 Alright, oh welcome to the WAN Show guys, it's Friday, I'm broadcasting live from the studio here in lovely Langley, British Columbia. And quite frankly, I'd rather be at home playing games on the HTC Vive. I will definitely be spending some time on the show today talking about that, I will definitely acknowledge my unfortunately downgraded but still somewhat sexy co-host here. And I will definitely tell you all of the topics that we are going to be covering on the show today after the intro. Hold on, I got this. There may even be music today, we'll see if I fixed it. That was easy! Hey! A link to that support business will be down below. Also, whoa, so that you guys were asking where Luke is Luke is in a place doing a thing. The place is called Pax East and Whoever whoever did up the Pax Thing here doesn't realize that Pax is penny arcade expo Not a word that starts with a P and has two small letters after that's okay Pax East 2016 So huge thanks to Logitech G and discord for powering our Pax East 2016 content Yes, my friends for the first time ever Linus Media Group actually had two away teams at the same time So Taron and Brandon were down at NAB in Las Vegas and before they returned Luke Burkle and Dennis actually left to go cover Pax East So we're gonna have like an entire week of show coverage for you guys and in the meantime I've been back here in the studio with David and Ed and Well, I guess that's about it and we've been working on some really cool stuff So we've got the review of the iPhone SE coming up We've got a power bank like battery bank showdown coming up. We've got I don't this is a video Nobody asked for but I was kind of interested in and so I decided to make but I've got a video upcoming on IPMI Which is a remote management interface that exists on some motherboards that allows you to log in from anywhere and like power on the server Power down the server change bio settings even all kinds of cool stuff like that So so I've been working on some videos and they've been working on some videos and it's all good stuff And okay, right, so I will I will answer those questions that I said I was gonna answer This is my new co-host. Her name is Keiku or something. I'm making that up I know she's an actual character from an actual show. I don't know what it is Got people talking about wake on land. Yes. Yes, I go through wake on land in the video I actually have some other cool solutions that I guarantee you've never heard of as well Yes, I know Yoko apparently it's Yoko. I don't know I'm sorry, you know for me. It's just you know a Pillow I was on Amazon and I was just browsing toys Not those kinds of toys. I was browsing toys and I was just trying to find stuff for channel super fun So this was around the time leading up to the big move into the new studio. And so I was just like What the hell is this? It's a it's a waifu pillow. You gotta be kidding me So I ordered it having no idea what I was gonna do like I was I was thinking initially I would try and do some kind of a prank where I called people down to help me with something and then like I'd Have a hidden camera and then I'd be like Making out with it or something and I'd get like reaction shots from people but we ended up coming up with the channel super fun Where we did the cuddle challenge? I think that ended up being a lot better. Anyway, I don't know how well that video is doing You know, honestly, I feel like I feel like channel super fun just should do so much better but Like nothing ever really catches on for us on that channel Like it doesn't go it doesn't go viral or whatever else I've got people telling me to get another human the office is like empty I mean, do you really want me to pull Nick light in here? Huh? Come on. It'd be like the worst thing ever So I promised to discuss some okay before before I get into that I will go through some of these some of the top topics for today Intel to cut 12,000 jobs 12,000 jobs as PC demand wanes ouch Researchers accidentally discover technology that could lead to batteries that can be charged many more times than current ones nerd sports has Launched on vessel. So this is something that we've had a lot of people Asking about seeking clarification on so nerd sports is a new series that we developed It was funded by vessel comm so if you guys are familiar with vessel It's the early access platform that our videos go up on Generally speaking one week before YouTube but this is different Nerd sports is exclusive to vessel and it's a series that we developed We've done five episodes or filmed five episodes so far three of which are actually done one of which is released where basically The Linus media group team we call ourselves the keyboard warriors takes on actual sports teams, so the first sports that we did were Paz actually we filmed it like ages ago at this point. There's projects like this takes so long So volleyball dodgeball lacrosse ice hockey and curling so the first episode is Volleyball, it's awesome. We actually take on the Trinity Western Spartans who are the top college women's volleyball team in the country as of last year and it is It is actually pretty hilarious I don't think I'm technically supposed to do this because like there is a trailer and stuff But I will I will play just I'll play just a little bit of it So where videos here we go? I'm just gonna grab some grab a couple chunks out of it here I'm just gonna grab a couple chunks out of it here If it loads of course everyone's probably like hitting it all at the same time now. Thanks guys That's weird, yeah, that's working Well, we'll be back Um so nerd sports is available now. It's gonna be released weekly for the next four weeks over on vessel.com What else do we have? Yes a mosquito killing billboard pretty freaking cool, okay So now with all that aside I have to take some time to talk about the HTC Vive and I know You guys are thinking alright Luke's not here on the show I Don't have to listen to anyone talk about talk about VR for the