hey Linus how does tech news get made uh
okay well you see when uh when a man
and another man and then there's a third man who points
the camera at it you know what i'll explain it to you when you're older okay two years after
its ceo called bitcoin a fraud jp morgan
has announced it will launch its own cryptocurrency called jpm coin it will
reportedly be the world's first cryptocurrency backed by a major u.s
bank unlike bitcoin or ethereum whose value is dependent on the fluctuations
of their own ecosystems jpm coin will be a stable coin
or a cryptocurrency that derives its value from another stable asset that
stable asset is the us dollar so one jpm
coin will always be worth one us dollar jp morgan says they transfer more than
16 trillion dollars around the world every day for their clients so the new
cryptocurrency will be used to simplify and facilitate faster transactions
crypto enthusiasts are unsurprisingly
a bit skeptical of the megabanks move because like what now is every bank just
gonna have its own cryptocurrency how many jpm coins is one wells fargo
buck worth i mean on the plus side jpm coin gives
some more legitimacy to cryptocurrency but then at the risk of
angering everyone who uses cryptocurrency and then removing a lot
of the benefit of cryptocurrency which was that you didn't have to be reliant
on jp freaking morgan this segue doesn't work because i
ad-libbed a bit there but that's fine because open ai the artificial
intelligence startup backed by elon musk could have taken that previous sentence
that i said and written its own segue based on just watching my videos this
thing is freaking incredible so they showed off a new ai model called
2 which can write extremely convincing
news stories and even works of fiction with just one or two sentences of input
to get it started the system was trained on more than 10 million articles and
stories collected from reddit posts with more than three upvotes but it doesn't
really do much fact checking it just kind of writes from the heart yeah you
know man like from the heart yeah um so
here's a crazy thing openai thinks that gpt2 is so good that it's too dangerous
to release to the public because it could easily be used to create an
unending stream of fake news articles or
it could be used to generate hundreds of positive online reviews for a product
like this fantastic LTT stealth hoodie that i'm
wearing right now so i guess the thing here is until we can
develop an ai conscience it's probably best for gpt2 to stay in its room for
now think about what it did nintendo unleashed a torrent of game
news in its direct presentation on wednesday super mario maker 2 is coming
to the switch along with dragon quest 11 a 3d remaster of legend of zelda link's
awakening and astral chain the new game from the developers of nier automata
fire emblem 3 houses is a strategy rpg with a bit of harry potter thrown in for
fun and ononaki is the latest game from tokyo rpg factory perhaps the most
interesting news though was the fact that tetris is now a battle where i
thought this was fake tetris is a battle royale game are you for real
surprisingly it's not just a gimmick people are actually really enjoying
tetris 99 but the thing is like really why do we have to make why do we have to
take a nice puzzle game and like make it about destroying our competitors what's
wrong with us can't we just play tetris like
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apple has been banned from selling the iphone 7 and 8 in germany ever since a
german court sided with qualcomm in a patent dispute but now apple is planning
to resume sales of the older models in germany after modifying them to use
qualcomm modems instead of Intel ones that's the only way the company can get
around the legal restrictions that were imposed by qualcomm's successful lawsuit
now i'm not usually inclined to feel bad for apple but this this gets me pretty
close
real close like almost almost nubia the company behind the dual screen nubia x
has shown off a flexible phone
watch thing it's a wrist mounted device with a long
flexible display and front-facing camera called the nubia alpha the company
showed a preview of the device at ifa in berlin last fall but we should see more
information at mobile world congress in a couple of weeks i'm having a hard time
here is it is it ugly or just unsettling
it's the future oh by the way speaking of the future remember Android tablets
that was the past those were fun no wait they're not dead wow samsung
just announced the galaxy tab s5e with a
metal construction and slim bezels that call to mind the design of the latest
ipad pros it'll ship with Android 9 pi out of the box modified with the
company's new one ui and will start at 399 us that's very nice samsung good
luck with that lg phones aren't really known for their drastic technological
innovations actually some of them have been pretty pretty groundbreaking but
anyway whether you think they have or they haven't you will be surprised because the
upcoming lg g8 thinq is going to be packing a pretty big technological
innovation a vibrating screen now the phone will have actual speakers on the
back but front-facing sound will come from the crystal sound OLED or cso the
audio will be so amazing that you'll be able to see it that's how it works no
that's not how it works i've seen this before technology it's very cool it's
very cool the screen vibrates but like it doesn't look like it's like vibrating
it's just yeah and it sounds it sounded pretty good on a tv anyway and amazon is
getting into electric vehicles the tech giant is leading an investment of 700
million dollars into rivien a startup developing a line of fully electric
pickup trucks and suvs fun fact amazon
ceo jeff bezos also owns blue origin the rocket company elon musk owns spacex and
tesla so i guess what we're seeing here
is just like a billionaire like dick measuring contest you know it's like oh
yeah i've got a football team oh yeah you know i'm going to go get a football team yo i see your football team raise
you one electric car company you know what i'm going to make electric trucks
because electric cars are for when are you making an electric car
uh heavens we're out of time uh thank you
for tuning in to this episode of TechLinked um but don't worry monday is the
day as well and there will be tech news on monday presumably i mean it's a holiday up here but but riley riley
doesn't get holidays i'll be here