Sure, we could sit and think about how messed up the world is and how every
waking moment of human existence involves some pain. Or hear me out here,
we could just do some tech news. Yeah. What do you say, J? Can there be a
campfire? No. It's dangerous. It's paper. Intel unveiled its second
generation neuromorphic chip yesterday, the Loihi 2, which about 10 times faster
than its predecessor. Neuromorphic. James, do you know what that means? I
can guess. Brains change in the chip.
Okay, of course, Intel isn't the only one making processors inspired by human
brains. These days, they're found in all sorts of devices, including flagship
smartphones. But Intel's new chip is special because it's one of the first to
use the company's Intel 4 process with extreme ultraviolet or EUV lithography,
something that almost every other chip manufacturer has been using for some
time, but now Intel's doing it. And like you still clap for the last kid across
the finish line on track and field day, you know, great. It's like you you made
it and that's what counts. Now, the Loe Heath 2 isn't going to go in your gaming
PC. It's designed for researchers. And to make their job a bit easier, Intel
has also released an open-source software framework called Lava. So,
hopefully those sciency people can make our electronics a bit smarter without
burning themselves. It's all very Hawaiian sounding. Yeah, well, it is.
It's a volcano, which is why the lava Thank you. I could have worked that in.
PC enthusiasts have been chomping at the bit to catch a glimpse of the rumored
graphics card collaboration between ASUS and Noctua. And now images of the fabled
card have appeared online. They were spotted in a Facebook post by the
Vietnamese branch of ASUS. And yep, it's
a uh it's an RTX 3070 with with brown fans. You excited? You guys like this? I
love it. It's brown. It won't look good next to anything. It's it's tan. I will
say it is a thick boy. It looks like it'll take up a full four PCIe expansion
slots. But if Noctua's CPU coolers are anything to go by, we could expect this
thing to be hiding some big old heat pipes under that cooler and fans that
run as quietly as physically possible because GPUs should be seen, not heard.
Like back in your cage, like my parents told me. I didn't see any stricts
branding on there, but if they don't end up using that, it's a bit of a shame that one of ASUS's gaming brands got an
owl mascot. You seen it? No. Noctua uses an owl, too. They love owls. So, who
knows when this thing is coming out? And more importantly, who cares because
it'll be way too expensive and you won't be able to get it. Keep watching our
videos, though. And Facebook is still dealing with the fallout of a slew of
Wall Street Journal reports covering the company's research into the effects of
Instagram on teens. Facebook's head of
safety, Antiggony Davis. That's a name, huh? Nice. It's fun. But she was grilled
by members of Congress yesterday and was asked by Senator Blumenthal if Facebook
would commit to ending Finina. Will you commit to ending Finina? Leading to many
okay boomer reactions before the senator clearly explained that he knew what
Finina was. It's short for fake Instagram and is a term for kids
secretary accounts. Facebook may not be able to do anything about Fininaas
without adopting the kind of ID verification scene in China and I don't
think we want that. But what they can do, and what they did, is publish
heavily annotated slides from the studies the WSJ reported on in an
attempt to show everyone what they really say. You didn't see the real
ones. These are the these are the ones that are most important. Sure, use of
their platforms was correlated with lower well-being, but that's not
causation. That's it's basic science. We should listen to Facebook here, the
bastion of rationality, connectedness.
That's how you do. We need each other. Yeah. Cooperation, guys. Quick bits.
Give them a try. And if they're too quick, well, you'll just have to speed
up. The USB implementers forum continues to not understand how to name things
good. They just released the spec for USB power delivery 3.1, which will
enable Type-C cables that support charging at up to 240 watts. To make
this nice and simple, they released a table with seven different logos and
labels so customers can simply look at a cable's packaging and easily understand
what it's capable of after only a few minutes of googling. Pre-orders for the
modular and easily repairable Fairphone 4, much anticipated by tech enthusiasts,
have finally launched with the base model going for
€579 or €671. And it's too bad that US price
doesn't actually matter at all because this fair phone is only launching in
Europe and the UK. I can only imagine it's because the launch of a phone that
might reduce waste and protect the environment would be met with heavy
protests all across the greatest country in the world. America, don't be mad.
Look, we I don't make fun of America that much on this show. Give me this
one. Corsair has launched their first gaming monitor, the Xenon
32QHD165, because you want to grab potential customers with a real catchy
name. It's a 32-in 2560x440p IPS monitor with a 165Hz
refresh rate. We haven't had nearly enough monitors that make this kind of
compromise between resolution and speed. So, I definitely would be more excited
if it didn't remind me of Intel's workstation processors. Xenon stupid.
It's come on all the names. There's so many names. Like we could list them.
Enreel has launched their latest smart glasses that actually look like
something a normal person would want to buy for once. The Enreal Air does not
have any cameras, unlike Facebook's recent collab with Rayban, but it does
have little 90 Hz screens in the lenses that can apparently project a virtual
130in screen. I bet watching movies on this thing is something someone want
Earth wants to do. They probably exist somewhere. And in an attempt to avoid
paying the EU's $5 billion antitrust
fine, Google argued that the most searched term on one of their biggest
search competitors, Bing, was actually
Google, proving that if they do have a monopoly, it's through no fault of their
own. That information comes from SEO company ARFs. And I mean, it does make
sense. I'm not if I'm going on Bing, that's what I'm doing. But it's also we
only have an awfully good cuz we're the best. I feel like Microsoft keeps
forcing Bing into everything like a like a pushy parent. Like maybe Bing doesn't
want to grow up to be a search engine. I don't know, Microsoft. Maybe ask Bing
how Bing feels for once. I don't know. This episode feels like it's over. So
come back on Monday for more tech news. They will distract from the pain for a
little