next hour and a half but You were wrong Everything about everything about that was wrong. I'm definitely gonna be talking about VR So the HTC Vive arrived yesterday afternoon at which time I promptly Completely abandoned every thing else that I had planned for that evening. I got home I was like hi kids bye kids and lock myself upstairs They were allowed in afterwards, but only if they agreed to help me set up the vibe Lock myself upstairs to set up the vibe it takes the most it's the most agonizing like our ever because I Kind of thought it would come with like floor stands or something for the lighthouse units It does not they just expect you to wall mount it so I was like Vaughn are we painting this room soon because we'd actually discussed it and she's like yeah I think I think so we had said we were going to him like okay. I'm putting a bunch of holes in the wall so I'm just in there just like drilling random holes in the wall mounting the lighthouse it takes about an hour to set up And you're just like I just want to play VR games. I just want to play VR games So then at that time I kind of realized again that I had derped and that I should have done this at the beginning But I realized oh, I don't have any VR games downloaded So I had to I had to go buy some VR games right away, and then I had to Go ahead and wait for those to download while I finished the setup, and then I spent about two hours straight for the first time playing a single player experience in I Don't even know like I can't even begin to imagine How long it's been since I've since I've done that in a single player game like I'll drop in and like I was playing Team Fortress 2 with With Luke actually the other night he was streaming on his twitch channel and stuff But like just playing single player games. It's been a long time, but I was playing a space pirate trainer It is freaking Cool, you've got like a shield and a blaster and you can like switch out your shield and your blaster It is unbelievably fun. I had I had a lot of people say yeah, enjoy your enjoy your headache after 30 minutes You know what two hours almost uninterrupted my wife was playing for a little bit two hours almost uninterrupted And I was feeling good like I was 100% fine at the end of that it was It was freaking awesome I can't wait to go home and play with it more There are still issues like the setup process is not perfect I ran into a couple of issues while I was setting it up number one Was I ended up with the bug where you can end up standing like six to ten feet below the floor for the entire like? introductory video Segment and I was just like okay. Well, this is really frustrating Like is it everything supposed to be up there? Am I supposed to be down here because there's like a weird like golf cart next to me But what I was actually standing in was like a little room That's supposed to lift the golf cart up like it's supposed to seem like the golf cart emerges from there But I was just stuck down there, and I didn't come up when the golf cart went up either So it was just sort of confusing and then the other issue I had was my My motion controllers my my handheld motion controllers just weren't picking up until I uninstalled and reinstalled the software And like there were some issues with the setup, but once it's going Man, it's fun like the resolution does Bother me like you take off the goggles, and you see the preview window on the screen. You're just like oh man What if it looked like that? But not to the point where the gameplay isn't immersive and the gameplay isn't Ludicrously enjoyable, so it was I Tell you guys it was an absolute. It was an absolute blast. I had a lot of fun with it last night I Will I suppose I will get on with the show now? Let's jump into our first topic here, so the original article is from a non tech dot-com and Intel is Slashing oh right this was posted originally on the forum by oh no one so Intel is Slashing a huge number of jobs over the rest of 2016 and even leading into 2017 about 11% of the total workforce 12,000 people CEO Brian Krasanich says Intel has been known as a PC company It's time to make this transition and push the company all the way over to supplying chips for things like smartphones cloud computing sensors and other devices getting heavily into Internet of Things and mobile products I Mean he's not saying that CPUs as you know them are going away they're just diversifying their portfolio and Focusing their R&D very clearly on those other possible revenue streams To be clear also 60% of the revenue does still come from PC CPUs but Most of the layoffs are expected to occur inside the PC business to allow them to focus on these other categories I really I Really hope that they know something that AMD doesn't know about the possibility for improving CPU performance over the next few years here because we've we really have seen them de-emphasize the CPU long before there were mass layoffs associated with it like this where they're kind of going okay. Yep more power efficiency We're putting more GPU on it. We are Not really doing a whole lot in terms of the overall horsepower of it keeping the the computing experience of the desktop user relatively stagnant while the mobile users While the mobile users are getting real tangible benefits out of each Coming generation like the better connectivity I would say even benefits notebook users more than desktop users because desktop users can throw an add-in card in their system Say for example whereas laptop users these battery life improvements these connectivity improvements You know things like Thunderbolt 3 make a huge difference I mean you can only have so many ports on something like a laptop Something like Apple's MacBook You can only have one port. Yay Whereas on a desktop you Well, you don't really need a single port that has such high speeds and can handle you know LAN and sound and USB and HDMI and DisplayPort all out of this one connection because you could just plug all those