 Really even. Boom. Wow, how early are we? One minute? Four seconds. Yeah, I was going to say, to be fair, not a full minute, but we are early. Welcome to the WAN show of the 28th of April 2017. Yeah, we have some really cool topics, one of them being that Acer has announced their most badass gaming monitor yet, which is pretty sick. The FCC announces a plan to reverse Title II of Net Neutrality, which I don't personally know a ton about because I'm a Canadian. We were like, no to that. But John will have much better insights on that topic. Amazon's Alex... With an A.... learns to talk like a human, which is cool. Elon Musk at a TEDx conference in Vancouver teases a little bit of the Tesla electric semi truck, which is pretty cool, and four new Gigafactory locations, which is pretty ridiculous. And yeah, there was one more thing. Oh my god. I keep on double clicking with my touchpad and I'm a super noob. Nintendo is launching a new 2DS XL, which is like flippy and stuff, which is what the 3DS probably should have been this whole time. So it could have been cheaper and that 3D option would have just never been there, which would have been completely fine. And that's the show this week. Intro. Roll the intro. Look at it work. Look at that. Don't you like that when you just press a button and something just happens? It's so fantastic. Oh my god, the mic's not muted by the way. I'm like, yeah, spectrum glasses and Cooler Master and move that back up there and go back. All right. So first things first, that crazy monitor. Let's get up to the top here. Let's do it. Acer's new gaming monitor, the notes in the docs say that it is 44Hz, but my extremely techie brain was like, there's no way that's accurate. Thanks a lot, James. Yeah. So it's 144Hz HDR 4K UHD monitor. Super badass. Want to keep talking about it? Yeah. Basically, what Luke said, being billed as the nicest Acer gaming monitor that Acer has ever made. There we go. It has local dimming for better contrast, which is actually pretty cool. Yeah. So that's part of the HDR bit where there's all the different zones and it can like turn off different zones to get better darkness and contrast and stuff. Yeah. That's one of the better solutions to get better contrast. Four milliseconds of response time. It doesn't say what kind of a panel it is, but I believe it will be with four milliseconds it will be an IPS. So like a little bit quicker IPS. And should look fairly nice, which is cool. It also has HDMI 2.0. I don't know if HDMI 2.1 has made its way onto any consumer devices yet, but if you want to run 4K at 60Hz on this monitor, you can do it through HDMI 2.0. You probably shouldn't though. It's 144Hz monitor. You're going to want to run at 144Hz. So maybe if your graphics hardware is linear powered. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. If you for some reason have multiple inputs plugged in at once. Yes. And you want to run something that doesn't need the 4K 144Hz, you can totally do that, which is cool. Like right now if you had say this thing, the analog NT, which you guys can't see, but it's right off camera. You want to have that plugged in and your computer, you could totally do that. Yep. And it also has Tobii eye tracking built in. So if you can scroll back up a little bit there if you're wondering what that kind of bar on the bottom area is, that is what that would be. It is an eye tracker. So you've got that. Interesting. Tobii has been an interesting technology to follow because I tried them out at a CES quite a few years ago and admittedly it was not very good. It was pretty bad. It was a little bit of a work in progress and I saw it as well. Yeah. But it's kind of been a while. I know Sevadis, if you guys know Sevadis, big streamer, he has it permanently mounted on the bottom of his monitor and he's done some streams where he used it and he says that it was pretty cool. And I had him try it in front of me because I was like, oh, BS. And it worked well for him. So I'm assuming that it's gotten better over time, which is cool. I also want to say a couple more words about that local dimming this monitor has. So apparently it's 384 different backlighting zones. So the amount of control the monitor can exert over one tiny little section is actually pretty high. But you do need a 10 series Nvidia graphics card, so a 1080 or 1070, something like that, with a DisplayPort 1.4 connector. But that should not be very difficult to find. That's the modern standard. Yeah. Yeah. That's one thing about HDR with all the individually controllable, what the heck? Is that like an accessory for it? Is there a hood on it? Let's see. Let's see. Yeah, what? Yeah, that's what it looks like. So I wonder if that comes with it. We'll see here. I didn't notice anything about that. I didn't either. But if you guys can see this on screen, there's like, on a camera sometimes, where I'm going to use totally the wrong term, I'm sorry, Brandon, if you can hear this, but on a camera sometimes there's like those things that come out past the lens to block certain light out from getting in the lens that you don't want. And it's kind of like the same deal, but for the monitor, there's a hood on the top and there's two side panels, sort of like horse blinders. Yeah. So if you're not in like a optimum environment and you have glare or whatever else. You're like, this is an HD monitor with a whole bunch of individually controllable lighting zones. It needs to look perfect. You know, if you're going to sink that much money into it, I can actually understand the attitude. And speaking of which, no pricing or release information on this yet, but hopefully soon. I'm really interested in the hood. I want to get it in here and try to see if it actually really does anything. You're really interested in the hood, Luke. Yeah. You know, I get that impression from you just all the time. Yeah. I'm super. Listening to your rap at your desk. Super gangster. Yeah. Anyways, I thought that was pretty cool. It's fun to see Acer pushing more in the monitor segment. Wow. Someone just made a big change to the dock. Thanks. Oh, what is happening? Oh, it's like just to the table of contents. Okay. So this is very much more you, John. It is very much more me. But the FCC announces plan to reverse title two net neutrality. I know most of what those words mean. Okay. And that's about it. Do you know what title two means? No. Okay. So here's what's going on. So the FCC has tabled a proposal to undo the 2015 rules that implemented net neutrality with a title two classification. Now here's what this means. So before 2015, net neutrality was, it had been implemented. There are rules that the FCC had passed to say, okay, here are some things that your ISP cannot do. Again, the big thing for net neutrality advocates was you couldn't have any sort of unreasonable, also what I'm looking for, there's no unreasonable discrimination with network traffic. