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are","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":758.88,"end_s":763.519,"text":"celebrating this holiday season happy holidays and jingle bells all the way","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":762.72,"end_s":768.76,"text":"home say hi to rudolph for me","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":765.839,"end_s":771.54,"text":"season's eatings","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"hahaha it's that magical time of year again but who knew that the best present you least expected was a special end of the year tech news roundup episode that's right we're taking a look back at techlink's biggest tech stories of the year and then looking to the future to see what technological and meme-worthy delights 2020 will bring so put on the old 8k u-log yeah yeah grab a cozy blanket and mug of hot cocoa because it's the 2019 christmas special but first i have to get rid of this how you saw the movie yep yeah you like it nope look the holidays are all about happiness hope and hot cocoa but i'll tell you who's probably not having the best time this year guesses wrong Intel because in 2019 AMD challenged Intel to a match of fisticuffs that didn't turn out so good for team blue after being the less powerful cheaper underdog for years AMD ryzen and threadripper processors are starting to look like the no-brainer choice for not just multi-threaded applications like creative stuff but also for gaming while Intel started the year off strong with a 28 core high-end desktop part more speculative execution vulnerabilities like spoiler and mds kind of pulled the wind up from their sails i could have said spoiled it there pulled it right out queen then AMD launched 3rd gen verizon led by the excellent 16 core 3950x forcing Intel to launch their 18 core core i9 10980xe at 999 us james that was half the price of its predecessor you knew that competition which didn't even do much for it because it was more or less on par with the 3950x which is 150 bucks less it's too late AMD also launched new epic cpus that were also awesome followed by the launch of the high-end desktop threadripper 3960x and 3970x which solidified team red's new position of dominance so far Intel's only real defense has been to slash its prices and move its launch embargoes to six hours before AMD's not to mention that Intel's desktop chips are still stuck on the 14 nanometer process and they don't have the PCIe 4.0 support added in AMD's new chipsets look i could go on but that's just not in the spirit of the season let's just hope Intel pulls it together a bit in 2020 because dr lisa sue seems fine when she's the underdog i do not want to see her become her uncle jensen i mean jen's is he's he's actually not her uncle they're related they're like second cousins once removed or something but they're family and that's what christmas is all about next up it's the u.s china trade war that huawei found themselves smack dab in the middle of a story about a war but it's christmas james chris there's a christmas war movie the the christmas war wonderful life kringle versus the elves die hard ah thank you edsel merry christmas so huawei has been suspected of sketchy spy-ish behavior for years but last december things came to a head when the daughter of huawei's ceo who was also the company's cfo meng won joo was arrested here in vancouver at the request of u.s authorities in february a huawei lab was raided by the fbi on suspicion of stealing trade secrets then evidence surfaced that indicated the company had incentivized its employees to steal apple parts and clone them and after that a series of reports emerged about huawei having back doors in their network equipment get out of there guys and even though the evidence was flimsy at best a number of countries started banning huawei equipment from the rollout of 5g networks but not the uk they still wanted to give huawei a chance and data and to end their data that's what i call the christmas spirit well as usual trump didn't have any of that and he made an executive order to ban u.s companies from doing business with huawei he does have a scrooge mcduck vibe the ban meant players like google Intel and qualcomm had to scramble as they reconfigured their deals business stuff had meetings plotted a new trajectory for q4 what did businesses do for their part huawei said they would accelerate work on their Android alternative and they've already released a phone with no traces of google apps that was so close i'm leaving it parts of the huawei ban have since been lifted but relations between the us and china are still pretty frosty i would say i hope things thaw out come spring but i don't really trust huawei either so i guess we'll just have to leave this one up to old santy claus cheers and you're not likely to find a story with more twists in it than the saga of folding phones it's not a twist i expect you to call me out on that it's like a bend it's not this is your christmas gift thank you thank you so much i appreciate it a chinese company called royal actually showed off the first real folding phone the flex pie at ces last year and frankly this year i guess frankly i don't think anyone was impressed but that didn't deflate people's interest in the concept an Intel patent was later unearthed showing a tri-fold design that's two two folds actually but three it's a pure that folds out like a flower exactly samsung finally unveiled the galaxy fold on february 20th with a price tag of 1980 us benjamin's followed quickly by huawei's reveal of the mate x which seemed like a more advanced design with a more advanced price tag to boot i've never seen one me neither also oppo showed off an extremely similar design but swore that it wasn't copied in april the galaxy fold got sent out to reviewers who promptly tried to peel off the screen protector and broke their phones because it wasn't a screen protector it was just a part of the screen don't you hate when that happens killed my screen off whoops between the fake screen protector issue and the phone being vulnerable to dust and debris there was too much negative press around the galaxy fold and samsung delayed the launch to september people had much nicer