and i think we're live welcome friends
to the WAN Show i've got an unfortunate
i think this might be the least sexy co-host
that i've ever had but he's all like cool and helmeted and
stuff so i thought you know what the hey i'll let uh
darth generic stormtrooper or whatever you know what let's just assume this is
this is finn and not just any storm trooper so there you go finn will be
co-hosting the uh the show with me today um i had to ditch the waifu and
the fact that luke is not here is
a hint at some insight into one of the
topics for today so our main topics are
ibm putting a quantum processor in the cloud that is the figurative cloud they
did not put a quantum processor in a cloud which would be cool too
arguably lyft is planning to pick you up in a self-driving electric car within a
year not you specifically but someone uh what else we got here oh china bans
erotic banana eating live streams which i think
basically means that uh
the lan show wouldn't be allowed to be brought broadcasted in china
or i should
okay ice sorry bye ice and NVIDIA's past
pascal gaming gpus are rumored to be announced today at 6 00 p.m
so uh that would be where luke is yes friends
we are going to have a pretty good show today but first
the intro with no technical difficulties whatsoever
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all right guys so welcome to the show i think what
we're gonna do first i've actually invited just anyone who wants to
uh except that guy mark not invited not
invited to join me on the show you guys are gonna meet mark pretty soon we've
got a video coming where i do some cabling upgrades in my house and i have
a real live contractor who knows how to use tools
come and help me with it by which i mean i hired
him to do it for me and then i pretended i knew what i was talking about and i
just repeated what he told me off camera too anyway the point is uh you'll meet
him soon enough he's getting enough screen time for now i think he's just
coming to take take my money for for that job that he did uh but i've invited
anyone from LMG to come on to the show so if you guys have any special requests
you can let me know in the twitch chat where i will promptly ignore it because
uh quite frankly the twitch chat is um
pretty pretty hard for me to monitor
at this point it moves so fast these days
uh so let's start with our first topic here this was posted by blizzard angle
on the forum and the original source here is from research.ibm.com
ibm announced on may the 4th that is to
say star wars day that they are making a
super conducting quantum processor
available over the internet and my friends does it really get much
cooler than that i don't think it does
the point of that actually hold on first but first oh i've been waiting for an
opportunity to uh to do this for a while but first
don't let me explain quantum computing to you let's have my prime minister explain
quantum computing to you guys here hold on let me just uh go back to the time
stamp here so justin trudeau this was we actually talked about this on the wen
show a while back this is this is old news but for those of you who aren't
familiar with quantum computing here we go
but most of you normal computers work either there's power going through a
wire or not it's one i realized just now i i can't hear him so i'm gonna have to
just kind of guess at when he's done so or a zero they're
binary systems uh what quantum states
allow for is much more complex information to be encoded into a single
bit regular computer bit is either a one or a zero on or off and quantum state
can be much more complex than that because it's more complex than that
particle and wave at the same time and the uncertainty around quantum
states uh allows us to encode more information into a much
smaller computer so uh that's what's exciting about quantum computing and
that's that kind of looks like a conclusion there are there are trying all good there you go so that's
if my scene will change that's quantum computing in a nutshell that's why we
care very cool stuff especially for you know
complex modeling types of equations like they're not going to solve 2 plus 2
equals 4 faster but if you're looking at modeling a weather system for example
quantum computing is going to be the cat's pjs
so what they're what they're providing here
is five qubits with the goal today being
to get people to start thinking quantum to start thinking about how a quantum
computer works because sure you can create all the hardware in
the world that you want you can say okay we're going to build you know like your
Intel or AMD AMD did it first with the dual core processors we're we're going
to build this dual core athlon 64x2
and then it landed on the scene
and no one was ready for it no one was ready for i mean at that time you know
we're talking about consumer grade applications no one was ready for a consumer grade application to have more
than two processing cores to
to use power from so
many of the early reviews of athlon 64x2s
especially because benchmarking was limited to single threaded benchmarks in
most of the case in those days many of the early reviews said yeah like it's
cool but it's really expensive and the performance benefit doesn't necessarily
justify it but the problem the problem that i've always had with the way that
benchmarking is done and i don't have a solution unfortunately is that it's done
in a vacuum it's done scientifically it's not done on a dirty operating
system that has you know mcafee and norton running in the
background you know the kind of thing where you'd roll into grandma's house
and be like crying out loud grandma can you stop installing this stuff
please um where a dual core even then would
have made a huge like enormous difference
so here we're talking about that at a much earlier stage in the game where not
just consumers because quantum computers are
years and years and years and years away from being used by consumers but even
like even researchers have to start thinking about completely different ways
to approach their programs in order for a quantum processor to even
perform optimally and we're not even talking optimally yet we're talking
about to have any advantage over a classical processor so moving from
single to dual core was enough of a paradigm shift that it's taken oh i
don't know 10 years to catch up quantum
whole other can of beans so uh here i'm just going to pop up the original
article here from from ibm's website so here's where they're kind of talking
