There we go. Hey, I'm still on time. It's still 4.30. So instead of being one minute early, I'm on time.
Okay, hold up, hold up. Now I got to see if it's working.
It is. There we go.
So instead of being 10 minutes early, I was then one minute early, and then instead of being one minute early,
I was basically exactly on time. So that kind of worked out.
Hello everyone, welcome to the WAN Show. You might notice that today I am acting as Linus.
I'm pretty bad at acting as Linus, so I'm just gonna revert exactly back to acting as Luke. He's over there
building a thing. Can they know about the thing?
Ah, what the hell, sure. Okay, so he's building a Linus Tech Tips themed computer.
Oh, that's not what I'm doing today.
This is Seven Gamers One CPU.
Oh, it super looks like it's Linus Tech Tips themed.
Yeah, it kind of did that too.
Okay, so he's building a kind of not really the point of the video, but also slightly Linus Tech Tips themed computer,
which is Seven Gamers One CPU. They can know that? And can they know where it's being shown off at?
Sure, yeah. They're WAN Show viewers. They're the loyal ones.
Where is it? Where is it being shown off?
It's gonna be at Kingston's, at CES.
Okay, it's gonna be shown off at CES at Kingston's like booth or thing or whatever it is that they have.
We'll be there. We'll be covering that. Be sure to check out
YouTube.com slash Linus Tech Tips for all of our CES coverage. There's gonna be tons of it.
I think it's like over 60 videos this year that we're planning to do, so
yeah, and if some of the rumors turn out to be true, some cool things could be happening. I think Asus and
and
is it Gigabyte? I'm gonna have to check into my dock here real quick, but they might both be jumping into the headset space.
I don't know if they're gonna have, yeah, Asus and Gigamite, Giga, Gigamite.
Ha! Asus and Gigabyte might both be launching VR devices in 2016. This is a rumor topic.
I'm gonna drop that in the chat. No, I'm not. We're gonna intro the video, which I totally forgot to do.
Welcome to the WAN Show. I think I already said that part. We have some cool topics. Apple is kind of, I don't know,
possibly being dicks and they're being sued for it. Lawsuit, whatever. China is being really weird and creepy and weird and it's probably not fine.
Valve is
losing grace a little bit, especially with TotalBiscuit, and TP-Link is apparently going to be making phones because I
actually have no idea why. Anyways, intro!
And we're back! Yeah, it's just me today. So, that's cool. I was trying to emulate the guy from Fallout 4 there, but I don't think I did a very good job.
Anyways, I'm gonna share this topic in the doc. We're gonna talk about Apple being hit with a lawsuit over iOS 9's performance on older phones.
I think particularly the iPhone 4 because of how bad it performs with iOS 9.
That's literally what the topic is about.
Really?
Yeah.
This topic might have a problem.
My 4 doesn't get the update.
The title of the topic is Apple hit with lawsuit over iOS 9's performance on older iPhones.
And then the third note is after upgrading software, iPhone 4's have apparently become so slow they are unusable for day-to-day conditions.
We're gonna pretend that topic didn't happen moving forward. A new law forces Chinese companies to provide encryption keys.
So I'm gonna post that in the chat really quick. We're gonna just pretend for now that I guess Apple isn't having a lawsuit being shot against them.
I guess that's fine. I'm gonna show you guys the article, but it's really boring because it's literally just text, so we're gonna jump back here.
Basically, as far as I can tell, you don't have to submit all of your passwords and encryption keys all the time.
It's just if they ever ask for them, you have to immediately give them over.
Encryption keys, passwords, whatever.
It's part of a new legislature. Apparently, Kazakhstan is the only other nation that has done this.
And they're claiming that the only other nation that has compromised encryption of citizens' data for the sake of the state.
I think some people would argue that that is happening elsewhere as well, but, you know, I don't know.
They're claiming that, oh no no no, we're not installing any back doors.
But, in my opinion, it's not any better to forcibly take the key for the front door.
So, I don't know.
For those of you in chat wondering where Linus is, he's literally right there.
But he's a little bit too busy to be on WAN Show.
I'm going to reiterate what I talked about earlier. He's building a computer that is for seven people to play on one computer.
You guys might have seen a video that, wow, I'm really used to pointing in the top right hand corner whenever I reference videos.
But you guys might have seen a video where he built one computer for two people.
He's scaling that up a bit. I'm not going to tell you all the hardware exactly included.
I actually only know probably one type of the components of the hardware that's included, but that's fine.
It's pretty cool. It's orange and black. It looks LTT themed, but that's not really the point.
He just really likes those colors.
And it's going to be shown off at the Kingston HyperX area at CES where we're going to be covering a huge amount of videos.
Over 60, I think is what Nick said in the meeting I just had with him.
And I think it's like over 60 minimum.
So, we'll see how that goes.
Anyways, back to China.
They're required to hand over encryption keys and passwords when requested by the government.
So, like I said, it's not like a constant thing.
Anytime you set an encryption key, you don't have to constantly hand it over, but it's not like that's really any better.
They're claiming that it won't damage people's freedom of speech or religion.
But it's China, so I don't really want to get into politics.
I think that's all I'm going to say about that.
Government also says that it won't violate anyone's intellectual property rights.
And it's going to be coming into effect January 1st.
So, you have...
Is it January 1st in China already?
Yeah, so good luck with that if you're in China.
I think that's already applied.
So, GG.
Although, if you're in China and you're able to watch this stream.
Yeah, that's pretty good I guess.
TotalBiscuit apparently tears Valve a new one and I watched the video.
And he definitely does.
And to be completely honest, they kind of deserve it.
I'm going to post the Linus Tech Tips topic for this, if the forum is even up right now.
Oh, it's a little slow, but it's working.
Oh, that's good enough.
I'm going to post that in the chat.
Basically, what he talks about isn't necessarily...
He says that it's bad that it happened.
But the main thing that he's saying is that it's bad how they responded to it.
They didn't tell people very quickly.
They didn't even respond to it, I think, until after TotalBiscuit's video.
And a lot of people are speculating that that's the reason why they responded to it.
Because that was a huge PR nightmare for them.
Anyways, on December 15th, Steam found that the network had malfunctioned.
That's a weird way of saying that their caching started having issues.
They used an external service, an external company, to manage their caching.
It lasted for about an hour before Valve had to shut down Steam to fix it.
Valve didn't release a statement until December 30th, so that happened five days later.
Seems like a fairly excessive amount of time.
It was a configuration error.
There was, I think, 2,000 times the average traffic on the store than there normally is, largely due to the sale.
And also because of a DOS attack that hit them.
So they tried to set up a different caching configuration to help manage that.
And that actually helped a little bit, but not enough.
So they applied another one, a second caching configuration.
That one had problems.
And basically 34,000 users were affected.
If you didn't log in at that point in time, if you didn't go to the store at that point in time, you're fine.
It wasn't you.
The contents that were on those pages varied quite heavily.
But it was some personal information, which is not great.
Billing addresses, last four digits of phone numbers, purchase histories, last two digits of credit card numbers, full names, all of that kind of stuff.
Valve was working with, like I said, a web caching partner to help mitigate stuff.
