i saw you there wishing for some tech news well call me james the genius does
gene i don't get it oh genie oh i get it
your wish is my command bam NVIDIA's rtx
40 series gpus could be arriving sooner than expected if some reports from the
industry insiders are to be believed and while you may be inclined to think that
this is bad news as if the market needed more overpriced flagship graphics cards
there might be a little nugget of hope hidden in there like a congealed lump of
brown sugar and otherwise secondary pastry or like those little clumps in
your hot chocolate that you try to spoon on the side anyway these reports indicate that NVIDIA may be getting
additional foundries like tsmc and ase technology to help produce chips in
addition to samsung which could alleviate some of the strain on supply
when the 40 series cards launched sometime in 2022 i mean that's a long
that's a lot of time that's a whole year NVIDIA is also expected to launch
refreshed versions of some of its old cards including an rtx 3090 ti and a 12
Gigabyte for some reason rtx 2060 and
then there's new gaming gpus from chinese company ino silicon innovation silicon
together which could address some of the demand in china so if you find yourself
spiraling into sadness because it seems like you'll be stuck with your gtx 970
forever remember frames don't win games
you do baby okay frames they sometimes you're
screwed google's pixel 6 is a proper upper class can we still say that
flagship phone and accordingly some users are reporting it simply refuses to
charge with cables it deems low quality the phone reportedly doesn't even bother
to give a warning message it just sits there inert with a cheap USB-C cable
plugged in as if it didn't feel a thing a good a google support page does warn
that some cables and power adapters may not work with pixel phones so it's
likely that this is a feature not a bug as Android police points out while this
may be annoying for pixel 6 owners who got a you know a cheap cable for a steal
of a deal on black friday online uh low quality cables that charge your
devices very slowly can damage batteries it just would have been nice if google
actually included a cable or an adapter in the box at least a cable if they're
going to roll this feature out with the pixel six as is this all looks like
google was trying to pull a hilarious prank on us
what you're at one percent just joking you're at zero gotcha
and qualcomm has announced its latest flagship ARM-based CPU along with the
new naming scheme the new chip is called the snapdragon 8 gen 1 which is so much
easier than just snapdragon 898 or whatever they are going to call this
before that was sarcasm along with faster performance the 8 gen
1 will bring support for always on cameras and phones which i'm assuming is
something that almost no one asked for we're gonna have to start taping over our phone cameras like we do with
laptops but the really cool qualcomm news is leaked slides showing a dev kit
for the Android handheld gaming device it's building in collaboration with
razer it apparently runs a gaming focused snapdragon g3 x chip and is
horribly ugly i mean what is that it's like it's like they looked at the steam
deck and asked how do we make this worse now it's time
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twitter's new policy on sharing private media has caused some confusion with
many reporting the bird app is banning posting images or video of people
without their consent but this is highly inaccurate the platform will still allow
anyone to post any media they like but users can now request specific images
and video of themselves to be taken down the move is meant to reduce harassment
much like twitch's new machine learning tool that will flag people in chat that
it suspects maybe trying to avoid bands by using alternate accounts troll
hunting season is apparently open
the most dangerous game are you a member of the healthy
community that microsoft somehow managed to develop around their chromium-based
edge browser well you
because now microsoft has built in a buy now pay later tool called zip part of
what makes edge so attractive is its lightweight nature so adding what is
essentially bloatware is a classic way to anger users and remind us all that
the old microsoft is still in there somewhere they'll get you on bing yet
just wait the uk's competition and markets authority has told facebook i
mean meta that it must sell gift sharing platform giffy after is it jiffy that
actually makes more sense after finding that the acquisition completed last year
could reduce competition between social platforms meta says they'll appeal the
decision obviously which represents the first time the cma has blocked a major
tech deal and it may not be the last either editor can you uh put a thought
bubble up here with NVIDIA and ARM that's what i'm referencing that's not
happening you may have seen some sensational headlines this week claiming that researchers had created living
robots out of frog stem cells that could reproduce and while the little critters
are impressive and cute as ours technical points out they're not really
reproducing they can spin around in circles which can end up collecting a
bunch of other loose stem cells into a ball which scientists can then
manipulate in to the same pac-man shape as the other so-called xenobots so while
this is undoubtedly cool who doesn't like a ball
i wouldn't be worried about swarms of self-replicating frog balls taking over
your town just yet i would be worried about this
eco-friendly plastic alternative though because it's made with vegetable oil and
salmon sperm not even in my top 10 list of fish sperm
but generally with plastics possibly decreasing sperm counts we'd probably
run out of material before long is this even food safe it's no longer safe to
continue this episode so come back on friday for more tech news and i'll give
you one more wish you can only use it for tech news