about it here's where you can sort of learn about stuff careers they just they
want people thinking about this they want people practicing they want people
learning the portal is called the ibm quantum
experience it includes tutorials and a visual programming interface users can
learn about algorithms and perform real quantum operations on the five qubit
chip the chip is housed at ibm's watson facility and ibm's aim is to have the
chip available 24 7. so it's part of a
family of super conducting quantum processors that have their qubits
arranged in lattices instead of a line which means absolutely nothing to me i'm
sorry but that is a little bit that is a little bit over my head but in a
nutshell this offers better connectivity between qubits for error correction so
instead of having to go for if you need to talk between this one and this one
instead of going through everyone they're connected in more like a like a
web so jay gambetta manager of the theory of
quantum computing and information group at ibm says access to the chip will be free
but not frictionless we don't want a billion bots launching
things and stopping real people from wanting to use it i mean
i don't know anyone who would want to do something like that but uh
you know so the group is developing a system that
will assign coins to different types of users to grant access
pretty freaking cool but actually in
terms of what will change your life in the next year in a more sort of dramatic
fashion um this next bit of news is is cooler from
from like my perspective like how does this help me
so the original article here is from jalopnik.com i'll go ahead and pull this
up but the plan is to have lyft
be able to pick you up in a self-driving car within a year and as
always the headline is a little bit sensationalist we actually don't have a
ton of information in terms of what the rollout's going to look like but what we
do know is that gm and lyft are collaboratively testing a fleet of
self-driving chevy bolt electric taxis and will be doing so within a year so
general motors invested 500 million into lift earlier this year and this program
will rely on technology being acquired as part of gm's separate one billion
dollar planned purchase of cruise automation inc
many details still to be worked out according to a lift executive and will
include customers in a yet to be disclosed city so no unfortunately lyft
isn't just like suddenly going hey buh-bye drivers and
it was great how you drove those cars for us thank you very much and you know
wholesale replacing every single car that they have on the road that is not
how it's going down it's going to be a pilot program that they're going to be
testing presumably in a city that will give them a permit to do this i mean if
i had to guess i would say something like san francisco because that's where
all of this crap happens you know where you could get i i think the first
grocery delivery uh service was was uh
introduced there if i recall correctly oh please don't
quote me on this one but i think amazon prime rolled out in san francisco first
i'm sure twitch chat is going to correct me if i'm wrong but it feels like they get all the cool pilot programs whereas
vancouver still doesn't have uber or lyft at all because of the taxi cab
mafia thanks for that you guys
um so for more details on the bolt in case you guys are curious about it we
actually did a video from the new york auto show our 2016 new york auto show a
couple of months back but in a nutshell it'll be priced as low as 30 000 after
u.s federal tax credits it's coming in late 2016 it actually looks pretty cool
and it's estimated to have more than 200 miles of range so that would be what uh
one like it's like 1.4 or something so
like almost 300 kilometers i don't know don't quote me on that either so more
than 200 miles of range it'll fully charge in nine hours with their 240 volt
charger and the batteries located under the cabin floor a lot of a lot of
automakers were showing off their new
different innovative ways to store the batteries in these cars that would help
lower the center of gravity and improve fuel economy so uh getting it getting it
lower or positioning it closer to the middle of the car i believe it was oh
crap who was this volvo yes volvo had a car that they were
showing that had the battery actually positioned kind of in this in the center
console what would normally be dead space
pretty freaking exciting i mean
i'm still kind of
skeptical like i i don't
like as much as it cool as it is as you know that in one city and one pilot
program some lift cars which by the way you will be able to opt in or out of you
can say hey no i want a driver behind the wheel or hey no it's cool um like as
interesting as it is as some that some of the fleet of one city probably won
we'll we'll have these driverless cars i think we're still a long way away from
that being rolled out more widely in more cities and
even further away from that being something that's feasible for a person
to actually buy or a person to even be allowed to buy because not only would
these electric cars have to be validated for a specific
city where you you know they're gonna have to be like obsessively updating the
maps for example but they would have to be suitable for driving from a city to
another city and in between and not screwing up so
i don't know man i've seen some pretty impressive cameras
on cars but i haven't seen any as good as my eyes yet which is one thing that
worries me a little with that said my eyes don't have radar so there's uh
there's plenty of advantages to the computer as well maybe i'm just being an
old person who you know is afraid of technology that's a possibility
um ah shoot i had wanted to see if you guys
were gonna correct me on the whole san fran getting all the all the legit
uh all the legit demos here
but uh no i just see a bunch of comments like
don't quote him on anything it's like why does anyone even why does
anyone even watch this show and what's with all the numbers like what are you
people even doing people are just posting a bunch of numbers is it like how old i'm supposed
to be i see numbers like 98 which i am which i am not which i am not that not
that old all right let's move into our next topic here
oh this okay
now there's been a lot of upset and
justifiably so from the enthusiast community as well as just general
consumers about microsoft getting more
and more aggressive about their push for
Windows 7 Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 users to upgrade to Windows 10.