And they're working with that same partner to try to identify the individual victims of this problem.
One of the things was, as well, that it wasn't like someone found a day zero way to get through a problem.
It was anyone that was using the store.
If you navigated to another page, you might just randomly get dumped on another user's session.
That being said, everything was in more or less a read-only mode.
Because if you tried to change anything, it would realize that you weren't in the right session and then nothing would happen.
So there were some people online claiming that they were white knighting and deleting people's customer information to help protect them.
No.
There's absolutely no evidence of that happening, and it doesn't actually make any logical sense that it could have happened.
So, no, that wasn't a thing.
What TotalBiscuit was trumpeting here was that it's a giant problem, people being able to see other people's information, because of stuff like swatting that has happened lately.
And if this information got dumped into a big website or something, and someone pissed you off online, and you looked up their name,
and you happened to be able to get all of their information, like their address, their full billing address, which is probably where they live,
you would be able to swatch them, which is very true.
It hurts me to talk about this, because we had our security breach not even that long ago?
Four months ago? Five months ago? Really bad with timeframes.
Maybe less than that? Three months ago? Two months ago? I don't know. Whatever.
We had a security breach. It was not good.
But, in our defence, I think we responded quite quickly and quite heavily.
We sent a PM to every single user on the forum. We tried to send an email to every single user on the forum,
but randomly, surprisingly, sending out that many emails kind of got us detected by a few spam services, so they didn't necessarily hit everybody, unfortunately.
And we put big red banners all over the place telling people that bad things were going on.
Yeah, Valve's response was less than satisfactory.
They responded to, I think, Kotaku or someone, GameSpot or something, a while afterwards, and didn't address any of the individual users.
And then finally, I'm going to post this in the chat, they posted a statement as an all-games news update,
which, when they're interesting, I find these things on Reddit or the forum.
And outside of that, basically never see them, because I don't know why I would go there.
So they posted this. It's called Update on Christmas Issues.
And this is where they talk about everything that happened, how it happened, yada, yada, yada.
It's just bad form.
And one thing that TotalBiscuit talks about as well is that Steam and Valve kind of have more or less of a cult following,
considering we've talked about making a bronze statue of Gaben.
I think I would have to agree that that is true.
A lot of our Christmas songs were directly to Gaben, because we replaced deity's names with Gaben.
So I don't know, might have some truth there.
And he's saying that they might be falling out of grace lately with a few things that they've done.
And yeah, I don't know, having literally one of the world's worst customer support systems for a company of this size
and doing things like this is not helping them.
It's Gabe Newell for the two people in chat that are legitimately confused and the 18 people in chat that are trolls.
Yeah, anyways, moving onwards.
TP-Link is apparently making a smartphone next year under the Nefos line of branding.
Why are they going to do this? Personally, I don't really know.
But I'll tell you why they think they're going to do this in a moment.
There's the article right there.
So TP-Link claims that they hold 42.9% market share on Wi-Fi products.
That doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be good at making smartphones.
That's not part of their notes, but that's just something I wanted to say.
They're saying that their brand will offer a user-friendly design that is smart and simple.
I guess they didn't really look into the Firefox OS line of phones,
or else they'd realize that one, isn't a new angle, and two, I don't know if anyone's asking for that
because Samsung child mode is actually surprisingly good.
If you want an ultra-spun-down phone, you can just try that, I guess.
Yeah, I honestly don't understand why they think this is a good idea.
Not only is the smartphone market right now super, super saturated,
but if you've watched anyone that's reviewed smartphones lately,
and I think Linus has even said this himself,
there isn't a lot of differentiation between them.
Everyone's just like, well, this is a new version of Android that will get outdated as you use your phone
because updates for Android are terrible.
It has X processor and Y whatever, just like the same as everybody else does, and that's about it.
Hooray.
So what are you going to do, make a not-as-good smartphone?
Is that what simple and easy to use actually means, smart and simple?
Is that a not-as-good smartphone?
I don't know if anyone's asking for that.
I don't know.
I'm doing my own show today. It's kind of fun being an outsider.
Reading this article, I actually had to do fact-checking to make sure that it was real
and someone wasn't just trying to make a hype train thing because CES is coming soon,
and they're like, let's just make all the rumor announcements we can to get all the traffic that we can.
But no, it seems to be real, which is weird.
Yeah.
They haven't commented on whether or not they'll be targeting budget or mid-segment or high-segment smartphones.
I'm going to assume it's going to be budget or mid-segment smartphones because of the smart and simple side of things.
I love that they're saying that they're going to be making smart smartphones.
That's kind of funny.
President of TP-Link, Jeff Chow, says that the intention of NEPHOS is establishing a seamless connection between people and devices.
So basically, TP-Link, Jeff Chow, the president, said literally nothing.
So that was really helpful, Jeff. Thank you for saying that.
New York is finally installing its promised public Wi-Fi.
Apparently they announced this in 2014, so I don't know if the finally is necessarily really needed there
because it's going to be two years in a few hours if you live where I live,
and that's not that bad for establishing massive Wi-Fi across an entire massive city like New York.
Apparently they're going to be – oh, did I share this? I think I shared this.
I'm going to try to share this. I did not share this.
I will share the thingy in the chat thingy in a second thingy.
It's from The Verge, so that's cool, I guess, if you like The Verge. The Verge is pretty cool.
I should have had a mouse for this, but I didn't. That's probably fine.
So they have to establish 7,500 hubs throughout the city.
On December 28th, workers began installing the first Link NYC access points.
The idea here is replacing telephone booths with these things.
They have giant ad screens on the side. What side? Like 55-inch ad screens.
That note has apparently been taken out of the dock. It was here at one point in time.
I don't know why. There it is. Never mind. I'm lying. Sorry, Colton.
The hubs will include USB charging ports, touchscreen web browsing, which how long is that going to work for, and two 55-inch ad displays.
The city is estimating that they will make $500 million in revenue over the next 12 years.
That's pretty significant, although I'm sure it will cost a fair amount to get gigabit Wi-Fi, which is what they're claiming, basically all over the place.
There's been some controversy. This part was taken out of the dock, but I requested for part of it to be taken out.
So I understand why it happened. There's been some controversy that smaller bourbon areas are not getting the reported speeds that they were promised.
That sucks. I'm sorry while you pat your tears with your free public Wi-Fi that it's not quite as fast as they promised.
I would definitely complain if I lived in New York, but I don't really feel that bad for you when I live out here.
And that's never going to be a thing. Anyways, I think it's pretty cool. I'm happy that they found a way to profit off of it.
Because if I was someone who lived in that city, I wouldn't want this to just necessarily be a giant financial burden on the city.
And having two 55-inch advertisement displays, while you might not like advertisements in your city, you live in New York, they're probably everywhere anyways.
So I don't really think it's that big of a deal. Google is trying to ditch passwords. This is kind of super weird and also interesting.
I'm going to post that in the chat for a second and maybe actually show this one up on the screen.
Although keeping a trend going might not be a bad idea. So I could just have you guys stare at my face while I look at the screen down below me this whole time.
It sounds like a great idea. Basically, what they're planning on doing is using your smartphone as your login device.
