WEBVTT 00:00:00.340 --> 00:00:03.610 - Tech news, but with hoods on. Hoodlinked. 00:00:03.610 --> 00:00:08.740 After retailers screwed up PlayStation 5 pre-orders last week by launching product pages early, 00:00:08.740 --> 00:00:13.636 Microsoft said their retail partners were prepared for an onslaught of console hungry gamers 00:00:13.636 --> 00:00:17.920 when pre-orders for the Xbox Series X and S went live Tuesday morning. 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:22.150 The launch proceeded on schedule, but online stores still found their servers overloaded 00:00:22.150 --> 00:00:26.050 with requests from people like Colton - Wow, what? - For Xbox's, 00:00:26.050 --> 00:00:29.220 and they quickly sold out. Unfortunately, some fans fell victim 00:00:29.220 --> 00:00:34.870 to Microsoft's confusing naming scheme and accidentally ordered Xbox One X's instead. 00:00:34.870 --> 00:00:38.710 With Amazon marking a 740% increase in sales 00:00:38.710 --> 00:00:44.750 of their three-year-old console. And if you're one of those poor souls, or if you just couldn't get a Series X or S, don't worry. 00:00:44.750 --> 00:00:49.760 Microsoft is holding a certain amount of consoles in stock for the actual launch on November 10th. 00:00:49.760 --> 00:00:54.270 Until then, you can play with the new Xbox remote play feature which lets you stream games 00:00:54.270 --> 00:00:59.110 from your console to your Android phone. This is not to be confused with XCloud, 00:00:59.110 --> 00:01:04.810 the cloud streaming service, which Microsoft is adamant will launch on iOS despite Apple's predictably silly rules 00:01:04.810 --> 00:01:09.720 when having a dedicated app for each cloud game. Their iOS home screen would be so crowded. 00:01:09.720 --> 00:01:13.190 Although you could make it look pretty sweet with them new widgets. 00:01:13.190 --> 00:01:16.510 For the first time in my life, I want an iPhone. 00:01:16.510 --> 00:01:20.213 It feels weird. - [Colton] You're gonna get an X box too? - Maybe. 00:01:20.213 --> 00:01:23.300 Microsoft is also holding their Ignite developer conference 00:01:23.300 --> 00:01:29.093 right now where they've made a few interesting announcements. The company is developing a method of holographic storage 00:01:29.093 --> 00:01:32.200 involving sending beams of light through lenses 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:37.273 at a crystal cube, which can hold information until it's wiped with the UV radiation, 00:01:37.273 --> 00:01:41.500 Sounds nerdy as hell. There's also Premonition, Microsoft's attempt 00:01:41.500 --> 00:01:46.450 to build something like a weather monitoring system, but for disease outbreaks, using robotics 00:01:46.450 --> 00:01:53.600 and cloud based software to capture, sample and test disease carrier, like mosquitoes or people. 00:01:53.600 --> 00:01:58.052 I guess soon it'll be normal to see spot robots' leaping around snatching flies out of the air, 00:01:58.052 --> 00:02:01.530 a beautiful future. And finally, Microsoft announced an exclusive 00:02:01.530 --> 00:02:05.640 licensing agreement with OpenAI's GPT-3 language model. 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:10.850 In case you forgot GPT is the AI behind the amazing AI dungeon text RPG. 00:02:10.850 --> 00:02:15.060 I can see it now. Bethesda's first game under its new management, 00:02:15.060 --> 00:02:19.380 Microsoft language simulator. It will be sick as long as you don't need words 00:02:19.380 --> 00:02:24.057 to mean anything. And a bunch of leaks from German site 00:02:24.057 --> 00:02:27.325 WinFuture have given us a look at the possible specs 00:02:27.325 --> 00:02:34.020 and design of both the Google Pixel 5 and the beagle, the Google Pixel 4a 5G. 00:02:34.020 --> 00:02:39.200 The leak is consistent with previously seen rumors claiming the Pixel 5 will have a six inch OLED 00:02:39.200 --> 00:02:43.550 90 Hertz display covering the whole front with a cut out selfie camera. 