things in It's not really that big of a deal Where was I going with this right so we've we've seen this de-emphasis coming, but it's frustrating because when you look at When you look at Intel's CPUs On the on the mainstream side like on the LGA 11 5 X side of things There is room like actual physical there is physical room for them to even if they can't increase clock speeds dramatically and even if they can't increase IPC that's that's the that's the performance per clock dramatically They could be putting more cores on them if they opted to give us a pure CPU rather than an APU something with CPU and Graphics built into it at the same time they just don't they reserve that for the high-end platform the enthusiast and the server platform and That's pretty much all she wrote on that now. This is really weird and I am Going to have to find out what it is regarding by having Nick find out what it's regarding Sorry, just one moment Can you take this for me, please? Thank you, and I'm going to move into my next topic here Oh Actually well hold on I guess I should could give a little bit a little bit more clarification So this is the largest set of layoffs in 10 years since 2006 when they let 10,500 People go profit margins in q1 were lower than expected with a net income of 2 billion dollars on a revenue of 13.7 billion Yeah, they're I don't know I hope for their sake they know something AMD doesn't know because if they're planning to let a lot of people go on The desktop CPU side if AMD really does see a resurgence with Zen get some more revenue coming out of the desktop And potentially allowing them to pick up some of that talent There could be a big opportunity for us to have competition again due to intel not accidentally But making a conscious decision to take their foot off the pedal on the on the desktop CPU side of things All good Okay, okay, okay cool All right All right, so let's move into intel announcing. Oh no. Yeah, we already got that Oh, let's move into this one. This one's fun. So original article here was off of PC perspective And basically it's amazing how this happens but researchers Accidentally discovered nanowire based technology that could lead to batteries that can be charged Hundreds of thousands of times so you guys are probably familiar with the way that almost as though By planning Phones become obsolete thanks to their batteries just Going through the maximum number of charge and discharge cycles until they die like there's lithium ion batteries are inherently Not stable over many charge and discharge cycles Well, here we go accidental discovery nanowires, which are several thousand times thinner than a human hair extremely conductive and Have a large surface area to support storage and transfer of electrons Lattai's team so this is Maya Lattai Fixed the issue where these these tiny wires are fragile and don't hold up well to repeated discharging and recharging They fix this by coding a gold nanowire in a manganese dioxide shell and then placing it in a in a gel That's like plexiglass plexiglass to improve its reliability again Totally by accident so Maya was apparently playing around and she coded the whole thing with a very thin gel layer And started to cycle it and discovered that by using this gel She could cycle it hundreds of thousands of times Without losing any capacity or any power output so this was tested more than 200,000 times over a three-month span and they are reporting the findings now I would love to see this technology in my new smartphone and I share I believe it was written by Ryan shroud over at pcper but it could have been one of their other writers But I share their concern about this technology ultimately being a very powerful technology And about this technology ultimately being patented and ending up in a warehouse somewhere never to be seen again because It is a good thing for phone manufacturers Is bottom line wise for the phone to effectively not be usable anywhere from three to six years after it was originally manufactured Would they want the battery to last forever? I don't know Okay So moving along to our next topic amd Is set to receive 293 million in fresh cash from a deal with the chinese government This of course raises any number of questions, um I mean this comes on on the heels of the chinese the so Okay it's kind of complicated because the chinese government and then companies in china are intertwined in a way that you wouldn't necessarily expect if you come from like a more western or more capitalist society, I mean, yeah, but chinese claim that capitalism is alive and well, but The reality of it is that state funds make a lot of the businesses that run in china possible so In here the original article is actually from guru 3d. I'm just going to go ahead and pull that up So in the guru 3d article, they say the chinese government has attempted to make cpus And develop their own cpu architecture many times before They want their own hardware and software for government-funded institutions But they have not yet succeeded and it looks like amd is going to be the beneficiary So amd has made it clear in their strategy in their marketing strategy that they're ready to customize modular cpu And soc or system on chip designs by the client specs so similar to what they would have done with sony and microsoft for the playstation 4 and the xbox one so the deal was mentioned in their last quarterly results and basically The deal would involve amd licensing its x86 processor technology and the ip related to designing an soc like memory controllers input output and caching but possibly not their gpu technology The architecture has not been confirmed but forbes is claiming that it must be zen as their previous server cpus Hadn't had much if any success. It's actually been it's been a while since opteron has Has been much of a big deal. This is This is this is very this is very very interesting. I mean amd is You could see it as amd getting in bed with china. You could also see