A lot of people are using the Google Authenticator already. But what this will do is make it so that, say you want to log into your email on a laptop.
You would type in your email, attempt to log in, then it would push a notification to your phone.
You would pull that notification down, press the yes button, possibly select a number, and then it would log you in on the desktop.
Actually kind of interesting. No need for passwords anymore. The idea is actually removing passwords, and then your password would more be a fallback.
So if, say, someone stole your phone, you could use your password to remove your phone as a login device, which is actually kind of interesting.
There isn't a ton of information out right now as to how it works, exactly what it's doing, any of that kind of stuff.
I'm going to try to find, did you not put it in here? Oh, I think you did. Awesome. Yay, Colton. Thank you, Colton.
So once this loads, okay, so this is what you would see. So you see your Google sign-in page.
I don't know why he put his email in here where it's easy to see for everyone. This is not Colton's email.
But anyways, that's fine. So you go to log in, but as you can see, there's no password field. You just click next.
It tells you to check your phone, tap yes, and then tap 21 on your phone to log in.
So I'm assuming it will have a yes button, which you press in your notification tray.
And then I'm assuming that it will give you a grid of numbers, and you then select the correct one, and it lets you log in on your desktop.
This is the trying to sign in notification that you would see on your phone.
Here's the yes button for signing in on another computer. Oh, there we go.
I hadn't actually seen these before. He showed me these like right before I went live.
So what number do you see on your screen? It's asked for 21, so you press 21, and then boom, you're logged in.
I actually think it's pretty neat. Right now, I'm just using crazy ridiculous passwords for all my things that I can't remember anyways,
and I have a password manager remember them. So this seems fine, actually, for me.
I like the idea of having that fallback password that they were talking about where you can quickly remove the ability to do this
from whatever phone you may or may not have lost, because that is extremely important.
Having something set up so that you can remove the easy to log in things that are out there that should be secured
because they should be on your person all the time is a very good idea.
The only thing that worries me here is if you're, say, in a foreign country and you lose your phone while you're out and about somewhere
and you can't get back to a computer very quickly and someone's able to steal all your stuff quickly, that kind of sucks.
But at the same time, you should have security on your phone in some degree, whether that's a passcode or a fingerprint or whatever,
preferably a fingerprint. Those have been pretty badass lately.
This is a little bit of a controversial topic, so I'm going to have to two-step this one and make sure that I don't do it horribly
so that literally everyone in Twitch chat tries to stab me or doesn't try to stab me, so give me a moment.
Dumped that in chat. I'm now going to give you guys the controversial title.
To handle VR graphics, gaming PCs have to be seven times more powerful.
Okay, that's not a controversial title at all. Let me jump back here and read the controversial title that's in the top, the doc.
NVIDIA says GameWorks VR will help adoption. Aspects 25 million PC gamers to adopt VR.
And jumping back to the article. Okay, so NVIDIA GameWorks VR does have some really cool technologies in it,
but as everyone in the tech space has probably known for a long time now,
NVIDIA GameWorks is not the easiest thing for AMD to work with ever.
There's arguments that go on both sides. There is people looking at Tomb Raider and showing TressFX, which was open,
and NVIDIA's performance being a little bit lower, and then they are able to patch up and fix it.
And then they're showing GameWorks titles where AMD was doing fine compared to NVIDIA,
but then GameWorks gets added last minute and then AMD doesn't do as well. Blah, blah, blah.
I think it's a little bit strong-fisted to say that GameWorks VR will help overall adoption.
I like some ideas behind it, like being able to make VR games more efficient and run better and all this kind of stuff.
Those are good ideas. But if you're trying to help overall adoption and closing off performance windows
to part of the potential audience, that might not end up helping adoption.
I don't know why Taran is standing behind me. You can just join me, Taran.
What are you doing?
This is Wan Show.
Yeah.
Is this live?
Yeah. But it's not Friday. Wait.
This is like, no, because tomorrow's New Year's. Are you coming into work tomorrow, Taran?
Yes.
Are you?
Yes.
You are too?
Yes. All three of us.
Why didn't we just do the Wan Show tomorrow if you're ever going to be here?
Because I'm going to be doing this.
All day?
I have another one.
Wait, you're not what?
Oh, wow.
What do you mean you have another one? You mean your personal build rig?
There's two builds.
I thought that was the last build. Do I have to edit both of them?
Oh, yeah. I'm working on it.
Oh, no. I've been editing all day, every day, forever.
Is this your, like, you need to walk around break because you're going crazy?
Yes.
Okay. You can just take that. I can be yours now.
I don't want this.
Oh, but you're putting it on you.
Well, that's the hell I'm the sheriff.
So, what are we talking about here, Luke?
We're talking about GamesWorks VR and VR market adoption and how NVIDIA thinks that their platform will help overall adoption.
Up to 25 million users. They don't actually give a date at to which time there will be 25 million VR users.
So, that could be 2050 for all we know.
What's their VR? Have we seen it yet? Is that the Oculus?
NVIDIA are the guys that make the graphics cards.
Oh, well, okay, okay, okay. But they don't have their own?
No.
Okay. I was like, whoa, is there something I haven't heard of?
Okay. So, GameWorks VR is like a software platform that can help developers of games for VR to make their games run better on basically NVIDIA cards.
And part of it is like VR SLI, which is being able to run two graphics cards and have one of them render for one eye and one of them render for the other eye.
Oh, now that makes a lot of sense.
Yeah.
Because 3D can be pretty brutal.
I'm super down with VR SLI. The whole GameWorks VR thing does sketch me out because I want VR to work more than I want the fact that my computer has NVIDIA graphics cards to run it slightly better.
Right.
So, I don't know. I also don't like it when people are like, there will be this many users of this platform. We will help it get to that.
And it's like, okay, by when exactly? I was at a conference, VRX, not that long ago. Some people saw my stupid vlog thing about that.
I saw it.
Thank you, Taran. And there was quite a few interesting speakers. One of them went up on stage and fully admitted that he basically knew nothing about VR, which was a really interesting way to start your talk.
But then after that, talked about how he was a financial analyst and has done a lot of stuff behind smartphones and 3D TVs and all of these other different kind of things, which he also doesn't really know a lot about, but knows a lot about how much people are going to invest into it, how long it's going to take for people to adopt these emerging technologies, barrier to entry, all this different kind of stuff.
And he gave a whole bunch of different stats and ideas and possibilities as to the trending growth of VR. And it was interesting coming from the PC space hearing everyone talk about the Oculus Rift and hearing him go, that doesn't matter as much in terms of overall market adoption because stuff like the Gear VR is going to be given away for free like crazy and then more people will be using that.
Wait, Gear VR is being given away for free? What is that?
He speculated that and then yes, that is starting to happen.
Why is it being given away for free?
When people buy a phone, they're getting the Gear VR with it, which is exactly what he said would happen. Smart dude.
Interesting.
Didn't know anything about VR, but smart dude.
Here's a question from Luke. Can VR be used for anything other than gaming?
Yeah, for sure.
What kinds of things would it be most useful for?
There's already been people speculating on VR movies. Have you read Dune?
