the infamous 12 volt high power connector is no more and is being
replaced with something hopefully less flammable I'm Jacob this is techlinked
and this is justice as the 16 pin connector has been responsible for so
many melts it should be working at a sandwich shop but according to Igor's
lab future GPU owners will not need to fear it as PCI Sig the organization
responsible for specifying the PCIe standard gave Igor an excerpt of a new
specification that will replace the 12 volt high power with a new connector
called 12 volt 2x6 the new connector
should be compatible with 12 volt high power headers since the specifications
don't list any new header changes and the 12 volt 2x6 connectors will use the
same 12 power rails and 4 cents pins one
of the major changes is that 12 volt 2x6's pins are set further back in the
plug based on the radical idea that electricity should only flow from the
cable if it is fully inserted into your GPU another interesting change is this
connector will support cards up to 675 Watts which is 75 Watts higher than the
original 16 pin connector and you know NVIDIA is frothing at the bit to make an
even larger graphics card to suck up even more Power brace yourselves the
achanka lips is an eye Google has been accused of misleading advertisers about
their true view in-stream ads according to advertising research firm analytics
you've probably seen trueview ads at some point they're the ones you can skip
after 5 seconds and that's important because advertisers are only supposed to
be charged for trueview ads if a customer watches 30 seconds of the ad or
the whole ad if it's shorter than that and the video must be playing audio the
ads must also be in stream which means that they play before during or after
video content or whenever your mom needs a life in Candy Crush
assume that's how it works I haven't played Candy Crush in years however
adults found that 42 to 75 percent of
trueview AD spend was allocated to ads that did not meet Google's claims
standards many advertisers analytics reached out to were surprised to learn
their ads were allegedly muted and auto playing on Niche third-party websites or
and I quote foreign developed Android mobile gaming apps for toddlers you know
toddlers famous for their vast Expendable income and ability to speak
good in a blog post Google's director of
global video Solutions said the report made Extreme inaccurate claims and that
over ninety percent of ads on Google video partners are visible to people
across the web which notably doesn't mean anyone saw them and analytics
actually points out that not once in the blog post was sound mentioned which is a
big part of how many people experience ads and also the world and speaking of
Google there's been a strange succession of pixel leaks over the last week and
some of them make sense but others
just today pictures of the pixelate pro were posted to Reddit and like a pair of
tight jeans they leave little to the imagination the photos match older
leaked renders showing a flat screen which is nice for people like me who use
screen protectors why do you make curved
screens I hate it do you have you ever Mark have you ever used the screen
protectors on a curved screen they're terrible they're awful they're just
these these thin like plastic polymers they're like they tear and rip it's they
do nothing it's even worse oh and according to a
leaker with an aggressively polished name
camilaichikovska the I hope that's right
the 8 and 8 Pro will have larger batteries and support charging speeds
that are 4 Watts faster than last gen and the phones will also support the
newer Wi-Fi 7 standard that's all great but what I don't fully understand is why
the pixel 8 series will support USB DisplayPort alternate mode according to
a source inside Google Google could be taking pointers from the convergence
Ideo from a decade ago where phone manufacturers wanted them to become
desktop computers now it'll be fantastic if they can make this work but based on
my experience with my pixel this summer I'm expecting a Chromebook that will
shut itself off after being in direct sunlight for 10 minutes now it's time
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Google the company I was just talking about earlier has decided they want to
use everyone's data to train their AIS and not just on their platforms any
publicly accessible sources to help train Google's AI models I mean it makes
sense I'm honestly just surprised they put it in writing in their privacy
policy maybe they wanted to finally do something that openai didn't do First
Multiple third-party Reddit apps shut down over the weekend due to the API
changes taking effect while relay and now for Reddit have decided to switch to
a subscription model yeah the drama still isn't over as the moderators for r
slash blind who are fun fact visually impaired alleged that Reddit has made it
impossible for them to actually moderate the more accessible red reader app is
apparently impossible to log into for them but admin seems to be ignoring them
when they ask questions hey Reddit maybe you should observe how much you're
blowing it Mark German teased several new Apple
monitors and his subscribers only newsletter including one with an onboard
iOS chip that can be used as a smart home display when your Mac is Idle to
give you an idea of what that might look like picture a computer monitor
now picture a smart home display and now picture a gaping hole in your
savings account there it is valve has issued a rare
statement after they were accused by a developer named Simon Carlos of
rejecting games with AI generated assets from Steam basically they said their
review process is a reflection of current copyright law and policies which
shocked me because I was certain knowing the law would require you to be able to
count past two it's a valve can't count past two jokes
and Twitter decided to Institute limits on how many tweets users can read after
the change journalists were upset to find out that emergency service accounts
were not exempt from the rate limit restrictions and Twitter was probably
upset to find out they might have been dedosing themselves at least according
to one developer shortly after they instituted the rate limits tweetdeck
stopped working altogether I mean man why can't Elon have like one nice wait
how many companies does he own why can't he have five nice things and
we hope you'll enjoy a nice thing of tech news this Wednesday when we drop
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camera I'm all alone