I can only assume Apple unveiled a number of new Macs powered by their new
M3 processor today but I can't know for sure because they scheduled their event
to start like an hour after we finished filming this video it's like I've been
working on my Tim Cook impression for nothing some fresh leaks have sprung
regarding NVIDIA's RTX 40 super series of gpus specifically the RTX 4080 super
the card's PCI ID was found by someone
potentially with access to a beta driver and added to the PCI ID D repository a
place where PC IDs are reposited except
the GPU listed in the PCI ID is the
a103 the same chip that powers the nons
super RTX 480 with pretty much its full
strength NVIDIA could enable its 512
disabled shaders but that sounds like a drop in the bucket compared to the gpus
already enabled 9,728 shaders and sure every little bit
bit extra performance is nice unless in order to get it you have to buy a new
GPU for the same MSRP that the original RTX 480 launched at which is 1,200 bucks
that's what NVIDIA did with the RTX 2080 super which launched in 2019 for 800
bucks how many dough same amount of dough but hey if the 4080 super isn't
doing it for you there's also this RTX 460 Ti from ASUS with a built-in m.2 SSD
slot if if you want to remember a time when news about new graphics cards made
you feel something other than that sour acid taste in the back of your throat
for missing something now I just feel dread Qualcomm made some big claims
about their Snapdragon X Elite laptop s so's at the Snapdragon Summit last week
but like all such events Qualcomm only backed up those claims with slides
looking like barely modified PowerPoint templates woke up the night before in a
mad panic and just slap some photos on there
should this line be blue I don't know it doesn't matter but some Outlets
including Windows Central were able to take a closer look at detailed test
results and it seems like Qualcomm wasn't just blowing hot air both the 23
watt and 80 watt variant of the X Elite blew away Windows laptops with top end
chips from Intel and AMD in PC Mark 10
and while the lower-end variant didn't destroy like the higher-end one did in
cinebench 2024 its single core performance still came out ahead now as
we've said before whether these chips will actually be worth using with
Windows depends on whether Microsoft can change the fact that Windows 11 on ARM
is kind of butt to use before they come out next year but hey you know what I'm
a simple man I see big bars on a performance graph and it just makes me
happy I like big bars and I cannot lie
of course qualcomm's comparison of the Snapdragon X Elite to Apple's M2 Rings
pretty Hollow coming the week before Apple launches the M3 three which is
probably much better because that's what they did today right I don't I don't
know if they did that or not I hate this meta has launched a paid adree
subscription for Facebook and Instagram in the European Union for €10 a month
via desktop or 13 via Android or iOS for
all must pay Google and apple their 30% tithe they're passing around the basket
you can't ignore it the church only takes 10% Tim Seas
all put it in the subscription isn't
available elsewhere primarily because it's intended to appease EU Regulators
skeptical of meta's AD targeting and data collection practices the
subscription is only available to users 18 and up while teenage users will
temporarily stop seeing ads entirely until meta comes up with some other way
of profiting off damage to their underdeveloped psyches there working on
it in the meantime meta is apparently working on an API for its third social
platform threads but seeing as threads a business transcription service that
trademarked the name in 2012 has already served threads with a 30-day warning to
change the name threads is going to have to hurry was only slightly confusing now
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order the quick bits aren't actually that quick okay yeah we know we just we
just want them to feel nice about themselves okay they deserve that yeah
you're quick chat GPT now has an advanced data analysis feature that all
allows users to upload documents like a PDF and chat with it like a spell that
imbus an inanimate object with a living soul but then wears off bringing up
horrible questions like was that actually alive for like 3 minutes are
you a monster similar functionality has already been offered by various services
like chat with PDF whose developer doesn't seem worried about losing its
400,000 users probably because the users
already paid the subscription fee but are the PDFs alive Spirit of Tim Cook
he's smiling on me shooting this video so late that the Sun is setting I fix it
has announced a partnership with Microsoft to provide official replacement parts for various Microsoft
Surface devices as well as step-by-step guides and disassembly videos via their
dedicated Microsoft repair Hub Parts provided include batteries ssds displays
keyboards and even screws unprovided however is the answer to the
philosophical question if you replace every piece of your laptop one by one
and until no original pieces left is it still the same laptop and does it still
belong to thesis the White House has issued an executive order on safe secure
and trustworthy artificial intelligence which pushes for greater transparency of
AI models and labeling of AI created content the order will require
developers of AI systems with the potential to seriously disrupt Public
Safety civil rights the economy or national security to share critical
testing information with the government this would apply primarily to Future mod
model Beyond a certain power level let's say over 9,000 what and would not
involve restricting any AI tools that are currently available it's probably
the best we can hope for at least when the average Senator is a quarter Century
older than the internet itself take what you get Google is promising a rescue
patch for an Android bug that causes some users with multiple Android user
accounts on their device to get locked out of the devic's storage from the
primary count upon upgrading to Android 14 despite being a relatively serious
bug Google seemed to ignore the problem for 10 days leaving hundreds of users in
the Lurch in some ways the bug is a lot like ransomware except instead of a guy
named Sergey holding my nudes hostage for money it's Google completely by
accident so it's okay that makes it better I'm less mad meanwhile Google has
spent time figuring out how to turn any old pair of active noise cancelling
earbuds into heart rate monitors through a process the research team calls APG or
audio plethysmography catchy I just wanted you
to know that it works by sending out an ultrasound signal with the earbud
speakers and picking it up with a microphones which sounds like it lets
humans become more like bats or dolphins
and I'm not sure that's a place we want science to
go okay yeah depending on your priorities I mean speak for
yourself that's okay the dolphin sound that people use on TV is actually sped
up cabur really yeah it's not a dolphin
and the eagle sound is actually a red tailed hawk wow I don't care at all
about not knowing about the Apple stuff now I learned I learned that but I know
where I want you to go back to your screen of choice this time on Wednesday
for more Tech news when we will definitely know what has happened at
Apple's event today time you know it's crazy