it as china eventually giving in and using using american technology in order to well catch up to what the americans were able to do with respect to With respect to supercomputing and I mean I see I don't even know if this is going to be used in a supercomputing context to be very clear because all we really know is that the deal would involve licensing x86 processor technology and ip related to building x86 architecture chips and socs so I've got people saying amd is american since when okay, so so there is They that significant amount of their company is owned by overseas investment. That is true But they are american in the sense that their headquarters is in america, I guess Yeah, I guess So Um This is interesting so I actually I don't have a I don't have a source link for this or anything like that but amd will not Be seeding fire pro Sorry, it's dang it colton So they will not be seeding their upcoming dual hawaii card Uh, I forget what they're even calling it. I think it's like radion duo pro or pro duo. There we go So the radion pro duo will not be seeded to conventional gaming press I'll go ahead and show you guys on the uh Sort of the announcement for their super computing performance to vr So what I was pretty much told is that this This product and I can't say anything about it for a couple of reasons Uh number one if I want to get a deck about it prior to the embargo so I can prepare any content that I have Uh that I will be able to release without an actual card Um, I do have to agree to the nda and number two Because I haven't received any of the deck materials yet. So all I know is going off of rumors So it's supposed to be dual hawaii chips It sounds like it's going to be dual 4 gig Um, it'll be it'll be uh, it's okay. This is off of amd site. So Anticipated selling price of 1500 us and basically the reasoning that was given to me was Well, it's not really Uh, sorry. Did I say dual hawaii? Sorry dual fiji dual fiji So it's effectively two um It's effectively like two r9 Like r9 fury slash fury x kind of class gpus That's that's what we can that's what we can glean from the details we have so far Sorry, I can't believe I said dual hawaii's i've been running around trying to trying to get our internet back up and running over here um um And see, sorry i'm struggling a little bit because i'm not sure How much of what they told me is stuff that is on this page i'm looking at and how much of it Is stuff that's going to be in the deck that's going to be nda'd. So so this is good It offers a complete solution aimed at all aspects of the vr developer lifestyle Developing content more rapidly for killer vr experiences while at work and playing the latest direct x12 experiences at maximum fidelity while off work So it's no secret that dual gpu support on recent generation games has not been What it was even before and by the way guys we are live Um something about time zones not time zones. It is it is 5 37 and we are live um So even even a year or two years or even three years ago dual gpu support wasn't perfect a lot of the time it required patches from nvidia or amd or previously ati in order to function uh, but it's actually gotten worse and worse and worse As time has gone on in fact some games over the last little while even games that have been You know, you know the ones where there's like the nvidia logo or the amd logo that pops up at the beginning with you know Gameworks technology or whatever else that just flat out the developers going. Yep. Yep. That's a lie Uh crossfire forget it forget it. We're just yeah, it just doesn't matter. It's it's too small of a portion of customers. So for that reason the pro duo Was not realistically going to get very good reviews from the gaming press because it frankly just doesn't make a ton of sense As a gaming card, it's only got four gigs of effective video memory because it's four gigs per gpu That doesn't add up to eight gigs. That means four gigs It's two Presumably fairly power hungry chips that perform Okay But not well enough to charge fifteen hundred dollars for two of them And like we've run into this before but typically the dual gpu solution has been closer to the thousand dollar range and not so close To the fifteen hundred dollar range where you can't just kind of go Okay, you know like here. This is a fun experiment. Let's just fire up new egg shop amd radion fury x No newegg.com is fine. Oh, I don't wow. Wow the world's most boring sale Monitors and printers unless you're shopping for a monitor or printer in which case what just happened to my search result Oh New egg Anyway, oh okay. So about six hundred twenty nine dollars So you're paying this huge premium to have a card that does save you on pci Apparently 295 x2 launched at fifteen hundred dollars. Yeah, that's a good point. But how many units did 295 x2 sell? Like this is a this is a this is a dinosaur the radion pro duo in a gaming sense is a dinosaur because you can get two fury x's for 1300 bucks after taxes kind of thing so unless you desperately need those two slots What are you even what are you even doing? And if you desperately need those two slots? Why don't you just water cool water cool a couple of? Fury x's I mean that actually pays for your water blocks right there. So Yeah, it's gonna be power hungry it's gonna be super expensive so Basically, they're kind of going okay. Yeah, it's for developers And I I don't really I don't really I guess like what I don't really get at this point I understand why they're not ceding it to reviewers because it wouldn't have gotten a positive review from us It wouldn't have gotten a positive review from probably anyone they'd say, you know, it's it's always that sugar-coated conclusion, right? This is the ultimate graphics card for AMD enthusiasts Who want the highest performance? Single AMD card so you go like you go like this is this Sliver of this slice of the available market of people who are interested in graphics cards And that is pretty much all that is