 00:00:14.660 Neat. LG is thinking about ditching the smartphone business, 00:00:14.660 --> 00:00:15.923 according to the Korean, 00:00:21.288 --> 00:00:25.240 according to CEO kwon Bong-Seok, The Korean Herald reported 00:00:25.240 --> 00:00:30.520 that the company's big cheese revealed in a message to staffers, that it is about time 00:00:30.520 --> 00:00:34.830 for LG to make a cold judgment regarding a sale, withdrawal 00:00:34.830 --> 00:00:39.390 and downsizing of the company smartphone business in response to fierce competition. 00:00:39.390 --> 00:00:45.610 But this news comes only a week after LG teased their rollable smartphone at CES. 00:00:45.610 --> 00:00:49.623 Now what are we supposed to do with that thing? Stick it at our pipes and smoke it. 00:00:50.639 --> 00:00:53.920 Kwon's considering the move because of his self-perceived failure 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:57.460 to make LG's mobile division profitable by 2021. 00:00:57.460 --> 00:01:03.600 I mean, I don't know who made the decision to tie the wacky flip-up LG wing in with "Songbird", 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:07.820 that horrible looking movie about COVID starring the guy from "Riverdale" but, 00:01:07.820 --> 00:01:11.700 that probably didn't help either, bad decisions, they haunt you forever, right? 00:01:11.700 --> 00:01:16.710 Fresh leaks of Intel's Alder Lake-S processors are haunting the internet, specifically 00:01:16.710 --> 00:01:21.560 a 16 core model with DDR5 memory, that does sound spooky. 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:27.890 An entry in the SiSoftware database described a hybrid design processor that has shown up in leaks before. 00:01:27.890 --> 00:01:31.680 It's got eight high performance, hyper-threading capable cores, in addition 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:36.070 to eight power efficient cores for a total of 24 threads. 00:01:36.070 --> 00:01:39.280 But the presence of DDR5 is a new detail 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:44.500 as is the chips boost clock of 4 GHz, allowing this sample to perform substantially better 00:01:44.500 --> 00:01:49.670 than the one shown in previous leaks. Now, these are desktop processors and I'm not sure 00:01:49.670 --> 00:01:52.800 what use efficiency cores will have when, you know, 00:01:52.800 --> 00:01:57.450 battery life isn't really in the picture, but hey, maybe Intel knows something I don't, 00:01:57.450 --> 00:02:03.650 I certainly hope Intel knows something I don't. And a week after announcing the RTX 3060, 00:02:03.650 --> 00:02:08.620 NVIDIA may be planning to reintroduce the RTX 2060 00:02:08.620 --> 00:02:14.660 and 2060 super into the market. French enthusiast site, overclocking.com claims 00:02:14.660 --> 00:02:19.390 that sources have told them NVIDIA has distributed new GPU stock 00:02:19.390 --> 00:02:23.280 to board partners as a way to have something, 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:27.410 anything on shelves that gamers can actually freaking buy. 00:02:27.410 --> 00:02:30.760 If this is true, it's pretty ridiculous. 00:02:30.760 --> 00:02:34.210 I mean the GPU stock shortage has gotten apparently this bad 00:02:34.210 --> 00:02:39.270 to the point where we are re releasing old products so consumers have some way to spend their money. 00:02:39.270 --> 00:02:43.920 In case you were hoping for a deal, it looks like the RTX 3060 may not launch 00:02:43.920 --> 00:02:51.230 with a founder's edition which means that most cards will be priced above the 3060's, $329 MSRP. 00:02:51.230 --> 00:02:54.840 Maybe we were wrong. Maybe we all should have pre-ordered these cards 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:57.603 when they launched. 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Huh, should have bought a Windows laptop. 00:04:34.340 --> 00:04:38.560 They don't have any bugs, like, for instance, that crashes your whole PC 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:44.430 when you open a certain path, and file Explorer, PCMR bro. 00:04:44.430 --> 00:04:47.530 Virgin orbit has finally managed to live up to their name 00:04:47.530 --> 00:04:50.800 with the successful launch of the LauncherOne rocket 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:56.980 into orbit becoming the first company to do so with a liquid fueled rocket deployed from a 747. 00:04:56.980 --> 00:05:00.570 Looks like Richard Branson will finally get his access card 00:05:00.570 --> 00:05:05.610 to the super secret billionaire space station where Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos spend 00:05:05.610 --> 00:05:09.010 all their time probably, glaring at each other. 00:05:09.010 --> 00:05:13.560 But living longer, you know that right? - [Man] Thanks to relativity. 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:17.790 - [Presenter] The company formerly known as Oculus, Facebook reality Labs is apparently researching 00:05:17.790 --> 00:05:22.460 a way to reduce the screen door effect in VR headsets, involving rapidly 00:05:22.460 --> 00:05:25.720 and minutely shifting the entire display. 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:29.730 So basically, they're gonna make a vibrator that goes right on your face. 00:05:29.730 --> 00:05:34.870 Sounds horrible or great, depending on what you want the headset for. 00:05:34.870 --> 00:05:39.150 And the Japanese researchers have developed a super conducting processor said 00:05:39.150 --> 00:05:43.260 to be 80 times more efficient than traditional seven nanometer alternatives. 00:05:43.260 --> 00:05:46.610 And if that doesn't get you excited enough this bad boy is made 00:05:46.610 --> 00:05:54.220 of super conducting niobium and built from adiabatik quantum-flux-parametrone. 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:58.880 Is that a real word? 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