i'm not feeling very confident today so i'm not going to look into the lens okay
and you guys don't look at your computer monitors
either don't look at me what are you a regular sherlock are you
up for a bit of sleuthing because Intel posted a teaser for the
high powered graphics or hpg version of their z GPU this week and wouldn't you
know it there was binary code hidden in the video
naturally so the game is a foot oh wait somebody
already cracked it yep a wccf tech reader named at duck of death translated
the binary code into an ip address which leads to a site welcoming you to the
zhpg scavenger hunt which is apparently
going to launch on march 26th one week from now it lines up that day
coincidence you have until then to find the gpus or they will all explode
will they actually explode or they just get used for crypto
oh okay it looks like the site wants you to enter codes that some internet
detectives are expecting to show up in an Intel webcast scheduled for march
23rd seems like a lot of work for a little game that'll probably just unlock
another video teaser for another graphics card we won't be able to buy
sorry it's been a tough year i'm jaded now
i'm cynical in other GPU news AMD says
they won't be adopting NVIDIA's clumsy strategy of limiting certain graphics
cards mining efficiency since it's now been shown that a single leaked driver
can screw it all up the news comes from a product manager at AMD who told pc
gamer that the company's current gen cards based on the rdna 2 architecture
aren't really that great for mining anyway although AMD's Linux based
drivers are open source and therefore open to manipulation i guess we'll have
to wait and see whether miners jump on AMD's next GPU release which at least
one leaker thinks may come in april in the form of a premium 1080p gaming card
that's our card miners that's for us
you leave alone you stop it drop that card drop it and 18 t thought they were
pretty cool launching hbo max and giving zack snyder a platform to finish his
version of that movie we're watching this week on carpool
critics by the way so subscribe but turns out the att isn't cool they're
not so go away they're not cool enough to break california's net neutrality
laws the network provider will no longer exempt its users hbo mac usage from
their mobile data caps a practice called zero rating after a california law went
into effect last month preventing isps from giving preferential treatment to
their own video platforms take that vertical integration in a statement att
said the law prohibits them from providing certain free features to
consumers but that's not true it would be perfectly legal to zero rate all
video services including netflix and prime video which of course they won't
do because they don't own them it seems like discussions about net neutrality
are on the rise once again a number of tech companies including mozilla reddit
wikimedia and vimeo called on the fcc to reinstate the commission's net
neutrality rules repealed by the trump administration
which is fine but who neutralizes the
net neutralizers you know that's what i'd like to see discussed the watchmen
2. snyder we need you
riley but you're over there get out of my head
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bits fairly accurate apple leaker mike german
who i affectionately call the gurm over at bloomberg seems to think that apple
is going to unveil new ipad pros in april featuring a new high powered
chipset similar to the m1 which was similar to the a12z in the current ipad
pros it's the circle of life riley it's amazing
but more importantly these new patties might have Thunderbolt built in making
them even more like computers as gross as that feels to say
they're not computers they're just toys for a cat
you knew oneplus was making a watch right why wouldn't they anyways here's what it
looks like courtesy of an exclusive leak by unboxed therapy that was also posted
by ev leaks it's a watch made by oneplus
hopefully it'll be better than their airpod knockoffs i famously hated those
now that stadia is starting to implode NVIDIA's getting a bit cocky about its
GeForce now game streaming service the subscription fee has been doubled from
five dollars to ten dollars a month although that will only apply to new
subscribers if you subscribe before march 17th you can keep paying the
original price if you never cancel
break off your subscription you'll pay the original price all right
a break at your legs a brick of your face sony has acquired
a fighting game tournament the evolution championship series aka evo announced
the purchase yesterday and while this means the tournament will get more support it also raises questions about
non-sony games being included like smash
but that's not a real fighting game anyway i like the smash
it's a fighting game it's not a real fight it's its own thing ea has made good on
their promise to add its catalog of ea play games to xbox game pass for pc and
yesterday microsoft's subscription service got another 60 games in its
library but playstation players are getting a bonus too sony is giving away
10 free games including horizon zero dawn which is super old as part of its
hashtag play at home initiative or playa
to tome play at tome
uh playa because they'd rather not have you constantly coming over to their
house with like using their controllers without washing your hands first asking
to play split screen halo they've told you
so many times stop see if it works it won't work
okay stop this episode right now this is enough okay report back on monday for more tech
news that's an order mister i'm channeling my jeff goldblum
with an army