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i'm your host JC since we've got a lot of stuff to cover today robots that can chase you down and kill you Nissan's brand new steering by wire system and the 2012 list of most unsecured passwords ever so normally I have all kinds of things to talk about when it comes to Toyota but this week we're changing it up and bringing in some nice on this is kind of cool because I'm a fan of Nissan i own a Nissan and Nissan is saying starting with their infinity series in 2013 they're going to get rid of the mechanical steering system in their cars they didn't say which model yet but they're going to debut with at least one model and they're going to go with a steering by wire system what that means is they're going to use the electronic servos and sensors in the steering column rather than have a mechanical connection it's going to use actuators and electric motors a lot of people were worried when they made this announcement that what if the car loses power well it turns out that there's a clutch attached to the steering wheel that still mechanically attached to the wheels that will give you enough steering take it out of a sticky situation should you happen to lose power it's kind of like the new electronic throttle systems only it's going to work with the steering I think it's kind of cool it's supposed to alleviate a lot of the small input that the driver has to put into their car that way when you're driving straight down the road you can just hold the wheel and the car will straight has cameras that will read the lines in the road and it will stay straight all you have to do is give it big inputs to tell it when to turn I don't know how it's going to feel i'll probably go test drive one with something like that comes out i think it's really cool but it's definitely a step towards cars in the future that can drive themselves so in october 24th this robotics company put up this video demonstrating this new robot that they've designed that can look at an atmosphere in an environment it can analyze obstacles and it can maneuver over those obstacles including jumping it can climb it can use its arms to stabilize itself it can go up and down stairs and this thing can even run this is kind of reminding me of the movie I robot and it makes me wonder whether or not we're getting a few steps closer towards that whole Skynet thing we're gonna have robots taking over the world or the matrix you know that stuff is all science fiction but there's a hint of truth to all of it but when it comes to artificial intelligence when it starts learning on its own and learning how to take over its masters that's when we have to worry now I'm just kidding I'm not afraid of robots but probably not going to get one of these things the only thing I'm really asking myself is how far can technology take this artificial intelligence I mean already this is this is incredible I mean there was the optimal robot that came out about 10 years ago from Honda that's what was Honda and they have it on display over at Disneyland and it was kind of amazing that that thing could walk up stairs but I'd say we've come a long way in the last 10 years when it comes to this particular robot I think it's pretty cool so seeing that has just put out the 2012 top 20 worst passwords of the year and the top three are no different than they were in 2011 that's one two three four five 123456 and password should I get a machine other honorable mentions where I love you Jesus let me in I'm embarrassed to say I've actually used that one before password one password to trust no one it's actually kind of monkey football I mean the only thing worse is using your own name so group of scientists over at Flinders University did a sleep study in regards to gaming before bedtime and they want to see if there's a correlation between the amount of games and the type of games you play before bed and whether or not it affects the amount and quality of sleep that you get I know about you guys but I live a pretty hectic life of a full-time dad husband with a full-time career and I barely have enough time to do the youtube thing as it is so when i play games it's typically late at night and before bed and sometimes i can get in a couple of hours but they say that if you spend 150 minutes or more playing games before bed you're gonna get 30 minutes less of REM and REM if you're not aware is the rapid eye movement they found that those that spent 50 minutes or less typically we're not affected at all in their sleep pattern by the games that they play or the type of games that they play but they did find that violent or war and shoot-'em-up first-person shooter type games certainly had more of an effect on them than MMOs or other slow you know progressive game style I'll be honest with you my wife has told me many times in the morning that I've gone to bed in the middle of the night and woken up screaming throwing grenades diving for cover shooting people and I never remember any of it but I'm gonna call shenanigans on that because unless she records it and shows me playing battlefield 3 in bed no sexual pun intended there that could be fun i I'm gonna call shenanigans I want to see it and if she actually records that he'll put it up on tech edition why not so with all of the stuff going on in the news regarding Apple and the lawsuits of motorola and samsung and few other people in there the US Patent and Trademark Office has decided to go ahead and review some of these patents that Apple's using the Flex that that patent muscle especially when they're going after Samsung and the trademark office has determined that there are 20 patents that should not belong to Apple basically in the regards of stops the advancement of Technology see if you're not aware you can file a patent on anything but you can't file a patent on something that stalls the progression of technology so they've determined that 20 patents that belong to Apple have been invalidated and that's great news for samsung because number 19 on that list of 20 is the rubber banding effect you know where you scroll up and you hit the end of a page and it kind of bounces and comes back that's called rubber banding and apple claims that they own the patent on that which they do and now they don't so Samsung has already written a letter to the appeals to court and the judge is presiding over the case there 1 billion dollar case to determine whether or not they can just get the whole thing thrown out I don't know what the legality is going to be there since it was invalidated after they lost the lawsuit but now that it's no longer a valid point who knows this may be the best news and the best Christmas ask em son has ever had speaking of Apple and lawsuits they're getting sued again see last week I brought to you the report said that the photographer who did the eyeball for the that they used in their retina display ad never gave Apple permission to use that well now a mother a father and a doctor a pediatrician is now suing apple over this and what their claim is that when kids use an iPad they typically put it on the floor and then they hover over it and use it like that so they're looking down all the time so the claim is that this child has