today in Tech news events occurred and person slash group is responsible others
say person slash group has been making the events occur for a long time period
more on that right now the great ASUS
warranty Scandal of 2023 that's what I'm calling it has gotten a little more
interesting Hardware Busters have alleged that ASUS isn't the only am5
motherboard manufacturer exceeding the 1.3 volt SOC voltage limit meant to
protect ryzen 7000 x3d series CPUs from
sploding after testing a Gigabyte auras
Master x670e board Hardware Busters found that the soc voltage exceeded 1.36
volts after updating the BIOS that supposedly applied the voltage safety
cap not so much vindicating ASUS as
implying Gigabyte and potentially other motherboard makers need to step up in
the making sure your products don't blow up Department
like none of us did let's do it now after this analysis went up buildzoid
went to Twitter to claim that Gamer's Nexus was measuring the voltages wrong
in their investigation of ASUS's motherboards and GN destroyed them with
facts by just politely disagreeing and
stating how they measured their results
nerds are discussing methodology and it is getting
on Friday Hardware unboxed went off on a fan for suggesting they needed to keep
their credibility stating they weren't going to stop reviewing ASUS products
because a reviewing their products is one way to call them out and B Because
finding tech companies that haven't done a ton of anti-consumer crap is like
finding a milkshake in a ton of crap like cool you found a milkshake but
are you sure it's chocolate it's a poop joke to be fair to ASUS they did just
publish an update clarifying that installing beta bioses to fix this
problem does not void your warranty that's right faced with a sizable
controversy over their lack of concern for their customers the company thought
wow we should definitely address this after the weekend you coming to beers
tonight that's what they say in Taiwan right man
when we did our ASUS poetry slam on Friday we had no idea it would generate
so much drama so many feelings clearly
about us people were crying in the audience apple is prepping for a win by
ramping up testing of their next gen M3 chips according to German's sermon
Apple's been squirming to remove the worm in their Mac sales figures Jacob
isn't here but he's here in spirit their sales figures which were down 31 last
quarter sure they could reduce MacBook prices and make it more affordable to
buy one of their great products but what if instead of that they use the more
expensive three nanometer process for their M3 chips so they can add more
cores and more memory
based indeed German says the Baseline M3
Pro will have two more CPU and GPU cores
than the M2 Pro which itself had two more CPU and GPU cores than the M1 Pro
sensing a pattern every day there will be another core until something changes
we're going to add cores however German
determined that the M3 Pro currently being tested has 36 gigabytes of memory
which is four more than the highest spec of the M2 Pro MacBooks so like two 18
Gigabyte sticks in dual Channel this makes me physically uncomfortable
it would be so cool oh just so I can
think of something else Mark German said the long-awaited 15-inch MacBook Air
will come out equipped with an M2 Chip just in time for summer so get ready for
that macbook's announcement to be overshadowed by the announcement of Apple's VR headset at WWDC you can go
live in Apple's world Tim Cook will sing you to sleep and the
European Union has given their blessing for Microsoft's acquisition of
Activision Blizzard the company that had a dream of being judged not by its
Leader's history of sexual harassment allegations but by the content of its
game Library yeah gonna leave that alone sometimes you
just make a Martin Luther King joke for no reason and the EU didn't do this for
nothing the merger approval is subject to conditions that Microsoft suggested
to assuage concerns that this would affect the cloud gaming slash cloud game
streaming Market which a lot of people care about the European commission's
concerns were that since cloud gaming is still a young Market the availability of
games like Call of Duty could affect it if Microsoft were to make Cod exclusive
to Game Pass ultimate the company would be able to virtually monopolize the
pre-teens who just learned a new slur demographic a key segment for
advertisers in fact the UK's competition and markets Authority blocked the merger
because of similar concerns about the cloud gaming Market as a compromise
Microsoft offered a 10-year plan to provide licenses to consumers in the
European economic area that would allow them to stream any Activision Blizzard
PC games they own using any streaming service and a corresponding license to
any streaming service platforms to provide that capability
so what happens when that license agreement is up who cares we'll probably
all be killed by self-aware AI by that so I'm looking forward to it live for
now now it's time for quick bits bro
quick bits not in my city thanks Paradox
interactive for sponsoring this video City skylines is a city building
simulation game but it's not your regular City Sim City skylines allows
you to build a public transit routes construct highways and you can even buy
neighboring plots of land increasing the size of your city
it's not all fun and games you'll need to manage your city's budget while
dealing with issues like traffic and sewage systems to keep crap running
downhill now you can play it for free from May 18th to 22nd and find the mayor
that's been inside you all along I bribed the mayor so we could include all
five quick pits just don't tell anyone the pixel 7 is this Summer's
hottest phone a sentence that will make sense once I let you know that pixel 6
and 7 users have reported as sudden unexplained bug that's causing their
phones to overheat the apparent cause is a recent app update that's causing the
Google app to suck up battery life like a wild cherry Capri Sun
in some cases these issues have cut usable screen time in half the phones
are likewise charging slower and running dangerously hot prompting some users to
turn their pixels into popsicles by sticking them in the freezer nutritious
and delicious and they take great photos a great summer treat users have tried
rolling back to a previous update and even full Factory resets neither of
which seem to work all there's left to do is wait for Google to hurry up and
fix their 600 butt warmers which is of little Comfort here in western Canada
where the country is literally on fire a
startup called Telly wants to give you a TV for free all it costs is everything
the television comes with a second banner-like screen which will be fully
or partially taken out by ads pretty
much at all times and the TV May collect information about the content you watch
and may also track the physical presence of you and any other individuals using
the TV at any time now as we mentioned you can get the TV for free or you can
opt out of sharing all your data and pay 500 to keep it if you are okay with
installing a billboard in your living room if I let them install a probe in my head
will they pay me the dystopia is here
I've always wanted cyberpunk 2077 to be real a private company called Reya space
activity has received funding from the U.S space force to rescue the Spitzer
Space Telescope The Observatory was launched 20 years ago and remained
mostly operational until three years ago when communication stopped working I'm
not saying it's aliens but in a plan backed by multiple groups
including Lockheed Martin a small craft would be sent to act as a relay between
Spitzer and Earth within spitzing distance you could say the eventual hope
is to use the telescope as an early warning system for Dangerous asteroids
because if we have enough time we won't have to send Bruce Willis and Ben
Affleck again they are so tired of this Zelda tears of the Kingdom players are
getting creative by using the in-game mechanics to build tanks planes and even
mechs but also many many many
lots of penises there's just so many you
can build anything more like tears of the schwingdom am I right okay can make
anything you can imagine which is mostly
Nintendo severely overestimated my imagination perhaps as revenge for the
golden turd players received for rescuing all 900 koroks in breath of the
wild a lot of Creative Energy has gone towards torturing the annoying creatures
in different ways involving crucifixions and I have to assume penises as well as
we've never said the word this many times in the show oh wow everyone is
freaking out about the era of 100 Gigabyte games meanwhile Nintendo fit an
open world war crime simulator into 16.3 gigs
we'll get there and the creator of the Oculus Palmer lucky tweeted quote the
Apple headset is so good end quote
what else did he say nothing did he go into more detail no are we sure he's
actually touched an apple headset not really is this the real Palmer lucky
well there's a blue check mark next to his name but what does that even mean
anymore anyway the headset's going to be announced June 5th probably but will it
be expensive almost certainly but it will cost you nothing to come back on
Wednesday and why wouldn't you don't you like us we're cool we're cool people right like
like not just my mom I think so I just she doesn't she doesn't watch the show
so