The WAN Show - OMG our New Set is Done! - September 25, 2015

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Main News Topics

Pebble introduces its first round smartwatch

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/455128-pebble OP: insmefurqan

Source 2: https://blog.getpebble.com/2015/09/23/timeround/

Source 3: http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/23/pebble

Source 4: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/09/pebble-

Pebble Announcement Video

• 7.5mm thin, 28 grams, lightest smartwatch in the world

• Leather band for $249, metal band for $299

  • Band sizes, 14mm or 20mm

• Two day batt life

• Same processor and memory at the “Pebble Steel”

• SDK for developers to shift apps to round watchface

• Quick charge feature, can add 1 day of battery life in 15 minutes

• Aiming to ship Nov 10th, 2015

Volkswagen ordered to recall 500,000 cars, faces $18 Billion fine over emissions defeating software

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/452500-volkswagen OP: ThePointblank

Source 2: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/business/volkswagen

Source 3: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34345210

Source 4: http://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2015/sep/24/volkswagen

• Volkswagen illegally installed software in its diesel-power cars to evade standards for reducing smog

• caused certain emissions control systems to only turn on during emissions tests

• during normal driving situations the controls are turned off

• this causes the cars to spew as much as 40 times the pollution allowed under the Clean Air Act

• recall involves 4-cylinder Volkswagen and Audi vehicles from 2009-2015 in the US

• affected models are certain model years of the Volkswagen Jetta, Beetle, Golf, Passat, and Audi A3

• Shares dropped approximately 35%

• CEO Martin Winterkorn resigns amid emissions scandal

  • Was meeting with board  before scandal to discuss his future

• US E.P.A’s (Environmental Protection Agency) assistant called the automaker’s actions “a threat to public health”

• US Justice Department could impose fines as much as $37,500 for each recalled vehicle, with the overall penalty totaling as much as $18 billion

• one German media report has suggested that this expands beyond the US and beyond VW

• reported that the BMW X3 Xdrive 20d exceeds European emissions standards by a shocking 11 times, according to Auto Bild

• BMW issued a denial of any manipulation, saying “There is no difference in the treatment of exhaust emissions whether they are on (test) rollers or on the road.”

• European managing editor of the International Council on Clean Transportation, Peter Mock, told Auto Bild “all measured data suggest that this is not a VW-specific issue.”

• BMW shares also dropped 7% on September 24

• the reason the impact on BMW’s shares may not have been as severe as the impact on VW’s shares is that this issue is not as pervasive in their product line

• West Virginia University and EPA specifically looked at a BMW X5 as part of investigations into the issue

• the X5 passed their testing

• important to note that almost every car has higher real-world emissions than their laboratory results

• this alone is not a breach of regulation due to there being an acceptable margin of error

• the UK government has stated that today they will be launching their own vehicle emissions testing following the US’s findings

• UK Transport Secretary Patrick Mcloughlin said the move was to ensure the issue of emissions cheating was not industry-wide

• this is very much an emerging story, and we expect more information will become available over the coming days and weeks

Apple to Release New “D Jack” Headphone Jack

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454300-apple-reinvents OP: jos

Source 2: http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/09/22/apple-prepares

Source 3: http://www.latinpost.com/articles/81300/20150923/apple-release-

Diagram of D Jack

• Apple applied for a patent for their headphone jack called the “D Jack”

• Is 2mm, smaller than the 3.5mm and 2.5mm versions

  • Done by reshaping the plug

• Eliminates use of standard headphones for Iphone

• Sign that latest lines of smartphones will soon be obsolete

• May mean disposing of current headphones and purchasing some that will fit new jack

  • Hoping for an adapter, not yet confirmed

North America is out of IPv4 addresses - For Real

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/455919-north-america OP: TopWargamer

Source 2: http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/09/north-america

Source 3: http://www.wired.com/2015/09/north-america-just-ran-old-school-internet-addresses/

• Internet running out of most common IP addresses, IPv4

• American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) stated Sep 24 that they have run out of freely available IPv4 addresses

• Won’t affect users, but will put more pressure on service providers, software companies and large organizations to migrate to IPv6