left for someone who for for gaming purposes might be interested in a radio and pro duo I'll be interested to see what they can come up with in terms of value ads For the pro duo that would make it make sense for developers, but I just have a hard time Imagining what would make it better for developers than just picking up a couple of theories or a couple of fury x's Alpha 17x in the chat. This is a very interesting one Alpha 17x in the chat. This is a this is a really good. This is a really good point I'm a developer. I use what the end user would be using so I know what the crap I'm something twitch chat moves too fast. I mean that is uh, that is a really really great point And depending on what kind of development you're doing like if you're working on digital assets You might be interested in something like a fire pro or something like a quadro card But in those cases you'd want a lot more than four gigs of vram per gpu So I still don't understand Why they're even releasing this card? That's the question. I understand why they don't want people to review it I don't understand why they even kept it in development after all this time because it's like it's no secret that vr And direct x12 is where we're headed and dual gpu Something of a dinosaur at this point. I mean nvidia didn't even bother Do you think do you think nvidia couldn't have built a dual? 980 card Come on They totally could have done it. You think they couldn't have built a dual 980 card with 8 gigs of ram per gpu like That they managed to build an mxm. They managed to put a 980 in a laptop They were just like, yeah, why bother? I mean titan z was such a flop I mean the price that presumably it had to be In order to build it because they had they had lots of time to drop the price on it and just go okay Yeah, we'll just take less margin on it and sell some more units Like the price it must have cost to make it just made it untenable so Yeah, I mean to me this is kind of like the the final Swan song for dual gpus on one card outside of Outside of you know professional like scientific Like high performance computing based cards that you might expect to find in a in a like a huge server farm somewhere so Hopefully paleris is the answer And uh, and we can all look forward to that. Hey brandon. Can you uh, help me with something for a minute very very quickly by running Thank you Um, can you find out what this is and direct it to the appropriate place? It may be something quite important All right So this is a cool piece of technology the original poster here is op And the original article here is from the verge this is a cool way to use technology This is a mosquito killer billboard That is targeting mosquitoes carrying the zika virus in brazil now if you have been if you've been watching The development of zika in the news your problem is that you're not going to be able to get the zika virus The development of zika in the news you're probably aware that it is a huge concern not necessarily for Perfectly healthy people but especially if you're pregnant Zika could be a major problem because it can cause i believe it's um It's either macro or micro i'm gonna go with microcephaly which is a condition where your brain Depending on whether it's macro or micro i think it's micro where your where your head is super small Which causes all kinds of developmental problems? So what the what the bill so zika? Hasn't has been a problem um In warmer climate areas jungle areas because it's spread by mosquitoes. It actually transmitted sexually as well, but it has been a huge problem in brazil so this technology Is apparently using This um like carbon dioxide and lactic acid solution to mimic human breathing and sweat and then Zapping the bugs killing them So it can actually lure insects within a radius of up to two and a half kilometers This is something i've always wondered about like How do mosquitoes find us? So there you go. Apparently it's by smell now to be clear always wondered about It doesn't mean like it was a burning desire because I could have just googled it It's just something that kind of like i'd be like oh Hang on. How do they find me? um, so it can lure insects within a radius of two and a half kilometers and Um Let's see Good to do and kill them but There are some concerns that have been raised so two of these billboards have been installed in rio de gennaro and They're using technical specifications that they've actually published for free online But chris jackson uh jackson jackson jackson a pest control expert at the university of south hampton Told the bbc that the billboard could inadvertently cause More people to be bitten depending on where it is placed And uh, just give me one second brandon. Who did you give that phone to? Okay, can you bring him back here? Thank you So i've actually got a pretty cool graphic for how it works here i'm just going to go ahead and pull this up on the screen So a device spreads in the air and a solution containing the lactic acid and co2 Okay, so it spreads in the air this solution the combination of the two substances attracts Mosquitoes that this claims a distance of up to four kilometers fluorescent lights enhance this attraction facilitating the Approximation i think they mean approach of the mosquito and then as The 80s flies on average four feet above the ground the catch mechanism Was designed to be there it draws the mosquito into the panel and after being stuck the mosquito dies dehydrated so it doesn't Zap them in the sense that it like those uh like those awesome paddle bug zapper things but uh It does kill them eventually which i guess is uh is all we can all we can really ask Uh hey brandon where is he? Okay, did you tell him to move quickly? I can't hold on i'm streaming from that phone i'm dropping frames he needs to get over here right away Thank you, sorry All right, so this was originally posted by yami yuki senpai And this is pretty much the worst news ever le eco uh formerly who formerly went by the name