I have not read Dune. I should read Dune.
Okay, well I'm not going to spoil anything in Dune. If you've seen the front cover, you know this much.
There's sand.
A lot of it has to do with sand.
And they made a movie. Did you like the movie?
I thought it was okay.
Most people didn't like the movie.
Oh yeah? Because they've read the book?
I don't know, I'm not sure. I haven't seen the movie. I've only read the book.
Okay, well one thing that I've thought of is when a lot of people are saying porn.
Oh yeah, okay. That makes sense.
Yep, the porn industry is super behind this. They're already making devices to make it more fun.
They're behind it. They're on top of it.
They're all over it.
They're between two of them.
They're spraying over it.
Linus, why don't you just join the Wan Show if you're going to have some comments from over there.
He's working on other things.
Anyways, yeah, so that's one of them. I think Dune would make a better VR movie than it would make a normal movie.
Oh yeah.
Because a big problem that I see with Dune is that the landscape is probably going to be super boring. It's just lots of sand.
Lots of Dunes.
And it's lots of sand and people wearing full suits that cover themselves. So you can't really see them.
And that sounds super boring, but if you put someone in one of those suits so it feels slightly claustrophobic,
and they're actually surrounded in every way that they look by sand, they might understand the helplessness idea of it and all that kind of stuff.
But of course you can't really walk around unless you're on a 360 degree treadmill.
Or something else that they might potentially invent in the future.
But yeah, right now like an Omni or something.
Yeah, but we'll see. But VR movies is one of them.
There's exploration experiences. So golf courses are already trying to do this.
Oh boy, golf course.
So you can walk the golf course.
In 3D.
What I'm more interested in is, this is going to sound a little bit grim, but like deathbed bucket list experiences.
So if you're like, on your way out, and you're like, I still got some things on my bucket list.
I want to skydive, I want to view the pyramids, I want to see the coliseum.
There can be like VR setups.
Let's say you want to skydive, they set like a fan up above you and put you in a VR setup.
You know, Sword Art Online touched on a lot of that.
Yeah, a big thing with Sword Art Online is that would be way ahead of where we are now.
It's tapping into neural stuff.
Which is super not happening right now.
I wouldn't be surprised if it did.
I would be.
You'd be surprised if it did?
Oh yeah, that kind of VR I don't think is possible.
Not that level.
But I wouldn't be surprised, because they're already trying to do this to a certain degree.
I wouldn't be surprised if they had muscle impulses be transmitted into a computer.
Oh yeah.
But I don't think it'll take it over.
And also you could definitely have the computer sending signals to you to simulate feeling.
Yeah, I can totally believe that.
And that'll be super cool.
Yeah, that'll be cool.
And probably abused horribly, horribly, horribly.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
VR porn!
A lot of it comes back to VR porn.
Well, you know porn has been the front runner for like VHS and that's the only one that I know of.
Camera gear?
Yeah, sure.
That sounds correct.
I totally believe it.
It's like low, not insanely high level camera gear.
Yeah.
Like a kit that honestly we would buy.
Probably often driven by the porn industry.
Outside of that there's like social stuff.
People are already doing social movie viewing.
So they set up like a virtual movie theater and you get a seat.
Oh yeah, okay.
And like everyone sits in the same.
Or you can like watch a movie on the moon with some friends.
Like a big projector that goes off the moon and you're sitting on the moon.
The idea of meet ups.
So you have like family gatherings in VR.
Where you get like a 3D scanner to scan in your body.
Better than a webcam basically.
I can do that.
Yeah.
That's cool.
Yeah.
That's cool.
I don't know.
Some people are saying the internet, there is going to be VR browsers.
I don't know how good it's going to be.
I know other people have talked about the idea of not having like a huge crazy multi-screen setup.
Yeah.
Like a VR headset.
Right.
Well as long as the resolution is good enough.
Yes.
Which it's not right now.
Not right now.
Maybe eventually, right?
I don't know.
Anyways, I'm going to move on from this topic.
VR Troopers!
VR Troopers?
That was a show.
You've never heard of VR Troopers?
No, I've never heard of VR Troopers.
What's VR Troopers?
It's kind of like a Power Rangers knock off.
Oh.
I probably prefer Power Rangers.
Oh, I definitely prefer Power Rangers.
It was just on after sometimes.
Talking about preferring things, Ashley Madison has added four million new members since the
hack that exposed the user's identities.
Cool.
So apparently people don't care, for one.
And two, probably were never really using fully true identities.
Hello sir.
Okay, I do have something to add to this one.
Are you on Ashley Madison?
I am on Ashley Madison.
So, I've been on Ashley Madison since shortly after the hack when we talked about Ashley
Madison and how I'm not on it.
Me too.
Because Ashley Madison does not require email validation to create a free account.
So the fact that they have four million new members means nothing.
Oh, I thought everybody requires email validation these days.
Not these guys.
Not these guys.
Which is probably part of their marketing campaign because this has probably increased
people's confidence in the company.
So they probably told people that they have four million new members, not just a random
statistic.
They were like, hey, hey, we have four million new members.
Hey.
And then they posted a news article about it.
Interesting.
You know, I heard about this other dating website where it's only for like really attractive
people and they force you to always put new pictures up like every month or so.
And they got rid of, they like blocked a whole bunch of users off the website.
Because they're too ugly?
No, because they got fat over the holidays.
This was like a couple of years ago and then there was an outpour, there was a flood of
new people coming in who heard about this, right?
So similar situation to Ashley Madison, right?
Because they're like, oh, I want to be on this site that bans ugly people.
That's horrible.
Do you know what it is?
No, I don't remember at all.
That's hilarious.
I don't really care to be completely honest.
I just thought that was really funny.
That is funny.
Oh my goodness.
Beautiful people only.
So Taren, did they let you on the site?
I would have.
I would have too.
But that's probably why you're not allowed on the site.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm the sheriff.
I'm the sheriff.
What else should we talk about here?
You are the sheriff, Taren.
Rise of the Tomb Raider has a tentative PC release date.
LDLC.com reports 29th of the first month of 2016.
So like in basically a month.
Amazon France reported the same thing, although it's not technically confirmed.
Square Enix did say that the game would launch early 2016.
So hopefully it is coming.
Which game?
Tomb Raider.
Rise of the Tomb Raider.
Rise of the Tomb Raider.
How many Tomb Raiders games are there now?
Recently just two.
Nice.
But over the whole course of everything, tons of them.
Do you remember Traffic Cone boob?
Did you hear that story?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Is that technically complete?
Like are we sure that's true?
Wait.
Oh yeah.
Wait, wait.
I don't think I've heard the whole thing.
I know that the very first Tomb Raider like there was such low polygons.
What I've heard, I don't know if this is true.
I don't know if it's been confirmed.
Twitch chat can probably tell me if it's true or not.
But what I've heard is that there was investors coming into the studio for the first Tomb Raider game that they were trying to make.
And one of the designers was trying to touch up the, what's her name?
The Tomb Raider chick.
Lara Croft.
Lara Croft was trying to touch up her design and accidentally like deleted her boobs or something on accident.
So it was like, ah!
And tried to fix it and put in Traffic Cones.
