These eight tech news stories are unbelievable. Wait till you see number
five. She didn't know the camera was rolling.
It's happened. Android has been installed on an iPhone. So that's it. We
won everybody. Nice. Good job. Hit the showers. Hey. All right.
Okay. See you later. Yeah. No, I'm back. So here's the story.
David Wang and Chris Wade of Project Sand Castle have managed to run Android
10 on various models of iPhones. The
iPhone 7 offers the smoothest experience, but that is not saying much.
Now, the phone can boot up, but there is a ton of functionality missing. That's
understandable, though. The developers had to write a ton of code from scratch
to run on Apple's proprietary hardware. This project is a particularly cheeky
one, too, as Wang and Wade are the co-founders of Corellium, a company
currently being sued by Apple for offering access to iOS virtual machines.
I mean, you're already in trouble, right? Like what? Why not just double
down? Keep on digging to the to the center of the earth.
AMD held their financial analyst day, also known as FAD, yesterday. And while
that sounds incredibly boring, I don't think it sounds boring my way, the
company actually dropped some intriguing details about their plans for 2020. Team
Red says we can expect new Radeon GPUs built on the RDNA2 architecture, also
known as Navi 2X. Apparently, that will finally hopefully address the high-end
market and compete with NVIDIA who has just been kind of like sitting up there
going, "Yeah, I mean, look, Jensen, we can't all
afford 200 leather jackets so that we have a different one for every day of
the week." Just like NVIDIA, AMD will finally be splitting its GPU
architecture into RDNA for gaming cards and cDNA for compute cards, meaning we
could get performance improvements in both areas, although not at the same
time. And then on the CPU side of things, AMD is working on a 3D chip
stacking technology called X3D, which will reduce chip size and increase
bandwidth because X. And hey, as a
bonus, Ryzen 4000 series laptops will apparently have up to 18 hours of
battery life. Whoa, slow down there, Team Red. AMD is just like drunk on
popularity for the first time in like 15
years. They're making some big pro processors here. Is that
It's a big process. They're making some big promises here.
Our processors will even show you unconditional love. They didn't say that.
They'll make you coffee. And we didn't even mean to do this. But
meanwhile, in Intel land, things still suck. Security firm Positive
Technologies reports that almost all Intel chips from
the past 5 years have an unfixable security flaw right there in the
converged security and management engine or CSME. That's not positive at all.
That's hits me right where it hurts the most right in the CSME. The CSME is
important for various security measures like the trusted platform module,
authentication of BIOS firmware, and Bit Locker. The flaw reportedly cannot be
patched with a firmware update. And because of that, the researchers say
that it effectively undermines trust in Intel's platform as a whole. Where's the
positive part? Yeah. Whoopsies. Intel says that installing CSME and BIOS
updates should mitigate remote attacks, but that users could still be vulnerable
to attacks from anyone with physical access to the hardware. Although, that
is kind of always the case, isn't it? There have been so many stories about
flaws in Intel chips, I'm starting to brush them off now, you know. No, no,
I'm not at all. It's still a big deal. Yeah, whatever. And now it's time for the Quip Quaps
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Microsoft, and others have agreed to guidelines published by the US
Department of Justice and its counterparts in Australia, Canada, and
the UK. But two US senators on the judiciary committee are also introducing
a formal bill that they say aims to do the same thing by removing protections
for endto-end encryption. Ooh. And then there's another bill introduced by like
other senators that would remove likes from any content posted by children. So,
wow. It's going to be a pretty exciting time to be a kid. No one can like you
and everyone can see what you're talking about. Hey, cancel watch continues.
TwitchCon has been cancelled. Minecraft Festival has been postponed, although
the live stream element will continue as planned. The launch of the Turbo
Graphics 15 mini console has been delayed. And Apple and Google are
restricting apps from their respective app stores that are related to the
current health crisis. Wait, what? Why? Apparently, it's in order to prevent the
spread of misinformation. Yeah, anyone can make an app. But hey, LTX is still happening. As long
as it is still happening, we're we're keeping an eye on the situation. By the way, tickets went live today, so go
ahead and buy those. Sonos has seen the error of its ways and will not force
users to put their older speakers into recycle mode, effectively bricking them
in order to get a discounted upgrade to newer models. But at the same time,
Dillips is ending support for its circles-shaped Bridge V1 hub for its Hue
lighting system in favor of the new, more square Bridge V2. Kind of lame.
Great if you love squares. Looks like a sandwich. Or if you hate circles.
Oh, yeah. Space lettuce. NASA has reported that
experiments aboard the International Space Station yielded edible lettuce.
Wow. So maybe civilians can have a taste
of lettuce um when SpaceX flies out
there and gets some and brings it back to us. Oh. Uh in 2021, you made it, space.
Congratulations. Have a salad. And researchers at the University of
Michigan have developed prosthetic technology which allows amputees to
control a hand with very little training. The method involves grafting
muscle onto nerve endings in order to amplify the detectable signal. That is
there's no joke. at the end of this topic. It's just that's just cool. Wow.
Wow. I mean, if we're out of jokes, then we we're out of time. We're out.
We're out. Goodbye. Come back on Monday for more outrageous tech news that will
blow your mind.
Oh, like what? Well, I'm not How am I supposed to know?
Well, it's not Monday yet, is it? Oh, jeez. How am I supposed to come back