of le tv le tv Revealed their le 2 range of smartphones None of which have a three and a half millimeter jack So instead the phone supports usb type-c digital headphones through the charging port They also launched a usb-c earphones cue And a usb-c headphone skew to accompany it so let's have a look at the original article over on android authority which i would I would love to click on but google talks is being such a derp right now i'm making it hard for me to click stuff There we go So after all the rumors About apple launching a phone with no head phones Jack it turns out that an android phone maker is going to be the first one I really I get I get a kick out of especially what are they why? Why what is the point? Like I I get that they're kind of going oh yeah well you know we're gonna build this ecosystem with like Earphones and headphones that work with it, but it's like such a hassle like what if I don't know say for example you were sitting down To stream the wandshow and you wanted to quickly plug your your headphones that you normally use with your phone into your streaming computer So you can check audio levels. It's oh right. Oh Bummer it's usb type-c. I guess it's just not gonna work It's not gonna work It's not gonna work It's not gonna work It's not gonna work with anything and it's one thing if you were to release like some kind of a killer pair of headphones that Rounds out the ecosystem and makes it make a ton of sense but That's not Yeah, that's not gonna help if you're just some random android maker and Your headphones and earphones to be clear I haven't heard them But are probably terrible like probably just just awful Let's go ahead and see if we can find any pictures of the device that would be that'd be super cool I'm gonna see if pocket now has pictures up on their site but Yeah, I mean there's really not much else to say it's not It's not a product that I would be that I would be especially interested in one way or the other and unfortunately the pocket now article is not loading for me at the moment, but Yeah Speaking of products that I'm not particularly interested in this was originally posted by lots of unexplainable lag on the forum And the original article here is from mac rumors.com But apple has updated Not the macbook air Not the product we were actually hoping that they would update you know one that has enough thinness But maybe not quite as much thinness, but you know good battery life But maybe not as good battery life, but actually has ports on it no no they didn't give the macbook air a retina display So it really does look like the macbook air is uh is a is a foregone conclusion at this point I think it's a it's a done deal. It's gone. They have updated the 12 inch macbook so now It has skylake cpu options a longer battery life and a rose gold option So six generation skylake dual core core m processors up to 1.3. Gigahertz hd graphics 515 delivering 25% faster performance for all the Games that you will presumably be playing on your macbook faster pci express based storage, okay I can't complain about that an additional hour of battery life Faster 1866 megahertz memory oh wow oh Oh In addition to the existing gold silver and space gray colors unfortunately Apple in its infinite wisdom did not feel it was necessary to add any ports to it So While I wasn't going to buy one anyway I find that frustrating just because for the sake of the people buying this product It would be it would be considerate of apple to you know care about them enough to to give them some ports to use You know man, I just I feel bad for the apple people apple people buying this Yeah, all right Uh oh more car scandals the op here is numlock 21 I'm gonna see if refreshing google docs helps here. This is driving me crazy It's doing that weird thing where there's like the line you're trying to click on and you put your mouse there and it clicks like An inch higher or something like that and see if yeah there we go Reloading the page helps so euro news.com has the original article about mitsubishi motors Faking their fuel economy tests. They actually got rated Like go figure Rated so their shares plunged on thursday following an admission that they faked fuel economy data on car sold in japan They ended up losing 3.2 billion in market value over a mere three days They apologized on wednesday saying they will make a sincere effort to make amends to car owners And transport minister the transport minister of japan wants mitsubishi to look at the possibility of buying back the cars That could be even more costly than what volkswagen went through Wow Mitsubishi will also have to pay subsidies granted to consumers if they don't pay the car Wow, mitsubishi will also have to pay subsidies granted to consumers if data shows its cars do not meet the necessary fuel economy standards I mean, I don't know I don't know what the takeaway here is part of the takeaway is These companies are bad and they did really bad things and You know, I don't know if that makes some bad people sometimes good people do bad things, but faking fuel economy ratings is Pretty bad. I mean you're lying to your customers. You're lying to your government You are polluting the economy are polluting the economy. You're polluting the environment more than you Said you were like these these targets exist for a reason. We're trying to reduce our ecological impact But with that said it also raises questions about the About whether you're introducing laws governing how much You know co2 or how much how are governing the emissions that cars can output whether that's actually the solution Or if you have to do something else, I mean i've argued for a long time that here in vancouver public transit is basically unusable If you have a job public transit is is pretty difficult to use vancouver is such a suburban Sprawl it just it just spreads in all in all directions rather than building up like many other cities have and Our infrastructure is just awful outside of the of the