tech news is like a box of chocolates you never know what you're gonna get but
it's usually something to do with tech so you kind of do know checkmate
Intel may finally stop torturing us and release their freaking arc gpus soon
and some new leaks might indicate what kind of performance we can expect a
recent Intel slide spotted on twitter indicates a top-end sku with 512
execution units and 16 gigabytes of vram
on a 512 Gigabyte per second bus so this is going to be something fairly high
performance probably akin to something like the 3070 ti from NVIDIA
i mean there's there's a 30 90 you know like Intel come on get it together how
are you going to make any money launching gpus for pores
going down the stack we see models with 384 and 256 execution units with 12 and
8 gigabytes of vram respectively AMD which would probably compete with the
rtx 3060 and 3050. keep in mind that these are
laptop gpus we're talking about AMD
but there will also be desktop cards on the way deep breaths happy thoughts
is AMD in the room right now
i don't know major cryptocurrencies took an absolute beating over the weekend and
into today with bitcoin now hovering around 36 000 us dollars was at its
lowest point since july and ethereum was down to
hundred dollars about half of its value from back in early november
but what are you gonna do cry about it i thought apes together strong
you know it's not just one factor pushing crypto prices down either
investors are reportedly worried about the us federal reserve implementing
measures to reduce inflation they're worried about that
holy crap what
they're also worried about a rather steep downturn in tech stocks
and the russian government looking at banning crypto entirely which is a
significant development since russia is currently a
global leader in crypto mining and nostalgia for post-world war one
totalitarian regimes you know good old days
is the gigabit connection at your home or office just too
pedestrian for you if so
at t has something to sell you as usual as the telecom giant is rolling out both
two and five gigabit fiber options
oh is this for the metaverse yeah i think it's for the metaverse i hate that word
stop calling it that it's second life 2.0 second second life the company says the
new services will be available in over 70 us metropolitan areas but
unsurprisingly the faster speeds will cost you home consumers will be shelling
out 110 bucks a month for two gigs and
180 a month per five how what i'm spending so much more than that
right now for 7.50 no no but i'm not paying 150 for 750
right now so anyway that's cool thanks a t still
it could be worth it if you do content creation or other kinds of data heavy
work especially with so many people now working from home in the wake of the
pandemic is that expensive um probably i mean i
have no context because canada sucks and telus apparently sucks a lot more than i
thought they did oh man ugh i didn't know this was gonna get personal yeah it
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rumors are swirling that apple is hiring xbox engineers away from microsoft as
part of its efforts to get its own console to market again
which would be pretty surprising considering well i mean it's apple but
uh also not surprising given how annoying they've made it for microsoft
NVIDIA and google to launch their game streaming apps on iOS
honestly an apple console could do well by just marketing themselves as a
nintendo that actually cares about user experience
yeah they got that online infrastructure kind of nailed down at apple uh not so
much at nintendo even to this day what is voice chat you can just use your
phone for voice chat that's what i used to do
the rtx 3050 is coming out this week and
we now have a better idea as to what its performance will look like it'll be
comparable to a gtx 1660 ti so
definitely not bad for an entry level card especially considering it can do
ray tracing and dlss and even better it
apparently sucks at mining cryptocurrency
not that anybody cares because the price is dropping haha i got them
and if the fact that we're cheering about that hasn't changed your mind
about the whole crypto thing i don't know what to do for you meta book is
talking up its new super computer built on NVIDIA's dgx platform it'll run over
16 000 gpus that's where they're all going
damn it mark it will run over 16 000
gpus and is expected to be one of the fastest in the world no not one of the
fastest one in the world when it launches later this year the ai research
supercluster or rsc they could have probably thrown an eye in there
will be used to develop algorithms for systems across meta's digital kingdom
the mordor of the metaverse if you will
want a big name Android smartwatch but not a fan of the options out there
currently me too mark may 26th on your calendar as a new
leak from john prosser indicates that that's when google pixel watch will be
dropping of course that date could get moved because one there are global supply
chain issues two it's google and three
watch leaks are notoriously unreliable for some reason
just get a seiko god you would think that they would know if
they got a watch right nick oh they're a watch or not the watch is in early
access so it's not working properly yet that's what it is
it's in the metaverse and in a bit of news that should surprise absolutely no
one nintendo wasn't a very big fan of a fan made first person shooter where you
run around with a gun and both hunt and defend yourself from wild pokemon
complete with blood the game wasn't made available to download but clips were
posted on youtube and quickly taken down due to nintendo's
dmca claims no word yet on whether we might be getting a sequel where he
could fish for magikarp with dynamite oh that would be great no the dynamite
would explode and then just like they'd instantly evolve into gyarados
that's that would be actually pretty smart when hunting
for the heart yes and we're done fishing for news for today so come back on
wednesday for more tech news i have no idea what we're going to talk
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