it went from being something that you basically had to force manually with
like i forget if it was like registry edits
or like command line nonsense but but i but i've done it to something that um
was pretty easy to access it was just kind of always there in the bottom to
something that just installed itself
as a normal Windows update without you really asking for it and now the free
upgrade from Windows 7 and up is going
away it is official july 29th is the
last day for your Windows 10 free upgrade which means sometime in the next
couple of months here we're going to have to run around the office and find
out if there's any machines on shelves anywhere that still are running Windows
Windows 7 or Windows 8 and make sure that we get those upgrades processed
because starting on july 30th you're going to have to pay
119 us dollars for Windows 10 they're
going to start asking you to pay for it which raises the question by then will
they have fixed the fundamental problems with Windows 10 like the start menu not
working and the search not working oh man i
posted uh this was a post i made on twitter a while ago where i searched for
i forget what it was i think it was like internet or like microsoft or something
it was like it was like microsoft's own stuff and as i typed the suggestions got
just completely changed completely changed even though the things i was
typing in could have easily corresponded to any of the things that it suggested
it was just it was just bizarro land the kinds of results that i was getting and
it still does that you know if you type inter
and let's say you have you know some old interplay game on your computer i don't
even know if they made pc games not the point or you have internet explorer
and you when you put in i n it might bring up one of them and you put in the t it might bring up only the other one
it's like what are you even doing um
so maybe july 29th is the last day that
i'll have to deal with clicking the start menu and having it like pitch for
three seconds before it actually uh before it actually starts up so the
original poster of that topic on the forum was good bytes
and the original article here is from thewindows.com
blog Windows 10 now on 300 million active devices free upgrade offer to end
soon because there is some uh some other news to go along with this here
uh let's see we're seeing people at homes at schools at small businesses and
at large companies and other organizations adopt Windows 10 faster
than ever and use Windows 10 more than ever before
which is a funny statement because how could you not use Windows 10 more than
ever before it didn't even exist
sometimes i wish this was more like a radio show where i had like sound effects on like a sound board that i
could play i could be like cricket sound yeah
sup oh cool okay i don't have a close-up camera oh
it's okay you guys can kind of see this from here so we actually just got hey uh
hey jakey uh how much was that flir sample they
sent us no no the other one
yeah okay so it is it pronounced flir fleur
okay whatever the thermal camera guys fleur so uh Jake our part-time intern
guy uh it's okay i don't need it it's fine um he's not actually an intern he's
he's our part-time guy he's a student anyway he has been working on organizing
the warehouse and more recently uh working on some cool concepts for new
content so he's like hey you guys have never done anything with thermal cameras
before and i kind of went uh-huh
and he's like we should do that i'm like okay
so get on it man come on let's go so he
reached out to see i don't even know
fleur thank you reached out to fleur and got samples of their iphone thermal
camera so um or sorry they're mobile thermal
cameras one for iphone one for Android so you can see this is uh this is a shot
of uh is this your laptop this is a shot of uh nick's nick's
laptop his work laptop uh that shows exactly how hot the various parts of it
are running and fleur actually agreed
temporarily they're not letting us keep this one so those are a few hundred bucks a pop and we can use them in
things like case reviews laptop reviews all kinds of
cool stuff but they actually sent us for comparison's sake
they're 7 000 professional grade one so Jake's
actually going to be working on like an overall video talking about their
thermal camera sort of ecosystem and what these things are used for and like
trying them out and it should be actually a pretty cool pretty cool little piece of content i'm pretty
excited about it and so is he because he's spending all of his time today with
it instead of actually doing all the crap he needs to do thanks Jake
anyway uh back to the back to the Windows 10
not being free anymore um so some more examples of microsoft no i'm just
bugging you some more examples of microsoft's awesome stats on Windows 10
that aren't necessarily that meaningful over 63 billion minutes were spent in
microsoft edge in march alone
i mean were they loading pages in edge
did they accidentally leave it running in the background while they used a real
web browser i don't know
there's 50 growth in minutes since the last quarter
cortana has helped answer over 6 billion questions since launch
9 billion hours of gameplay on Windows 10 since launch
apps that come with Windows 10 including photos groov music and movies and tv are
seeing millions of active users each month yeah that's because people accidentally click on them okay
this actually leads me pretty well into a into a Windows 10 rant here let's go
ahead and screen share with me all right so
okay let's open this this is going to open in
that stupid worthless photos app here i'm just going to move myself out of
here uh oh did that work hold on
there we go all right so this is me creating a WAN Show thumbnail
so scroll wheel
doesn't zoom why would scroll wheel not zoom
why would that be okay
back button and forward button does not go
to the previous and the next and the next
picture
who thought that that was an improvement
who i want a name i want a name for the person who thought
that the back button and forward button on the mouse which has existed for 10
years or something like that for who thought that that should do
nothing in the photos app
because they're dumb and that's dumb it's unbelievably bad
design for that to do a completely different