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that rule was already in place prior to 2015. In 2015, they decided to, the best word to use here would be strengthen it. I guess that depends on your point of view. But they decided to strengthen it by classifying ISPs and internet services under title two of the Communications Act of 1934. And what this means is they'll be regulated as what's called a common carrier. And when you do this, what ends up happening is the regulations are a little bit more strict as to what they could do. Now you may have caught the fact I said the Communications Act of 1934, it was actually enacted a long time ago and it was originally, sorry, just let me mute my laptop here, that's very distracting. There we go. Okay. So it was originally designed to regulate landline telephone carriers all the way back in the day. It was amended in 1996. And so now we have the legal framework that we have today. So can you explain, because from a Canadian point of view, this came into our whatever and we shot it down almost immediately. So I don't even know a ton about it. But the Americans have gone through this a number of times before, have they not? This is maybe like, this is the third major action I can think of. Yeah, because I've talked about this on WAN show since like 2013. Yeah, exactly. What's going on? Why isn't this permanently blocked out? That's one thing that I super don't get. Okay. So it's been shot down every time, has it not? What do you mean? Oh, like weakening net neutrality has been shot down every time. Is that what you mean? Yeah. Okay, it's a little bit complicated. So back in, I believe it was 2010 that maybe they first started to promulgate net neutrality rules, the FCC. So they first did it under a piece of legislation called Section 706. So that's Section 706 of the 1996 Communications Act. And the SEC said, okay, there is something in Section 706 that allows us to say, here's what your ISP can't do. It can't unreasonably discriminate between different forms of traffic, right? So in 2015, that's when they decided to bring in Title II, which is theoretically stronger. And now they want to roll back and kind of go back to the way it was before 2015. So the concern here is, so there's two sides to this. The telecommunications industry is saying, even if you want net neutrality, you don't want to under Title II because the way Title II works is the SEC can just kind of sit there and they can pick and choose what things in it are applicable to broadband because not everything is going to be because like I said, this is an extremely old law that was originally designed for telephone providers. So they can pick and choose what's going to apply to broadband. The telecommunications industry, for reasons I hope are obvious, does not like this because they could at some point, they could legally do more onerous things like rate regulation and actually tell Comcast or Spectrum or whoever else, you must charge this amount for internet service. They obviously don't want that. The other side of this is saying that, well, if you go back to regulating it under Section 706, it's going to be very weak. I actually have the text of 706 right here in front of me. Oh my goodness. And it's actually not very much. But it says that the commission with regulatory jurisdiction, blah, blah, blah, shall encourage the deployment on a reasonable and timely basis of advanced telecommunications capability to all Americans in a manner consistent with the public interest, convenience and necessity, price regulation, regulatory forbearance, measures that promote competition in the local telecommunications market and or other regulating methods that remove barriers to infrastructure investment. Okay. If you can digest that for a second, it's all kind of vague. There's nothing in there that says thou shalt not discriminate against different kinds of traffic. Okay. So the argument from people who are more concerned about net neutrality is that, oh, well, this is very wishy washy. And even that last bit or other regulating methods that remove barriers to infrastructure investment. So the head of the FCC who is pro-scrapping the Title II things, people are worried that this set, people were worried about the bit about infrastructure investment because he made a speech a couple days ago about this and he said, oh, well, ever since they did this Title II thing where they put strict regulations on ISPs, there has been less money spent on infrastructure investment, which is a bad thing because you have less, you're investing less in quality services. But that's a very easy way for them to manipulate that because if they know that's one of the things that the FCC is looking for, they're going to be like, oh, we don't like this law, no more investment. Correct. Yeah. It's an easy thing for them to do. And there's some other things in his speech I found a little bit eyebrow raising. One of them was he was saying that, oh, people keep talking about like, you know, fast lanes for certain kinds of traffic and they're afraid it's happening. And he was over here claiming that hasn't happened, but it already kind of has. I think it was a couple of years ago, Netflix was forced to pony up a bunch of money to Comcast because Comcast, was it Comcast? I don't remember who it was. It was one of the major ISPs. I think it was Comcast, but they ended up throttling Netflix's speeds, which for something like streaming HD video was super important. So that actually kind of has already happened. He didn't mention anything in his speech about net neutrality, which was also a little bit concerning. So there was two sides to this, but basically the crux of the argument is which law is this going to be, is net neutrality going to be accomplished under one is stricter than the other. So someone has asked a question, shouldn't the FTC be the ones governing net neutrality instead of the FCC? So that's a difficult question to answer. Just for a little bit of background, the FTC is the Federal Trade Commission. They have usually been the federal agency in the US to regulate things like consumer protection and also privacy. So the argument for the people who are on the sort of the chairman of the FCC, they're on his side that want to scrap these rules and kind of go back to the way things were prior to 2015. They're saying, okay, the FTC has been in charge of consumer protection and consumer privacy for a very long time. Why do we want to take this out of their hands now and put it into the hands of the FCC, which the argument is is more ill-equipped to deal with privacy issues and consumer protection issues. Now whether you buy that or not is a completely separate argument, but there's, you know, the question kind of comes down to what's the inner working of each agency like, and I don't think I'm really qualified to speak on that. Okay. Yeah. Well, if you live in the States and you care about your internet, follow up with the stuff John said. Sorry, it was a lot in the short time period. You fired through it. I'm cool with it. It's, it's, it's kind of a complicated issue because you're getting down into the weeds of what the text of the law actually says. