the unthinkable has occurred Apple has
finally unveiled the iPhone 15 with a dang USBC
connector that's limited to USB 2.0 speeds so actually quite thinkable I'm
Riley Murdoch this is TechLink and that was only half true the iPhone 15 Pro
supports USB 3 speeds with up to 10 gbits per second but not if you use the
cable that comes with it which only supports USB two speeds because not even
the European Union can Crush Apple's Spirit they are still very Apple so
Apple's entire mobile lineup now uses USBC including the second gen airpods
Pro and my favorite part was Apple explaining to iPhone die hards they
shouldn't worry because USBC can do everything lightning can do it's really
a Nifty little Jack you may not have heard of it before all of your poor
friends use it but as for the rest of the presentation the new iPhone 15 and
15 plus got a couple hand-me-downs from the iPhone 14 pro including the dynamic
Island a 48 megapixel main rear camera and the a16 bionic chip and they'll
start at 800 and 900 bucks respectively
but the new bells and whistles on the iPhone 15 pro and pro Max are their
titanium construction a customizable action button to replace the ring
silence switch a five times optical zoom telephoto camera and the ability to
record spatial video that can be watched back from the comfort of Apple's uncanny
valley Simulator the pros also have the new a 17 Pro the first 3 nanometer
smartphone chipset on the market complete with a pro class GPU which
apparently means support for Ray tracing and the power to play AAA console
quality games like the Resident Evil 4 remake Resident Evil Village and
Assassin's Creed Mirage in early 2024 I
don't know about you but when I think professional I think phone gaming Elden
ring is just better when it's tiny Elden ring would be perfect with more spreadsheets the Pro Models start at
1,200 bucks and like the non-pros they
come with 2 years of free roadside assistance using Apple's satellite
services we should also mention the Apple Watch series 9 and watch Ultra 2
with new S9 chips a finger to thumb double tap gesture that's actually
already been an accessibility feature for years and new straps apple is
branding as fine woven which sounds
super weird to me but I'm guessing Germans will love it then it's
pronounced F wolen folen in Intel has
officially announced Thunderbolt 5 which sounds even more like a superhero team
than Thunderbolt 4 but I couldn't tell you why the Thunderbolt 5 they're very
busy Thunderbolt 5 still uses the USBC connector doubling TB 4's bandwidth at
80 gbits per second and tripling it to 120 gbit per second with bandwidth
boosting and it can now serve 240 watts of power to Thunderbolts 4S 100 Watts it
will also run a single monitor at up to 540 Herz as many as three 4K monitors at
144 HZ each or multiple 8K displays for
creators because they find choppy video to be more artistic according to Jason
the killer Ziller head of Intel's client connectivity division these beefy new
cables might harled a new wave of external Graphics as well as AI
accelerators and fast external storage this may truly be one cable to rule them
all especially as it's built on the much worsely named USB 4v2 and it's backwards
compatible with previous versions of Thunderbolt and USBC hopefully Macs and
PCs alike get Thunderbolt 5 ports a plenty after all it was originally a
collaboration between Apple and Intel before the love died and Intel got
custody over the trademarks Apple still gets weekends California is now the
third US state to pass right to repair laws for Consumer appliances and
electronics alongside New York and Minnesota that's two of the country's
most populous states and also Minnesota in some ways the California bill goes
farther than preceding bills by ensuring that manufacturers retain repair parts
tools manuals and software documentation and make those available to customers
and thirdparty repair services for at least 3 years post- production for
products between $50 and $100 and that
moves up to 7 years for products over $100 manufacturers also can't charge
independent repair technicians more for repair materials than they would within
their own repair networks due to California's size and in influence these
new regulations might have an impact on company Behavior Nationwide but there
are some caveats the new law won't stop manufacturers from creating software
blocks to prevent third parties from fixing devices or from combining single
Parts into complex assemblies that are more difficult to fix and more expensive
to replace right to repair Advocates have been optimistic but expressed
trepidation with the fact that apple is a major backer of the bill which is a
bit like Hannibal Lecter coming out as a vet
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France's national frequency Watchdog has ordered Apple to stop selling iPhone 12s
in the country because they emit too much God dang electromagnetic radiation
causing everyone's politically radical relatives to experience a feeling of
smug righteousness alongside their usual conspiratorial fear apparently the
specific absorption rate the rate at which the body absorbs radio wave energy
of the phone is too high and now Spain
and Germany are considering similar actions it's important to know that the
set radiation limits are still well below the threshold of harm so this is
like when your mom sent you to school with elbow pads just in case Home Room
got a little crazy I got a helmet use your head back off man Microsoft
released an update for the ancient app known as paint last week adding a
background removal tool for select Windows 11 insiders the removal tool can
automatically detect the subject from the entire Canvas OR users can specify
it using the selection tool when it was announced last month that Microsoft was
adding AI to some Windows apps many people thought paint would get DOL e
like image generation but I also welcomed the opportunity to make my
hastily drawn stick figures you know really just really pop just add that
extra like boom right there a cyber security issue at MGM Resorts disrupted
many of their American Properties ATMs and slot machines were shut down leaving
countless seniors unsure of what to do with their buckets of quarters They
Don't Trust Banks and they won't fit under the mattresses anyways according
to them ransomware group alv is responsible and used an ingenious attack
method alv decimated a 33 billion
Company by calling their help desk and impersonating an employee they found on
LinkedIn for 10 minutes I'm
in oh sorry bye have a nice thank you so
much have a nice day Amazon has launched a generative AI tool to help sellers
write product descriptions listing details and titles no longer will USBC
chord sellers need to develop carpal tunnel by manually entering every device
that is feasibly compatible with their $8 cable this follows last week when
eBay unveiled an AI tool that can generate an entire product listing from
one photo okay Amazon also announced a
service where they will pick up ship and deliver packages directly from factories
for sellers it's basically the negative clone of Amazon Prime so if the two
Services ever meet Jeff Bezos May explode and Microsoft's original surface
duo will no longer receive any OS updates or security patches though it's
surprising Microsoft even remembered they were supposed to update the phone's
OS enough to give an announcement about it oh that thing O The Duo never had the
most up-to-date version of Android during the three years it was supposed to receive OS updates the duo was also
Infamous for its terrible cameras and bugs since its launch so this week's
news is basically that moment in those be movies where the scientist finally
kills his failed genetic experiment that spent its whole existence in a puddle on
the table saying kill me why did you
make me I went a bit too hard for that and it'll kill me if you don't come back
on Friday for more Tech news see the YouTube view counter is hooked up to a
bomb in my chest at least that's what they told me
when I woke up