thing in the photos app than it does
anywhere else on your computer unreal
while i'm at it you know what you know what while i'm at it i got i got another
Windows 10 ramp for you guys okay this is this is one oh man this one just
this one just grinds my gears um so let's say for example i search for
all right yeah here let's just do a search i'm going to try not to i'm going
to try not to like break anything here all right so i got
to get rid of myself again here okay so i'm gonna search search for terrible
okay let's search for terrible and search is like by and large pretty
function that seems to be trying to function right now
by and large i have i don't have too many complaints about the Windows explorer search i mean especially given
this is an SSD we're talking about i don't necessarily think this should be
taking as long as it is but uh
okay this is this is taking a while um that
was not my intent okay let's just interrupt that let's search for terrible
all right working on it
geez i mean they're making it too easy for me
right now like this is a
solid state drive i don't even have that much stuff on here i mean what could
possibly have a perfect a perfect match
for for terrible there we go there we go terrible selfie all right there it is
okay so
this particularly bothered me the other day when i was searching for a folder
name and it brought up it brought up like
folder under folders it brought up things that weren't folders
and i was like oh that's that's awful okay so oh shoot
this demo isn't going to work because i didn't bring up i didn't actually search
for a folder okay okay okay hold on i will get this right i will get this
right okay there we go so let's let's search for
let's search there let's search for help help help that's what i need i need help okay
here we go so if i open up this
and i go back i would expect that to take me to my search results that is an
expected behavior if i open up this folder
and i go up folder
why would that take me to search results
so i go back that takes me back why would that take me to search results i
said up directory not so it takes i think it
takes me to a search for help in a higher directory or some stupid thing
like that it's unbelievable how non-functional
the up directory thing so so if you find like a folder within a folder somewhere
on your computer you actually have to right click
open folder location and then you can do it
why would i open a folder and then want to navigate back to my search result if
i want to do that i'd say back not up directory they are distinctly different
functions and they should be treated as such so there
those those are my rants a search result is
not a directory and whatever the last thing i said was that made me really mad
apparently taryn just showed up on stream i didn't even
notice him i was busy being angry about Windows 10
and uh and i i got distracted all right well anyway um i guess this is uh this
is a very directly related news story originally uh the original article is
from theverge.com microsoft is removing the nagging Windows 10 upgrade
notifications soon and by soon i think they mean uh july
29th yes so there you go
so basically they're going to end the annoying prompts to upgrade when it is
no longer an option to upgrade i think we could have probably figured that out
on our own but thank you the verge um for for that little article
thank you that was much appreciated 39 comments on that article that's that's
good okay so speaking of comments i'm sure you
guys are gonna have a lot of comments on this next one the original article here
is from thebc.com actually i think technically it's
bbc.com not thebc.com i take no responsibility if the bbc.com is like
thebearbutclub.com or something like that i can't prevent you from going there but
i also won't recommend it so china bans
erotic banana eating live streams
the chinese authorities do not want suggestive
banana eating to be featured online now
i remember the outrage slash relief when twitch
got hold on a second why am i streaming at 7
20 60 FPS i changed it before the stream to 10
whatever nothing i can do about that now anyway
i remember the outrage slash relief
when twitch banned i think it was cleavage
cleavage and i think uh bear shirts anyway they they they tightened up their
their sort of what constitutes nudity guidelines but this
this raises a lot of questions i mean how do you
how do you determine the difference between
erotically eating a banana and eating a banana does the rule apply to eating i
don't know say a raw potato like if i were to you know
seductively you know chew on this phone
like is that is that not okay in china i i have no
idea apparently just shirtless is banned so cleavage is still okay i i
don't know um i'm actually i'm not sure what the
rules are on twitch i just keep all my clothes on and we don't have any problems i don't have them
my old like partner partner manager of contact is apparently like a vp now so
either i would get away with it or he'd come down on me super hard and be like
yo dude you don't even stream games on your
account like what the hell i have stuck my neck out for you enough times just
get off my site once and for all um
so anyway these new regulations and this is this is crazy because you think about
like how huge streaming is especially becoming in china
live streaming sites have to monitor their output
around the clock keeping an eye out for any erotic banana eating all right what
are we doing oh man that video again we're streaming live on twitch.tv
and it's too late to add this to that video so i have no idea what this clip
is for
ah i see how this is all right
um so those of you who didn't watch it i
actually thought it was pretty entertaining ed and i did a vlog uh when
we were on our when we were on our trip to san francisco a little while ago
where we were basically just like selfie
camrying periodically throughout the whole trip so you guys get i think a
pretty good feel for
what what attending one of these conventions
with us is pretty much like i thought it was actually a really neat way for us to
do it so every sort of you know every half an hour to couple hours or so it's
like whip out the selfie cam hey what are we doing like here we are we're at a
