it's true all you need is love and a
train NVIDIA's acquisition of ARM was always
going to face some pretty intense scrutiny before it gets approved and it
looks like that's exactly what's happening right now reports indicate
that the british government is going to be looking into the deal not only to
determine whether it might be anti-competitive but also due to
national security concerns which kind of makes sense when you consider ARM has
long been looked at as a neutral designer that's now being taken
over by an out-of-country firm in NVIDIA and those prank bombs they placed in the
office of the lieutenant specter attorney general didn't help either
that'll get you right into prison the initial report is set to be released
by the end of july and while it isn't exactly clear how
long the process will take it doesn't look like the merger is going to be
completed anytime soon maybe we'll all finally have graphics cards by the time
it does maybe but the next big shortage we'll
have to worry about might not even be chips it may actually be storage
which does involve chips and the reason might surprise you although we're used
to thinking of crypto as being something that demands high power gpus new types
of cryptocurrencies such as chia instead leverage hard drives and ssds the idea
is that a user will allocate disk space instead of GPU resources in order to
contribute to the blockchain the growing popularity of this type of crypto is
already causing a surge in demand in china with miners buying high capacity
hard drives on mass and price increases are expected to follow in the near
future so maybe next year you'll finally be able to run your steam games
but have nowhere to store them to bring back cd-roms baby
blue phone storage no
that's too slow it's emmc it's a different thing altogether
of course brands are still trying to take measures to stop crypto related
product shortages and it looks like NVIDIA is going to be doubling down on
their efforts as team green is reportedly going to be releasing a fully
refreshed rtx 30 series stack with mining limiters restricting the ability
of users to mine ethereum and other popular cryptocurrencies allegedly it's
unhackable this requires both hardware and software support so you should be
fine if you already have an rtx 3070 3080 or 3090 and are trying to mine of
course if you're just trying to game this is probably good news for you
and there are always other ways to earn passive income like buying some crypto
doge and now it looks like it's time for the
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bits thing so it's time for time for quick bits on to the quick bits the rtx
3080 ti has been a topic of discussion for several months now and it looks like
they're finally making their way to retailers a box of the new cards was
spotted in hong kong this weekend so hopefully we'll see them soon as there's
a pretty large gap both in price and performance between the 3080 and 3090
that it makes sense for NVIDIA to fill but the msrp on them is supposedly 9.99
us that actually makes them cheap
i'm so so sad though that that's msrp yeah you're
going to pay like three times that on ebay yeah that's before i get it and sell it thank you riley nasa has made
history again as the ingenuity mars a helicopter specifically built for flight
on well mars ha imagine that
took off and landed successfully on the red planet making it the first aircraft
to complete a controlled powered flight on a world not named earth i'm sure the
wright brothers would be jealous if nasa hadn't named the area wright brothers
field but no word yet if nasa is planning a uh biplane flight on mars in
the future martians already have those so they had them long ago yeah i don't need
to do it yeah yeah this caveman technology to them two
passengers in a tesla have passed away after a crash outside of houston the
accident happened this weekend with a 2019 model s crashing at high speed
while no one was at the wheel indicating the passengers may have been using and
unfortunately misunderstanding the autopilot and or the beta full self
driving feature some commenters are pointing out that tesla might need to do
a better job ensuring consumers know the limitations of the car's self-driving
technology to avoid accidents like this in the future or at least until fully
autonomous driving becomes a reality in happier news if you've been waiting for
the xbox cloud gaming to hit your non-Android device your weight may be
over tomorrow as some xbox game pass ultimate members will be able to play on
the service on Windows and iOS instead of just on Android
it's still in beta but you'll be able to play over 100 games in your browser and
microsoft hopes to make the service available to everyone who signed up for
game pass ultimate over the next few months we can only hope that it's a smoother rollout than google stadia
that's true but you know they also had the whole
negative latency thing that turned out to be pretty negative
and nintendo is suing bowser but believe
it or not but we're not talking about the villain of its own creation nor are
we talking about the ceo of nintendo of america rather the defendant is one gary
bowser what are the odds who heads a team of switch hackers that have been
selling software that enables piracy given nintendo's historically
heavy-handed approach towards protecting its own ip the suit isn't surprising
especially as bowser has already been arrested for fraud but
not for kidnapping princess peach yeah that's cause that wouldn't be fried yeah
that that that would be false imprisonment and that's our show wednesday's tech news won't be in
another castle in fact it'll be right here so we'll see you then you're going
down Anthony okay bye