things to say about it then meanwhile we started to see rumors of foldable devices coming from microsoft motorola even apple well some of those rumors panned out as in october microsoft unveiled the surface duo a foldable Android phone and the surface neo a foldable Windows device both slated for release next year although they don't actually have bendy displays their laptops so they're laptops it's technically cheating they're not actually foldable phones but i'll let it slide because happy hanukkah yay something wow and also in october motorola took the wraps off their modern razer and although the phone looks sick the specs do not and it's actually been delayed i just heard about that today will we get more and better phones in 2020 probably it's time for the christmas stuffer that's a i should have called it that idea now it's time for the stocking stuffers brought to you by drop.com yeah you can hope for a great present or you can just buy what you want right now get it in there and drop wants to help you out grab something for yourself or that audio file in your nice list with their deals of the decade like the open back hd58x for 130 bucks down from 150 or the massdrop sennheiser pc37x gaming headset for just 90. down from 120. you really want to treat yourself well the mr speaker ether closed headphones normally 900. are 750 bucks these deals won't last long so give yourself some love and check them out at the link below on to the stocking stuffers 2019 saw a bunch of companies get delusions of netflix and pour a ton of effort into making cloud game streaming a mainstream thing microsoft started talking big about project xcloud and we even got rumors that xbox games might be streamable on the nintendo switch in the future other rumors initially made it seem like google was developing a game console until they revealed that it was in a box the future of gaming isn't a box james get your think outside of it way outside wow that's right it was actually stadia a netflix for games type thing but wait you still needed to buy games ah it was as confusing as that light just was but you wait you didn't need the controller unless you were playing on tv it it was a confusing mess at launch but thankfully they cleared things up by claiming stadia would have negative latency while we were waiting to test that claim microsoft and sony announced a shocking and vague cloud gaming partnership that we have yet to see the fruits of now google's promising many more games features and quality improvements for stadia in 2020 but what the heck is steam cloud gaming steamy pile of games more steaming 5g technology actually started rolling out in 2019 with sprint verizon and at t using a mix of existing spectrum and new millimeter wave tech to bring super fast wireless speeds to a few dozen cities across the us provided you're standing in the exact right spot in the middle of the street at t kind of jumped the gun in the early game trying to convince people that it's 5ge network was actually 5g instead of just the rebranded 4g that it definitely was and they got sued for it those rascals come on guys t-mobile on the other hand rolled out what they call a nationwide 5g network covering 5 000 cities with sub gigahertz while only six cities got the fancier millimeter wave stuff there's a pretty short list of phones that can actually use 5g right now but rich people will be getting more in 2020. facebook didn't have as bad a year as they did in 2018 but there were still enough sketchy security incidents for the company to maintain their reputation as being probably the worst of the silicon valley crew sucker oh you're just coming out with these puns today friends call them suck call me suck in april facebook was caught asking new users to disclose their passwords for their email accounts and mark zuckerberg actually asked governments to help regulate the company which is fine because everybody and their dog is now investigating facebook for various reasons in july facebook both launched their libra cryptocurrency and paid a 5 billion fine to the ftc for its security breaches facebook what a parry facebook seems to know now that being the biggest social network in the world comes with some baggage and if they're gonna survive they're gonna need to be a bit better at concealing the fact that mark is actually a reptilian from the planet dada grab god that was stupid but he still deserves a mug of hot cocoa just as much of the rest of us james that's the best of a spirit have you seen him drink see him drink i gotta even imagine and our last story is the controversial one of the epic game store it launched last december with epic pledging to only take a 12 cut from games revenue leaving an 88 cut for developers valve takes a 30 cut by default with that number going down as a game sells more copies epic then started buying up exclusives like they were hoarding for a long winter and they even bought psionics the developer of rocket league now this would have been slightly less annoying to the gaming public if egs had even a fraction of the feature set that steam has but after a year the store is still pretty bare bones the backlash seems to have died down a bit and it seems like epic is playing it safer now i guess they snagged enough users to meet tim sweeney's objective of shaking up the industry i'm shocked we're shook it might not have been the gift that everyone wanted but he did also give out a crapload of free games he's kind of like a incredibly smug very stubborn santa claus oh and i almost forgot cyber truck that happened this year remember that it was just like that best part of 2019 hands down well we could go on talking about our favorite tech moments of 2019 forever but then i wouldn't have time to dip ginger schnapps in my hot cocoa or roast chestnuts by an open fire get out of here it's time for a new year oh that was bad keep that red keep it okay have you ever rose to chestnuts by an open fire you ever played with this giant flashlight oh here shining my eyes it's really fun oh god that sucks i don't like do no that's not the christmas spirit oh no all right whatever you guys are celebrating this holiday season happy holidays and jingle bells all the way home say hi to rudolph for me season's eatings"}