dance party where no one's dancing we're interviewing flowrider we're doing this
we're doing that so i thought it was actually a pretty cool way to to do it
you should check it out we actually kind of stomped on that video release because
it was sort of an experimental format and we didn't want to position it as like a full daily
release so we released another video like two hours later but you should go
back and check it out it's um the selfie vlog with blindness in it i don't
remember what we called it anyway um so back to back to china banning
erotic banana live streams um
the paper ads so this article adds that wearing stockings and suspenders while
hosting a live stream is also now forbidden so this is the authority's latest
attempt to clamp down on inappropriate and erotic online content
i gotta tell you if eating a banana
qualifies as erotic content in china i'm
glad i don't live in china um so in april the ministry of culture
announced that it was investigating a number of popular live streaming platforms for allegedly hosting
pornographic or violent content that harms social morality
and despite these governmental concerns such sites are attracting more and more
users in china new express daily sites data showing that 26 percent of
livestreaming viewers are under 18 60 of those creating the content are under 22
and three quarters of those watching are male surprise surprise
news of the banana ban has prompted thousands to chime in on chinese social
media um
one person asks how do they decide what's provocative when eating a banana okay i also asked that and another asks
are male live streamers still allowed to eat them which is a great question
because i don't think there's any way to answer
that question without upsetting
lgbtq activists
or feminist activists and i'm not even saying they're unjustified in that way
like because if they're not allowed then you're saying what you know
homosexuality is wrong and if they are allowed then you're saying it's a double
standard you can't win china sorry china you can't win i mean you can win just by
like being more oppressive i guess and there's that whole gamifying
your you know being a good citizen thing that's coming and it's super scary
maybe you'll win after all um all right speaking of winning
luke drew the i don't know is it a short straw or a long straw
he definitely drew a straw and he is in
texas right now attending an NVIDIA event that is rumored i don't know is it
still a rumor at this point surely it must be basically established
so there's the order of 10 countdown doodad we got going on here
that there was much much speculation about yeah there we go
so it has a link to the NVIDIA special event now so we actually got one of
these order of 10 packages um
but it's funny it's really funny i've been really busy lately so
where other publications went and like
solved all these puzzles and like posted the results and we're like yeah we think
it's NVIDIA we think it uses the NVIDIA font and like 10 is probably like
GeForce 10 series and like they did all this stuff
and i was like yeah i'm really busy i this doesn't have
a return address and i put it back on the shelf and completely forgot about it
um so anyway that's happening tonight
i think they're just saying special event yeah tune in to watch the live
stream of NVIDIA ceo jensen
nick just took my co-host jensen huang as he shares the very
latest about the future of gaming so luke is at an NVIDIA event he is going
to presumably be attending that wow that's i'm sure this would not be
allowed in china i was looking around to see if anyone in the office had a banana
yeah i actually had meant to bring a banana into the office today but uh so
that i could eat it provocatively on wancho but you know what the the worst
thing about that is is i've done it on WAN Show before so it wouldn't even be i
wouldn't even be breaking new ground you've done it on youtube yeah oh have i
done it on youtube too on what on what
oh yeah oh yeah uh josh josh from fractal had me uh had me eat a banana
provocatively i remember that too vaguely i was kind of uh intoxicated by
his manliness at the time see now nick broke my thing and it's not
standing up and sitting up anymore dang it nick there we go all right add my
co-host back um so we don't really know much other
than that they're gonna reveal a bunch of stuff though wccf tech
has posted that the cooler shrouds are confirmed so
they're going to have this new kind of angular design it's cool that they're going to be doing
the stream on twitch that's neat when they did the 980 launch i don't remember
what they were streaming on but it wasn't twitch and i was like oh i wonder why it's not on twitch so now it is i
mean it seems like pretty a pretty relevant platform for gamers
um i guess that's that's it that's all i
can really say other than that jonathan 13 was the original poster for that
over on the forum
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which i guess leads us into our next topic here next gen ai
vive to be debuted at an industry conference monday may the 9th so this
was originally posted by ginger nader on the forum
is that like a like a ginger like persecutor or like a powerful ginger i'm
actually not sure i'm hoping for the second one
series creators say they've made something better that will take care of
everything for you dun
i already hate the way it's being marketed five
the global brain
that is terrifying they should just call it sky i'm actually
like would yeah i guess it would be trademarked
i guess or a copyright yeah it would be copyright i guess so you actually
couldn't call your ai skynet but if someone could i'm sure they i'm sure
they would in spite of the fact that it's really not not that funny
so here's the quote it's the global brain
viv or vi i'm just guessing radically simplifies the world by providing an
intelligent interface to everything it's been in the works for approximately four
years and is planned as an open system
like siri was prior to being purchased by apple in 2010
so an example of how it works would be a group of engineers sat down to order a
pizza an entirely new way get me a pizza from pizza chicago near
my office one of the engineers says into a smartphone a text from viv might pop
up saying would you like toppings with that so the eight engineers all jump in