• IPv4 limited to almost 4 billion addresses

• IPv6 will provide 340 undecillion addresses (undecillion = 1 followed by 36 zeroes, 8.5x10^28 more addresses than IPv4)

• Already supported by all major OS’s

• IPv4 and IPv6 aren’t entirely compatible

  • If on a IPv6 network, you can’t browse a site running IPv4

  • Service providers have done well to support both standards already

  • Most smartphones already run IPv6

ASETEK - Court confirms judgement, increases damages award and issues injunction

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/455546-asetek- OP: RazrLeaf

Source 2: http://news.cision.com/asetek/r/asetek---court-confirms-judgement

Original Patent

• In late 2014 Asetek won a patent infringement case against CMI USA

• patent is for water blocks that inCMI demanded a judgement as aclude pumps

• could impact Fury X since that is cooled by a CM solution

• Court Sep 22/15 denied CMI’s demands, and issued a permanent injunction barring CMI and its parent Cooler Master from selling infringing products into the US

• awarded 14.5% royalty rate

• matter of law and a new trial

• demand was denied, court followed Asetek’s requests and issued a permanent injunction barring CMI and parent company Cooler master from selling certain infringing products in the US

• Asetek awarded enhanced damages of a 25.375% royalty rate on CMI’s revenues for sales of infringing products in the US starting January 1 2015

• the matter is currently appealable by CMI

Xiaomi launched the Mi 4c for less than $240 USD

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454464-xiaomi-launched OP: TopWargamer

Source 2: http://www.androidauthority.com/xiaomi-mi-4c-announced-643816/

Source 3: http://en.miui.com/thread-163193-1-1.html

• Snapdragon 808, 2/3GB of RAM, 3080 mAh battery, 13mp sensor, wide angle 5mp camera on the front, USB Type-C, support for Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 2.0 technology

• Launching in China

• Between $200 and $240 USD

RED Raven Announced - Brings Dragon Sensor Mainstream

Source 1: https://www.cinema5d.com/red-raven-brings-dragon-sensor-mainstream/

Source 2: http://nofilmschool.com/2015/09/red-raven-camera-6000-shoot

• First sub-$10,000 RED camera

• Starts at $5950, body only

• Accepting orders today

• Will begin shipping in Feb 2016

• Red Raven Specs:

  • 4K Dragon Sensor= 4096x2160 Super 35mm 4K sensor, 20.48mm in width

  • “Promises” to deliver 4k (4096x2160) at 120fps, 3K (3072x1620) at 160fps, 2K (2048x1080) at up to 240fps

  • REDcode RAW, most efficient, fastest and most workflow friendly RAW codec in existence.

  • Simultaneous ProRes Recording, R3D, 2K Apple ProRes (422HQ, 422, 422 LT)

  • Compact and Lightweight, 3.5lbs. Same body shape as Weapon and is compatible with the Weapon modules

 

Rapid Fire

Valve: DirectX 12 does not make a lot of sense, Vulkan does

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/455001-valve-vulkan OP: HKZeroFive

Source 2: http://www.tweaktown.com/news/47646/valve-excited-

Source 3: http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton

• 1:40:59 in Video

  • Valve’s Dan Ginsberg states that Valve has been working with Vulkan since inception

  • said there's “Not much reason to ever create a DX12 back end for your game” with Vulkan

  • Reason: Vulkan will cover you on Windows 10 on the same class of hardware and so much more from all these other platforms and IHV’s that we have heard from.

    • Vulkan will support: Win 7, 8, 10 + Linux

Microsoft to use Baidu instead of Bing on Windows 10 in China

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/455570-microsoft OP: GoodBytes

Source 2: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2015/09/24/microsoft-baidu/1

Source 3: http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/24/technology/microsoft-baidu-xiaomi-china-deal/

• Microsoft has been pushing Bing, to rival Google on Windows 10 machines

  • Win 10’s default search engine is Bing

  • Changing to Baidu in China, as it has a near-monopoly there

AMD Preparing Dual-GPU Radeon R9 Fury XT

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454884-amd- OP: Icecube26

Source 2: http://www.game-debate.com/news/?news=18136&graphics=Radeon

Source 3: http://wccftech.com/amd-hbm-fury-x-fastest-world/

• AMD claiming dual Fiji GPU’s as the “world's fastest”

