1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 I like to think that there's an alternate universe, where there's tech news every day, 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,000 and then talking dogs, and the talking dogs can fly. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,000 And it rains cereal! A perfect universe. 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:17,000 Windows 12 will be supported by Intel's upcoming Meteor Lake platform, 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,000 according to the most reliable source we have. 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:25,000 A deleted tweet. But that tweet was twitten by Leaf Hobby, 7 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,000 the same leaker who revealed the full specs of Intel's Xeon chips before they launched. 8 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Leaf Hobby claims that Intel's Meteor Lake S desktop platform, 9 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,000 which is due to be released this year, will have 20 PCIe Gen 5 lanes. 10 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,000 They also quote, and I quote, 11 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,000 Support Windows 12 on OS list. 12 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:48,000 Now, obviously it's a bit early to do a plus one on Windows again, 13 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,000 so this is probably just an internal name for some big grand update for Windows 11. 14 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,000 But if so, couldn't they have chosen a better name? 15 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Why not Windows 11.11 so I can make a wish whenever I boot my PC? 16 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,000 You have strange dreams. 17 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Please make it rain cereal. We may never know what it really is, since both Microsoft and Intel refuse to comment on the leak when asked by the Verge. 18 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:16,000 We do know they plan on integrating more AI into future Windows versions, 19 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,000 since the head of consumer marketing said as much earlier this week, 20 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,000 and big boss, Panos Panay, said, 21 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:27,000 AI is going to reinvent how you do everything on Windows at CES this year. 22 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:31,000 Really? Is it going to reinvent how I look out pensively at the rain? 23 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:38,000 Yes. I'm inclined to believe him after it completely changed how we use Bing by making us want to use Bing. 24 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,000 That was not on my bingo card. 25 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:50,000 It's just been a long time. The European Union is expected to approve Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard according to early reports. 26 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,000 They had to put them through the ringer first, though. 27 00:01:53,000 --> 00:02:01,000 Can't just give it to them. Originally, the EU was concerned the deal would be a major blow to competition in PC, console, and cloud gaming, 28 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:09,000 but now the European Commission isn't even expected to require asset sales to approve the buyout, which you normally have to have. 29 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,000 That's what I approve every time. Get your assets out. 30 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Back that asset up. This is more than likely due to the actions the company took just last month, 31 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:26,000 such as announcing a 10-year Call of Duty deal with Nintendo and a deal with NVIDIA to bring all of Microsoft's PC releases to GeForce Now. 32 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:31,000 And just last week, Microsoft's Vice Chairman Brad Smith argued in a European hearing 33 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:37,000 that Microsoft's market share in the region's console sector was a mere 20% while Sony's was 80%. 34 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,000 A statement that sounds normal in universes where Nintendo doesn't exist. 35 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,000 The dark ones. Rude. Ones without talking dogs. 36 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Yet this argument seems to have worked to move the deal forward despite Sony's disapproval. 37 00:02:50,000 --> 00:03:00,000 To add insult to Sony's injury, a ruling in the FTC's case over in America might force the game's company to reveal just how much they pay for third-party exclusives for PlayStation. 38 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,000 I guess Microsoft's attorneys used the oldest legal argument in the book, 39 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:08,000 a tactic that practiced lawyers refer to as No You. 40 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Sony should have followed up with You Smell Like Uptock. 41 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:15,000 What's up the- Oh, an Uptock! Objection! Pfft, adjourned, etc. 42 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:20,000 I call a mistrial. And eSports have come to the Olympics, sort of. 43 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:27,000 The International Olympic Committee announced the official lineup of games for the Olympic eSports Series 2023, 44 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 and, well, they are certainly games, we think. Hard to tell. 45 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:37,000 The event is a global virtual and simulated sports competition in which anyone can participate, 46 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,000 and will culminate in live finals hosted in Singapore. 47 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,000 Now, a couple of the games might be recognizable. 48 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Gran Turismo's there for motorsports, Just Dance. 49 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:54,000 I guess dancing is Olympic now. But the official game they chose to represent archery is called Tic Tac Bo, 50 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,000 a mobile game with about a thousand downloads. 51 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Developed by a Singapore-based studio called Refract Technologies. 52 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Now, wouldn't you know it? The founder of the studio is an active commission member of the Global eSports Federation. 53 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:14,000 What a coincidence! It gets even coincidentier, because the official Taekwondo game, 54 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:19,000 virtual Taekwondo, is also made by Refract, with a little extra fun twist. 