NVIDIA may be gearing up to launch an RTX 4090 TI if leaked photos are any
indication although many are speculating that the photos might depict a new RTX
Titan or perhaps another graphics card that isn't remotely worth its MSRP I'm
Riley Murdoch this is techlinked and this massive cooler was first spotted in
October last year and was claimed to have a cooling capacity of 900 watts
double the TDP of NVIDIA's current 4090 Flagship more than likely however this
heatsink was a prototype for the 4090 GeForce RTX is written on it whereas
Titan cards normally say Titan as a way to differentiate between a card bought
by a normal person and a card bought by someone continually looking for
something to fill the endless void in their soul use money to smother the
sadness it is a money-shaped hole other evidence from this being a 4090
prototype is that the heatsink says RTX 4090 on it which is it's pretty cut and
dry but here's the thing if you're one of the many that thinks the 4080 should
have been the 4070 TI when it came out out or that the upcoming 4060 should
have been a 40 50. it's possible that the best bang for the buck 4090 might
have also gotten a downgrade during development and this heatsink will end
up on a future 4090 TI we can't know which is why we said the word might
about 20 times in the story don't do the math speaking of the upcoming 4060
leaked 3dmark tests for the card show a 23 performance improvement over the 30
60 12 Gigabyte version so there's actually a chance this card could be a
good deal AMD and their Partners seem to think so since multiple Radeon RX 7600
models have been discounted days before the 4060s release do you see Gamers do
you see what happens when you simply don't buy an overpriced product like the
4060 TI I'm getting a transmission from
the future the RTX 49 DTI sold out on day one damn
it why don't you listen Gamers we've talked about this many times gamers
Gamers no one wanted stadia to fail
except everyone so now YouTube is internally testing a new way to play
online games instantly according to an email seen by The Wall Street Journal I
mean after Google got a taste with stadia they couldn't just cold turkey
quit offering gaming Services no one wants their newest alleged foray is
called playables and will make online games instantly playable within
YouTube's website and apps which sounds less like the next big thing in gaming
and more like 2008 when your Facebook was flooded by requests from every one
of your casual acquaintances to help them grow corn I didn't help anyone the
only game mentioned in the email is stack bounce in which players aim to
smash layers of bricks with a bouncing ball sounds like my kind of Friday night
you know what I mean while both The Verge and polygon think
it sounds like a clone of the popular Atari game Breakout I used a radical new
journalistic technique called Googling to find stack bounce and it seems to be
the game you see in every mobile game ad that doesn't feature Pedro Pascal I wish
his are the best after stadia was retired the services general manager
Phil Harrison did say Google wasn't giving up on gaming and that stadia's
underlying Tech could make its way to Google services like YouTube what
Harrison didn't say was you'd now be able to play it all of the shovelware
games that advertise on YouTube without leaving the website finally a convenient
new feature for the lowest common denominator we need more of those
there's not enough stupid things and Microsoft has made
some lofty claims while defending themselves in court since the FTC simply
will not let them be in a legal filing
arguing that Nintendo should be considered part of the high-end console
Market questionable along with the Xbox series X and PS5 Microsoft argued that
both Xbox and Playstation offer cheaper consoles priced similarly to the
Nintendo switch Microsoft brings up the Xbox series s and the PS5 digital
Edition while also saying Sony is expected to release a PlayStation 5 Slim
later this year at a 400 price point
this is probably a reference to the PS5 console with a detachable disk drive
that was first reported on back in September of last year it's so kind of
Microsoft to help their rival Sony announce their products that was so
sweet they only fight sometimes but but maybe don't believe everything Microsoft
says because that same legal filing says Sony is set to release a handheld
version of PlayStation 5. live later this year for under 300 if that is a
reference to Sony's already announced project Q either Sony vastly undersold Q
during his announcements and we're about to get out on wonderful surprise or
Microsoft is throwing whatever legal arguments they can at the legal argument
wall to see what sticks it's mostly government on there a little bit of
spaghetti the high school kids love that wall I'm sorry everyone it's probably
the latter case after Phil Spencer said during the hearing that Microsoft bought
