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the USB implementers Forum has yet again angered fans of reasonable naming
conventions with the announcement of USB 4 version 2.0 yeah now this wouldn't
even be that bad in a vacuum usb4 V2 you
know yeah yeah I can see that annoying but I could get used to it there's no
gens anymore the really annoying thing is it represents yet another departure
from previous USB naming schemes which were responsible for monstrosities like
USB 3.2 Gen 2 by 2. why couldn't they
just call this USB 4.1 that would well as developer Benson Lu
well as developer Benson long points out the term version means that this
announcement is mainly geared towards developers who know that this is simply
the second version of the spec document for usb4 instead of seeing usb4 version
2.0 on a product box consumers will probably see USB 4 20 gigabits per
second or USB 480 gigabits per second
actually acceptable which is actually more syllables and is worse but
comprehensible come on Benson JK I
appreciate the tweets he tweeted at us hi good news if you didn't pick up on it
just there is that version 2.0 could allow your existing usb4 cables to
support 80 gigabits per second double their current Max Speed depending on the
cable shut the front door I won't maybe this is just a fact of life you know
things get faster and then they make less sense that's relativity people slow
down Einstein knew about this the debate around AI art has been inflamed once
more following the news that a man named Jason Allen won a Colorado State Fair
art competition by submitting an AI generated image The Twist Jason Allen is
an AI
Alan actually submitted the image as Jason Allen via mid-journey the name of
the art generator he used but State Fair judges in Colorado understandably didn't
appear to know what that implied oh he's
coming from injury and Alan didn't seem to think it was
necessary to be more explicit about how the artwork came about since um since he
used a special prompt which he will be publishing at a later date that's art
baby now the idea of creating prompts as a specialized skill might seem weird but
already there are marketplaces like prompt base where such special prompts
are being sold by prompt Engineers
James and I talked about this for half an hour yesterday on talk linked so
listen to that if you need some time to process this wild new reality we're
really smart it's happening and processor design company ARM has sued
one of its biggest licensees processor design company Qualcomm over the
latter's acquisition of processor design company nuvia over a year ago it's a bit
of a Cane enable situation they're just attacking
you know but you know about the Bible see arms upset because nuvia is licensed
to develop chips using ARM technology expired in March and mostly covered the
creation of server CPUs but Qualcomm is making chips for laptops smartphones
cars and more which was covered by qualcomm's license under
which nuvia should technically now fall it's a weird case made all the more
confusing by the fact that ARM only stands to gain if Qualcomm succeeds in
the laptop and server markets where armbase Tech isn't as strong as x86 it's
like shooting yourself in the foot trying to hit a spider but the spider's
trying to steal your shoe it's trying to shoot trying to get away with it so you
shoot and oops too many now it's time for quick bits
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different but before Intel has held up their promise to show how competitive
their Arc gaming gpus are against NVIDIA's offerings when it comes to Ray
tracing blue dudes Tom Peterson and Ryan shroud posted a new video to the Intel
Graphics Channel today with Benchmark showing the arc a770 performing about 14
better on average than an RTX 3060 in
1080P gaming with Ray tracing enabled
you know they're really trying you know and I honestly feel like bumping that 14
up a few points just for that like good job guys love a positive attitude Google
has expanded user Choice billing for the Play Store from the European economic
area to include now India Australia Indonesia and Japan
nope we're not special where developers will now be able to apply to accept
payment methods other than Google pay if developers are approved they'll get a
four percent discount on Play Store fees which could mean devs that already
qualify for a lower 15 standard cut could pay as little as 11 percent
that's not bad C corporations can do good
things you just have to continually Mount public campaigns and threaten them
with lawsuits and Federal Regulation it's how it's always been it's how the
cavemen did it the U.S government has banned chip makers like NVIDIA and AMD
from selling their most powerful AI processors to China in order to prevent
such chips from being potentially used by the Chinese military much better to
force them to innovate and possibly create something even more powerful only
a matter of time NVIDIA will however be allowed to continue producing its
Flagship h100 chips in China but once a chip is finished it must be sealed in
wax and launched out of a cannon over the sea to land safely in America we'll
be waiting with our mouths open ohio-based company folio photonics
have the answer to the problem of long-term data storage CD freaking ROMs
okay they're not CDs they're called active disks which can store up to a
terabyte for more than a century while being resistant to changes in
temperature and humidity and being immune to radiation and electromagnetic
pulses oh I love a good pulse you would there are also like five bucks a
terabyte so the Cockroaches are gonna go wild for these things did you because
when a nuke happens and Halo infinite's
developers 343 Industries have announced that the game will not support Split
Screen Co-op a favorite feature seen as
a franchise staple among hardcore Halo fans yeah the news comes after company
Representatives explicitly addressed earlier games lack of the feature and
promised it would return in both 2017 and 2019. this is only one of the many
complaints Gamers have about this particular game and virtually every
other game they have siblings we are done making this Tech Lane come back on
Monday for more Tech news and you can let me know if you spotted the new weird
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