55 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:23,000 It's the flagship title for a motion capture console called Axis 56 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:28,000 that was launched on Kickstarter by, who'd have guessed, Refract Technologies. 57 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,000 The Axis isn't available for retail purchase either. 58 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,000 What about League, you know? 59 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,000 You can't jump up in the air and do scissor kicks. 60 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,000 Why not Rocket League, you know? I could join. 61 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:46,000 So yeah, anyone can compete in this Global Taekwondo tournament, 62 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,000 so long as you gave Refract over 500 Singapore dollars last year, 63 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,000 and the console arrives in time for you to compete. 64 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:56,000 And for you to practice using it, because you probably don't know how to use it. 65 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,000 If it doesn't, well, there's always tennis. That's just a free phone app. 66 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:05,000 You know, I like to think the number of guys and five guys was inspired by the number of quick bits. 67 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:10,000 There's no way that's true. Meta has cut the price of two of their VR headsets. 68 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:17,000 The 256 gig Quest 2 is $70 off, while the 128 gig Quest 2 is the same. 69 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,000 It's still $100 more expensive than it was at lunch. 70 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:25,000 But what's $100 when you can save $500 on a Quest Pro? 71 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Just four months after launch, the Quest Pro is now $1,000, 72 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,000 which, I mean, is a smaller number than before. 73 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,000 Between this price cut and reports that there won't be a successor, 74 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:39,000 because the Sony PSVR 2 is so frickin' good, 75 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,000 I'm sensing Meta didn't sell many Quest Pros. 76 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,000 That's what happens when you make things $1,500 that no one wants. 77 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:51,000 Last pass has revealed more details about the leak of customer data that occurred late last year. 78 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:56,000 It turns out that a DevOps engineer's home computer was hacked through third-party software. 79 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,000 The engineer was one of four employees with access to the vault, 80 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:05,000 and if ours, Technica, is to be believed, their PC was hacked through an exploit in Plex. 81 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:10,000 Imagine if you exposed thousands of people's data just because you wanted to stream all your episodes of Monk 82 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,000 starring Tony Shalupe. Why Monk? 83 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:19,000 It's a good show. The latest TikTok trend, everyone's binging Monk... 84 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:26,000 starring Tony Shalupe. The newest version of the Steam Deck OS enables ray tracing in Doom Eternal. 85 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:31,000 Wow, which runs surprisingly well despite using AMD graphics and being a handheld console. 86 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:36,000 One user appears to have gotten above 30 FPS in the game with ray tracing on, 87 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,000 at least while looking directly at the ground. But damn. 88 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:44,000 That's the best place to look. Just look at that pool of demon blood glisten. 89 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Magnifique. I wish that was real, demon blood on my floor. 90 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:57,000 Rather stop. I need to sleep. Amazon Basics has now entered the computer components market with a CPU air cooler. 91 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:01,000 It's selling on Jeff Bezos' book website for $27, 92 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:06,000 which will look like a great deal when you see it prominently placed on Amazon's marketplace. 93 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Yeah, it's easy to be cynical, but you know what? It's got RGB, and it's likely just a rebranded Cooler Master product. 94 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,000 What, did you expect Amazon to make one from scratch? 95 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Do you think they're made of money? It's funny because they are. 96 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:26,000 They almost literally are. And former FEMA officials are rallying to stop EV manufacturers from removing AM radio from their automobiles, 97 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:30,000 citing its importance as emergency communication. 98 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,000 Automakers including Ford and Tesla are removing the old radio standard, 99 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:40,000 with Ford claiming EVs create electromagnetic noise at the same frequencies as AM radio signals, 100 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:44,000 causing buzzing and signal fading. And you can't drive all your buzzed. 101 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:48,000 However, this didn't stop older models from having AM receivers. 102 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Also, I don't understand how no AM radio is better than slightly noisier AM radio, 103 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:57,000 but I'm not an engineer. You're just cute. I just read the tech news. 104 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,000 But you don't have to be an engineer to know we'll have more tech news on Monday. 105 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,000 And this time, it will be Monday. 106 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,000 Unlike on last Monday when I said come back on Monday. 107 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,000 Is that what happened? Yes. And I said that? 108 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,000 Yeah, and I wrote it. That was like a real Anchorman situation. 109 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,000 Just reading that.