• Name has yet to be clarified by AMD

• Significantly smaller than other dual gpu cards like the R9 295X2

  • Because they are using HBM, which is smaller than GDDR5

  • Speculation cost between $1100-1400

Seagate: SSDs will never match per-gigabyte costs of HDDs

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/448841-seagate OP: Rohith_Kumar_Sp

Source 2: http://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/

Source 3: http://technologygrip.com/seagate-ssds-will-never-match-per-gigabyte-costs-of-hdds/

• Seagate: No matter how cheap NAND flash memory gets, it won’t be able to match per-gigabyte price of HDDs

• Cheap 3TB HDD costs $100 (.03 per gig) 120GB SSD costs $70 (.58 per gig)

• Expected by 2020 to have drives selling for less than half a penny per gig

Lenovo collects usage data on ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation PCs

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/455131-lenovo OP: Daring

Source 2: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2984889/windows

Source 3: http://gadgets.ndtv.com/laptops/news/lenovo

• Installing program on refurbished Lenovo laptops named “Lenovo Customer Feedback Program 64”

• Supposed to upload customer feedback program data to Lenovo…

• File name found “lenovo.tvt.customerfeedback.omnituresitecatalyst.dll”

• “Omniture” is a third-party marketing and web analytics firm

Oculus VR is getting Twitch streaming soon, Netflix Today (Sep 24)

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/455805-oculus OP: TopWargamer

Source 2: http://gizmodo.com/streaming-apps

Source 3: http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/24/oculus-vr

• Announced at Oculus Connect 2 event

• Launching Netflix Sep 24/15, Twitch, Hulu, Vimeo next

Apple Watch Site Gets RickRolled

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454557-apple OP: Renegade7369

Source 2: http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-watch-support-page-is-never-gonna-give-you-up/

Picture

• Updated the “Use Digital Touch” page, includes section stating how to add a friend to their watch

• Picture associated spells out “Never gonna give yu up”

Samsung hoping to bring stronger glass to smartphones, known as “Turtle”

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454221-turtle-glass OP: fade2green514

Source 2: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com

Source 3: http://www.alphr.com/samsung/1001580/samsung-

• Speculation that this glass can bend

4chan sold to creator of 2channel

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic OP: TopWargamer

Source 2: http://kotaku.com/4chan-has-been-sold-to-the-creator-

Source 3: http://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/chris-poole-why-i-sold-4chan.html

• Chris Poole, sold 4chan to Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel

• Inspiration for 4chan in the first place

• 4chan struggled to be profitable, even though Poole tried with a subscription offering and minor advertising

*Nvidia changes roadmap, confirms Volta to succeed Pascal in 2018

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454412-nvidia- OP: TwistedDictator

Source 2: http://wccftech.com/nvidia-volta-succeed-pascal-2018/

Source 3: http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/

• New roadmap showcased at tech conference in Japan

• Volta will use NVLINK

  • 5-12 times faster than traditional PCIE 3.0

  • Uses 3x less energy to do so

Nintendo Joins Khronos Group

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/455411-nintendo-joins-khronos- OP: GoodBytes

Source 2: http://mynintendonews.com/2015/09/22/nintendo-has-joined-khronos

Source 3: http://www.develop-online.net/news/nintendo-joins-vulkan-api-creator

• Khronos Group, organization behind upcoming Vulkan API, has welcomed Nintendo

• Group manages open-standard graphics API’s, including Vulkan and predecessor OpenGL

• Nintendo has voting rights, but doesn’t have a seat on the board

Digital Storm Aventum III

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454498-news-the-new-digital-storm

Source 2: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2984991/hardware/must-see-pc-digital-

Source 3: http://www.pcgamer.com/digital-storms-aventum-3-has-liquid-

Picture

• Ready to ship now

• Lowest price is starting at $4930

  • DSA III system with Intel Core I7 5960X, 32GB RAM, and 3x SLI Nvidia Titan X 12GB = $10,496

6th Gen AMD APU Cuts Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 50%

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454409-6th-gen OP: fade2green514