urban core to the point where something that is a half an hour drive Could easily take two two and a half hours on a bus And if you value your time At all like you could even just work another job in the four hours of commuting that you save per day In order to have a car and not just sit around on the bus So rather than just kind of tell companies hey you have to have lower emissions You know maybe making changes that make it easier for people to use mass Transit would be a better solution But of course that's very easy for me to sit here and say I mean I don't actually have to run the country. Thank goodness All right Huh more bad news posted by phoenix arising on the forum and the original article here is from the cnn money microsoft's profits fall by 25 percent not an insignificant amount sort of a sort of a lousy quarter, but not all of this is Necessarily entirely their fault so q1 2015 five billion dollars profit q1 2016 3.8 billion But part of the reason that it fell 25 percent was due to a higher than expected tax rate and a strong us dollar Okay, sales are down from 20 points 21.7 to 20.5 billion Sales for consumer versions grew 15 percent enterprise version declined 11 percent for windows although this I don't know could have something to do with that we got a consumer version of windows that was not accompanied by A server version. I mean sir server 2016 is nowhere to be found yet. If anything, it's probably Kind of happy that you know enterprise sales only declined a little bit like I personally would be trying to put off A server purchase until server 2016 shows up if I had any say in the matter at this point office 365 consumer base Reached 12.4 million in 20 q1 2015 and grew to 22.2 million in 2016 I will say I contributed to that. I love office 365 azure is up Xbox is up. So basically Yeah, os is os is not growing the way they would like and they were taxed higher than they thought i'm glad they're at least paying taxes So, you know good guy microsoft, I guess Yeah, anyway, um What else we got This is interesting so original post here is from n gadget the canadian province of quebec contemplates Mandating home ev charging stations expects a decision by the start of this summer I don't really understand what they're hoping to accomplish by that. Um I mean I can see how investing in infrastructure Throughout the province like public infrastructure could help the adoption of an ev because in my mind like as someone considering purchasing an electric vehicle I would love to buy an electric vehicle. It's just not really in my price range right now But as someone considering it after i've spent the 25 to 30 thousand dollars on an ev, you know Hundreds more or even you know low thousands more for the charging stations Is not the end of the world. I mean you think about it like a phone like if you walk in you buy 500 phone are you that concerned about the 30 charger at the same time? Like I consider it part of the purchase part of the decision that someone buying that vehicle would have to make um so this really and and And my decision as far as what the government can do to help would have more to do with mandating businesses or uh installing these charging stations in public places than to do with whether or not I have to buy a charging station to put in my garage so this again smacks of the government thinking that just Introducing a regulation is going to somehow address some kind of a problem and change consumer behavior at no cost to themselves because basically they're just making builders Stomach it and they're just going to be like Builders stomach it and they're making consumers who don't necessarily want one and aren't ready for one and could have easily waited another five years When they were ready for a new car and bought one then when it's cheaper and they're making them foot the bill instead of just investing in the infrastructure themselves Sorry, oh, yeah, yeah, um Speaking of investing you know who invested in our trip to pax east Yes, my friends our friends from oh That uh, oh my lower third is gone Hopefully I can find my lower third Come on lower third Let's see what path it's supposed to be in of course of course mousing over it didn't help and Of course I do understand why that's not working and there is basically nothing I can do about it right now So our sponsors were logitech g and discord So logitech g you're probably familiar with you can check out their new g900 wireless gaming mouse over at amazon.com I will link that in the twitch chat This is the one that luke went all the way to switzerland to check out and basically See how it is that logitech validated it to run as effortlessly Effortlessly and as stably as a wired mouse even though it doesn't have a wire pretty freaking cool little piece of technology They're also showing off what they're calling the great wall of logitech g's using their ga 10 keyboards So they created original 8-bit content to show on the wall through the use of their keyboards leds You can actually find a short clip Here i'll try and fire this up for you guys here. 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So check it out All right, what else we got here we've actually got a fair number of uh fair number of topics microsoft Has finally ended production of the xbox 360 So there you have it Originally posted on kataku if you wanted to buy an xbox 360 Before today was the time well there will probably still be some on shelves, but 10 and a half years 10 and a half years ago The xbox 360 launched and we are finally Finally rid of it microsoft's phil spencer wrote a few paragraphs about its success um Saying xbox 360 means a lot to everyone in microsoft and while we've had an amazing run the realities of manufacturing a product over a decade Old are starting to creep up on us Which is why we've made the decision to stop manufacturing new xbox 360 consoles. We will continue to sell existing Inventory with availability varying by country xbox live will remain