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, that's, that's not, that's not a thing for me. I don't want to tell you what to do. I don't use the internet down there. So yeah, follow it up on your own. I think that would be, if I was down there and this was happening, I would be very interested in how I'd be reading up on it because I started to worry about it when it became a thing up here, but then it was shot down like immediately. So it was like, okay. Yeah, and I'm sure, I'm sure like the way you're, the framework of how your communications are regulated in Canada is probably very different than what we have in the US. So I don't know, but that would make sense. Anyways, moving on to a new topic, Amazon Alex. I'm just going to call it Alex because I don't want to trigger it, but there's an, uh, at the end of this. So it's Alex with an A. Yeah, Alex with an A. Amazon's Alex with an A learns to talk like a human. So the reason why we're talking like that and not saying the full name, by the way, is we just don't want to trigger anyone's, uh, version of this thing at their home to start searching for stuff. We don't want to be butts. And that has happened before, so. Um, so yeah, Alex with an A is going to be better. It will be able to do things like whisper, take a breath to pause for emphasis, adjust the rate, pitch and volume of her speech and more. She'll even be able to bleep out swear words, which is pretty, that's kind of interesting, especially cause she's going to sound more human. Be like, man, what the bleep? Doesn't sound like something very human. Like most people don't bleep out their own sentences. You know what I mean? But I guess maybe if it sounds like a recording of a human, then it would be fine. I don't know. I kind of wish we could. I think swear words are actually funnier when they're bleeped. Just start saying bleep instead of a swear word? Well, no, like if, if you watch, if you watch any kind of TV show where something gets bleeped out, I think it actually adds a little bit of comic effect. I'm crazy. The sharpness of the tone. Yeah. The new tools are being provided to third party app developers, allowing them to control pronunciation, annotation, timing, intonation. Wow. I just read that super terribly. Timing and emotion, which is pretty cool. I think that's awesome because the more natural these things are paired with hopefully the backend getting a little bit better, it's going to be very awesome for voice assisted support. The main thing that I'm excited for is locally based voice assisted support where not everything that I say has to go into some permanently logged box somewhere that I don't have access to. Yeah. Follow that one that are F for fat chance. Yeah, I know. I don't know. I'm just hoping that eventually some tertiary, like these things get so good at some point. It's so easy to do this stuff. That's some side company just makes one that you can buy. I mean that would, I think there would be a, that would be way more down for that. There would be like a, I think a pretty big segment of the market that would be interested in something like that. Yeah. Like a personal Jarvis. I had this idea a really long time ago where I wanted to string all these mics throughout my house and have all of them at the same time permanently recording onto this giant notepad that was going to automatically delete chunks above and rewrite and all this kind of stuff. And I was going to have dragon speaking permanently running so that it tried to like dictate everything that was said within my house onto this notepad. And then I was going to have another program watching the notepad and making actions based on what was there. And then I was like, no, what would be the ultimate point of something like that? My own Jarvis, but I'm not, I'm not nearly good enough. I see. That's the problem is me. Yeah. That last bit you kind of lost me there because to me it almost sounded like you just want to transcribe your own speech. No, no, no. Cause there would be another bot watching the dog for like words that might show up. So if I said like Jarvis or whatever else, it would then pay proper attention to the next few words that come up and then it would like do whatever I needed to do. Yeah. I'm just not, I'm not, if only you had a massive team of coders handy and like a massive like machine learning apparatus. Yeah. I'm working on getting a massive team of coders ready. So far I have not enough, but the ones that I have are awesome because we're doing good things. And Boiler's been learning front end. Really? All right. It's been great. I would rather he was able to work on the stuff that he's particularly very good at. It's good that he's learning everything. Hi Boiler. But yeah, I need more support for him. I'm working on it. Elon Musk at Ted Vancouver was teasing a Tesla electric semi truck up to four new gigafactory locations as well, which is pretty freaking cool. This guy is going to take over the world. There was a picture of SpaceX and they had like one of the rockets, fuselage, the fuselage of the rocket. Yeah. They had one of the fuselages of the rockets. They had the giant boring machine and they had like one other thing and it was like, what is even happening here? Yeah. It was so awesome. Anyways, Elon Musk on stage at 2017 Ted conference in Vancouver today. He showed a shadowy image, which I will hopefully have. I do not have a source for you. A smooth continuous design. Yeah. Way to go, James. A smooth continuous design between the windshield and the upper facade. So that would be very, I don't know how else to describe that. I think it'll look very futuristic. Yeah. Can you try to find, is there pictures of this thing? Elon Musk electric semi. Musk also said that there will likely be four, like I just said, new Gigafactory sites announced this year, but none quite yet. The company said in its most recent earnings report that it plans to finalize locations for up to three new Gigafactory sites this year in addition to the existing Nevada location. It's just a teaser image, but it looks kind of cool. It looks like a semi truck. Well, the headlights are very Tesla like. Is that actually the one that was shown on the stream? That's what it looks like. Yeah. Based on the caption here. Give me one quick second to get this on screen. Yeah, there you go. Just any of those. Cool. Right there. Can I blow this up a little bit? Maybe a new tab. There we go. So it's kind of hard to tell, but yeah, you can see there's a seam there where the windshield hits the top, but it's not like a major difference. I don't know. It looks like a semi truck. I'm excited for it, but it looks like a semi truck. Are you planning to get your CDL and become a truck driver, Luke? Yeah. I'm going to abandon Flowplant Club. I'm going to abandon Linus Media Group. I'm just going to drive a truck, which is going to be automated in a few years anyways. I just hate having a job. I just want to go down a career where it will take my job away. There is a difference between hating your job and hating having a job, because I think most people, the second thing is probably true. I don't hate having this job. I didn't say a particular job. I would prefer to come to work every day, because I'm a weird person. I'm talking about like... I prefer to come to work late every day. Oh, I'm talking about worrying about living in a box is what I mean. Oh, yes. Not the doing a certain thing. Minor complications. No big deal. Yeah. Also, there's apparently a UK Iron Man who demonstrated a flying suit. I'm going to have to see this one. He's a British inventor. Apparently he flew it at the TED Conference in Vancouver, which is pretty sick. You can see him right here. This is his suit. You can see him there as well. How far off the ground did he get? That's what I would like to know. He doesn't look like he's that far off the ground, but it looks like he's got some type of propulsion on his legs, kind of like Star Wars rocket boots. And he's got some on his hands, which is actually pretty cool. I guess it's more of a proof of concept than anything. I can hover above the ground, so this is possible. Look at me, Mom. The suit can fly uninterrupted for around 10 minutes. That's actually pretty good, considering how slim-line the suit is. It doesn't seem that big on him. It's a decent size, but