00:02:43.550 --> 00:02:46.820 Bye bye gesture controls, I guess. And good riddance. 00:02:46.820 --> 00:02:52.270 Hey, I use those. Inside is a Snapdragon 765G with sub six gigahertz 5G 00:02:52.270 --> 00:02:57.750 support, eight gigabytes of RAM and a 4,080 milliamp hour battery. 00:02:57.750 --> 00:03:02.390 The Pixel 4a 5G supposedly has the same processor, but only six gigabytes of RAM, 00:03:02.390 --> 00:03:05.680 a smaller battery and a display capable of a measly 60 Hertz. 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:08.810 Although, it is slightly larger, or is it? 00:03:08.810 --> 00:03:12.440 I don't know. 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(blows tongue) Because reducing emissions is less worth it 00:04:16.450 --> 00:04:19.840 if you have to use child labor to do it, you know, it's good to get rid of that stuff. 00:04:19.840 --> 00:04:23.140 Unless you're Elon Musk's son who was probably an Android and doesn't count. 00:04:23.140 --> 00:04:26.403 Hey, think Blizzard has sucked since Activision got involved? 00:04:26.403 --> 00:04:30.220 Well Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime agrees. and now has founded 00:04:30.220 --> 00:04:35.090 a new company called Dreamhaven. It will be the parent company of two development studios 00:04:35.090 --> 00:04:38.555 called Moonshot or Moon's hot and Secret Door, 00:04:38.555 --> 00:04:43.077 both headed by former creative leads of Blizzard. Frankly, I'll take a StarCraft knockoff 00:04:43.077 --> 00:04:48.030 if it comes with those bomb ass cinematics. "My life for Auir." 00:04:48.030 --> 00:04:52.424 Know what I mean? Samsung apparently realizes the Galaxy S20 got a lukewarm reaction when it launched 00:04:52.424 --> 00:04:57.110 for a thousand bucks. So now they're releasing the S20 Fan Edition 00:04:57.110 --> 00:05:03.370 for $700US with a slightly lower spec, like a 1080P display that doesn't curve on the side, 00:05:03.370 --> 00:05:06.945 but it's still got 120 Hertz screen and a decent battery. Please buy it. 00:05:06.945 --> 00:05:10.040 We have different colors, please. 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:15.032 Google maps is getting an update that will show these seven day average COVID cases in US States, 00:05:15.032 --> 00:05:19.304 a handy metric for planning your next road trip, which you probably shouldn't be taking right now. 00:05:19.304 --> 00:05:22.960 But if you do, consider heading straight downward 00:05:22.960 --> 00:05:26.314 into a bunker. And hey look, it's the Sony Experia Play 2 00:05:26.314 --> 00:05:29.842 a phone that never launched. But from the looks of it, it should have 00:05:29.842 --> 00:05:33.710 because with its thin screen and stylish PlayStation style buttons, 00:05:33.710 --> 00:05:38.950 it could have been an awesome mobile alternative for PlayStation fans. Sony, it's not too late to give up on this whole 00:05:38.950 --> 00:05:43.560 console thing and tackle Nintendo head-on. They've rained over portable gaming for a long enough, 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:47.410 right? Seize power. Seize it! - They tried twice. - Yeah, they've tried, yeah. 00:05:47.410 --> 00:05:51.760 And we'll end this episode before things get too scary. Come back on Friday for more tech news 00:05:51.760 --> 00:05:54.913 'cause we've got what you need. Tech news. 00:05:54.913 --> 00:05:58.080 I feel like when I have a hood on I just act like Riley more. Its weird. - Yeah. 00:05:58.080 --> 00:06:02.510 - Oh, this was tied up too. That must have looked weird when I was- - Yeah you have a really gangster look going on.