And then the texture just wrapped over them, right?
So like it was kind of fine.
And he like admitted the mistake while they were there.
But he's like, this is just a representation or whatever.
And then they were like, actually we like it.
Keep it.
So, I don't know.
That sounds like a myth.
It does.
That's why I'm like, ugh.
When I first heard that they just reused the Traffic Cone one, I was like, oh okay, that might be a thing.
Because that actually happens a lot in older games.
Look at Mario.
The bush and the cloud is the same actual thing.
They just recolor it.
So I was like, okay that might make sense for memory reasons or whatever.
When I heard like the investors coming to the office thing, I was like, this sounds pretty hoaxy to me.
I don't know.
No one's like really saying.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Eh.
People are posting little emoticons that look like boobs.
That's kind of fun.
That's fine.
I'm going to do sponsor spots.
They should just texture them like Traffic Cones?
No, no.
They need to be posting Traffic Cones.
You've got to get a Traffic Cone picture in there.
That's true.
Now.
That's, yeah.
That's very true.
Anyways, Squarespace.
They're simple, powerful, and I think that they're beautiful.
I don't know.
That's an opinion.
I think they would make it on that website.
Oh yeah.
But I'm not really sure.
24-7 live chat support and email.
It's only 8 bucks a month.
You get a domain for free if you sign up for an entire year.
It has responsive design, so if you look at it on a laptop or a desktop or that desktop
or your phone, it'll look fine.
It has a commerce module that every website comes with, which is like an online store,
so you can sell stuff like little Stormtrooper lights that go on your keys.
Pretty cool.
You can spread the feet and glow in different directions.
Anyways, this is a gift from my girlfriend.
It's very nice.
There's a cover page module just in case for some reason you only want to have one page
on your website.
It's a resume or something like that.
Everything's fine.
You can start a trial with no credit card required and start building your website today.
When you sign up for Squarespace, make sure that you use offer code Linus and you'll get
10% off of your first purchase.
If you sign up for a year, get a free domain and get 10% off.
That's pretty cool.
Squarespace!
Build it beautiful.
Beautiful.
That's the part that I know.
I gotta go.
I gotta finish editing.
I wanted to do like the surprise thing.
Bye.
Bye, Taran.
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.
I didn't put the thing up.
Ah, there we go.
Sorry, Nick.
I didn't put the lower third on.
Does that mean I need to redo it?
Okay, so the lower third is down here.
That's where the off code is.
I had to like home my fingers in.
I went too far one way, then too far the other way, but it's there.
Now I'm gonna switch to FreshBooks and the lower, oh.
I don't think that's how that's supposed to work.
You got this, bro.
I didn't set this part up.
I don't know what to do.
I'm gonna put this here.
So, there we go.
FreshBooks!
FreshBooks is the easy to use invoicing software that helps small businesses look professional
and get paid faster.
You can even do things like receive deposits so you can get a little bit of the money for
your work before you go do your work so you know that they're actually gonna want you
to do it and they'll actually show up for their side of the appointment and stuff like
that.
It's actually really helpful, especially if you're a small business.
It's completely free for 30 days if you go to freshbooks.com slash wan, as you can see
in this awkwardly placed box that happens to be right there.
It does a lot of stuff.
It can track the amount of hours that you do, at what job, when, where, all that kind
of stuff so you don't have to worry about any of that kind of stuff.
If you have purchases that need to be made, you just take a picture of the receipt and
they can log that for you so that it's easy to expense later on.
It has a timesheet function.
You can manage your expenses overall in terms of whatever you need to manage.
It can even tell you if your clients have looked at the invoice that you have served
them, which is nice because if they're like, you never sent me that, you can be like, look
dude, I did.
You even looked at it, man.
Come on.
Are we friends?
You can do that, which is helpful.
If you have any questions, you can feel free to reach out to their support staff where
you'll speak to real human, which is cool.
No phone tree, no escalations, no return calls, just answers, which is actually kind of nice.
So like I said, go to freshbooks.com slash wan and enter wan in the how did you hear
about a section.
And they also just got a mobile card reader or mobile.
They also got a mobile card reader.
There we go.
I think you plug it into your phone, scan cards or something.
There's a 3% charge on it and I think it costs 20 bucks.
But the 3% charge includes the already there credit card charge.
So it's like half a percent or a percent or something.
Yeah, it's not bad.
There's a lot of credit card readers that are worse.
So there you go.
And it's kind of cool to be able to be like, here's my phone that has a thing and you can
swipe it and then everything's fine.
It's nice.
You can take charges while you're there.
So you have to wait like 30 million years to get someone to pay you.
If I sound salty, it's because I've been in that situation.
Anyways, jumping back to the normal part of the show.
What?
Not from you.
Actually, you've been pretty good.
I meant when I was doing like odd jobs for people.
I told you I used to do like IT work for random like offices and stuff.
Yeah, that would sometimes take forever.
They would always conveniently forget or conveniently not see it.
So yeah, I would have probably legitimately used FreshBooks back in the day.
Anyways, let's see what more topics we have.
I'm going to do a straw poll thing actually real quick.
I want to see what you guys are – I don't know what is happening in that room.
Okay, I'm asking you guys what did you guys just do?
What did they do?
Why are they freaking out?
What did they do?
What?
What's the most thing?
Oh my God.
Oh, cheap upcoming super fun.
You can kind of – I think you can kind of tease the prank
because we'll introduce it right at the beginning of the video, right?
Hey, Berkel.
Can you get Berkel to come on here?
What has –
What are you excited about at CES?
Wow, I can't straw poll this.
I'm going to Twitter blitz this.
Why was I going to straw poll this?
That was a horrible idea.
You can't input your own opinions at all.
Twitter.com.
So what I'm going to ask you on the Twitter blitz,
which we're I think going to use mine because I don't have Linus' login.
Do you want to talk about what you just did on the web show or no?
Oh, sure.
Okay, cool.
Well, should I?
Yeah.
It's up to you.
I don't know if that's a – so maybe don't like explain the whole thing.
I don't know.
Okay.
Well, I'll explain it.
I'll explain it very briefly.
So here, long story short, I've been periodically pranking Taran for one year.
Basically since CES last year.
And the video I'm trying to do for today wasn't working so I'm like, you know what?
I did not know about this.
There is no way that I would have approved you to do something like this.
Yeah, you did.
You definitely did.
I told you about it and you're always asking me, hey, how's that thing with Taran going?
So I guess that's today.
I guess that's going to be coming up on Superfund because I didn't actually plan on doing it
yet.
But we just went through the windows.
We went through a certain prank that didn't actually work because Taran's too logical.
He did too logical of a thing when he experienced it.
What prank was that?
You'll have to find out.
Oh.
No, the one that he experienced that wasn't good.
Is that coming out?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
But that's it.
It's just a prank, dude.
Calm down.
Oh my god.
It's just a prank, dude.
I just stepped on your shoes.
I hate those ones.
It's funny, it's a prank.
Oh my god.
And sometimes they stomp on their foot.
Luke, I just poured water on your laptop.
It's a prank, though, dude.
Don't get mad.
It's a prank.
