Alexa... flush my Sh**
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·2019-05-06
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you know what they say what happens in vegas stays in vegas well not on my
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watch because all the stuff that's happening in
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in vegas is not going to stay there i'm going to tell you about it
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also you might notice we're in the hallway of our hotel because it's it's
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nighttime and i'm scared of the dark
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now ces proper hasn't started yet but a bunch of pre-ces news came out already
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so let's get started samsung has kicked off the product announcements with three
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new monitors and i'll talk about them in order from least to most interesting to
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me the first is the ur59c a 32-inch
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curved 4k with a 2500 to 1 contrast
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ratio and support for up to 1 billion colors that's a lot but i thought we
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were done with curved 16x9 monitors apparently we're not the second is the
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crg9 a curved 49-inch super ultra wide display with a resolution of
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5120x1440 aka a 32 by 9 aspect ratio and
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a 120 hertz refresh rate that's also compatible with HDR 10 and freesync 2.
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and the third is the space monitor wow this one's actually got a name and not
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just a numerical designation that's nice and it's so called because it can fold
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flat against the wall to reclaim more desk space or lean forward to get closer
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to your eyeballs the screen can even rest on the desk which would be cool as
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a touch screen surface studio type display but i haven't seen anything
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about it having a touch screen but who knows samsung has a whole week left
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maybe they can add it before friday next up cars they're shaping up
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next up cars they're shaping up to be a big trend at this year's ces and hyundai
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and kia are contributing to that with what they call future technology the
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electric vehicle wireless charging system and automated valet parking
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system or tv savs
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for short basically the system would allow a car owner to use a phone app to
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send their autonomous car to a valet garage when they arrive at a destination
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that has a valet garage not only that but the car
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would then find a wireless charging spot for electric vehicles notify the owner
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when the car is at full charge and then re-park itself in a regular parking spot
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until such a time that the owner calls it back again this may seem a little
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far-fetched but it's not actually the weirdest car related thing at ces or
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even from kia the company also has a prototype system called the real-time
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emotion adaptive driving system or read
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a much better algorithm an algorithm much better acronym the read system
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adapts a vehicle's interior to the passenger's emotional state using
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sensors to detect facial expressions heart rate and bioelectrical activity it
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then can vibrate the seats to match the music provide massages and make you
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forget all about that horrible press conference you had to attend just now at
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ces and AMD is looking to have a bigger
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presence in the laptop market and to that end has announced its new lineup of
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2nd gen mobile ryzen processors the chips are reportedly not based on zen 2
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cores but there are now quad-core models paired with built-in vega graphics and
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the higher-end models sport a new h designation indicating a boost in power
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to take on Intel's chips indeed AMD claims their new chips will give Intel's
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competing processors a run for their money in microsoft office and photoshop
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as well as gaming using the built-in graphics AMD's chips will be found in a
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number of laptops this coming year from ASUS dell hp lenovo and more but the
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other big news is that AMD chips will be in chromebooks for the first time
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well i mean it's big news for for AMD
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chromebooks guys AMD's and chromebooks
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quick bits alexa and google assistant are being
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baked into everything from headphones to refrigerators so why should your
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bathroom get ignored that's right kohler is on the same page they're
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showing off a smart bathroom setup featuring a smart mirror smart bathtub
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and yep the nume 2.0 intelligent toilet so you
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can say alexa flush my dookie
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but why stop at smart toilets whirlpool has announced it will be adding wear os
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smart watch support for its existing smart appliances so you can control your
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oven or laundry machine from your wrist
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that's kind of dumb but actually kind of cool samsung has
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begun rolling out its exynos auto v9 system on a chip the company's first
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chip intended solely for vehicles it's got eight ARM cortex a76 cores with
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three dedicated sets of maui g76 gpus to
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drive various displays around a vehicle which is fitting since the processor
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will appear in audi's vehicles including the ones with these
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those electronic side view mirrors which are very necessary
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to say the red hydrogen one was an underwhelming phone when it came out
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would be an understatement but red is hoping the new lithium 3d camera rig for
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the phone will bring you back up to being just weld
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the rig uses the hydrogen one as its controller rather than a headset i mean
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who knows maybe this will actually make the phone useful
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for like three people
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that was that was rude and 5g might not be here yet but d-link
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is looking to the future with the announcement of the 5g nr home router
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rather than relying on a coaxial or network plug the router will pick up a
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5g mobile connection and distribute it in a home through wi-fi which means yes
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your router will have a sim card it won't arrive until the second half of
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2019 but if it means skipping the cable installation to upgrade networks it
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might be worth it i mean also it kind of looks like it's giving you a high five and that's kind of cool
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all right that's it for the first of this week's five special ces edition
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TechLinked episodes that's right you don't even have to wait until wednesday
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come back tomorrow for more tech news
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what is this christmas
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i hope not yeah no it's not that would mean something is seriously
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wrong with the space time continuum anyways
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subscribe i guess and maybe we won't be in a hallway next time