apparently developed a deformity in their neck because of the constant hunching position of playing with the ipad on the floor so never mind the fact that the parents are using in the ipad more than likely as a you know 2012 babysitter we're back in my day it was the Nintendo you know now it's the iPad here go away you play the right head I'll admit I'm guilty of giving my kid the iPad when I want her to just please be quiet but really you're gonna claim the ipad now is deforming your children for the love of God just think of the children this is ridiculous my iPad has never given me any sort of at the for me oh when will they get that from I'm starting to think a lot of the technology heavyweights in this country are actually watching tech addiction first a few weeks back I reported that Verizon hadn't taken my money in the head and shipped my iphone 5 and had been two weeks in the very next day they took my money and had a tracking number in my inbox so I got my phone after that tech edition that last week a report on Google as being one of the top paid software development companies in the Silicon Valley and that Zynga was number four and he knows inga makes draw something I believe they bought farmville they've stolen a few other things from the internet but they make facebook games ipad ipod iphone apps while they were number four highest paid in the Silicon Valley well on Tuesday when the ipad mini was being announced they quickly laid off 100 people so what better way to avoid the publicity of laying off 100 people do it during an iPad or an apple event but anyway this came out of nowhere some of the people interviewed who were laid off said they had no indications the company was in any sort of trouble they had no idea that they were gonna be laid off they simply came into work one day and that was it little meeting your gun so if you've watched last week's tech addiction just ignore the fact that I said that zune goes a good company in work for they make good money when comparing it to the Google charts I wouldn't wouldn't take that bet anymore so speaking of companies that are sinking AMD is expected to hold a press release on October 29 130 p.m. pacific time and as i mentioned last week again I swear to God all the big people are watching tech addiction because AMD says oh Jay's two cents out of this now we have to hold a press conference the cats out of the bag but it's anticipated that AMD is going to be announcing that they're going to be laying off fifteen percent of their staff so fifteen percent of their 11,400 employees you're gonna be looking at almost 2,000 people laid off that's a lot of people and then it's anticipated from an inside source who wasn't named in the article that the layoffs will be complete by the end of quarter for this year merry christmas and happy new year for anyone who works at AMD you're fired so right on the heels of AMD laying off fifteen percent of its staff coming up the end of this year so Andy has been awarded an award from the Dow Jones Sustainability Index as one of the most corporate responsible companies in the nation so let me get this straight you can't keep up with Intel who by the way also got the same award you put out processors over the last couple of years that nobody cares about and is three years behind in tell you lay out fifteen percent of your staff and you get an award that sounds about right so one of the things this award is about is about ethics and the way they conduct business and impact on the environment and the quality of you know the employer they are to their employees I think there's fifty percent of their employees who now who would probably disagree with this award but it's just completely ironic to me that they are laying off fifteen percent of their staff but they're getting an award over here for being a great company corporate lies it's official nothing makes sense in this world anymore to jay's two cents so how can you talk about AMD without the piledriver released the other day and I can't give you any first-hand experience on it all I can tell you is that there's been about 30 benchmarks on it when it comes to some very reputable reviewers like guru3d and gadget all of those people have done reviews on it Linus tech tips and they all say basically the same thing it is an improvement over bulldozer but we're only talking ten to fifteen percent based on the application environment that you put it in games such it's still not poor Fork or hang in with Intel so I just and considering that they've already said that they're not planning on putting out any high-end desktop processors beyond piledriver steamrollers a maybe I just don't think I'm gonna pop 200 bucks into this computer go to pile driver if anything i'll just save my money and a little bit later go to Intel because I know the Intel is going to have an upgrade path for me when it comes to pile driver I wouldn't say it's a flop but I also wouldn't say it's the improvement people were hoping for and it's definitely not gonna float that ship again because that ship is still syncing it is going down all right guys it's time for your favorite part of the show in mine too it's technology dumb house of the week this week's dumbass of the Week is aaron d Templeton you see Aaron had this bright idea he found a meth dealer who was willing to make him deal buying bulk I'll give you more it's kind of like the costco of drugs so he says oh man I don't have that much money but I'll get together all my friends and we'll all pitch in you buy as much meth as we can and we'll split it and we'll all get more meth for our money it's freaking genius oh my god I should be in politics so what's he do he gets on his iPhone and he starts to text all of his friends and he ends up sending a text to a narcotics detective in his own Police Department hey bro you wanna help me bust some ass and thin you go get real good discount yeah in weight was bobby's number and 149 or for cheer and he Debbie with you so the detective thinks that his colleagues might be playing a trick on him so after verifying that the number didn't belong any of his colleagues and they weren't playing a trick on he says sure i'll come meet with you i got a hundred fifty bucks bro so Aaron thing yeah jackpot alright goes and meets up with the guy second gets out of his car handcuffed some puts him in the I detective takes his phone he now has the information for the dealer and all the other people in his phone book who who is trying to make this deal with to go and buy more methane vithika so err indeed Templeton as cool as I think your name sounds for texting a narcotics officer and offer to buy drugs your dumb ass okay guys it's all I got for this week do me a favor you've got any questions that you'd like to see answered put them down in the comments below I want to start a new Q a series where I answer all of your computer and technology questions so put a comment down below with your question if I like it I'll answer it and I'll do a video in a Q&A series where I feature you check out this week's cool video of the day and check out my tech addiction series here and as always follow me on twitter subscribe like favorite share it with your grandma your mom girlfriend your dog your boss