WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.480 The Consumer Electronics Show is happening in Las Vegas this week, which means a tech-linked 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? 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 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 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. 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, 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 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 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 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:57.360 shortage being alleviated last year, prices are still high, thanks to NVIDIA and even AMD launching 00:00:57.360 --> 00:01:03.840 their new quite expensive flagship GPUs, which also seem to carry their own unique burn risks. 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:08.640 They're special. That's not to say NVIDIA has totally ignored the budget market, 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 00:01:16.160 --> 00:01:20.560 on your power bill. You know, they really know about the concerns of the people. 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:26.160 India will be mandating the use of USB-C ports for charging portable electronics weeks after 00:01:26.160 --> 00:01:31.360 similar legislation from the EU finally got final approval or was signed into law or got 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. 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 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 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 00:01:52.320 --> 00:01:57.680 by March 2025, although the rules also make room for a second standard charging method for 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 00:02:03.520 --> 00:02:09.280 its way out of rules like this by making a portless iPhone that charges via MagSafe, 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, 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. 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 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, 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 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. 00:02:41.920 --> 00:02:46.080 They announced that in November. Monitor specs are already confusing enough as it is. 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:50.400 And another press release is about a color calibrated 5K monitor meant to compete with 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:57.760 similar models from Apple and LG. Although Samsung did also announce a smart oven with an 00:02:57.760 --> 00:03:03.120 internal camera that can recognize over a hundred dishes so it can cook them automatically while 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. 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. 00:03:17.920 --> 00:03:23.280 Give me the smart robot toilets. Incentive pillows. That's what CES is about. 00:03:23.920 --> 00:03:26.720 Quick bits have all sorts of other qualities too. They're not just quick. 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 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, 00:03:40.720 --> 00:03:45.840 at least in 3D Mark. Another leak showed the unreleased laptop version of the RTX 4090 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:50.960 performing better than a desktop 3090 in geekbench. But why am I telling you this? 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:54.560 When NVIDIA's GeForce event at CES is going to start in a matter of hours, 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. 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 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:10.560 smartphone giants Oppo and Huawei have made progress in designing and manufacturing their own 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:14.880 in-house chipsets, which would reduce their reliance on non-Chinese suppliers. 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 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:25.680 extreme ultraviolet or EUV lithography process, which enables the production of higher-end chips. 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 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. 00:04:37.440 --> 00:04:42.240 Netflix has ads now, at least for their cheapest tier, and according to Jeremy Zimmer, 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:48.320 head of Hollywood's United Talent Agency, that means Netflix content creators should be getting 00:04:48.320 --> 00:04:54.960 a cut of ad revenue because Netflix has turned them into YouTubers, basically. Now, that argument 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. 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:05.920 Only 9% of new Netflix signups in the US were for the ad-supported tier, 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:10.400 causing Netflix to actually have to pay back advertisers for some of their ad spending. 00:05:10.400 --> 00:05:16.640 So maybe Adam Sandler should consider YouTube, uh, or Flowplain. Can you imagine we get some 00:05:16.640 --> 00:05:23.040 Adam Sandler Flowplain exclusives? I wouldn't watch them. The royalty-free AV1 video codec 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:28.320 has had a hard time breaking into the mainstream, but popular transcoding app Handbrake has added 00:05:28.320 --> 00:05:34.480 official AV1 support in the latest release. So now watch all the cards fall. Okay, fine, 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 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:44.400 come soon, hopefully before some tech giant or another realizes that letting an open-source 00:05:44.400 --> 00:05:49.600 standard that lets people run things faster without paying them money might be a bad idea. 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 00:05:54.480 --> 00:06:00.960 FTX exchange, just can't stop himself from commenting on stuff that he probably shouldn't. 00:06:00.960 --> 00:06:04.960 Like recent news that crypto wallets associated with Alameda Research, 00:06:04.960 --> 00:06:11.120 the sister company of FTX, have been spotted transferring out funds. None of these are me, 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 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 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 00:06:28.880 --> 00:06:33.040 should come back tomorrow for more tech news, different advice for different people. You 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:36.880 should never stop talking. We need your voice in this time.