Bethesda to prevent Sony from making Starfield a timed exclusive for the PS5
and he said that Sony uses the 30 cut on
any Microsoft game sold on Playstation platforms to help fund strategies to
quote reduce Xbox's Survival on the market by presumably doing harmful bad
things like offering competing products and services
I mean when you think about the fact that poor Microsoft only gets a mere 70
of Microsoft games sold on Playstation as opposed to the 100 they get when
selling on their own platforms it really starts to make sense why the 2.5
trillion dollar company is losing the console war donate today now it's time
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I'm a person I'm not a piece of mate well I am that but the cost for NASA to
collect exotic sand is looning according to well NASA the Mars sample return
mission is meant to pick up the samples taken by the perseverance Rover over the
last two years and transfer them back to Earth for study the cost estimate
however has jumped from up to 4.4 billion in 2020 to up to potentially
double that amount ooh there are multiple factors to this costly mistakes
made by the jet propulsion Laboratories updated sample retrieval plans to ensure
collection if perseverance has died by the time the mission launches and worst
of all inflation and we're not talking about the balloons
that are used by the Rover it's I'm
assuming there's balloons don't Google it because not even robots in space can
believe the price of a loaf of bread these days the CEO of Google's deepmind
told wired that their next Generation model Gemini will be more capable than
chat gbt without saying in what way exactly like will it stop making things
up about me and emailing them to my friends and family because I'm not sure
that was supposed to be a feature can it juggle Gemini will combine the powers of
a large language model with the kind of reinforcement learning techniques that
quote helped alphago defeat a go champion in 2016 which would be
impressive if a human hadn't just beaten one of the top go-playing AIS last year
Google please just test this one before you
demo it that was embarrassing meta has launched a new meta Quest Plus
subscription service joining the exclusive ranks of PlayStation Plus
Apple TV slash Fitness slash other things plus Disney plus and many many
more the word plus basic maths way of
saying this but more so for 7.99 subscribers will receive two games every
month two specific titles that meta chooses for you July's titles are Rhythm
games slash first person shooter pistol whip and video game about playing a
video game Pixel ripped 1995. August's
titles however will be Walkabout mini golf and mother gunship Forge and I
desperately wish I was the kind of person who would enjoy all of those games equally they must be so happy UK
police are blaming a recent Android update for an uptick in emergency center
butt dials one new feature automatically dials Emergency Services when the power
button is pressed five or more times something that can be accidentally
accomplished while trying to dig out a particularly pernicious wedgie did you
think about that UK police or as the British call it wedgie but in the accent
like oh
the feature was already available on Pixel phones but there's been a major
increase in British butt cheeks unknowingly dialing 999 now that the
feature is available on all Android devices a Google spokesperson said that
device manufacturers will address this issue shortly and that users that
continue to experience this issue should switch emergency SOS off for the next
couple of days so if you're looking to commit a crime somewhere in Britain in
the near future here's your chance arson arson Carson and Amazon is
recruiting small businesses to help deliver packages throughout the us
including coffee shops clothing stores and florists because that's what your
local grocer slash bookstore slash U-Haul Depot needs another side hustle
these are intended to be last mile delivery outposts which receive packages
from larger distribution centers and drop them off at customers doors Amazon
didn't say exactly how much it will pay per package but they did say that they
expect partnering businesses to make around twenty seven thousand dollars a
year delivering an average of 30 packages a day so with the power of
grade school math we can determine that they will be paying around 250 a package
the other option available to them was to raise delivery driver wages in order
to attract more delivery drivers instead of paying random florists to deliver
packages but you know honestly I see where they're coming from it's a hard
situation and I'll see where you're coming from if you come back for another
episode of techlinked on Wednesday How will I see where you're coming from I'm
a really good hacker okay I just I can hack stuff I'm big into hacking