oh my god you haven't had any tech news today
NVIDIA is set to unveil their new ampere-powered rtx 3000 series graphics
cards tomorrow that as with everything in the tech
world if it exists there are leaks of it videocards.com has lived up to their
name and gotten their hands on photos of lots of video cards specifically rtx
3090 and 3080 models from zotac ASUS and
gainward which is a brand apparently
the leaks seemingly confirm that the 3090 will have a whopping 24 gigabytes
of vram fueling rumors that it will essentially be the more creator-focused
titan of this generation while the rtx 3080 has a measly 10 gigabytes
can you even like run games with that
you know performance slides have also been leaked although their veracity is a
bit more suspect the slides show the 3090 getting around two times more
performance in games with rtx turned on ah if only there was a way to know if
this were real besides you know just waiting a couple
of hours to find out from NVIDIA themselves ah so frustrating in their
latest salvo at epic games apple terminated the studio's developer
account on friday meaning now iOS users aren't just blocked from downloading
fortnite they also can't download infinity blade
so sad the termination does not affect the dev account epic uses to update
unreal engine because they were forbidden from doing so by a district
judge so games from other developers that use the engine will be unaffected
for now interestingly right after terminating epic's account apple
launched an appeal system that allows developers to challenge app store rules
so will epic's allies speak up or will they cower under apple's glare the
panopticon however it all plays out one thing apple can't take from epic is the
fact that the fortnite universe is now canon in marvel comics thanks to the
game's season 4 crossover it's only a matter of time before flossing is
captain america's signature move god i hope not and elon musk gave the world a
better look at neural links brain machine interface on friday with a live
demo showing the device installed in a live pig
several pigs actually because a dead pig definitely would not have looked as good
there's actually a pig with the device installed and a pig that had it removed
just to prove to everyone that elon won't live permanently in your head like
keanu reeves character from cyberpunk 2077. we also got to look at v2 of the
surgical robot that will sew electrons onto human brains when non-pig trials
begin at some point it looks perfectly dystopian but also like it could be sold
in an apple store but elon musk seemingly downplayed the device's capabilities for its first iteration
saying it'll be like a fitbit in your skull later models will allow you to
control armies of robots as you conquer the martian surface that's not confirmed
i just made that up but i mean it's either that or replicants
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they've got nutrients more leaks again spotted by video cards twitter user
walking cat has been posting a ton of videos apparently taken from Intel's
marketing materials for the tiger lake cpus launching this fall there are many
mentions of Intel's new evo branding as well as the chip's built-in z graphics i
feel like it's unlikely these new processors will blow AMD out of the
water and blast us all back to a time when Intel's processors were just
playing better than team reds but i'm open to the possibility china has just
made tick-tock sale to a u.s company more difficult with new rules requiring
the permission of the chinese government before selling products with tech like
data processing and text-to-speech recognition
things tick-tock definitely does so tick-tockers invent a dance where you
pretend to hold on to your butts because this ride just got a little bumpier just
like this bumping track hit it
do the butthole spacex has made history with their latest rocket launch it being both their
100th mission and the first time a rocket has launched into polar orbit
from florida in 50 years meanwhile other rocket companies exist with rocket Labs
successfully launching their electron vehicle and united launch alliance
aborting their launch just before takeoff so close
could have been a hat-trick ula yes screwed it up gamescon kicked off this
weekend with a bunch of game reveals and by that i mean mostly dlc reveals but
still we gotta look at a teaser for the next dragon age game a bizarre crossover
between star wars and the sims why a pretty cool looking time loop game
called 12 minutes starring willem dafoe daisy ridley and james mcavoy i hate
mcvoy i talked about this on the carpool critics podcast
and a release date trailer for world of warcraft shadowlands what's in the
shadowlands no one knows it's too dark over there and google is
planning to offer services that will help developers create more ethical ai
that's less likely to say exhibit racial bias in computer vision systems or fall
victim to other discriminatory practices yes we have reached the future where you
will be able to pay for a subscription that will help you teach robots to be
moral i'm not even going to buy a cyberpunk we're there and we've reached
the end of this episode we're here so come back on wednesday for more tech
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don't want to get indigestion so stop now you've stuffed your brain got a
brain full i've had it happen it's not pretty hey pepto-bismol