hello everyone and welcome to techlink your source for the tech news i'm james
stribe we begin today with browsers
right as they release their 90th version firefox has gotten edged off its podium
place in the never ending browser wars by microsoft edge no best see what we
did there according to the latest figures published by statcounter microsoft edge accounted for
3.4 percent of web traffic making it the
third most used browser firefox which used to hold that position unfortunately
only accounted for 3.29
this improvement can be attributed to the fact that microsoft rebuilt the
browser using chromium making it work well enough for most users and then of
course making it the default of defaults in Windows you know the pop-ups i'm
talking about if my poor mother-in-law she just
but it says i'm gonna be less productive if i don't keep it
i know it's really asking me are you sure that actually works on her if
firefox wants to get back on podium its users better band together to up their
traffic and install on friends and families computers because nipping at
their toes for fourth place is the samsung internet browser
and tsmc has found a way to make your chips cooler than ever that's right
researchers have figured out that they should be water cooling silicon directly
in a presentation given at the vlsi symposium the researchers found that
they could dissipate up to 2 600 watts
of heat with the methods they tried using a thermal test device to simulate
a hot processor the researchers tested three methods of cooling two have the
water channels etched into a silicon lid with one using a silicon oxide fusion
and the other a liquid metal to serve as a thermal interface material these
performed well but not as well as when the water channels were etched directly
on heat generating silicon itself the how of implementing such an exotic
cooling solution in the mainstream will still need to be worked out but such
solutions could help maintain the precepts of moore's law even more
or maybe not in a blog post published by the director of technology at ARM rob
aitken posits that while performance has been increasing while transistors have
been shrinking we are reaching the physical limits of what we can do with
that benchmark taking energy consumption and its impact on climate change into
consideration it can suggest we adopt kumi's law which describes the trend in
the number of computations per joule of dissipated energy he argues that this
would work better with the way that consumers use technology today where
battery life and efficiency is more important than gross power alone
especially in your phone we are already seeing the fruits of this focus with apple's transition to its own ARM-based
silicon which was done because performance for what improvements have
been slowing with other architectures and they love to keep things thin right
jonathan horst yes is that you yes mac
address baby subscribe it can also pause us the future of technology that's so
low powered it can harvest energy from the environment around it like how an
rfid chip is powered by the devices that use them i mean my mother-in-law sucks
all the energy out of the room am i right yeah just kidding cindy i love you
so much and now here's another person don't worry i'll be right back today's quick
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this is the part where the little quip about the quick bits goes but we don't really have one so we're just gonna get
right into it just joking it's the quick bits if you don't like using Windows
installed on your computer you can now use it online microsoft unveiled Windows
365 a cloud pc service aimed at businesses who don't want to deal with
the hassle of managing multiple Windows installations spread on multiple pieces
of hardware service builds on microsoft's azure virtual desktop
service with installations configurable up to eight CPU cores 16 gigabytes of
RAM and 512 gigabytes of storage when it
launches on august 1st it'll be yet another form of computing that's been
pushed to the cloud don't they know i need a computer to run this
oh they want me to do this on my phone Windows phones is that what this is all
about apple has quietly launched their latest
first party mag safe accessory a battery pack the 99 accessory will let iphone 12
users top up their phones on the go while it pops in easily throughput is
limited to just 5 watts but when it's plugged into a 20 watt charger it can
charge the phone at full 15 watt mag save speeds
cooler still is that the battery pack supports reverse charging so if your
phone is plugged into carplay you can still send juice to the pack for later
that is actually pretty cool power is meant to be shared jeff bezos
do you hate buying stuff all at once well well according to bloomberg apple
is reportedly working with goldman sachs to create an apple pay in four service
similar to paypal's paying for and klarna the service will let you spread
the large cost of a good between four interest repayments over two weeks just
three easy payments of 29.99
or you can pay in installments with interest over several months this is
just seems like like servitude
late stage capitalism apple owns you and your data with the ever increasing cost
of devices and goods yes more debt is the answer apple thank you why can't
apple just make hardware and software and just stop the saga of whoa for
cyberpunk 2077 has become a saga of whoa
despite a launch for a ps4 so bad he got kicked out of the play store cd projekt
red's game is now the top selling ps4 digital game in june and it reached that
milestone after being available for just 10 days it's clear the version 1.23
patch has brought the game within the i don't even what's the point of this
sound we don't even need the sentence you know what i think the real story here is
it's the only new game for that 20 year old console that's probably
what's happening here just kidding there's more ps4 news that's right your
ps4 can now mine cryptocurrency a crypto
mining farm in the ukraine was rated and shut down after it was found to be
stealing over 250 000 worth of
electricity from the grid the security service of ukraine complicated over five
thousand gaming related devices most of which appear to be ps4 pros lined neatly
on shelves in a warehouse why couldn't all crypto miners use old ps4s instead
of all the good gpus that they took from us i don't know
apparently that's only good enough for ukraine and that's it for this episode so come
back on friday for more tech news and also more people standing in front of
the camera it's not going to be me probably someone else bye