NO! BOB SWAN'S GONE!
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·TechLinked
·2021-05-05
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- Oh, man, the Tech News don't stop. Keep that Tech News flowin' baby!
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Intel has announced that their CEO for the last two years, Bob Swan, is stepping down.
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Swan, who was formerly the company's Chief Financial Officer
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will be replaced by Pat Gelsinger, a former Intel veteran of 30 years.
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- [Guy] Gelsinger? - Meh. - [[Guy] I don't Know. - He's super gel.
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The announcement comes right in the middle of CES, which would normally seem like a sign of instability.
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But for one, this is a virtual CES, so it doesn't count.
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And for two, Intel is pretty unstable right now. So it's fine.
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Investors seem to be happy with the change, hoping that Gelsinger, gel singers,
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G singer, his former roles as an engineer and as a Chief Technology Officer
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will help him straighten out the company after years of manufacturing problems
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and competitive missteps. Although, his name is way less fun to say.
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Bob Swan! YouTube is a little late to the band fest,
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but yesterday they announced that they were suspending US President Donald Trump's channel,
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because of the risk of ongoing potential for violence. The site said a recent video from his channel
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violated its policy for inciting violence. So the channel has received a strike,
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and is temporarily disallowed for uploading new content,
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for a minimum of seven days. Of course it is a fairly lax punishment
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compared to platforms like Facebook and Twitter, who have slapped indefinite bans on the present
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and many of his supporters, leading to controversy over censorship.
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This week, lawmakers in North Dakota submitted a bill that would allow citizens
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to sue social media platforms with over 1 million users,
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for restricting censoring or suppressing speech. America is pretty tense right now,
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heading into president elect Biden's inauguration next week. So much so,
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that Airbnb has canceled all bookings in Washington, DC.
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That's just not fair to the owners.
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How about let's just get through that and then we can talk about nationalizing Twitter.
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- [Guy] Yeah. - Okay? And thanks to Apple, ARM processors are a bigger deal now than ever before,
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which has gotten Qualcomm so excited, that they bought fellow ARM chip designer, Nuvia,
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for $1.4 billion.
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Nuvia was founded in 2019 by former engineers from Apple, Google, ARM and AMD,
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and has been working on Phoenix, an ARM server SOC,
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designed to achieve the highest single thread performance in the industry,
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which is not something ARM chips are especially known for. Maybe the chip burns itself out
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and then reboots, or something. - [Guy] (mumbles) feels like a Phoenix.
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James, did you get that (laughs) - Oh, it's a feature, not a bug.
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And hey, in other ARM news, Samsung announced a new Exynos processor at CES.
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Cool, whatever. But they also said, their next chip will finally debut
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with that built-in AMD GPU that they've been hearing so much rapid speculation about
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in 2022, the year the best gaming laptops will be a Samsung phone.
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And that's a fact, Jack. You can take that to the bank.
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Ah, the Quick Bits! There's always more weird stuff to talk about during CES,
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like this single seat vertical takeoff and landing concept vehicle from Cadillac (laughs)
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It's not real, but it is cool. ASUS made a tiny projector shaped like a coffee mug
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and called it the ZenBeam Latte. (laughter) Should have been the ZenBean.
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And the Avita Admiror II is a laptop with three webcams
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and a built-in ring light around the display so streamers can look fresh as hell on the go.
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It just needs a forward facing fan, and I may consider it.
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- [Guy] Blow your hair. - Yeah, Mariah Carey hair, very rare. Samsung's S21 Ultra has basically been leaked
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in full by Evleaks, revealing specs, color ways,
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and even a case with a built-in slot to put the S pen.
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I guess this is more or less our confirmation that the Note line is over.
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I'm not sad, well. Ring, the home security company owned by Amazon
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has announced they're adding end-to-end encryption for their video doorbells and security cameras.
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For some of them anyway. And Amazon for sure promises
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they won't look at your encrypted data. It's not like,
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selling it as a huge part of their business model or anything. - [Guy] They're successful capital people making money.
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Economy. - Europol has taken down what is suspected to be
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the largest illegal marketplace on the dark web,
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with the arrest of its operator in Germany. Bit of advice for those building its successor.
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Maybe don't call it something like, DarkMarket.
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Kind of draws attention. Evil shop, secret drug market.
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- [Guy] The bad place. - Yeah, Body Parts R Us.
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And to round off today's show, we've got some game news. Disney's newly formed Lucasfilm games division
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has enlisted Ubisoft's massive studio to make an open world "Star Wars" game.
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Ah, it's so easy to get excited when you hear "Star Wars" even though I've been burned so many times.
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Plus we already have that. It's called "The Mandalorian."
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But whatever. "Hogwarts Legacy" has been delayed to 2022.
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I'm assuming in hopes that people will have forgotten who J K Rowling is by then.
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And CD Projekt Red has published a video admitting
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to its mistakes developing "Cyberpunk 2077" and making a commitment to quality going forward.
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Hey, that's awesome. Whoa, time to end this one, guys.
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Come back tomorrow for more Tech News because it's like a special week, just like you.
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- [Guy] Aww!