it doesn't seem way too big. I mean, that's not bad considering how long was the Wright brothers' first flight? How long did that last for? Like 15 seconds or something? So I mean, 10 minutes is looking pretty good next to that. There he goes. So that's pretty sick. Whoa, there's a bunch of power on there. I wonder how hard that is to control. He seems to be doing pretty good. Yeah, because it looks like he is just keeping it steady, just using his arms alone. Like there's no... Because I was thinking like, oh, something... And this one, in other mock-up models, like the one right below it, you can see the rockets on his feet. Oh, yeah. This one, it just seems like he has them on his arms and possibly his back. Oh, there we go. There's something on his back as well. Yeah. But he doesn't have the feet ones on. So I guess there's a few different iterations. That's pretty cool, though. That is pretty cool. I want one of those. Here's a different one. He can move around pretty quick. I just like the idea of like super extended jumps. Like jump assist. That's in a few different games. Or like you go to jump something and you like blast this thing and it gives you a little bit more distance and height. That would be super cool, in my opinion. I'm just trying to think of the possibilities with something like this. Just like glide to work. You make a slim line version of this that you can wear that just kind of looks like a normal backpack and maybe the wrist and leg things aren't like way too big, but they're like nicely integrated. I would be super down. Oh, me too. That would be so cool. You know like if something like that ever does hit the market, like what the early adopter tax is going to be on it. Oh yeah. But like you can float. Casey Neistat video comes out. He's riding on a boosted board and then there's like a big gap and he just like hops up and floats over it. Damn. All while filming somehow. He'll make it work. 18 trillion views. Billions of views. All the views. Oh man. There you go. I thought that was pretty sick. There's also, okay, so you said you had something to say about this. Police to scan soccer fans faces. Yeah, so this is going to be at this year's UEFA Champions League final in Cardiff in Wales. So there's going to be cameras around the stadium and also at the main train station in Cardiff. And so the expected attendance is this says 170,000. I don't think Millennium Stadium in Cardiff can hold 170,000 people. I think it was probably supposed to be 70,000. Let me see. Let me view this real quick. Millennium Stadium, Cardiff. Let's find out. Capacity 75,000. Okay. So I think that was supposed to be a little bit north of 70,000. They're going to compare it against a police database of 500,000 people of interest. So if there's a match, police will get a heads up that could help them stop a terrorist or frequent hooligan. Now in... Frequent hooligan. Well, here's the thing. In European soccer, there are... If you get banned from one stadium for doing something particularly bad, you can get banned from a lot of them. And hooliganism isn't as bad there as it used to be. But if you ever watch soccer, English soccer, European soccer, you can still see some of the legacies of the hooligan era back in the 1980s. They still have crowd segregation at all the Premier League games. So if you watch a Premier League game, it's not like in the US or Canada where if you are a fan of the visiting team, just get a ticket, sit wherever you want to, cheer for your team and hope nothing bad happens like that guy that did the can at me. Yes, that was okay. That guy was a jerk. Different story. But in Britain, you will see... So there will be a specific section in every stadium for visiting supporters. And what will often happen is you'll see stewards, basically like stadium workers in like really bright day glow jackets standing all around the perimeter of where the opposing supporters are just to prevent any fights or any sort of other unseemly behavior. So... Oh my goodness. So, yeah, there's all these legacies of the hooligan era that you can still see in European soccer. So obviously when one person does something bad at one place, if it's bad enough, they'll just say, okay, you're banned from every soccer venue in Europe for six months a year, five years for life, depending on how bad it is. So I'm guessing this is why they want to do that. So the fight... doesn't this sound a little preemptive? Yes and no. Some of the instances are there having pretty bad... I mean, if you look at who's playing maybe, it's going to be one of Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid versus one of Juventus and Monaco. So it's probably not going to be a huge rivalry in the final, but even so, every big club has a few people that are going to come and they're going to try to cause trouble just because they can. So... but there obviously is a concern here. It says, South Wales police will have to order the country's usage guidelines, only harvesting as much information as they really need and being transparent with the data they collect. But there has already been evidence of police forces, both in the UK and abroad, preserving face recognition data for innocent people. So how are they using that data? Yeah. Yeah. And like the frequent hooligans thing, I get it. But if you screw around a bunch and then you're like, okay, I'm going to not be a jerk anymore, are you going to get blamed if something bad happens? If a ride happens in your area and you're just trying to flee that area because you're like, I'm not about that life anymore. Like are you going to get screwed anyways because you got picked up by a facial scan? Oh man, that's a good question. I mean, because a lot of places do keep known hooligan databases. So that is actually a thing. But as far as... I don't know. I guess that would be a little bit of a risk, but if they all captured on camera, maybe that would exonerate you too. So who knows? Yeah. I guess we'll see. No way to tell for now. I don't like it. I don't like the preemptive stuff. I'm trying to think of any of those four clubs have like a large and active hooligan firm, but then again, you also have to worry about individual people just having too much to drink and causing problems too. Right. Yeah. That's a good call. Now, are you... I know you're a Nintendo fan in terms of Mario Kart. Are you a Nintendo fan for their mobile stuff? What specifically? Like 3DS, 2DS? Oh yeah. I have a 3DS. I have a number of games for it. So... So what do you think about this? They have a new 2DS XL. I'm going to throw the video up here and mute it. But essentially it's a 3DS XL without 2D capability, as far as I can really tell. For $80. No, no, no, no, no. Is that what it says? Or no? $150 US dollars. Wait, where does it say... Oh, oh, oh. That was for... I'm sorry. That was for the original 2DS. Yeah. Well, okay. I think the price is a little bit steep for what it is. But as far as just that aside, just looking at the concept, I think this is a really, really good idea. The 3D on the 3DS, I mean, it's pretty okay for what it is, but it's not for everybody. My wife has a 3DS as well. Never uses the 3D feature. I use it on mine, but if it one day just broke and I can never use it again, I wouldn't miss it very much. What do you use it for? For everything? I try to turn it on when I can because it's a feature which I paid for, so I might as well try to use it and get some kind of enjoyment out of it. Okay, but if you had the option to buy one or the other, and one's like... How much is a 3DS XL in the States? I think they're a little bit cheaper than these two. It's closer to $200. So I think you're saving about $40 or $50 with this thing. Okay. Yeah. Because in Canada, I think these are about $200. And I think that original unibody design was what turned a lot of people away from the original 2DS because it wasn't as portable, it wasn't very attractive. It's a very durable system. I've had a 2DS in the past. I traded it in and got a 3DS XL eventually, but it's a very durable system, but yeah, it's not very wieldy. Now, I'm going to do a straw poll. I'm interested for the Nintendo people out there. Do you like the 3D option on your 3DS? So yes, no, and indifferent? Yes. And this is specifically for Nintendo people out there. Don't press indifferent if you don't own one and you don't care. Only press indifferent if you do own one and you're like, yeah, I turn it on sometimes, but it's not amazing. I don't know. Now, we're going to get a bunch of indifferent spam from the PSV that's proud. