who watches the olympics you didn't even know what that was a reference to let's talk about tech news the real athletes
are the cs go pros and they're about to get a nice gift from lg and au optronics
in the form of 480 hertz gaming monitors
we've had 360hz panels for some time now but i'm so bored of those my eyes need
more frames you know that's what
give me some more now don't expect super high resolutions with these first 480
hertz models as the high refresh rates come at the cost of pixel density so for
the initial production we're looking at gaming monitors with 1080p native
resolution what size that has nothing to do with
pixel density riley there's
however it looks like they will have HDR 400 support if you want a more
entry-level high dynamic range experience and we're probably not going
to see these on the market until 2023 so your junky old 240 hertz model will have
to tide you over until then which is so cringe
sometimes technology gets better Intel has said that the chip shortage
unfortunately isn't going away anytime soon in their second quarter earnings
report Intel cfo predicted chips will be in short supply yet again during the
third quarter of this year at least for the individual pc market though things
should get better for their cloud and enterprise customers which i know is
just thrilling news for those of you at home i'm going into stasis
wake me up when there's chips oh hi Linus
Linus is really thrilled about today's tech news
anyhow it looks like the issue is that certain substrates used in chip production are
themselves facing a supply shortage and enterprise-grade xeon chips which are
physically larger are going to be eating up a good amount of what is available
leaving little left over for consumer grade cpus
we forgot to stock up on the substrates what you thought the night was darkest
before the dawn you sweet summer child the night just keeps getting darker
there's plenty of excitement around the launch of valve's steam deck but
consumers have been wondering how demanding aaa titles will run on a
handheld like i don't know if that thing can do 4k
which is fine because the steam deck screen is 720p and one of valve's coders
said on twitter that their minimum baseline was 30 frames per second the
game's valve has tested have reportedly at least met that standard if not
exceeded it while 30 frames per second might not sound like much to those of
you with high-end gpus in your desktop or laptop it's still perfectly playable
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baby hear him then sleep
a leak concerning NVIDIA's next gen 40 series gpus makes it look like team
green is switching their manufacturer from samsung to tsmc with the new gpus
being made on the 5 nanometer process wow performance and power efficiency
should be very high when those products launch do you think there will be enough
to go around james
crypto has taken a beating lately but there's a sudden surge in prices thanks
to amazon a job posting indicates that the tech giant wants someone to develop
digital currency and blockchain strategy on the payments acceptance and
experience team and amazon actually did confirm they want to accept crypto in
the future so maybe don't panic sell all your dogecoin just yet this is not
investment advice but sell your doge point china thinks it has at least a partial
solution to the issue of nuclear reactor safety as the nation has reportedly
developed a reactor that uses thorium
instead of the more traditional uranium
not only does thorium's nuclear waste have a much shorter half-life the
reactor design includes molten salt that can seal off any leaks not to mention
it's much harder to use thorium for uh non-peaceful applications it's a very
very peaceful radioactive isotope it's uh you could say it's a pacifist if you
own an apple watch be on the lookout for the iOS 14.7.1 update which should be
getting pushed out to your iphones and ipads right now it fixes a bug in
version 14.7 that completely broke the unlock with iphone feature meaning you'd
have to unlock the watch itself in order to use it it also patches a security
hole which seems more important to me so make sure you apply the update to avoid
this incredibly major inconvenience is that sarcasm
blindness agrees and speaking of iphones it looks like the iphone 14 is actually
going to be made of titanium dennis is shocked by this no that's eon
he's bored the information comes from an investor note that says the change will
be coming next year so we won't see it in the iphone 13. titanium has the
advantage of being more durable and scratch resistant than stainless steel
which has been used in previous iphones apparently the iphone 14 will represent
a major redesign in other ways as well but i'll be impressed when we see a
phone that somehow features a way to get out of those outrageous door dash
service fees i love what i have to read things that
are very specific to john and have nothing to do with me i have an Android
Linus stop i'm doing fine and it's time to end this outrageous episode come back
on wednesday for more at tech news now if you'll excuse me i'm late for the
olympics skateboarding match the oops