dear Journal I've been covering CES 2025
for 3 days now the Red Bull has run out
drums sound in the distance probably beaten by a smart toilet with robot arms
or something it won't be long
now AMD's lips are still sealed when it
comes to their nextg gpus but IGN
managed to secretly run the internal Benchmark in Call of Duty Black Ops 6 on
the r X 970 non-xt in AMD's CES Booth
getting an average FPS of 99 from this
IGN estimates the card might perform somewhere close to NVIDIA's RTX 480
super using some kind of PCY nerd derivative of girl math I couldn't
follow it but the point is AMD's apparent decision to at the last minute
withhold all information about their nextg gpus except their names has only
made everyone more curious about them a lesson they already would have learned
had they ever brought a bag of nuts into the squirrel pen you get you guys don't
have those even AMD's GPU board Partners seem confused about what's going on
powercolor allowed Leo and the kit Guru team to look at their RX 970s while
pretending that they weren't come in Matt come close and look at the
invisible non-existent graphics cards meanwhile Tom's Hardware seems to have
inadvertently published a photo of the the navi 48 chip powering the gpus
leading leaky Twitter guy David Wong to
estimate the die size at around 390 mm
squared which is slightly larger than the ad 103 chip powering NVIDIA's RTX
480 we have gotten one concrete piece of
information though ASUS revealed both RX
970 variants have 16 GB of vram which
they apparently weren't supposed to reveal as they took down the page
shortly after AMD is kind of acting like that friend who will plan a surprise
party for you but hide it horribly so you have to act surprised when it
happens which has happened to me so many times such a relatable Story the
Nintendo switch 2 leaks may have officially jumped the shark accessory
maker geni has published a video on their website of what might as well be
the switch to ostensibly to show off the company's protective case for the
console but they know what they're doing they told press the mockup they're
showing here is based on the real console and their website has a popup
admitting they can't keep a secret
oopsie the video shows in detail the magnetic joycons releasing at the push
of a button revealing the rumored laser sensor on the rail that may enable mouse
functionality I mean we'll see and the video also provides our best look yet at
the switch tw's dock design not only that they they were handing around a 3D
printed mockup of the console at their CES Booth first shown in a video by
French Tech Outlet numerama it's starting to feel a little ridiculous
that Nintendo hasn't unveiled the switch 2 yet as if to emphasize this the
Nintendo Japan Twitter account just changed their account Banner to Mario
and Luigi seeming to gesture at empty
space just watch Nintendo wait until
March 31st and then wait one more day to
reveal the greatest April Fool's prank ever there is no switch
to Reddit wakes up in a cold sweat meta
isn't just trying to appease the incoming Trump Administration they're
also humoring the EU and launching a test allowing users to browse eBay
listings on Facebook Marketplace in the
US France and Germany the European commission fined meta over $820 Million
last year over Facebook Marketplace being tied to Facebook yeah the EU loves
to find people they even find themselves
sort of the EU General Court ruled this morning that the European commission
broke its own rules and allowed a German citizens personal data to be sent to
meta servers in the US when they signed in with their Facebook account on an EU
web page the EU is now forcing itself to
pay that citizen €400 in Damages
it's not really a fine in the strict sense of the word but it makes more
sense than going pay up serves me right
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said they'd let me live if I gave them quick bits I said never and now I'm dead
lesson learned all right time for good oldfashioned wacky CES stuff Swip it has
unveiled a machine that can essentially reload your phone's battery with a fully
charged one in about 2 seconds although it's not your phone's internal battery
swipp its's link case compatible with iPhone and Android has a battery inside
which is swapped out for a fresh one when you dip it into the Hub a toaster
looking device that stores and charges extra batteries when it all looks pretty
Sleek in swipp its's marketing materials but as demonstrated by Allison Johnson
from The Verge it actually sounds like a 20-year-old printer but that's a small
price to pay to avoid buying anker's new solar panel beach umbrella which is
build as an alternative to lugging a
battery back up to the beach I mean maybe you're supposed to be touching
grass but there's no grass on the beach anyway way this makes sense LG had some
fun things to show off other than that years old transparent OLED TV that's
actually available to buy now for $60,000 how about the stanm B2 a
portable hangable 27in TV it's even got
a kickstand making it really seem like a giant tablet missing a touchcreen it's
still a little confusing but it makes more sense than the model from last year
that goes in a suitcase H TV in a suit
case I got one but the best thing I think LG showed off was the aerocat
tower a version of one of the company's aot Tower air purifiers with a cradle on
top so a cat can sit on it now that's Innovation where are all the other
companies putting cats on things yui
showed off their 3in1 E20 Robot vacuum
so named because you can remove the actual vacuum part and use it as a Dyson
style handheld with multiple attachments which will also get you more powerful
suction it's one of those rare CES products that's simultaneously practical
and also kind of wacky but wait till you see Robo Rock's vacuum with a robot ARM
in it but not right now that's for the that's for the weirdest Tech at CES
episode on Friday I'm saving it a company called Halliday showed off their
smart glasses which estu more popular
wave guide built-in displays for their own Digi window design it can be
controlled either by voice or a control ring on your finger which can of course
summon an AI agent I'm sure there's more cool things about these glasses but I
was so distracted by the voiceovers in the trailer I think it's retro Revival
people want that nostalgic feel but with a modern
twist that's the one I love it let's explore some design concept and Chinese
car company byd has shown off their Yang
Wang un9 electric sports car apparently
it means like admire or something so I a fair you know anyway they showed off the
car bunny hopping over obstacles at 120
kmph including a sizable pothole a bunch
of spikes and worst of all a chalk rainbow wouldn't want to disappoint the
kids who drew that oh it ruined it anyway well it was technically graffiti
those kids are probably going straight to a CCP jail anyway but not you you're
coming right back here tomorrow for more Tech news because I'll be damned if I
have to endure this pain alone pH ah oh wait I'm dead I forgot ah