pepperoni half cheese caesar salad uh emboldened by the result wow this is
hilarious they peppered viv with more commands add more toppings remove
toppings change medium to large 40 minutes later the driver shows up with
four made to order pizzas viv had confused the office address but
they addressed the issue so the engineers had managed to order a pizza
start to finish without placing a phone call using google search or opening an
app many in silicon valley believe this could be the next step in computing and
commerce so uh wow
that is pretty freaking cool
so one of the founders basically said
the idea is taking the way that humans have naturally interacted with each
other for thousands of years and applying that to a way that they can interact with
services i'm excited i mean it's one of those
things where i am um sort of excited actually would be would be a better way
of would be a better way of saying that because this is always being claimed like when
apple launched siri it's like oh siri will make interacting with your phone so
i almost never use siri i like siri for certain things like hey siri play some
music oh i don't have apple music so okay whatever
um or for navigation sometimes it's great but i remember two zero one
two zero one six two no no it wasn't uh two no it was a different address it was
the street of a different okay uh 70a avenue
siri can't do it neither can google now for that matter they just they just
can't 78 avenue isn't is impossible it
comes up as uh 17
17 or it comes up as uh
70 something anyway it it it actually
cannot do it and it's very very frustrating so
this is always being promised to us it's never actually being delivered if this
turns out to actually be awesome then i'm super stoked because between that
and self-driving cars that just like show up where i need them and take me to
where i need to go i can't actually figure out what i will
need to do anymore i'll just spend all my time making videos which speaking of
videos
i'm going to post this in the twitch chat we have released another episode of
nerd sports exclusively on vessel actually the first episode is available
on the free vessel platform so all you have to do is sign up for our vessel
account and you can watch the volleyball episode let's go ahead and
pull this up but the dodgeball episode was just released two days ago so so far
we've got volleyball lacrosse and dodgeball vessel does offer a one-week
free trial if you sign up for the platform with your credit card so you
can watch all of those and the next one coming so we've got
hockey coming in five more days and then we've actually got curling coming a week
after that so at that point the five initial episodes of this mini series
will be released i highly recommend you check them out they're actually pretty
funny uh the editing is done by nick van berkel the shooting was done by the
entire team this is actually a very challenging but very rewarding project
for us and uh yeah it's uh it's one of it's one of the
coolest things we've ever done for sure so you guys are going to want to check
that out if you're on vessel or if you're not on vessel then
check it out we have a one week free trial if nothing else
all right oh crap i wore the wrong shirt on wancho nick
light is going to kill me because we actually have new Linus tech
chip shirts
that are like i don't actually know if they're limited edition or what but they
are freaking sick i hosted a couple of videos recently that aren't due to be
released in a little while but that here on top of the wardrobe to your right
there you go black one that should be one check
is that it yay that's fine that's fine the other
one's like at home or something don't even try uh here i thought he was gonna throw it
at me he is gonna throw it at me he's planning to throw it at me oh oh okay
yep that's fine so uh i will be using i will be using my
laptop here to avoid violating twitch's uh
no nips uh policy here hopefully there's no twitch staff in the
chat we're watching the stream come on get my
headphones off okay hold on it should be fine
yep should be fine hold on no no nips are bare shoulders okay i
mean this is really no different from wearing like spaghetti straps and uh
and uh you know
shoulders whatever no one finds my bare shoulders sexy
that's for sure all right there we go oh yeah
see that shine shiny
shiny Linus tech tip shirts are coming my friends we're gonna have them in uh
gold as well as silver i personally like the silver one
like better i think it looks better but the gold one the gold one is definitely
that bling so to speak so uh oh man the entire
twitch chat is just full of people finding my shoulders sexy
which is uh awesome thank you
oh oh the links are live oh awesome yeah so these are actually available now
they are limited edition apparently i i see i don't even know any of these
things so there's the gold one and here's the silver one uh teespring
just got the capability recently to print in these foils so here i'm going
to bring up the store link here and i'll show this to you guys here check it out
actually the pictures wow the pictures are sort of awful
sorry teespring but the pictures are awful
it looks way better than that in person let's go to the gold one so you can
actually see on camera here see that looks so dull
compared to this you can see the shine
they they need to do better better pictures for the uh for the gold and
silver print stuff but that's sort of their problem we we can show off the shirt ourselves i
should just have dennis model everything from now on everyone likes it better when he does it should have had him come
on the show all right moving on to some more topics
here this was originally posted by wizard saw on the forum the original
article here is from gizmeg
my son did that the other day he took a sip of something he was like
like who taught you that you know like you just want to keep
you just want to keep kids from learning this crap all right
so frankie zapta's awesome flyboard air
redefines the concept of a hoverboard let's fire up some of these pictures
here so we can navigate the gallery with uh right and left arrow keys or we could
just click these buttons it looks absolutely
bananas though how cool is that
how sketched out would you be flying around on that thing trying to take like