Okay, bye.
Bye, Wandshell.
Makes me so sad.
Okay, so you guys actually do have to tweet Linus.
I figured out how to make that work.
So, at Linus Tech on Twitter.
And hit him up with what you're excited for us to cover at CES or what you're excited
to be at CES in general at all.
If you don't really care if we cover or not.
But you probably, like, that would be nice if you cared.
I'm going to cover where I normally sit up.
There we go.
Okay, so hit me up on Twitter there for a while.
And then I'm going to go talk about something else for a little bit, if there is even any
more topics.
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo.
Apparently, CSGO is the best selling game on Steam in 2015.
It beat out GTA 5 and it beat out Fallout 4.
I'm not super surprised that it beat out Fallout 4, considering Fallout 4 was only out for,
two months, or something?
So, I don't know, I don't think that's that surprised.
Also, I'm gonna speculate here,
I don't know if everyone's been speculating
about this or not, but I'm gonna speculate here
that a lot of that was not necessarily purchases
that they, well, it's money,
so they're probably happy about it,
but not necessarily purchases that you want.
I played CSGO for quite a bit
in the first, I'd say, half of this year,
and every single time that there was a sale,
everyone that I knew that played actively
would lessen the amount that they played,
because the amount of people that hacked
would just absolutely skyrocket.
The amount of new, like, basically brand new accounts
that would just randomly have CSGO
and randomly be destroying in games
in completely ridiculous ways
that would show up right around sales
and then would disappear within maybe two weeks
was insane and would still count into their sales records.
So, yeah.
Also, I think this is best-selling as in amount of sales,
not best-selling as in, yeah, it's owners,
so it's amount of sales, not revenue from the sales,
so when you just kill the cost of a really popular game,
people are probably gonna buy it.
Yeah, I don't know.
So it went, first place was Counter-Strike Global Offensive,
then it was Grand Theft Auto 5, then Fallout 4,
then Ark Survival Evolved, Rocket League,
Garry's Mod, Left 4 Dead 2,
Elder Scrolls V Skyrim, Terraria,
and then Witcher 3, The Wild Hunt in number 10.
It goes down to 25.
Yeah, I don't think I'm that surprised,
but I don't know.
I think a lot of it's not necessarily
the most genuine of sales.
Let's see what you guys are excited for.
Joakim Johansen, I hope I'm saying that right.
Can you guys see this?
Yeah, that's kinda not small enough.
Let me get a better view for you guys.
Sorry, one second.
Whistling.
Screen capture.
I'm just gonna do like two blocks.
One, there we go, I think that's better.
So Joakim Johansen, hopefully I'm saying that correctly,
says, I would love to see some home automation stuff.
I would too, if it's like actually new and good.
I've seen a lot of home automation stuff at these shows,
which is really not that impressive,
and kinda generally crap.
So hopefully there's better ones.
Not that long ago on Kickstarter,
I saw one that I think was called the Gecko Switch,
and the idea was that you would take out a current switch
that was in your home, put the home base
of that switch's Gecko Switch there,
and then basically a wall sticker switch somewhere else,
and then that would essentially move where the switch is.
That's actually kinda cool,
because then you can have like a bank of switches
somewhere that you can basically move them around,
because the amount of times that you have to cover
a switch up with something, or a switch happens
to be in a completely illogical location, I don't know.
Drives me absolutely nuts,
so that's kind of a cool solution for that.
iPhone soccer again,
I don't think that's going to be happening.
We're not sponsored by the best damn screen protectors
out there this year.
We're sponsored by Squarespace, build it beautiful!
So, maybe we'll have a super fun
about kicking websites around.
I doubt it.
Okay, looking forward to more VR shenanigans,
readily available to the public.
Yeah, that'll be cool.
I don't think CES is going to be largely,
like maybe at CES companies will be announcing
their finalized dates of when you're going to be able
to get them, or maybe they're going to be announcing
the ability to pre-order them or something,
but I don't think there's going to be any,
obviously like full-on releases there.
HTC Vive breakthrough announcement,
we will see, hopefully that's good.
Some new displays would be nice too.
Displays are a fairly common thing.
Oh wow, this is not working perfectly,
so it needs to be there.
So Jimi, Jimi Leander, Jimi, Jimi, Jimi, Jimi Linder,
Jimi Linder, going to go with that.
Says some new displays would be nice too.
That's actually fairly common.
I think last year we had HP and LG talking about displays.
Monitors and TVs are always definitely a thing at CES.
So if there aren't monitors being a big thing,
there will be TVs at the very least.
The amount of 8K TVs this year is probably
going to be annoyingly insane.
Also excited for Linus Drop Tips 2016.
Any comment on that?
I don't drop anything on purpose.
Which is why it's even more of a thing.
That's why people like it.
All right, so no real comment on that
other than that he doesn't do it on purpose.
Moving down.
People are excited for VR, that's good,
because I'm already planning a few videos on that,
hopefully, so hopefully you like it and share it
and watch it and do all that kind of fun stuff
so that I can keep doing videos on VR.
More Linus dropping things, wow.
Ruthless.
So to see some new PC cases.
I think there's at least a few companies
that I'm going to see that have PC cases.
And if that's true for me,
there's probably some with Linus as well.
So if you're excited for PC cases,
that's probably going to be fine.
We're probably not going to be playing soccer again.
So unfortunately, probably not.
Linus's new top dog monitor.
Linus's new best monitor yet, maybe.
Have you felt tremors?
So someone's asking a not CES related question,
which is probably more for Linus than for me.
But he's asking about an earthquake
that was up here recently.
I don't think we felt it that hard, did we?
You did?
Oh yeah, I was in my office.
So I was like one story up.
It was crazy, and Taren came ripping up to my office
and was like, holy crap, did you feel that?
Was that an earthquake?
Oh wow.
I was watching the Hank Blaine,
and I thought someone kicked my chair.
I was asleep and had a crazy dream that Colton died
and I bought a plane and weird things happened.
I told Colton about it, it was funny.
But it's a completely unrelated topic.
But yeah, I had no idea it happened.
But then when I woke up and everyone was freaking out
about it, I was like, I don't know what happened.
But then when I woke up and everyone was freaking out
about it, I was like, yeah, that makes sense
as to what the hell my dream was about.
So apparently I'm not gonna wake up
if there's a crazy freaking earthquake.
Dale Caldwell says that he's interested
in augmented reality.
I really hope that's a thing this year.
One of the problems that I foresee with augmented reality
is that it has to be really, really, really good.
VR actually has the lucky exception of being able
to be constantly powered by a computer.
Augmented reality is gonna, honestly, in its ultimate form,
need to look like a very normal pair of glasses
that happens to have the lenses,
are able to have projections on them somehow
so you can see things on the normal lenses.
I think that's one of the ultimate levels
for augmented reality until they get it
into like contact lenses, but like, whoa, dang.
So I don't know, we'll see.
Mostly augmented reality stuff we've seen so far
has been kinda not great.
So I don't know.
Yeah, people just saw Edsel in the land hoodie.
I think that's still gonna be a while
until that's available, unfortunately.
We'll get more at the show.
What?
That's awesome.