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. We'll come back to that later. Cool. But yeah, it's a little bit different. It can play 3DS games, but without the 3D effect. It can also play normal DS games. The main thing is unlike the 2DS, instead of being flat, it does fold now, which is very good. I think it needs to be much cheaper. Apparently it still packs the same power as the 3DS XL. They're claiming that this addition to the handheld market demonstrates their commitment to the handheld market. So yeah, that's cool. Again, it's $150 US. It launches in Australia and New Zealand on June 15th and in the US on July 28th. Is the Switch going to just cannibalize part of the market for this thing? This is why I'm saying it needs to be cheaper. I think a little bit, but this is something I've talked to other people about. The Switch is kind of delicate. And it can't fold. And it's pretty big. You can't just fit it in your pocket. If you get the case for it so you're actually protecting it properly, it's pretty freaking big. It's going to go in a backpack. You can't fit a 3DS XL in your pocket. A standard 3DS. I can. In all of my pants and all of my shorts. Get wrecked! Okay, Luke. But it's still... I got big pockets. It's still rather low. Luke has large pockets. He thinks it's very important that you know. Not full of money. They're empty in that regard. But they can fit a 3DS XL, which is pretty cool. I think it needs to be closer to $100 still. I really think it's a little bit cheaper. Can you look up how much a 3DS XL costs in US dollars? I think it's $190. I'll look on Amazon, I guess. I'm going to check on the straw poll real quick. You do that. 3DS XL. No, not 3S XL. 3DS. There we go. So 51% of people said no. Oh, goodness. 29% of people said indifferent. And only 20% of people said yes. You know what? On Amazon, it's closer to $250, which I don't think is right. They're like really expensive in Canada. You know what? Let me check. I'm checking the US, but let me check Walmart. If you just want to go to Walmart and buy a 3DS XL, how much would that be? Enter. Come on. $250. Also closer to $250. I could have sworn they were cheaper than that. I don't think so, man. I got mine for less than $200. I do remember that. Probably like a sale or something. Like Walmart does really aggressive sales on these in the holiday season. Yeah. So right now they're closer to $250. I still think they should be a little bit cheaper because if you're saying the original 2DS has been dropped to $80, you're paying almost twice that so you can get one of the folds. I think the 2DS didn't sell very well. I bet you they're dropping into $80 to try to kind of get rid of it. Because I don't think I've ever seen one in the wild that wasn't like my brother's. I think I saw a small child on a 2DS one time somewhere and that was it. So. They are pretty dang durable though. That's the thing. A 3DS or a 2DS XL or a normal 2DS are far more durable than a Switch. They just are. Absolutely. No, the Switch has Zelda but still. Anyways, spots are spot time. Oh, here we go. We have to put our glasses on. Here we go. There we go. These are pretty cool. These are called spectrum glasses. They say staring at a monitor all day can be hard on your eyes over time and make it tougher to fall asleep. That's why there are certain applications that you can put on your desktop that will like change the color of your screen. The idea is to reduce the blue light. Yeah, but then those are kind of annoying because if you need to see the true color of something, just being able to do that is pretty cool instead of something. I think it's called FLIR. No, that's a camera. FLUX. F.LUX. It actually changes the color of your screen, which I'm not personally a fan of. Now I have not been wearing these a ton lately, but they seem comfortable to me. But we have someone in office who has been wearing them almost since he got hired and he likes it a lot. Who? James. Oh. Yeah, James has been wearing them. If he hears this and wants to come down here and be a model for the glasses, that would be fantastic. They look good. We have a whole bunch of different models. I like these ones. John likes those ones. These are like kind of a gray charcoal. They're good. There's another pair that don't look particularly that great on me, but they look really good on Dennis. They're these. Or at least I don't think they look that great on me. Aren't those like the Burberry style ones? I believe so. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I actually do like these a fair bit because if you have a smartphone, which of course vast majority of you do, if you get an app that says it reduces blue light, sometimes the effect can be too aggressive and everything has this really noticeable red twinge. Through these computer screens and things, they still look very natural. Very normal. There is obviously a difference, but if you put the glasses on, it doesn't look like the color is super off or untoward. It looks very natural. It's just slightly less blue. One of the big things that James said, he's one of the writers here, so he spends a lot of time staring at like Word docs and spreadsheets all day. So with that much bright light, he said that it's helped a lot, which is cool. That's good. They feel nice. They come with a one year warranty. They say their product is extremely durable. The low color distortion, they block high energy blue light. That's the whole point. But they do try to keep colors as similar as possible. That's something we just talked about. It doesn't actually seem to change that much, which is cool. If you're interested, go to spectrumglasses.com slash collections slash products. The link will be below on YouTube and use offer code Linus to save 10% off. This is actually a Vancouver startup. So they're local for us. Yeah. And I think it's cool that James has actually been using them. It says James has been wearing these nonstop for weeks, weeks as in I think above four. Like I think it's been quite a while and he likes them a lot. Apparently he started wearing them so close to his actual start date of working here that people thought that they were just his normal glasses. Oh yeah. So that's why I didn't know who was wearing them because I thought he just wore glasses. Yeah. Yeah. So those are those are his glasses, which is cool that they're they like actually kind of blend in. You would