1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,480 The Consumer Electronics Show is happening in Las Vegas this week, which means a tech-linked 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:10,240 episode every weekday filmed here in the studio, not on location, because have you been to Vegas? 3 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:15,040 There's just a layer of slime on everything. It's like it's underwater. Demand for desktop 4 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:21,520 GPUs hit a 20-year low in 2022, according to data from John Petty Research, which I'm sure 5 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:27,680 AMD and NVIDIA are super confused by. Like, guys, we made you these really powerful graphics cards. 6 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:33,040 All we ask in return is all of your money. So Team Red, Green, and Blue have responded, 7 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:37,920 the only way they know how, by slashing their orders for more chips from major chip manufacturer 8 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:45,680 TSMC. They're thinking, gamers must just not be into GPUs right now, so I guess we'll stop making 9 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:51,520 them? Okay fine, I'll put a pause on the sarcasm. No one's buying GPUs because despite the supply 10 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:57,360 shortage being alleviated last year, prices are still high, thanks to NVIDIA and even AMD launching 11 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:03,840 their new quite expensive flagship GPUs, which also seem to carry their own unique burn risks. 12 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:08,640 They're special. That's not to say NVIDIA has totally ignored the budget market, 13 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:16,160 they just launched a new RTX 3050 with a lower TDP of 115 watts, so you can save a few cents 14 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:20,560 on your power bill. You know, they really know about the concerns of the people. 15 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:26,160 India will be mandating the use of USB-C ports for charging portable electronics weeks after 16 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:31,360 similar legislation from the EU finally got final approval or was signed into law or got 17 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:35,760 a lot of votes or something. Honestly, I feel like I've reported on that story like 18 times. 18 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:40,320 India's reasons for the mandate seem similar to the EU's. They want to make life easier for 19 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:46,320 consumers, reduce e-ways to protect the environment, and make Apple do something they don't want to do 20 00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:52,320 because that's funny. The Bureau of Indian Standards would require mobile devices to use USB-C 21 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:57,680 by March 2025, although the rules also make room for a second standard charging method for 22 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:03,520 smartwatches and other wearables. It's also important to note that Apple might be able to shimmy 23 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:09,280 its way out of rules like this by making a portless iPhone that charges via MagSafe, 24 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:14,960 since laws like these often have terms saying you have to use USB-C for wired charging, 25 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:21,120 but I really hope Apple does make at least one official USB-C iPhone, just so we have it. 26 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:25,920 Cause then we have it. And like I said, you'll want to prepare yourselves for some hot tech news 27 00:02:25,920 --> 00:02:31,440 from CES this week. Usually we have a few pre-show announcements to report on, but for the most part, 28 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:37,600 so far, we've only gotten some press releases from Samsung about monitors. One is about the 8K 29 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,920 UltraWide, which is not really 8K, so it's kind of annoying that they keep calling it that. 30 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:46,080 They announced that in November. Monitor specs are already confusing enough as it is. 31 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:50,400 And another press release is about a color calibrated 5K monitor meant to compete with 32 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:57,760 similar models from Apple and LG. Although Samsung did also announce a smart oven with an 33 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:03,120 internal camera that can recognize over a hundred dishes so it can cook them automatically while 34 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:11,360 you stream footage of it to Twitch. Now that is a taste of the good weird CES stuff pun intended. 35 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:17,840 LG also announced their 2023 lineup of TVs is brighter. No, I don't care. It's too normal. 36 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:23,280 Give me the smart robot toilets. Incentive pillows. That's what CES is about. 37 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:26,720 Quick bits have all sorts of other qualities too. They're not just quick. 38 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:32,240 Don't put them in a box. Benchmarks have leaked for upcoming NVIDIA cards indicating that the 39 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:40,720 un-unlaunched RTX 4080 12GB aka the 4070 Ti performs about as well as the RTX 3090 Ti, 40 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:45,840 at least in 3D Mark. Another leak showed the unreleased laptop version of the RTX 4090 41 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:50,960 performing better than a desktop 3090 in geekbench. But why am I telling you this? 42 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,560 When NVIDIA's GeForce event at CES is going to start in a matter of hours, 43 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,080 they'll probably give you all sorts of reliable information that you can take at face value. 44 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:05,280 When they say it's a 4080, it's a 4080. Multiple reports are claiming that Chinese 45 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:10,560 smartphone giants Oppo and Huawei have made progress in designing and manufacturing their own 46 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,880 in-house chipsets, which would reduce their reliance on non-Chinese suppliers. 47 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:19,680 Huawei's designed their own chips for a while, but they recently filed a patent describing an 48 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:25,680 extreme ultraviolet or EUV lithography process, which enables the production of higher-end chips. 49 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:31,680 So once they launch phones without any non-Chinese parts, at least you can be more confident that 50 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:36,880 they're spying on you. I mean, at least I know now. It's the uncertainty that gets me. 51 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:42,240 Netflix has ads now, at least for their cheapest tier, and according to Jeremy Zimmer, 52 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:48,320 head of Hollywood's United Talent Agency, that means Netflix content creators should be getting 53 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:54,960 a cut of ad revenue because Netflix has turned them into YouTubers, basically. Now, that argument 54 00:04:54,960 --> 00:05:02,160 would be pretty solid if Netflix was making a lot of money off ads, which it doesn't appear to be. 55 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:05,920 Only 9% of new Netflix signups in the US were for the ad-supported tier, 56 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:10,400 causing Netflix to actually have to pay back advertisers for some of their ad spending. 57 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:16,640 So maybe Adam Sandler should consider YouTube, uh, or Flowplain. Can you imagine we get some 58 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:23,040 Adam Sandler Flowplain exclusives? I wouldn't watch them. The royalty-free AV1 video codec 59 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:28,320 has had a hard time breaking into the mainstream, but popular transcoding app Handbrake has added 60 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:34,480 official AV1 support in the latest release. So now watch all the cards fall. Okay, fine, 61 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:39,120 the app doesn't support NVIDIA or AMD's implementations of the codec yet, but that will probably 62 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:44,400 come soon, hopefully before some tech giant or another realizes that letting an open-source 63 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:49,600 standard that lets people run things faster without paying them money might be a bad idea. 64 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:54,480 And Sam Bankman Freed, released on bail after being arrested in relation to the collapse of the 65 00:05:54,480 --> 00:06:00,960 FTX exchange, just can't stop himself from commenting on stuff that he probably shouldn't. 66 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:04,960 Like recent news that crypto wallets associated with Alameda Research, 67 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:11,120 the sister company of FTX, have been spotted transferring out funds. None of these are me, 68 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:17,760 SPF tweeted. That's right, bud. Maintain innocence, even though your buddies all pled guilty to federal 69 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:22,560 charges. Look, I'm not saying he's definitely guilty. Like, let the trial play out. I'm just 70 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:28,880 telling him to shut up. Stop talking. Speaking of which, I'll take my own advice now. But you 71 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:33,040 should come back tomorrow for more tech news, different advice for different people. You 72 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:36,880 should never stop talking. We need your voice in this time.