Apparently I'm getting one at the show, so that's cool.
Tons of people saying monitors and VR.
So at least there's one category for each of us, right?
So, is that your text message, sir?
Oh, that's fun.
Is she your Baymax?
Someone says, all you care about is Squarespace ads.
That's good, because I think every video will have one.
So hopefully you really like Squarespace ads.
And you really like me saying Build It Beautiful,
because I'm probably gonna go ham the entire time.
My voice is gonna be gone near the end of it too,
if it's anything like previous years.
So it's gonna be like, Squarespace, Build It Beautiful,
which is probably gonna be even better.
So let me know.
Linus dropping things and breaking them.
Damn, you guys really didn't forget about that, did you?
AMD Polaris, I'll see if it's gonna be there.
I'm the one going to the AMD booth.
So hopefully they've got some really cool stuff.
I'm excited for some Nvidia stuff.
I think they have a VR thing, I'm not sure.
It's probably just VR Gameworks.
Oculus Consumer, I'm going to go to the Oculus booth.
Their media contact is literally the hardest people
to talk to ever, so we still don't have
an actual media contact at Oculus.
So I'm just gonna go line up, like I have at every show
that we've done anything about Oculus with.
So hopefully I can make that actually fit.
But yeah, I will try.
The exciting thing about Vive and Oculus Consumer version,
if you're excited for those news from CES,
is that they're probably coming out relatively soon.
So you don't have to worry about seeing it from CES
and then waiting a ridiculously long period of time.
That spoiler?
What spoiler?
Oh, I think someone said something about Star Wars.
Super excited to see some advances in VR.
Okay, I think I might be done with this Twitter blitz.
Basically everyone's saying the same things.
Home automation, VR, monitors, and Linus drops things.
So, someone said VR and sex dolls.
I don't think that they're gonna,
oh, I just deleted my thing.
That's awkward.
I don't know where it is.
I'm not gonna have a lower third for the rest of the show,
because I literally just deleted it.
So that's unfortunate, but it's probably fine.
I was trying to delete the Twitter one
and deleted the wrong one,
and then also deleted the Twitter one.
So that's probably fine.
Okay, oh, this is actually totally cool.
There's a totally experimental CPU
that is integrated with optical logic,
which promises significant power reductions.
There's some quotes here that are saying things
like the estimated power usage of data centers
is like 20 to 30% based on just transferring data
within themselves.
Nick is apparently gonna fix the lower third, I'm assuming.
Nope, he's doing something else.
Screw the, no, doesn't even matter.
No one wants it anyways.
Okay, apparently he's fixing it.
And this should help quite a bit.
So they're essentially,
this is a very odd topic, to be completely honest.
Researchers say that it's 10 to 50 times the rate
for a comparable electronic microprocessor,
because it can, when it's data transfer in the prototype
occurred at 300 gigabytes per square millimeter,
which is kind of obscene.
Something to remember about this topic is that
it started with totally experimental
and there's still giant problems
like light leaking out of the chip,
meaning that you could lose data
and things wouldn't exactly be reliable at all.
That totally sounds like a problem
that they can and will solve,
but it just feeds into the totally experimental
side of things.
If you see this, it won't be for a while.
Yeah, electrical engineer Cheyenne Mokherja,
hopefully I say that correctly,
says that making chips like this
required etching off part of the silicon,
although I still don't necessarily understand
what he means by that,
because if you're adding in optical connectors,
I would expect you to just make a whole new one,
not like etch part of your current one off,
but maybe that's why it's totally experimental.
I don't know.
We've got another topic in here,
which is actually kind of funny
because I reviewed this controller.
The topic name is that why Microsoft can't keep
the $150 Xbox Elite controller in stock.
And there's a ton of comments on this,
but basically what it comes down to,
I'm gonna share the MSN, wait,
I'm gonna share the, yeah, MSN news link,
is that they looked at the market,
saw that basically everyone was using,
all the pro guys were using scuff controllers,
thought that it was relatively saturated,
but wanted to release this controller anyways,
gave it to some people.
Those people said, it's cool, but it's really expensive,
so I don't expect that many people to buy it.
Then they released it,
and a whole bunch of people wanted to buy it,
so they didn't pre-produce as many as they were hoping for.
They're estimating that Microsoft
has made 500,000 controllers,
and that's apparently not nearly enough.
I don't know.
I think that scuff is probably super happy
that Microsoft can't keep their controllers in stock.
But another thing that I've heard actually
before reading this article
is that scuff hasn't felt too much of a hit from this.
I'm expecting that it's more,
not necessarily the console pro gamers
or console super crazy high-end gamers
that are buying the Xbox Elite controller.
I'm assuming it's probably more like,
I play a lot of Xbox games
and would like a way better controller experience,
so I'm gonna grab this thing.
I think that's cool.
I actually really liked it,
and I could understand PC gamers buying it as well
if you're someone who would use a controller a lot
for PC games, which is definitely a thing,
and before PCMR people freak out,
there's games that work for that,
action-based games, stuff like Assassin's Creed.
I prefer to play with a controller.
Racing games, if you don't have a racing wheel,
keyboard and mouse is kinda not the greatest for that.
Space Metal Gear Solid, apparently.
Brandon likes it better on controller.
I haven't played that one yet.
I don't know, whatever.
A lot of space games are getting popular now.
I've seen ads for, oh crap,
Elite Dangerous in movie theaters and stuff recently,
and on TV, which is kinda crazy, actually.
Star Citizen has done some alpha thing recently
that you would probably prefer to play with a controller
over a keyboard and mouse, but I'm not sure.
I personally use my Hotas, so whatever it is, I don't know.
You do you, man.
Apparently more than 9,000 UK households
are saying that they still watch black and white TV.
You need a different license
for watching different things.
I don't really know how the whole UK viewing TV thing works.
I've heard that you have to have a license,
that it's not really an option,
and that's how they fund the BBC stuff, I don't know.
But black and white licenses cost 50 pounds,
while color licenses cost 150 pounds.
So I'm kinda wondering if some people have found a way
to do something so that they still get color signals
and they can pay less for it, but who knows?
Apparently there's still a ton of people
with black and white TVs in the UK.
That's pretty weird.
Other random news from around the world,
because not a ton of stuff happens before CES,
and we have to find something to talk about
in this segment while I'm by myself.
Belgium, their biggest advertisement board,
which is apparently massive, it looks massive
if you see the picture.
I'll show you guys here in a moment,
was hijacked or hacked or whatever you wanna call it,
and they did some pretty funny things.
You can see there, they used to be a Coca-Cola,
ice cold drink Coca-Cola ad thing,
and then they trolled the crap out of it
by putting on a troll face, which I find,
while it's illegal, kind of hilarious.
They did some other things apparently.
I don't know if the photos of them are in here.
No, it doesn't look like it.
Here it is.
On the roof of the Coca-Cola logo,
series of images, one that says, hello BXL,
another one that featured the Coca-Cola logo
with naked breasts in the background,
so I don't know if Coca-Cola was necessarily
that mad about that, and they did a few other things.
One of the silly parts was that the guys that did this
filmed themselves doing it, and I've heard
that there's been complaints filed against
whose faces have been made unrecognizable
in the video below.