think they were just normal glasses, but no, they have technology. Our other sponsor today. I did that whole thing without doing this. There's the link that you guys need. We're going to put the glasses back on. If you want these, go go here. Go there. There we go. There we are. Yeah. Use offer code Linus save 10% off. Again, they filter out blue light from your monitor. That's like the most aggressive, intense light that you can have. Moving on, we have Cooler Master with their Master Keys Pro line of keyboards. That's not in there. Don't take it out. I have the one with the keyboard in it. Anyways, Master Keys Pro keyboards come in different sizes. I have the medium. John has the large. Oh my. They complete the Cooler Master keyboard portfolio, which is cool. It can be simple because you just pick your switch color. So this one is a blue. Is that one also a blue? That one is also a blue. Cherry blue. These were probably picked for me. Blue is my favorite color, although it does annoy people on my stream. That's fine. You like blue. What's your favorite color? My favorite color? My favorite color is switch. Switch. That's a difficult question. I like greens. Greens. I'm a green guy. Special. I like my greens. Rare. I know. Uncommon. Yes. The Master Keys Pro white M and L have LED backlighting, which is cool. If you're into a more brighter, clean white keyboard, that could be for you. It utilizes the Arm Cortex M3 processor on its On-the-Fly system, which is pretty cool. It has lighting modes, macro recording, and combined with four profile keys, which are somewhere. They have easy to use software. They've combined N-key and 6-key rollover together, which is cool. It's ideal for both work and play, because it's a keyboard. You can WASD on it, and you can home row, which is cool. That's totally up to you. Check them out at the link below. That's CoolerMaster.com slash product slash line slash keyboards. Yeah. Cool. Cool. Or check out the link in the video description on YouTube. There we go. I'll take that back. Oh, no. At least you hit the thing in front of it. I'm going to put these back on, actually. Yeah. They're pretty good. They're pretty good. I like them. I don't know if they look that great on me, but I like them. Let's get Dennis out here. I think they're cool. Dennis can come out here and model. Dennis. Yes. Dennis. Dennis. Can you hear that? I can hang out some. Cool. Yeah. There we go. There he is. There he is. Put these on. Thank you. You have to be our model. Thank you. Okay. So this is my glasses. These are just regular glasses. Yeah. Let's see. Do I look different? Not very. No. I think they look good. They look so natural. I can't see now. I like this. Actually, I actually like this one. Here. One second. Put them back on. Hold on. Hold on. Okay. I'll put your other glasses on. Oh. Oh, I think this one is a little bit bigger. Yeah. But what do they do? They filter out blue light. So look at the screen and then put the glasses on. See how that works? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So it's supposed to be less harsh on your eyes. You can fall asleep easier afterwards. All that kind of stuff. Am I going to sleep at work if I wear this? It makes it easier to fall asleep. It's not going to put you asleep. They're not sleeping pills. They're just glasses. But it'll make it less harsh so you're not forced to kind of stay up. Anyways, back to normal content. AMD puts two GPUs and 32 gigs of RAM on a Radeon Pro Duo graphics card. So Brandon saw this down at NAB but decided not to. Wow, this is the Ars Technica show apparently. We have so many Ars Technica news articles today, which is cool. I like those guys. But yeah, Brandon saw this down at NAB but they weren't showing really good demos. So it was hard to... Yeah, I actually really like it. Yeah. Yeah. Wait. Actually, yeah, because it filters out blue light. Yeah, but it still looks solid. This is the longest ad spot ever. Oh, I'm not even looking at Twitch chat but I feel like, oh my god. Yeah, probably. Sorry. That isn't even... I was just interested. Yeah, the card combines two Polaris GPUs for $1,000 and it launches in May. This is not targeted as a gaming card at all. They launched it at a camera and film show. They didn't even announce it to us at all. It's not a gaming card. But it is super cool regardless. And you get what appears to be the Team Rocket logo on the fan. Yeah. It's almost exactly the same. I really like the blue. I really like the position of these power connectors, especially with the types of systems that it's probably going to go in. Yeah. And the fact that you might have a bunch of them in a row if you're going to do something like that. Yeah, that's going to make it much easier if you have tight gaps between your graphics cards. Absolutely. Yeah, AMD claims 11.45 teraflops of performance compared to 16 for the older Radeon Pro. The one that is also substantially cheaper, cooler, and less power hungry. And you get dramatically more RAM. 32 gigs. That's crazy. Just think of how much stuff you could hold in your frame buffer with 32 gigs of RAM. You would never be wanting for a large frame buffer ever again. A whole game. Basically. Yeah. Let me just render this entire game first. Every possible scenario. No, that's obviously way too much. But still. I don't know. It's not cool. It's not for us. It's not for gamers. You can go over here. Every time. I need to work on my chair positioning. You know, most people probably, actually maybe. There could be a ton of H3 fans in the audience. Have you ever watched the H3 show when Hila's like this? Oh, and she just pushes Ethan out of the screen. No, she goes out on her own. Oh. And I feel like whoever sits on this side, because that normally happens to me, and Linus is pulling me over. Is this more like slanted or something? I don't know. I think it's because you have to end up sitting way on this side of the table. Yeah. So everyone wants to naturally correct themselves to where they're supposed to be on the table. I think there's something in that. Anyways, moving on. Let's see what else we have. The show's technically been over for 13 minutes. But I want to look at this one too. Fallout is bringing post-apocalyptic warfare to your tabletop. Actually not in Ars Technica article this time. Wait, the show has been over for 15 minutes? What? It's an... Oh! My Twitch page just died. I wanted to post the link in the chat. Come back, Twitch. No. Okay, it's fine. It's fine. It's supposed to be about an hour long. We still have 15 minutes then, because we started at 4.30. Oh my goodness, I thought we started at 4 for some reason. That was weird. Anyways, Fallout 4, miniatures game, goes on sale this November. Don't worry about it. It's cool. It's fine. Apparently, it was possibly going to crowdfunding, but it is not. I'm not entirely sure if that's true. It just says it'll skip crowdfunding. I don't know. Anyways, some of the miniatures are detailed down here, which look pretty cool. You guys can't see anything. So, you like paint-it-yourself miniatures again? Yeah. So, people other than me might be good at it, which would be pretty cool. If I got into a miniatures game, I would definitely have to fund someone else to paint my miniatures, or I'd just be all gray all the time. One of the two. What if you 3D printed a color scheme directly onto it? Would that even work? If you got some filament that took a little bit longer to dry, and you could just sort of… So, paint with