Gadgetory

I am mollywood and welcome to the buzz report the show about the tech news that everyone is talking about this week the age of the cyber cold war is upon us some new blackberry phones failed to make a splash and Hulu is just going to make its own TV damn it but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the toshiba qosmio f 755 glasses-free 3d laptop whoo it won our best of CES award when it was just a little prototype baby and I have to admit I'm kind of surprised to see it all grown up and headed to market it's a high-end core i7 machine to start with but then it has stereoscopic 3d that is you don't need glasses to watch 3d movies play video games or whatever also it has this built-in I tracking technology so it uses the webcam on the laptop to track your eye movements so it's delivering a 3d picture everywhere you look just like the entertainment industry is hoping it's actually pretty impressive technology but I have to admit that using it in real life sounds like a headache waiting to happen they should give about bottles of excedrin with every purchase is that sending the wrong message anyway look for our full review when it comes out in about two weeks and now for the news Vanity Fair broke a huge story this week about a high level hacking operation called Shady rat the story details five years of cyber attacks hitting 72 networks in 14 countries stealing everything from secret UN data to private companies intellectual property to government secrets to athlete doping records a security researcher at McAfee has been tracking the attacks since 2009 he says it seems clear that a nation state is behind it which of course leads other experts to the only obvious conclusion must be China and US government officials say shady rat is just more evidence that we need a strong cyber defense policy and network here in America to fend off these kinds of attacks yeah here it comes I'll come on I've kind of missed the Cold War haven't you do you think the Millennials will have to do nuke drills where they hide under their desks or just learn how to unplug Ethernet cables real fast good times in other slightly hacker related news you know that study you've been seeing everywhere about Internet Explorer users having lower IQ scores than other browser users yeah the one you promptly sent off to all your ie using buddies because you use opera and you're at the top of the heap it's a sad but true the report supposedly came from Canadian research firm optic want but as it turns out there is no such company many many members of the media however including myself fell for the story and reported the research with I must admit a tiny bit of glee okay what do you want from me I mean if they'd said it was a 0 l users it would have been obviously fake too easy but internet explorer it just it sounded so true so now I feel bad for mocking them so completely and for that IE users I apologize Oh apologize it means sorry also this week Research In Motion announced two new incrementally improved blackberry torch models and real release dates for it's very incremental II upgraded OS blackberry 7 and no one seems to care like not at all oh I care rim I'll be your friend when no one else will oh god no I'm not gonna buy a blackberry I mean I'll come to your birthday party you need a cupcake I'm not afraid and hideous and it looks like hulu has also been thinking huh TV what are how hard it is to do that right hulu announced its first full-length original show Morgan Spurlock's a day in the life the six-part documentary from the Super Size Me ohter will follow various notable people through the course a day the first episode will feature Richard Branson others will feature will.i.am comedian russell peters and other relatively well-known people who are kind of also fans of the internet Spurlock I'm right here alright finally it is time to get happy with what's clogging the tubes this week a mariachi band serenades a beluga whale at mystic Marine Life Aquarium in Connecticut and it's awesome on so many levels still having a bad day yeah I didn't think so and that's the buzz report for this week everyone I'm mollywood and thank you for watching