Yeah, so they showed their faces.
I don't see where the video below is.
Oh, this is probably the video below.
I'm gonna mute it.
I thought that was an image.
Yes, this is the video below.
We'll see if it even plays.
It's trying to load right now,
but they showed their faces in the video
that they filmed of them hacking this panel,
which, like, ah, you guys are so dumb.
I don't know.
Yeah, highly illegal, and they're probably
gonna get screwed over now because
they showed their faces on the thing,
although them getting screwed over is probably fair
because they hacked something and put nude images on it
behind company logos and stuff, so I don't know.
Whatever, you can decide to think what you think about that.
I think it's kind of funny, but not a good thing, so oh well.
Intel has acquired a company called Altera,
which is an FPGA, or field programmable gate array company.
Altera seems to be quite happy about it,
which is probably not too surprising.
Dan McNamara,
which is an Altera veteran who I think
led this whole takeover thing,
says that combining Altera's industry-leading FPGA tech
and customer support with Intel's world-class
semiconductor manufacturing capabilities
will enable customers to create the next generation
of electronic systems with unmatched performance
and power efficiency, which is actually pretty sick.
Everyone in chat's like, just a prank, bro.
Yeah, I wonder if that was actually
what happened in the video.
That would be kind of hilarious.
People in chat are talking about
Activision buying MLG for $43 million.
I'm gonna be completely honest, I had not heard about that,
but it's on WCCF Tech, so if you wanna check it out,
you can go there and check it out.
Apparently, they bought MLG, so now what?
It's Activision, Blizzard, King, and MLG.
Maybe Blizzard will finally get good
at having competitive titles.
Wow's Arena has been a disaster ever since the start.
Actually, I think getting kicked out of MLG,
so maybe Wow's Arena will be back in MLG,
and I've been constantly frustrated by them
basically abandoning games.
My brother was a caster at ColdSC on Twitter
for StarCraft for a while,
and they did nothing to help StarCraft.
They actually hindered the progress
of StarCraft's competitive scene,
which is extremely frustrating.
Heroes of the Storm, they don't really seem
to be doing a whole lot to help in that department.
Hearthstone, they pushed really hard for a while,
and then I don't know.
They seem to just make games,
and then go, I don't know.
Maybe with the acquisition of MLG,
they can push super hard with Overwatch.
That would be cool.
I don't know, I really want Overwatch to work.
I want competitive Blizzard games to be a thing.
Sorry about the frustration.
Look at Diablo, that's like all I have to say.
Okay, moving on.
I don't think I'm going to do that many more topics
than I'm probably going to get out of here.
I think that's actually probably it for topics.
Oh, right, this is actually kind of awesome
and funny in the same sentence.
Switzerland is really, really, really, really,
really driving for a universal phone charger for everything.
All the phones, not just Android phones,
not just Apple phones, all the phones.
I'm not going to bother switching to the website
because it's Vice, and apparently Vice is all ads
at this point, literally.
Okay, look at this, I'm going to switch my screen.
You can't even see the title of the article
because the picture for the article is so big,
and then the ad is so big that it actually pushes
the entire article off of the front
of the fold of the website, so that's crazy.
We're going to jump back to my docs
so that I can actually read things about it.
Mobile phones will have to be compatible
with a universal charger by mid-2017 at the latest.
I think they probably already are,
because there's cables that are universal.
Are you just going to drink alcohol in the stream?
It is New Year's Day, whatever.
New Year's Eve, no, no, yeah, okay, it's New Year's.
Are you already drunk?
No, no, it's not open yet.
Okay, so our construction company sent us over.
I don't know what Luke was talking about before I got here.
It's fine, it's not that important.
I kind of ran out of interesting topics,
I'm completely honest, like a while ago.
Why are we sitting on top of this cable?
It's completely in the way.
Mind the speed of your group?
Okay, so we're going to switch to the website
that's completely in the way.
You know what, I'm going to fix this.
Get up off your chair, I'm getting in here,
I'm organizing things, things are going to get better.
You did a lot.
So you're just going to keep talking
and I'm going to keep drinking.
Okay, so anyways, Switzerland wants universal charger.
It has to be compatible with a universal charger.
I think they kind of already are,
it just needs multiple ends,
so I'm assuming that they want it to be compatible
with a charger that is able to plug directly in
to whatever phone it is.
I think they're probably going to have a lot of backlash
from Apple on this one, so we'll see how that works.
I think, yeah, it says the European Union
has previously voted on this
and Switzerland is bringing itself in line with regulations.
So yeah, I don't really see this being a huge thing
unless basically all of the EU gets behind it,
but we'll see what happens.
Do you know how to properly open those?
I have no idea. All right.
Yeah, just pull on it.
I mean, I would assume.
I don't know, it's hard.
I would turn it.
Turn? No.
Oh, that does make sense.
I've never opened one of those either,
but looking at the construction, it pops, right?
It's going to shoot, don't aim it at me.
You should put like a...
A bucket over it?
Usually you put like a rag over it or like this glove over it
or you can let it hit the expensive leg.
Here, use this.
What is it?
It's a Wansho swig.
Well, not anymore.
Yeah, so you start twisting,
because you'll start twisting, twisting, twisting.
Really?
And all of a sudden it's like, boom.
Okay, here we go.
Are you allowed to drink on Twitch?
I don't know, maybe just don't.
Maybe just don't.
It's not open yet.
Are you allowed to open it?
Oh!
Whoa!
Wow!
That really exploded.
It wasn't joking, dog.
Wow!
Now there's foam everywhere, so watch out.
Is it?
Yeah.
Away from computers.
Oh, it's not.
No, you're good.
Well, that was that.
That was exciting.
Don't drink it.
I'm not going to drink it, but that was amazing.
Okay.
Now I got to go find the cork.
I'm glad.
You didn't catch it with the sweater?
I don't know.
He shot through it.
He shot through it.
I don't think he shot through it.
I only know this because I dented a roof in it,
so I'm very...
You dented a roof.
There we go, I found the cork.
Wow.
Good job.
There it is.
There it is.
Happy New Year.
Oh.
Luke doesn't drink.
That's why this is funny.
All right.
All right, back to your regularly scheduled whatever.
Which is probably ending.
So thanks for the epic ending.
Thank you guys for watching.
Don't forget to check out our content at CES 20...
Is that right?
Yeah, CES 2015 this year.
2016, 2016.
CES 2016 because it will be next year.
By then, I'm gonna screw that up a lot.
The amount of times I've done like Computex 2015
and PAX Prime 2015 and PAX East 2015 has been a lot.
So I'll have to remember to say CES 2016.
Anyways, check us out.
You probably know the YouTube channel.
YouTube.com slash Linus Tech Tips.
Yeah, that's the one.
Over 60 videos.
I'm gonna be doing an after party after this.
Not for a little while though
because the work day isn't technically over.
So I have other stuff to do.
And then I'll be doing one later.
Okay.
All right.
Alright.
Fresh bugs.
Thank you fresh bugs.
Fresh bugs.
Thank you fresh bugs.
Okay.
Thank you.