melted plastic? If you could get a nozzle or a thing that had fine enough control or something. But then, I'm doing art. It's still me doing art, which is bad. But at least you won't have to worry about holding your hand super steady, you know? Yeah. I would still really, really, really suck at it. But there's some of the monster enemies, which are pretty cool. Let me see if I can blow this up. Wow, it's all transparent stuff. Good job, Polygon. It looks neat. It looks cool. I'd be interested to see someone actually play it, because I'm not a huge miniatures person myself. I'm really into the Star Wars, Edge of the Empire role-playing game. That's super fun. And I'm really into other tabletop games, but I've never gotten into a miniatures game. We should get Tyler on the show to talk about this. Maybe. Yeah. The main reason why I haven't is because the cost scares the ever-living crap out of me. Oh, yeah, of course. Those things are so expensive. Yeah. My goodness. We started playing… What is the name of that football game we started playing? Blood Bowl. Blood Bowl. We still haven't done the finals. It's Anthony versus me for the finals, and we just haven't done it. And the trophy looks like the Lombardi Trophy, except the football has spikes on it. It's gold instead of silver. Let's see here. More topics. Microsoft is completing their Windows Phone wind down by June. Okay, this isn't even a tech topic. It's just hilarious. A Russian spy ship was sunk by a sheep barge. So I don't know… I don't even really… The circumstances just seem so random because it was a Togolese ship. It was a ship with the Togo flag carrying sheep between Jordan and Romania. Yeah. It's the most random thing. And a Russian ship hit it, and the Russian ship sunk. Yeah. A spy ship. A Russian spy ship. So the Russian ship was built in 1970 and was converted into an intelligence collection vessel in 1989. That's it right there, I guess. Yep. Oh. There's the barge. So that's a pretty big barge. Oh, okay. When you're reading the description for it, the barge sounds like a raft. It does. It sounds like this. That thing's ginormous. It sounds like a pile of wood they just put some sheep in. Yeah, yeah. Told it to go float, yeah. Okay, that's a pretty intense... That's not like some random raft with a... No, it's not. This is like... With a shepherd and some sheep. This is like inertia in action. Like, you can't... Yeah. Yeah. So it just got super wrecked. That's far less interesting than I thought it was. Anyway, moving on. Oh my goodness. Okay. Next topic. We do have other topics. We do have other topics. The Windows Phone wind down. AMD. AMD. This topic was posted by Zmule on the forum. We're gonna jump over on the forum real quick. Make sure I'm not logged in. That's good. AMD making money from ad revenue from installing drivers. So apparently when you install one of their new drivers... Yeah, so Terry Macadon, hopefully I'm saying that right, says that some of you didn't like game icons installed, so we updated the Radeon software package without one. We heard you. Sorry. So without having an option for it, it just linked game icons onto your desktop, which were shortcuts with monetized tagged links to go get the game, I guess. I can't think of a demographic that has less tolerance for bloatware than people who are really into PC gaming. I'm amazed that... Why? Why? Yeah. Yeah. It was even a bitly tracking link, so they weren't even trying to hide that it was happening. It wasn't a direct link to the official page. Like I said, it was a bitly tracking link. It had a referral ID included in the final URL destination. Man, first they draw the capsaicin molecule the wrong way. Now this. Okay. Do you want to explain that a little bit? Oh, okay. You put me on the spot. Go for it. I believe in you. So the capsaicin thing, it was like what they were calling some of their events surrounding their new Radeon stuff, right? Because capsaicin is the chemical that makes hot peppers hot, and hot peppers, what color do you think of? Red, like AMD Radeon. So capsaicin. But they had a whole branding package for this. Can you pull the logo up, actually? This will... Yes, give me a second. Great. Just type capsaicin and cream and you'll find it. Lucas is going to pull up the logo of this thing here. So image search will probably help you. There you go. I'm working on it. Sick. Okay. There we go. Very good. So that is purportedly the molecular structure of capsaicin, except there's a huge problem here. You're going to have to draw with your mouse here. Yes. This ring over here, this ring, this sort of six corner, this hexagon here. So the thing about capsaicin is this ring is actually aromatic, which means you should have a double bond here, a double bond here, and a double bond here. And they're not even real double bonds. What's actually happening is the electrons are sort of going, whee, like that, like all around these six, these are all carbon atoms. Each corner is a carbon atom, right? So they neglected to put in the double bonds or the aromaticity in this. And so the molecule is actually not capsaicin. It's something completely different. I don't know what it is, but it's not capsaicin. It's not the same stuff that actually makes your hot peppers hot. And they went to the trouble of saying, oh, we're going to use this organic chemistry model in our branding. So if you do that, you should really do it correctly. I mean, this is a field where, like, if you know anything about, like, pharmaceuticals, for example, where if you have one molecule, if you take it and you make it a mirror image, a change as small as that, you can completely change what it does inside your body. So this is not correct, and it bothers me. So first this, and now they're putting bloatware in with their drivers. What next, AMD? Don't. What next? Just don't. You're going to turn your ice cream machines off past 2 AM? I'm monitoring chemistry in college. That's why I know this. Yeah, just to explain. Yeah. OK, probably last, because we're just running out of ad topics, to be completely honest. Ad topics, show topics. There is a 3D printer with tank treads, which is just sort of awesome. Twitch chat is going to blow up here in a second. Ad topics. I was thinking about the AMD ad thing. I'm just going to post this in Twitch chat. What didn't you minor in in college, says Twitch chat. Well, I majored in chemistry and political science, so everything that aren't those two things. So there we go. OK, what's happening? MIT's mobile 3D printer built the largest structure to date. So you can kind of see it there. Here we go. There's a video, which I will mute. So it's spraying out like a lot of stuff at a time, and it's sort of foaming up a little bit. Looks like Cool Whip. Cool Whip. Cool Whip. So that is a 3D printer that is driving around in order to lay its, I guess, I don't know if you can call it filament, to lay its stuff. I don't know what it starts as. Excretions. Yeah, there you go. Look at it go. Whee. Looks like a big pot, like a potter. That is super cool. That is cool. I feel like the military would be super stoked with something like this. Oh, like if you could quickly have some sort of shelter for things. Yeah. Like I doubt, seriously doubt whatever it just printed is a defensible structure. But if you could just throw up something that people could shelter in, absolutely. Yeah, exactly. This could be useful for disaster relief or something. You can need a bunch of temporary shelters