riley i just covered the peak performance event on Mac Address yeah
there's a tech link yeah but people could just get a Mac Address no no
they can do that too but there's a different channel tech link
i have to say all this stuff again we love iphones that wasn't the most
exciting thing at the event at apple's peak performance event yesterday the
company announced a refreshed 429
iphone se with the same a15 bionic chip found in the iphone 13 lineup and a new
ipad air powered by the same m1 chip in the ipad pro but if you think that's
exciting well you probably didn't watch the rest of the stream surprising
everyone who thought that the m1 max represented the maximum performance the
m1 chip could offer make sense yep apple
announced the m1 ultra which is essentially a pair of m1 max chips
squished together and not apple's version of the cia's
psionic abilities program that's what they told you
the m1 ultra or max will power the new mac studio a mac mini with a big air
cooler in its giant forehead which starts at 2 000 because with the ultra
it may give apple's current mac pro a run for its money is that true i didn't
write this uh i mean i wrote that but i don't know whether it's true
yes well they did have bars that showed it faster than the mac
pro so that means something i what the scale of those bars is is a
great question what the bars represent is another great
question but don't forget the matching 5k studio display which is 1600 bucks
and another 400 for an adjustment ARM modifying monitor height is a privilege
rotation apple won't even let you pay for that it's too dangerous
and if you've rotated them actually they said if you want rotation you have to
get the vase amount that was the whole pitch for the vase amount
all right enough about apple many horizon based pcs have been experiencing
intermittent stuttering on recent builds of Windows 10 and 11 which is exactly
what you don't want to have happen in the middle of an electronic supply
shortage but team red has finally given us some insight as to the probable cause
a flaw in some motherboards built-in trusted platform module or tpm phantom
i guess it wasn't trustworthy after all
AMD is currently working to fix the issue but until then you can also pick
up a discrete tpm module which mercifully aren't usually very expensive
plug it into your motherboard and switch over to it in your BIOS settings just
make sure to turn off bitlocker in Windows first as for when we can expect
a fix look for it through your motherboard or pc manufacturer during
the first half of may but if it's not here by then uh that'll be a good time
to head outside anyway flowers etc
amazon is facing backlash today after a report from the nonprofit tech
transparency project indicated that some of their suppliers in china have been
using forced labor although low pay and poor working conditions in chinese
manufacturing plants have long been the focus of concern these allegations are
more serious as the suppliers in question have been linked to so-called
re-education camps where ethnic minorities are detained and put to work
by the communist party of china amazon of course has denied working with any
suppliers you that use for its labor and stated that they take action when
suppliers are found to violate labor standards actions which may or may not
include helping executives escape to mars on a blue origin rocket and we know
that they work now so that's good and i think amazon just announced a stock
buyback today so all the money they could invest in the factories is just
going to buy back their stock i'm glad they succeeded it's so great to see them
invest in something so useful oh no i feel a riley coming on now it's time for
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so keep your head down remember those old volkswagen hippie
buses they're fittingly getting an eco-friendly makeover as vw is releasing
the id buzz later this year or more like id buzz bus
buzz bus bus buzz essentially a modern full electric
version of the iconic vehicle from the 1960s europe will get it first but the
american version due out in 2023 will have an extra row of seating and vw even
says it's planning a self-driving pilot program for 2025 powered by an ai that's
just a little high to stay true to its roots
and like every other self-driving car which drives a little high have you seen
teslas i know some of you have been waiting patiently for Intel's new arc alchemist
graphics cards but be prepared to wait a little longer according to a report from
igor's lab we won't be seeing the cards until either may or june it's a little
disappointing to get news of another delay especially with the tight gpo
market but Intel appears to be doing some extra quality and stability testing
think of it as waiting for the pie to cool a bit before you bite into it you
want to taste those frames baby what kind of pie are we talking about
google announced that Android will soon have the ability to archive apps which
will shrink the app's size by 60 by removing certain parts of it if you
need to use it again your phone will quickly restore the code that it needs
sounds like a great option for phones with not a lot of storage or as a way
for users to punish apps that have misbehaved i said no tracking
you're gonna you're going in the hole also apple
instituted this like in iOS eight i don't care for nine i don't care
another reason why to watch Mac Address hbo is the latest company to face
accusations of mishandling user data with a class action lawsuit claiming
that the network has been sharing users viewing history with facebook without
user permission no word on how much the suit is seeking
but hopefully everyone will get at least enough money to
pay for a subscription of hbo max or all
the other services that are almost certainly doing the same thing
everything sucks and limewire of all things is back from
the dead we all remember it as a not particularly legal way to download music
but it's being relaunched this may as a digital collectibles marketplace so yeah
they're gonna sell nfcs part of the appeal if you can call it
that is that it'll take regular credit card payments so you don't have to know
anything about crypto to pretend that you're getting into art when you're
actually getting into gambling it's all the fun
so it's larping it's crypto that takes money from a credit card what kind of an
ape are you i'd wager it's a safe bet that this
episode is over thank goodness but if you just can't stay away come
back on friday for more tech news it'll cure what else yeah depending on
what else what do you mean thank goodness this isn't a mac pro