1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:07,359 Now, what's the name of that feeling you get? You know, when you're like you kind 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:11,200 of see stars and your left ARM starts to go a little bit numb and you kind of 3 00:00:10,559 --> 00:00:17,279 short of breath. Yeah. Are you okay? No. No, that's not the one. No, it's the uh 4 00:00:14,559 --> 00:00:22,720 tech news. Hey, AMD released the RX 5600 XT yesterday, 5 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:28,480 calling it the ultimate graphics card for 1080p gaming. And it seems like that 6 00:00:25,359 --> 00:00:31,840 might just be true. At $279, the card 7 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:34,239 slots in right between the GTX 1660Ti 8 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:37,920 and the RTX 2060, performing slightly better on average than NVIDIA's 9 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:41,680 competitors, especially after board partners released BIOS updates that 10 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:45,040 bumped performance up a bit. NVIDIA seemed to know that the 5600 XT was 11 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:50,800 going to be good, though, and they slashed the price of the RTX 2060 by $50 12 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:55,360 down to $299 just a few days before AMD's launch, which is what AMD did to 13 00:00:53,360 --> 00:01:01,199 NVIDIA when Team Green released the first Super Cards. 14 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:06,159 What's that smell? Smells like Justice. The price drop makes the RX 5600 XT a 15 00:01:04,320 --> 00:01:09,680 bit harder to recommend if you also care about getting some of the special team 16 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:14,479 green features like endbank encoding, but overall it is not a bad pick. So, go 17 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:18,799 watch our full review over on LT. It's got Anthony in it. He loves you. Facial 18 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:21,759 recognition is cool and all, but the EU and Google think that we might be 19 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:25,280 getting a little bit ahead of ourselves with it. The new leadership of the EU 20 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:29,920 are drafting a document that would propose banning the use of facial 21 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:34,079 recognition in public spaces for up to 5 years until proper regulations can be 22 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:39,439 put in place to minimize the risks of using the technology. Google actually 23 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:43,360 agrees with CEO Sundar Pachai saying at a conference in Brussels that there 24 00:01:40,960 --> 00:01:46,960 should perhaps be a waiting period while governments figure out how to avoid 25 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:50,320 letting facial recognition undermine civil liberties and potentially 26 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:55,680 discriminate against people because of algorithmic bias. But Microsoft, 27 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:59,520 they're having none of that. Probably because they're the ones working on the 28 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:03,600 technology. Chief legal officer Brad Smith compared a ban to using a meat 29 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:06,880 cleaver instead of a scalpel to solve the problem, saying that the only way to 30 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:11,680 make the tech better is to actually continue developing it. And while that 31 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:15,760 makes some sense, this guy was also just talking about meat cleavers a second 32 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:20,480 ago. I don't know if he can be trusted. Scary. And a report claims to have 33 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:24,400 evidence that the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Muhammad bin Salman, hacked the 34 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:29,120 phone of Amazon and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos. Bezos commissioned FTI 35 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:35,360 Consulting to make a report after he became suspicious of a video bin Salman 36 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:37,280 sent to him over WhatsApp in 2018. FTI 37 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:41,440 found that shortly after Bezos received the video, his phone started uploading 38 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:45,440 unprecedented volumes of data to an unknown source, indicating that the 39 00:02:43,599 --> 00:02:49,760 video file was infected with some sort of malware. Some analysts believe Bezos 40 00:02:48,239 --> 00:02:55,360 was hacked because of the Washington Post's coverage of Saudi Arabia, which 41 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:57,200 was sometimes less than favorable. Go 42 00:02:55,360 --> 00:03:01,440 figure. The scandal has gained enough steam to prompt a call for investigation 43 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:06,159 from human rights experts at the UN. So hopefully we'll get more information 44 00:03:02,959 --> 00:03:08,239 about what exactly happened soon. Just 45 00:03:06,159 --> 00:03:12,080 goes to show you guys be careful about opening attachments even when they come 46 00:03:10,239 --> 00:03:16,720 from heads of state. 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You know, Germany, call us up. Epic collab, right? 67 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:48,800 most ambitious crossover Marvel Avengers. Yeah, that's right. 68 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:52,639 Thanks to some sneaky internet dwellers, we've gotten one of the most thrilling 69 00:04:50,479 --> 00:04:56,560 leaks you could ever lay eyes on. Pictures of the back of the Xbox Series 70 00:04:55,040 --> 00:05:02,720 X. The most thrilling leaks. Wow. That's right. Look at those ports. 71 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:04,800 There's USB, Ethernet, HDMI, and a big 72 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:09,600 old mystery port probably for diagnostics or firmware updates. Wow. 73 00:05:07,759 --> 00:05:15,680 All those years I thought the Xbox Series X was going to be just the 74 00:05:11,919 --> 00:05:18,560 another console. I guess even I, the one 75 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:21,600 and only Lionus, can truly be wrong. Wow. 76 00:05:19,199 --> 00:05:26,160 Microsoft is being a little bit sneaky themselves. Reddit users have spotted a 77 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:30,240 change in the Office 365 Pro Plus installer, which businesses use to 78 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:37,440 install Office. Go figure. That would inject a Chrome extension that changes 79 00:05:32,479 --> 00:05:40,000 the default search engine to Bing. 80 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:44,240 Gross. Code has also been found in the latest Windows Insider build that would 81 00:05:41,759 --> 00:05:48,160 make ads for Office pop up inside Wordpad. You wrote that. That's not too 82 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:51,680 bad. That's terrible. No, that's you. You wrote that. 83 00:05:49,919 --> 00:05:56,160 I DID NOT WRITE THAT. You wrote the script. 84 00:05:53,039 --> 00:05:56,639 No, I am. Do I look like Ron Burgundy to 85 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:01,840 you? A little bit. Oh, there he is. GM 86 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:08,560 self-driving startup Cruz has shown off the Origin, an electric shuttle ban SUV 87 00:06:06,319 --> 00:06:12,560 thing with sliding doors and completely symmetrical ends. It is purpose-built to 88 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:17,919 be autonomous and intended for use by ride sharing companies. Launch price, 89 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:21,199 who knows? But it looks futuristic and not as dumb as a Cybert truck. So, wow, 90 00:06:20,639 --> 00:06:27,759 exciting. That's a good point. And Apple may be gearing up to launch the successor to 91 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:32,160 the iPhone SE in March to serve the small but still there contingent of 92 00:06:29,919 --> 00:06:36,240 iPhone users who like using phones that are slightly smaller than the average 93 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:39,919 purse. And that's it for tech news today. But wait, don't go anywhere. You 94 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:44,639 have to click subscribe first. Not on this channel. 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