for people. I don't know. I don't know. I think that is pretty sick. It looks like a very, it's like the universal constructor from Deus Ex, except much more rudimentary but still very, very cool because we don't live in a fictional universe. But MIT? That is a wild, I want to see that GIF again of it. Whoop. Okay, here we go. So is Caltech going to make a slightly better one just to one up MIT? I feel like that might happen. MIT or Caltech, go. I have to choose one? Yep. I'm not sure if it's a basis for comparison though I used to live in Boston and I kind of wanted to go to MIT when I was a kid so MIT I guess. There you go. East Coast. Done. There you go. It's a clear and definitive decision. MIT is better than Caltech. I didn't say that. If you're watching this from Caltech, I did not say that. Apparently antivirus software from WebRoot nukes the customer's machine. I need to dive into this a little bit more. I'm going to post this in the chat. What is that picture? It is a spilled ice cream cone that's melted a little bit. Cool. Good. Again, it's the Ars Technica show so we keep going with Ars Technica news. What's the scoop? Okay, get it. Understand where the ice cream cone thing came in. On this false positive issue that has crippled a quarter of my customers. Wow. Brutal. It's pretty bad. Apparently WebRoot just wrecked some stuff. I haven't used any of their software in a very, very long time. Yeah, what do you use? Defender? Yeah, just whatever comes with Windows because I'm careful about my browsing habits. So many people these days just on Defender. The Defender and then every once in a while download the free trial sweep of Malware Bytes? Yeah. Sometimes you might need something specialized to get things off if you already have a problem but like, you know. How does it reformat every once in a while? Use Defender and be careful about where you browse. Apparently WebRoot was flagging Facebook as a phishing site. Nice. That's possibly accurate. What is a phishing site, sorry? A signature update that it had just nuked hundreds of benign files that were needed to run Microsoft Windows as well as apps that run on top of the operating system and it flagged Facebook as a phishing site. Where's the delete system 32 meme? That would be appropriate right here. You know what the most secure computer is? One that can't run. Yeah, I was just about to say the most secure computer an abacus. And Colton doesn't know what that is I think. Sounds like a dragon. Do you know what an abacus is? The GeoGuessr video I said overclocking an abacus and Colton was like, what's that? It's the little thing that you have beads on. Strawpoll. No, no, no, no, no. Crap. You said strawpoll after I started my explanation. This is not my fault. Do you know or did, did you know what an abacus is? Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? Is this one b? Yes. Disc, disc. Okay, let's see. This is going to be the last thing on the show. I want to see how old I am. That's what this poll is all about. Do modern kids not know what abacus are? Maybe. No, maybe. Okay. Is it abacus? Well, it sounds like Latin and plural US is I. So, I could be just completely making that up. But, you know what, let's search it. Let's Google it. Oh, thank goodness. I'm not too old. Okay. That is a thing that people know. The abacus, plural abacus or abacuses, whichever you'd like. Abacuses. I think abacus sounds sexier. Abacus sounds better. How about those abacus over there? I need to crunch some numbers. That sounds like a really cool name of a protagonist. Abacus? Abacus. It sounds almost biblical, like Abacus and the quest for truth. Can someone make that video game? Yeah, let's make that happen. Or like band name. Like if you're like an experimental rock. Oh. Abacus. Okay. Yeah. Someone, I want to look up if this is a thing. I spelled it wrong. Wait, would that actually be it? It would be it. Aba, abacus. Yeah, abacus. You got it. Abacus NetSuite Consulting. Abacus, abacus. Search like abacus band. See if there's a band called abacus already. Why don't you just be a nerd band? I hope they're experimental rock. No. Okay. Make a band, call it abacus. And play experimental rock. Or whatever you want. Wanshow 10%. That's all we need. And that's the Wanshow this week, guys. We didn't have a ton of crazy news topics. A lot of what was happening in the tech world this week was at NAB with all the cameras and cool software stuff and things that happen at a photo, video and movie show. So I guess follow Brandon on Twitter. Follow Brandon on Twitter. Wow, I don't know his exact handle. I think it's Brandon Wiley. Brandon, underscore, Y, underscore, Lee. Yeah, okay. So check him out on Twitter. I'm sure he posts stuff on the show. Also, I believe we've uploaded some videos recently. Well, that's kind of the whole point of this company, so yes. Yeah, I think we've done that also, because I forgot to promote my own system. Check out Float Playing Club. You can go to the forum. If you go to the forum and look at the buttons on the top of the forum, which I will actually just show you. I don't know why I didn't already do that. You can go to, if you're signed in, there's a Float Playing Club button. And if you have Float Playing Club right under here, where it says forum information, right in this little area, right before computer hardware, there's a section called Float Playing Club. And you can see all of our non-time sensitive videos one week early. And that includes Techquickie. We've got some great stuff for you. Just today, we posted a video on Float Playing featuring this guy in what I think is one of the funniest sketches that we've done on Techquickie basically ever. So that was fun to do. We haven't done a ton of sketches on Techquickie. So it was kind of cool to intro a video that way and stuff. It's a piece on the inherent nihilism of modern life, but with tech. Yeah, which is pretty cool. So if you want to check that out and tons of other really cool Linus Tech Tip stuff, like if you want to be a little preemptive about it, because it's not on there yet and I do not have a date for you at all, if you want to be able to see Scrapyard Wars before everybody else, you can get on Float Playing Club and see it there. Again, I do not have a date. It is not on there yet. Edzal is trying to edit it right now. Yeah, like as we speak, I don't know when it's coming out. Yeah, not a clue. I don't know either. I mean, it's not even, I'm not even just not telling you guys. I have no clue. I don't think our CEO even knows when it's coming out. We're all purposefully not asking him. I've just been asking him how it's going, not when it's coming out. I don't want to know. And notice how vague that is. How's it going? How's it going? How are you? We leave, we give Edzal an out. Yeah. How are you? How are you the viewer? How are you? How are you, Luke? I'm good. We're going to end the show. Okay. Do do. Same time next week, hopefully. Well, we're on time this week. And Linus will be back next week. So maybe a half an hour later than it started this time. Spectrum! Those cool glasses that we wore during the show and like go grab blue light and stuff. Cooler master master keys! Those keyboards that we showed during the show and like you can type on them and then stuff will go to your computer. How about that? Sick! That's sick, bro. Sick keyboard, bro. Sick board, bro. What am I supposed to say? Sick keys, bro. Sick keys, bro. Sick keycaps, bro. Okay. Nice cable, bro. Okay.