active as will the xbox 360's various stores and online services Um and the xbox one is actually adding support for backwards was adding backwards compatibility support for some 360 games So there you have it There you have it The xbox 360 is finally no more i'm actually probably going to pick up a handful of xbox 360 controllers before like Getting peripherals for dying console madness happens I want to get a couple that are in good condition because it's still my favorite controller I really don't like the shape of the dual shock and I really do prefer it to the xbox one controller. So There you go Um, let's see what else we got Oh, this is interesting original article here is from anon tech.com wd is introducing Wd gold hard drives. They have added yet another color it's available in capacities from four to six to eight terabytes and effectively pretty much replaces the se lineup Um, that's my scene not oh, huh? That's funny. I derped um and pretty much replaces their existing se lineup, which was kind of like Um, like a high capacity enterprise, but not as expensive as re not quite as expensive not quite as high performance as re um So basically the the color branding is almost complete. I'm surprised they called it gold I would have thought they would save gold for re But maybe they're gonna call that platinum or something. I don't know. It's tuned similarly to wd red drives Rated for 24 7 use and workloads of up to 550 terabytes a year with a five-year warranty Cool Uh, this is this is just kind of funny. This is originally uh, the original post here is uh over on cbc.ca Rust players outraged after half of them given female avatars um In some kind of attempt to appease sjw's I suppose Now this wouldn't be that big of an issue if They hadn't been changed Without the players even being notified and permanently So your player just boom They've impel under a feature that randomly makes your character a man or a woman They actually randomize features for your current permanent character like skin color limb length and even penis size So developers gary newman and taylor reynolds expected this backlash and addressed it on their community dev log. This is great So we understand this is a sore subject for a lot of people We understand that you may now be a gender that you don't identify with in real life We understand this causes you distress and makes you not want to play the game anymore Technically nothing has changed since half the population was already living with those feelings The only difference is that whether you feel like this is now decided by your steam id instead of your real life gender This is really just the first pass of an ongoing rework of the player model I'll continue to add variations over the coming weeks, which means you're probably not stuck with your new face forever We've got a decent synced workflow between the assets I make in zbrush and the assets you'll see in game now So it opens up a lot of scope to easily add or change features without a great deal of technical faffing in between What So we heard that lots of people you know don't identify with gender x or y or some combination of the two And that makes them unhappy So we thought as a game developer We would take our customers and we would have them experience that on some scale Because We Something Okay Uh We've got more details about the playstation 4k which Um, we don't know if it's the confirmed name I don't know if we talked about some of this stuff last week I believe we actually did but we've got a handy dandy little chart this time so I can go ahead and fire that up for you guys So eight jaguar cores eight more jaguar cores. We'll know exactly the same number of eight jaguar cores In fact same architecture, but higher clock speed. Okay gcn better gcn. Okay higher clocked More compute units Memory looks like it's got a bandwidth increase, but is actually still the same eight gigs. So there you go Yep This is cool So this was originally posted by strider 721 on the forum. The original article here is from the verge Counter-strike hacked to run on android phones. This is cool Bloopy doopy bloopy bloop now to be clear. This is not csgo. This is counter-strike 1.6 But how cool is that right look at this Love it Oh man Oh, man So let's get some details here, so this is the work of uh programmer Sorry, hold on. I gotta close that alabeck omarov who's experienced in making old pc games run on android He's created touch screen controls for the game. So to get it to work on your android device. You download the sash xash It's xash 3d software have the games on your steam account to copy the files across and the port does Apparently support peripherals, which is pretty cool because with an on-the-go cable I have actually tested this with an otg cable and a phone that supports otg and just a normal usb hub You can plug in pretty much whatever you could possibly want powered usb hub. Otherwise, you are Definitely going to have issues running like, you know large 104 key like rgb backlit keyboards So I think that pretty much does it for the wandshow Thank you to all of you who went ahead and stuck with me through the technical difficulties on the show today Really do appreciate it. I will see you guys next week same bat time same bat Channel actually will I see you guys next week? I may be traveling next week We have a lot of like a lot of the team is traveling a lot. No, I wait what? Yeah, Brandon's like gone forever Yeah, Linus and Ed are in San Francisco until Yes next Friday, so i'll see if i'm remoting in or i'll see if i'm not but if I don't Luke will be hosting the show Because he'll be back by then This is the problem with like you tell people take your vacation and then no one does it and then you tell people look You're not going to be able to take it in q4 because it's busy and then everyone just takes off mind you most of this is work Stuff actually only Brandon's taking vacation because he's not a team player You heard me All right, see you guys