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| Switch Way is Up for Nintendo? | |
| Number | 2883 |
| Broadcast Date | OCTOBER 20, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 47:43 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Justin Robert Young, Patrick Beja |
Nintendo trickles out some info and video about its tablet/console hybrid the Nintendo Switch. Plus Razer puts all the specs in its new gaming laptop. Justin Robert Young and Tom Merritt discuss along with Nintendo insights from Patrick Beja.
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Top Stories
- Google's Daydream VR headset just went up for preorder in the UK Germany and the US. Now here are some more top stories.
- Razer just announced an update to it's 17.3-inch Razer Blade Pro laptop. The line now starts off with a 2.6GHz quad-core Intel Core i7-6700HQ Skylake processor. An Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 desktop card. PCIe M.2 SSD storage ranging from 512GB to 2TB. 32GB of 2,113MHz DDR4 RAM standard. Killer DoubleShot Pro NIC for 802.11ac Wifi and gigabit ethernet. And USB-C jack that doubles as Thunderbolt 3 allowing 40Gbps bandwidth. The multitouch display has a 3840 x 2160 IGZO panel. And it has HDMI, 3 USB 3.0 ports and an SD card reader. As for the keyboard The Verge's Vlad Savov called "pushing the buttons a joy." The trackpad sits to the side of the keyboard rather than below. All of that fits into a 22.5mm thickness and 7.8 pounds or 3.54 kg of weight. The Razer Blade Pro starts shipping in November for a price of $3,699.
- Tesla announced Wednesday that all new cars in production will be equipped with “the hardware needed for full self-driving capability,” including the Model 3. The hardware includes 8 surround cameras for 360-degree visibility at up to 250 meters, 12 ultrasonic sensors, and a forward-facing radar, and a more powerful onboard computer. Self-driving will not be active on these cars but features will be added by software as they are tested. However the systems will collect data on driving conditions to help Tesla develop autonomy. Tesla plans to demonstrate the tech by having a car travel from LA to New York without any driver guidance by the end of next year.
- Airbnb announced Wednesday it will ban users from listing multiple houses for rent in San Francisco and New York under a policy called "one host, one home." Airbnb introduced the policy for New York on June 1 but says it now has technology to enforce it that will go into operation on November 1. Airbnb will introduce a three strikes policy for violations. A bill that would fine short-term rental operators for violating New York State laws arrived on Governor Cuomo's desk Wednesday and he has until October 29th to sign or veto the bill.
- Kodak has released a smartphone named after its 1940s era Ektra camera. The second smartphone from Kodak has a curved bottom like a camera grip and a leatherette back.The Ektra has a large steel-rimmed f/2.0 aperture 26.5mm lens, 21-megapixel camera capable of 4K video capture and uses a Sony IMX230 image sensor. The 5-inch phone is made for Kodak by Bullitt and runs stock Android 6.0 with Adobe Lightroom, Snapseed, VSCO, Prisma and Kodak's Prints apps preinstalled. The Ektra will be available in Europe for £449 (€499) this December.
- At a London event, Google announced Coldline, a new cold storage archival cloud service. Coldline will cost $0.007 per gigabyte stored per month, with retrival costing $0.05 a gigabyte. Google has committed to keeping latency in line with its other cloud storage offerings, similar online cold storage options like Amazon Glacier can have latency measured in hours. Google is also offering a Switch and Save promotion to enterprise customers, offering up to 100 petabytes of free storage for several months as an incentive.
- The NBA announced that it will stream one game a week in virtual reality throughout the 30 week season starting October 27th. The streams will be viewable on the NextVR app for the GearVR platform and available to people who pay for the NBA League Pass. The broadcasts will have multiple cameras and dedicated announcers.
Discussion
- Nintendo’s next console, Switch, is a console/tablet hybrid coming in March
- Activision, Bethesda and dozens of other companies will support Nintendo Switch
- How big is the Nintendo Switch? An Ars visual analysis
- Nvidia gets back into console chips with custom Tegra for Nintendo Switch
- Nintendo Switch will use cartridges
- New 3D Mario Game Coming To Nintendo Switch
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild trailer lands before Nintendo NX reveal
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- Regarding LeEco's bicycle, I wanted to say sign me up for an Android bicycle. I'm certainly an Android fanboy and also quite in need of a power assisted bicycle. I partially severed my spinal column years ago and fortunately have maintained some use of my legs. A motorized bicycle is something I've been looking into in order to exercise and keep movement through my legs.
If I can use a good app for tracking the exercise and movement it could be extremely useful. For someone like me who could perhaps use that data to plot daily pain levels or medication intake this could be a huge win. - Sent by Matt the proud patron in Vegas
- Regarding LeEco's bicycle, I wanted to say sign me up for an Android bicycle. I'm certainly an Android fanboy and also quite in need of a power assisted bicycle. I partially severed my spinal column years ago and fortunately have maintained some use of my legs. A motorized bicycle is something I've been looking into in order to exercise and keep movement through my legs.
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