pictures like you can tell why the angle isn't uh
isn't perfect on it that is freaking
amazing you can tell they still don't uh don't have the faith in this system to
fly over land so they're over water but it appears to
have a jet engine powering the device with autonomous flight up to 10 000 feet
a top speed of 150 kilometers an hour 10
minutes of autonomy and won't be on the market in 2016. that is
for sure i mean it's funny because when i was a kid the best thing we could
come up with kind of was flying cars because like you're
you're bound by the paradigms that already exist around you somewhat in
terms of your imagination and there are all these issues with
flying cars like they would be big you would eventually have traffic again
collisions would be would be just disastrous um whereas
this this looks awesome oh yeah another thing like uh you know
you'd have to have either vtol or you'd have to have like
landing strips everywhere and vital is really inefficient and landing strips
take up a lot of space and like so if you people were legitimately commuting on them it was there were going to be a
lot of things to overcome personal vehicles like this if it can go
up to 150 kilometers an hour they've got 10 minutes of flight already
that that is potentially all the solution
that we need like i could get to work and let's say
they can let's say they can double the flight time i can get to work in
you know 15 minutes at you know 80 kilometers an hour or
something along those lines that's for sure i charge it up throughout the day and go home
that is freaking awesome and actually quite practical if it's if
it's small and compact here let's let's fire up the video i've been flying
for the fastest flight my hoverboard with my flight here
for five years
there
so cool
these changes everything everything my friends
i so want one no idea how much something like that
will cost you guys want to check out the full video i'll link it in the video
description here so cool
um yeah
like beyond words all right AMD polaris will support up to 240
hertz displays this was literally posted by atex on the forum and the original
article here is from oc3d.net
this really isn't that surprising
displayport 1.3 has higher bandwidth than displayport
1.2 by a significant margin so it should
come as no surprise that you can do any number of things with that you can
increase resolution you can increase uh color depth you can increase uh refresh
rate or you can do some combination of the three
so what displayport 1.3 will enable is 1080p up to 240 hertz high dynamic range
1440p up to 170 hertz high dynamic range 3440 by
1440 up to 144hz high dynamic range or
190 hertz standard dynamic range and of course this is the first time i'm
actually hearing about HDR on pc
graphics cards as well that's pretty exciting i have a video coming uh with a
samsung tv as sort of the focal point of it where i talk a lot about HDR
standards where they're at where the contents at and then we'll have support
for up to 5k 60 hertz standard dynamic
range um so guys make sure you guys tune in
because the whole high dynamic range thing NVIDIA
is not the same as HDR photography it is
like not even not really related in the way that HDR
is sort of used as an artistic statement
high dynamic range NVIDIA is actually just more about being able to see more
of the image which to be clear i do know HDR is used
in stills for that purpose but unlike for stills where HDR is achieved
by taking multiple exposures of the same subject and then stitching them together
after the fact high dynamic range NVIDIA is actually just able to use more
of the information that was already captured by the camera that current
standards standard dynamic range stand
current standard dynamic range standards do not allow so for example a top of the
range camera like an aria alexa whatever the variant of it is that's the that's
the flagship right now can handle something along the lines of i think 14
and a half stops of dynamic brandon
alexa 14 and a half stops yeah 14 and a half stops of dynamic
range standard dynamic range is somewhere in the neighborhood of like six
so when the filmmaker captures all this information in the highlights like a
burning candle or the low lights like a shadow you when they adapt that to be viewed on
your pc monitor or on your tv at home you are getting
a fraction of the information that was captured in those highlights and low
lights they have to kind of compress that into this much narrower range of
brightest to darkest that can be displayed by well
standard dynamic range televisions high dynamic range is going to increase
that to somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 stops which will make a huge
difference um especially when viewing in the dark so i'm i'm pretty excited about
it with that said there's really not a lot of content right now there's like
marco polo on netflix i think amazon prime video has a couple things
yeah everything can be redone in HDR you can like how they can have higher
resolutions buy all your damn video file your damn movies again
now with HDR ah
and 4k indiana jones and raiders of the lost
ark they call it that now can you believe that they renamed raiders of the
lost ark i bought the the blu-ray pack i think i ranted about this recently
actually maybe it was on lan show last week oh anyway well it upset me enough
that i had to rant about it again they renamed raiders of the lost ark to
indiana jones and the raiders of the lost ark you can't do that
might as well replace all the guns with walkie talkies
all right so this was originally posted by pig hammer on the forum original
article here is from blogs.wallstreetjournal.com
actually wsj apple loses
an iphone trademark battle in china so
it's actually a leather accessories company that has won the right to use
the iphone name in china now to be clear their
iphone like this with all capitals whereas apple is small i big p
small hone but
the chinese court that ruled on this did not differentiate between capital and
non-capital letters um
and basically threw out apple's appeal in a trademark dispute that's been in
chinese courts for the last four years so apple actually applied for the iphone
trademark back in 2002 but it wasn't granted until 2013.
