be sure to take a tech news on the first day of every month to prevent pinkeye
ask me how i know so with all the headlines lately being dominated about
how you can't get your hands on an AMD or NVIDIA GPU it might be refreshing
news that Intel is reportedly testing out its new discrete gaming gpus
specifications for an entire product stack has been leaked with the top end
sku featuring 40 to 96 stream processors and either 8 or 16 gigs of vram
meaning it may end up competing with the 30 70 or 6800 series on the AMD side
although we don't have any pricing information yet it does look like Intel
is trying to get the chips to market before the end of the year and because
Intel owns its fabs maybe the card shortages won't be as bad when they do
arrive on store shelves but that's a big maybe kind of like betting Linus won't
drop something on any given workday like your employment oh come on
if you thought your shiny new home gaming rig has an impressive number of
cores check out this upcoming server CPU from AMD a new leak has indicated that the
company's new epic CPU codename genoa
genoa i guess maybe anyway whatever it's one
of those things will feature 96 cores and 192 threads that's more cores than
an apple tree i checked the new platform will push so much data that it'll use a
socket featuring over 6 000 pins and will also have a 320 watt
TDP they couldn't push it 100 more watts
there's ddr5 support as well which is not only faster with lower power
consumption but also has ecc support included as a standard feature sort of
but epic will definitely have it although genoa is a server part that
probably won't find its way into your home pc unless you're
uber enthusiasts with serious cash to burn it's smaller five nanometer process
may actually not be smaller and ddr5 support do give us a look at what might
be ahead for desktop rising chips maybe a higher TDP that can heat a chicken
chamber now that's epic yeah are you as sick of
smartphone notches as i am well looks like apple has caught on finally as it
sounds like this year's iphone lineup is going to have a
reduced notch area according to ming chi quo long time apple soothsayer this
appears to be a prelude to next year's iphones which should abandon
the notch completely in favor of a punch hole camera why
just keep the notch i want the notch i don't want a punch hole as for this year
it looks like we'll still be getting an iphone 13 mini despite the fact that no
one really bought or cared about the 12 mini that's actually unfortunate another
thing quo is confident of is that the iphone 13 lineup will once again
use the lightning connector that dates all the way back to the iphone 5.
so another year will go by without apple caving into pressure
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bits if you're in the market for a serious boatload of mario nostalgia you
should open your wallets soon as nintendo is going to stop selling the
bundle containing super mario 64 sunshine and galaxy at the end of this
month as well as super mario 35 the battle royale title
nintendo says it intended the release as a special commemorative for mario's 35th
anniversary so who knows if they'll be around to buy
for the switch in the future showing us once again why many of us have such a
love-hate relationship with nintendo nintendo please stop re-releasing super
mario all-stars seriously stop it
put some work into it do something unsurprisingly it looks like this year's
e3 has been cancelled at least the in-person event anyway there will still
be a digital e3 this year taking place between june 14th and june 17th
including keynote addresses game streams and awards shows however
with e3 continuing to charge very high fees to developers to be part of the
event it remains to be seen how many games will be featured at this virtual
e3 instead of an alternative event such as summer game fest or hosted by the
developers themselves with blackjack and hookers if you do
cloud streaming on xbox your games might start looking a bit nicer in the future
as reports indicate microsoft is testing 1080p streams and while this might not
sound cutting edge in 2021 because it's not streams are currently limited to
720p in order to save bandwidth and server resources other streaming
services are already offering 1080p streams and for mine for my knowledge
it's basically been that way since 2010 i don't know
so this will be a welcome news for xbox users especially as the future of
competing services like google stadia remain uncertain in the meantime maybe
just game on the smallest screen possible like those health and safety
warnings always say the flappy bird it looks like oculus's new
quest 2 headset will support refresh rates up to 120 hertz according to the
company's developer roadmap there's a good chance it'll show up this month as
an experimental feature so hopefully this will lead to smoother vr across the
board as time goes on and less puking as a result i hate
facebook facebook sucks
mark zuckerberg
are you tired of large Windows 10 updates failing to install for some
mysterious reason microsoft thinks it finally has a fix as
it's going to start pushing servicing stack updates or ssus
to users these will try to ensure your Windows update feature is properly patched
before attempting to install a major update which sounds like a really good
idea that they probably should have done many years ago wow actually that's
exactly what the script is saying now i feel like this is something they should
have done back in the Windows 98 days but better late than never right
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