Source 2: http://www.tweaktown.com/pressrelease/9809/study-shows-6th

Source 3: http://techraptor.net/content/amd-reduces-carbon-

• 6th gen “Carrizo” A-series processors shown to reduce carbon emissions by 50% over last generation APU

• further proof that AMD is making progress in its commitment to a cleaner planet and lower energy bills

  • Set a “25x20” goal (improving the energy efficiency of mobile APUs by 25 times by 2020, from a 2014 baseline)

  • energy efficiency improvements needed to achieve this goal outpace the predicted Moore’s Law efficiency trend by at least 70 percent

• This means in 2020 a computer could accomplish a task in one fifth the time of a computer in 2014, while consuming on average less than one fifth of power

• Study states: if a business upgraded 100,000 computers from previous processor to the new one. They would save roughly 4.9 million kilowatt hours/$495,000 over three years

Oregon couple trying to resolve mistaken $2 million Verizon cell bill

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/455695-2-million OP: Trik’Stari

Source 2: http://www.wflx.com/story/30106176/oregon

Source 3: http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/09/24/2-million

• Outstanding bill of $2,156,593.64

• Couple cancelled phone contract after one month November 2014

• Cancelled because of discrepancies in their bill

• Received several collections notices demanding payment

• Scheduled to close on a purchase of a home next Monday, but couldn’t due to bill

• Has been resolved on Verizon’s end.

Turing’s ‘Dark Wyvern” up for preorder, comes with case enabling 60GHz data transfers

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/455709-turing OP: jos

Source 2: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/88022/20150924/turing

Source 3: http://www.androidauthority.com/turing-dark-wyvern-turing-armor-case-643447/

• Turing Robotic Industries (TRI) announced second series smartphone: Dark Wyvern

• Case called ‘Turing Armor’

• Case includes 3000mAh battery, microUSB, 3.5mm jack

• Case also equipped with TRI’s Wind Tunnel 60 GHz data transfer technology

  • Transfers 3.2GB data in under 25 seconds

  • Can backup 64GB in less than eight minutes

• Phone retails with case for $999

• Pre-orders start Sep 24

Hackers using Imgur to launch attacks on 4chan

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454308-malicious OP: Xyllon

Source 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3lw2g6/imgur

Source 3: http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/22/hackers-are-using-imgur

• One user from Reddit states “when an imgur image is loaded from /r/r4chan, imgur loads a bunch of images from 4chan’s content delivery network, causing a DDoS to those sites

• If someone clicks a imgur link on /r/4chan, it opens up 500 links from 4chan.org/8chan

EA Games may have a Gaming Subscription for PC Soon? (Rumor)

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454203-ea OP: fade2green514

Source 2: https://www.vg247.com/2015/09/24/ea-survey

Source 3: http://www.ibtimes.com.au/electronic

Survey Screenshot

• Bidness Etc. spotted a survey from EA asking if customers want a subscription service for pc games

• Some questions mimic existing EA Access service for Xbox One

• Survey asking if users would sign up early as next year

Iphone 6S put through its paces via Geekbench

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454532-worlds-first-iphone-6s OP: asim1999

Source 2: http://bgr.com/2015/09/23/iphone-6s-galaxy-s6-note-5-android/

Source 3: http://www.macrumors.com/2015/09/22/iphone-6s-reviews-performance/

Android Geekbench Scores

• Scored 2292 single-core on geekbench, 4293 multi-core

• Better single-core rating than competitors

• Austin Evans showed some graphics performance testing in his video released today, has the same graphics results as the Macbook 12” base model

• “hands down the most powerful phone you can buy today” - Austin Evans

[Cvdasfg]

Great show guys!

[Lethal Seraph]

I like it a lot!

[Curufinwe_wins]

Uhh why is it private?

[hypnodog]

GG Private vid

At least I watched it live lmao

[Chasem121]

 

• One user from Reddit states “when an imgur image is loaded from /r/r4chan, imgur loads a bunch of images from 4chan’s content delivery network, causing a DDoS to those sites

• If someone clicks a imgur link on /r/4chan, it opens up 500 links from 4chan.org/8chan

 

 

Wait what? Thats not what happened.