zintong tiandi technology co-limited applied for the trademark in the
category of leather goods in 2007 securing it in 2010.
so the court's ruling reflects the free market system in china i've got some
pictures here of iphone branded bags
there you go so that's an iphone
okay sure
elon musk says the production deadline for the model 3
is impossible this was posted by djdwask97
on the forum original article here it's from cnet.com
and so during their quarter one 2016 earnings call he set a deadline of july
1 2017 to begin model 3 production
then said that it would likely be an impossible goal to meet
okay then he said the model 3 was designed to be
much less complicated to manufacture than the s and the x
but the process of developing the parts necessary from suppliers and integrating
them into the line would set the actual production back so estimating initial
production at 100 to 200 000 cars for the model 3 in 2017 and said that they
could be producing 500 000 cars a year in 2018.
okay sure i'm hoping for the best here because i
want people to buy model threes and then get tired of them and that's when i will
buy an electric car so there you go
microsoft this was posted by jason nr22
on the forum microsoft to stop allowing cortana to function in other browsers
which is sort of a bummer because it is going to be a cold day in hell before
they get me to use edge at least if it doesn't dramatically
improve and the same goes for bing bing is so awful i give it a chance every
time i do a fresh Windows install i'm like okay bing
hit me with your best Windows default option shot here and i do a lot of fresh
installs i'm working on a review of the lg gram right now every computer i touch
has a fresh install of Windows on it and uh
it's awful it's terrible it can't find anything the goal is to provide a better
search experience which i wish them much luck with
let's see what else do we got here
buttonless fingerprint sensors coming to phones this year this was originally
posted on the forum by strider seven two something i lost track of it the
original article here is from the verge very cool
so right now basically the only way to have a
fingerprint sensor is to have like a like a button
um but
here we go the positioning of the button can make a phone
much more pleasant to use or much less so for example the z5 compact has the
fingerprint sensor in the side lock button which for me when i'm pulling out
my phone and unlocking it is so natural to just it's not a very good
fingerprint sensor i talked about this in the review every time you reset it
it's like really fast and like really functional again and then it just
over time gets worse anyway really great place for it you just go click hold it
there boom you're rocking whereas on the lg g5 when
i publish my review of this i'm going to talk about how the position of the fingerprint sensor button on the back
makes it kind of a drag when the phone is on the table in front of me and i
want to unlock it i actually have to use the passcode or pick it up in those
cases so
the idea here is to have lg in attack join fingerprint cards
in announcing this fingerprint module that can be integrated under the same
glass cover as a phone's display which takes out the need for the button you just touch anywhere on the screen so
they're expecting devices with the new technology before the end of the year
and they point out that waterproofing a smartphone will become significantly
easier without a discrete button for the fingerprint reader
very cool very cool they promise to maintain the accuracy of current implementations
this is kind of a bummer uh originally posted by wander away on the forum
best buy is gonna have the oculus rift for sale
on store shelves this was posted later this week on may
2nd so sometime it may have even happened already
um okay
one small problem and the original post on the forum which was made by wander
away i think i already said that had someone post their invoice for the
oculus rift their their order confirmation from january
that has a shipping estimated shipping date of like july or something june or
july so
this is another case like that i think it was like the ultimate
beer cooler or something where um they were fulfilling orders on
amazon before fulfilling kickstarter orders well this is oculus taking online
pre-orders getting ultimately more than they could produce
and shipping to a big box store instead of fulfilling
orders in a fifo manner first in first out is certain as a fifa means sorry
so while i get that they might be contractually obligated to do this
and they're saying it's an extremely limited supply of rifts that will be
available for purchase this is such a kick in the teeth and is such bad pr
especially when you consider that according to luke's recent polls
where he had it at 50 50 i think at the beginning of the year and something like
80 20 in favor of people saying they prefer the vive to the oculus rift right
now for what they lean towards purchasing this is such bad pr when htc
is kicking their ass right now um
yeah wow so
they're gonna have they're gonna let potential visitors search for locations
to demo the rift i mean that's one good thing about having it in a big box store
but with that said people don't need to demo it until you actually have something to sell them really and
they'll let them schedule demos up to a month in advance so the experiences will
include dream deck and the climb
so i think that pretty much wraps up the lan show today i don't want to bleed too
far over six o'clock because i believe luke is intending to live
stream live stream
from the NVIDIA live stream with commentary or something like that so i
want to just find out what his plan is before i get
off the stream here to live stream the live stream
should i get off lan show i am ready
so he might be uh he might be popping right back on with uh live coverage of
the live coverage of the NVIDIA event though i'm not actually sure i do know
that he's been working on a video of what they've had going on at the event
so far today and then he'll be releasing another one tomorrow sort of recapping
all of the official official information
from the polaris polaris
excuse me pascal launch so i haven't heard from him so
i'm going to roll the outro and then if i don't hear from him i'll end the stream but
stay tuned stay tuned my friends
uh
thanks for watching guys see you next week same bat time same bat channel
screw off nick