Images that were being posted to /r/4chan were being used to ddos 8ch.net, which is a completely different website from 4chan. It would open up a .swf file hosted on 8chan in the background

Edit: Here's a image that showed what was happening

[Sharif]

I fell asleep....literally 

[MAXXHEW]

35:21 The only thing gayer than the "Volleyball Scene" in Top Gun... will be the "Badminton Earbud Review" in Linus Tech Tips.

I hope he wears his jeans and mandals with the socks.

B)

[MobiFix]

Is there any recording of the afterparty anywhere?

[Streetguru]

Linus you just don't understand 3.5mm is FAR too large for a phone to handle

Also isn't there apps that can manage your background processes?

[welshname]

What was it that they were going to discuss at the end but didn't?  Was it just the forum security breach stuff?

[SteveGrabowski0]

I'm with you guys on Asetek, it's ridiculous when people here are calling them patent trolls like they're some assholes suing people for browsers loading flash automatically or something. 

[Smile]

Is there any recording of the afterparty anywhere?

http://www.twitch.tv/linustech/v/17772842

 

What was it that they were going to discuss at the end but didn't?  Was it just the forum security breach stuff?

Yeah security breach.

[popsiclestick]

Japanese Deodorant wipes:  http://www.survivingnjapan.com/2011/06/japanese-deodorant-whats-in-it-whats.html

[Nacimota]

Linus you just don't understand 3.5mm is FAR too large for a phone to handle

 

There's plenty of phones out there with a 3.5mm jack; I think Luke/Linus' point was that they don't need to get any thinner than they are now, especially at the expense of battery capacity.

[ryantakesnaps]

Hey Linus and LMG guys. Is there anyway you guys could run a compresser/limiter for the WAN show. Or maybe a Bass roll off EQ. Everytime you guys hit the table or mouse lift, the audio gets crazy loud. It would improve the experience for the listener.

[Zeemon]

Hey Linus and LMG guys. Is there anyway you guys could run a compresser/limiter for the WAN show. Or maybe a Bass roll off EQ. Everytime you guys hit the table or mouse lift, the audio gets crazy loud. It would improve the experience for the listener.

 

Hey there. Instead of doing that, the mic could be moved up onto a stand or something so it is off camera. Audio quality will still be great if the mic is JUST off screen, but it's a BIG mic and this solution might get the shock mount problem out of the way. But hey, pop filter!

[ryantakesnaps]

Hey there. Instead of doing that, the mic could be moved up onto a stand or something so it is off camera. Audio quality will still be great if the mic is JUST off screen, but it's a BIG mic and this solution might get the shock mount problem out of the way. But hey, pop filter!

 

Yeah, that would work too

[Streetguru]

There's plenty of phones out there with a 3.5mm jack; I think Luke/Linus' point was that they don't need to get any thinner than they are now, especially at the expense of battery capacity.

Damn the internet and it's inability to transfer sarcasm.

 

Really I don't see why apple doesn't come out with some kind of super professional grade iphone that has like 8000mah total battery life, and like 4GBs of RAM, with 2 micro SD slots for added storage, and a USB 3.1 type-C connector, and it comes in an high durability case that can support the weight of a truck, but, ya know, whatever. Apple seems to hate things that are functional

 

[marty14]

Great video. But PLEASE PUT THE AFTERPARTY ON You Tube !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not everyone can watch the live feed. It sounds like you have had important stuff on the after-party, but not everyone around the world due to time zone issues can watch the live feed.

Have some consideration for viewers around the world.

Otherwise do not have a after-party and have everything in the show.

This is not very professional Linus.

 

[Curufinwe_wins]

WTH guys, you tease @Slick 's news then don't deliver it but send it to afterparty which cannot be viewed for non-live users. I know you want to encourage live viewership, but please for the love of all that is holy, post that to youtube.

[Piyok]

Kara is good software to teach kids how to program.

[Sev24]

Great show! And yea probably best to either put the after party on youtube, or some sort of a quick video with the news - easier than sending out all these emails anyway (probably).

[NiftyMist]

What happened in the after party?  I couldn't watch the live show this week :*(

[Angel Ayanami]

What happened in the after party?  I couldn't watch the live show this week :*(

Hay guys if u miss'ed the after party you can go onto twitch and just re watch it i will drop a link for u all 

http://www.twitch.tv/linustech/profile